emirs-game-design


 * 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.

1 player is alowed to play at once. In the beginning the player choses the avatar he wants to be. It has to be rescue crew like Venizula or China. They have to pass through blocks (cement broken from the earthquake) to pass this game and there is a limited amount of time to pass each level. The avatar is a person that was chosen in the beginning. It will be in Haiti and you will have to save everybody after you enter there is no turning back.

2. A Serious Game Mod for an Exisiting Boardgame that follows the design brief. I am thiking about monopoly and you have to buy crews and supplies to help save the people in Haiti. And after people play this game i hope they can find out what it takes to help the people in Haiti.it is really hard just to guess what it takes to help poeple in Haiti you need to learn what it takes to help poeple in Haiti. 3. A Serious Game -- Free Choice that follows the design brief. I version of game of life. You are a rescue team and you going to HAiti. You need to earn as much money as possible until the end and the person with the most money at the end wins.