How to design a Serious Game.
MelanieProtein Art We have recruited an expert structural biologist to our project! Martina Maritan, Ph.D. is a structural biologist, which means she studied the shape of proteins, and in particular, she used X-Rays the same way Rosalind Franklin did. Now she is a postdoc in the Molecular Graphics Lab,
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Part Two: Integrating the design of a game into your lessons/Using video game design to get your students to interact and learn great amounts from a local scientist.
1. Choose a topic you wish to address.
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Hi. Do you have a kid at home who is 8? Or are you a kid who is 8? Perhaps you are a kid who is 14, or 34. What would you like to do when you grow up? Would you like to help the environment, work for major league baseball,
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Wonder whether your students will like Immune Attack? Wonder whether it is game enough to hold their attention? Well watch this video.
And oh, if you work for a AAA video game company you can reach me by email!
Thank you to Debbie Kovesdy, her students and the biology teachers who participated in our evaluation.
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If you want to design a game that teaches something, first define carefully what that thing is. Second, design your game to require the player to learn that thing in order to win your game. This concept is very important for Serious Game designers, but it is also very important for every game designer.
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A friend said to me,
“I am trying to make a video game to create interest in engineering. Someone told me Spore taught a lot about evolution. What do you think?”
I did play Spore and I was very disappointed. I was angry, actually, because the things that are so cool about evolution were not present.
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Paul Ballas, OD, of our own Science Advisory Group, wrote an excellent opinion piece for Wired.
Paul thinks that video games that require us to be more active might help us actually become more active. People exercise more when they can do something fun for exercise,
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I believe that video games have the power to teach us many things.
Math (See Lure of the Labyrinth, and DimensionM)
Biology (MedMyst, CSI: The Experience, Cellcraft and Immune Attack)
Ancient History (Discover Babylon)
And the many games that teach social awareness and facts about current events at Games for Change.
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So, how do cells avoid viruses? If you wonder, try playing the game CellCraft. It is a terrific game for middle school students or anyone. Check it out, give the Cellcraft team some props on their forum, and then tell me what you like about the game.
www.kongregate.com Play Cellcraft here!
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We list every science game we know of on the Science Game Center! Made a science game? Looking for one? Have an opinion about one? Go to the SGC now.
