katie-game-designs


 * IDEAS FOR SERIOUS GAMES**toc

Middle school students enjoy games but teachers don't appreciate that. Teachers feel that students should read and write to gain greater understanding about world issues. The problem to be solved is to make a serious game that is about a world issue.

**Requirements:**

 * 1) Game must be accessible to the intended players
 * 2) Game must be well-paced to be enjoyable
 * 3) Game must be challenging to the intended players.
 * 4) Game must have a clear goal
 * 5) Game must be winable.

** Constraints: **

 * 1) It must be possible to create this game with the tools available to middle school students (computers, wikis, blogs, cardboard, poster board, glue, colored pencils, markers, scissors, rulers, paper cutter, exacto knives, glue guns, found objects, dice, spinners, and other common items found in the home and school)

1. A Serious Game Using Gamestar Mechanic that follows the design brief. A serious game that I could create using Gamestar Mechanic would be one in which includes avatars, and a great storyline. It would also use frags so that they represent the issues that the people in Ethiopia have to deal with. The people in Ethiopia face many different tragic events that effect all of their lives very much so for the worse.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. A serious game that I would like to modify using the required design brief would be, Life. I think that life actually does teach you a lesson about making decisions even when hard decisions come in your way.

3. A Serious Game - Free Choice that follows the design brief. A serious game that I could create about my topic on Ethiopia would be about Jungle Rebels, these are the people who run around Ethiopia that kill other Ethiopians in the area. These humans are wackos that want to be the only ones in all of Ethiopia for some reason.