Game 2: Educational

You are to create a single or two player educational game. For this project you may work in pairs or groups of three. The goal is to elicit player learning. Subject matter can be pretty much anything age appropriate including math, science, literacy, humanities, art, music, and social studies. The game should not be dependent on current events. The target audience is grades 4 - 8.

Goals :

1. Your game elicits learning.
2. Players will want to play more than once.
3. Ultimate goal: all of the above plus players will want to tell others to play your game.
4. You will have a suitable game to submit to the new children's museum in NY.

To hand in:

• A working game on the web. Ideally this will be a web based game. If for some reason your game is to not be on the web please talk with me.
• A Game Creation Document that includes the following sections:
  1. An initial game description including rules and procedures, clearly explaining the primary game mechanic(s). This description is to be made before you make any prototypes or do any playtesting.
  2. Photos of your paper prototype(s).
  3. A list of discoveries made during playtesting.
  4. A flow-chart of game play.
  5. A revised game description including rules, procedures, and a clear description of the primary game mechanic. Note, it can be very different from the initial game description.
  6. Screen shots of a digital prototype of some aspect of your game.
  7. What you learned from your prototype.
  8. Your initial game.
  9. What you learned from playtesting your game.
  10. What (if anything) you changed after playtesting feedback.
• A zip file of all your digitial components: code, art, photos, screnshots etc.
• Your game, online and ready to demo.