Imagining Your Game

• WHO are you designing your game for? (Include the player's age, abilities, and prior knowledge of your topic.)

• WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? (Be specific!)

• WHERE does your game happen?
  • Describe the world you will design for your game.
  • How will this setting add to the learning experience?

• HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic?
  • What happens in the world that helps the player learn?
  • How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game?

• WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz?

1. For all ages
2. To excercise and eat healthy
3. A square environment
4. To jump hurdles
5. More interaction

Playing to Learn

The genres that I am most interested in includes...action, sports, running.

Mini Game Assignment

Was it hard to make your mini game? What was the best part of this topic? The worst part?

Not too hard. The best part of the topic was learning about physical fitness.  No worst part.

Adding Scenes

I am using visual storytelling through the the runner jumping over hurdles for healthy and unhealthy food to get into proper physical shape. From the games that I have played in the Playing to Learn topic, I feel that none of the games used storytelling to teach a concept well. Lastly, I feel that other narrative games have not influenced my game.

Video Blog

This past Monday, my team created a video blog as a requirement from Globaloria. We used our new paper prototypes which contains a new title name, which is now called "Aggressive Square Runner".  Also the game contains square elements including clouds, sun and the runner himself.

My Team!

I have deceided to team up with Matt from class to start Run & Jump. We have begun creating the storyboard using Adobe Flash and have also began assigning project goals.

Paper Prototyping

I have completed my paper prototyping on Run & Jump.  The game is about an out of shape guy getting ready for the 5K race.  The goal is to successfully jump the hardles and collect the fruit. If you can't successfully jump the hurdles, the runner eats unhealthy food, causing him to slow down. The game speeds up as you jump the hurdles. The game will have 3 rounds.