Final Humane Game

You are to create a single or two player Humane game. This game can be a game for change, game for health, or game for education. For this project you may work in pairs or groups of three. No more than three. For an educational game the goal is to elicit player learning. For a socially conscious game the goal is to raise awarness or effictively advocate for a cause. For a health game the goal is to demonstrate a positive health impact, be it conginitive, phsysiological, or psychological. Subject matter be be age appropriate to your target audience.

Goals :

1. Your game elicits learning, awarness raising, or behavioral change.
2. Players will want to play many times.
3. You can show via a survey that your game is effecitve.
4. Ultimate goal: all of the above plus players will want to tell others to play your game.
5. You will have a downloadable game ready for dissemination.

To hand in:

• A working web 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.
• A prototype game. Make sure you save this as it is a major checkpoint in the grading.
• Your final game, online and ready to demo.
• An assesment write up of your game. This could be done by a survey including a class survey. You should have at least 4 additional non-class members fill out your survey. One alternative to a survey is in-game assessment metrics that you analyze.