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Designing Games with Impact

How could we teach the impact of current actions on the future through video game design?

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March 13

Today's Agenda

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Part 1

Review of Game Concepts

Part 3

Vote on Last 2 Games

Part 2

Intro to Electronics

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Design Detective

Embark on a quest as a Video Game Design Detective, where you'll play, probe, and pinpoint what makes a game awesome or boring!

Winter Break Day 1
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Winter Break Day 2

Imagine you are making a game about climate change, where players can make the decision to plant a tree or cut one down.

Step No. 04

Will you plant a tree or cut one down?

Plant

Cut

?

?

?

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Create a flow chart imagining each choice after that.

Outline the immediate outcome. Use Draw.io >>>

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Winter Break Day 3
VIDEO GAME STYLES
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Robin Squirrel

Robin Squirrel is an Adventure role playing game tackling the issue of climate change.

 

Robin Squirrel is on a mission to save his family from pollution and destruction.

GAME No 1 - DECIDED

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Clear Skies Ahead

Clear Skies Ahead is a Role Playing Game tackling the issue of pollution.

 

The players step into the shoes of an average man with a misson to influence the city’s environmental destiny through problem solving scenarios. 

GAME No 2 - DECIDED

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Zeus Goldfish

Zeus Goldfish is a never ending role playing game. The goldfish is stolen, causing the climate crisis. The players must make choices to solve climate change, knowing well that their choices may have a greater impact 

GAME CANDIDATE A

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Echoes of Tomorrow

Echoes of Tomorrow, a multiple choice adventure game that is also a cautionary Tale. The town is on the brink of ruin due to lack of water and the residents of the town need to make decisions to collect water points.

GAME CANDIDATE B

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Green Goggles

Green Goggles is a world where a massive corporation has taken over the world and ruined the environment with toxic waste.

 

Your mission is to help Alex the Axolotl heroically dismantle the factories and clean the air before time runs out!

GAME CANDIDATE C

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AI Takeover

Adam finds out AI tookover the world and he must work with other countries to eliminate the AI only using old school technology!

GAME CANDIDATE D

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A

Echoes of Tomorrow

AI Takeover

Green Goggles

Zeus Goldfish

B

C

D

Pick Your Favorite

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Intro to Electronics

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Rotary 

Potentiometer

A rotary potentiometer is a component that adjusts electrical resistance through the rotation of a knob or shaft.

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Linear 

Potentiometer

These widgets turns this movement into an electrical signal that shows how far it was moved.

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Pressure Sensor

A widget that changes its resistance when pressure is applied to it. The harder you press, the more the resistance changes, allowing it to sense how much force is being used.

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Light Sensor

A phototransistor is a device that detects the presence and intensity of light, converting these light levels into an electrical signal that can be measured.

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Light Emitting Diode

A small electronic component that lights up when electricity passes through it

Stage and interaction design

Next Session

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See you next time!