Game Creation Progress

Our Game Progress

We met Wednesday with everyone not really sure what to do or how to proceed.   We first tried to figure out what it meant to create a game based on The Hunger Games with the purpose of avoiding Panem.  We were confused because the the Hunger Games are part of being part of Panem.  So if we were to avoid Panem, there would be no need for Hunger Games. 

An email and tweet was sent out to Lee for clarification. We put that discussion on hold and tried to figure out what social media tool we could use for our game.  We discussed Facebook, Blogs, and using Edmodo. 

Lee joined our meeting (in Eluminate) and helped us understand that it was open for interpretation. This helped us in creating ideas for a game.  We came up with the goal of the game to be avoid being taken over by Panem.  In order to do that we would need to protect our resources so that we could be self sufficient. 

We brainstormed all sorts of ideas about levels, badges, and other possibilities. After an hour and a half we decided we would think on it and meet again after our Thursday Twitter meet. 

We met for an hour today.  We were able to flesh out more specifics of our games.  What each level would be and how the players would “pass” them.  We discussed what the players would actually do and the roll of the teacher.  We had to reign ourselves in a few times when we had wonderful ideas.  These ideas, unfortunately, would have drastically increased the complication of the game, and we decided we would not have time to do them. 

I feel like we really have our ideas narrowed down.  We plan on meeting again early next week after working on it over the weekend.   It feels so much better to have this fleshed out and knowing more what we are doing!