Educational Game Collaboration

me: The framework. You'll have to put in the details, as I don't have a schema of your curriculum

sodijusey: talk about an untapped market

me: Ok

We'll collaborate :)

sodijusey: that's what we could do!!!!

:)))

totally

me: triple chin!

sodijusey: we'll be RICH!

me: LOL

That sounds good :)

sodijusey: no seriously though

I've been to English teacher conventions...and you wouldn't believe the market for stuff to sell...

and games is an untapped market

if you're serious...I'd love to work on something like that

me: Yeah, we should definitely collaborate on that.

sodijusey: over time

me: I am serious

sodijusey: I am too

that would be sooooo cool

Christina could do the artwork

me: And it would be good for both public and private schools, so it would be desireable to a wide audience

Right, got to get her craftiness in there, too

sodijusey: I was thinking of some of the beautiful cards of Dixit

me: Ok, done super excited

sodijusey: :)

me: Yes, I think DiXit is a great game for your class room, get their creativity flowing

sodijusey: good thing you're so creative and smart and intelligent and motivated and driven and entrepreneurial and..

SEXY

me: You could have a custom DiXit deck where the images capture particular stories

sodijusey: kissing your sexy parts

oh that would be interesting....allowing for supplemental plots

me: So, you read Mice and Men and you have immages of peopel walking along the rail road with the dry hills in the distance

sodijusey: but familiar characters

me: The rabbit

The barn with straw bed

sodijusey: a gun with blood on it

me: Right, familiar characters to the story

sodijusey:

me: There you go

That would be great. It is both a game and a visual component to the narrative

Sent at 10:51 AM on Wednesday

sodijusey: or an author pack...with a blend of characters, settings, plot artifacts from several of the author's pieces

what if Othello and Juliet were stuck in an enchanted forest?

me: Do you think team play, where the whole room is playing the same instantiation is more popular in education circles than small clusters?

sodijusey: no...I don't think it's really doable that way

I've never seen a classroom playing one game together unless it was jeopardy or something like that

me: I mean for games in general, not just a picture card game

sodijusey: depends on the game, really

me: Right, that is a system where you need someone to arbitrate, the teacher.

Sure. But what I'm asking, as a designer, is what would the market prefer.

sodijusey: I think I would prefer traditional board game choices to be played in smaller groups

me: Are multiple clusters bad because it requires the teacher to have to explain the same thing five times and is afraid some clusters are going to break down and stop participating?

sodijusey: Though, I think something whole-class could work as well...

No...you would explain it once, model it...and then they would play

if they're all playing the same game

me: Would you as a teacher be interested in team competitions where they are competing for extra credit points?

sodijusey: on the other hand...if you had some fantasy role playing game going on...it could involve more people right? How many can it handle?

yes...students get very competitive over games in the classroom

me: Well, if you can maintain the pace it can scale very well.

I guess bragging rights are enough, don't need to bring grade points into it.

sodijusey: maybe a game where it's the same type of game...but you have 4-5 different "plots" going...the first group to accomplish their task wins.

like mini paks within the same game

designed for simultaneous game playing but with a twist in their plots or something like that

me: Interesting. I like the idea of modules that string into a larger narrative

sodijusey: but they all have to eventually make it to the castle or something like that

me: Very cool. I've got my designer brain working overdrive

sodijusey:

me: Too bad this is off the record, LOL

I'll have to copy this text into a document

sodijusey: I think deciding on an educational objective...a learning target would be beneficial. Then it would help us streamline the type of game...the things they will gain by playing the game...whether it's content, review, creativity, imagination, creative writing boosters, etc.

me: Yes, I was thinking the same

sodijusey: for instance, if you were designing a game for American Lit it would look very different than a generic "storytelling" game

I would want specific content