[game_edu] Game Suggestions

[Maria Droujkova]

I used the following activity for the same purpose:

   - Kids wrote names of their favorite games on cards
   - Then they sorted cards into groups, by similarity
   - We talked about categories kids created for sorting, and different
   categories game designers used

You need to do some sort of a comparison task to get at design, so playing a
single game may not take you there. Or you could offer several versions of
one game, such as 3d tic-tac-toe (and other extensions of it) to talk about
game elements that change and stay the same.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
919-388-1721

Make math your own, to make your own math




On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:51 AM, <coachpayne at aol.com> wrote:


> Thanks for the input on game design programs and environments.  My students

> all have laptops, heavy on the MacBook side, and most of these suggestions

> were playable on both.

>

>  Next question:  if you could have a group of high school students play a

> game to get a feel for game design, what would it (they) be?  I'd like to

> know which games, digital and non-digital,would be useful to play, maybe

> prior to the first real meeting after signup.  Preferably, these would be

> accessible online, and free is better.  I want the students to figure out

> "fun" for themselves prior to discussing the idea.  Games I've used include

> the classic tic-tac-toe and rock-scissors-paper, as well as checkers and

> chess, Risk, and the ball game 4-square for non-digital, Angry Birds (of

> course) for smartphones and tablets, and Sim City and others for digital.  I

> might also have them play some arcade games such as Space Invaders and

> Asteroids. Relatively non-violent games would be preferred, given an

> audience of sophomore/junior private school kids, with a girls school

> hosting this mini-term course.  I'd really like to develop a large range of

> games.  I've got lots of resources, mainly at my "old" school, (

> http://dpsgaming.wikispaces.com/Books+and+Other+Resources)<http://dpsgaming.wikispaces.com/Books+and+Other+Resources>,

> but your current suggestions would be welcome. I'd like to create some sort

> of list this week, if possible.

>

>  Thanks.

>

>  Charlie Payne, M.Ed.

> Teacher of Physics

> St. Catherine's School

> Richmond, VA

>

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