Week 12-The Game Proposal

    The last step in creating our game is the game proposal.  Creating the game has been a challenging but fun journey.  There was a lot of questions and confusion about what was expected for the game proposal. After some much needed clarification, we could all breath a sigh of relief about what we needed to present to the students.  Our group discussed different ways to "hook" the students into wanted to know more about our game.  As a group our goal was to take components of our game and draw the students in.  The way we decided to do this was to use our game opening and the beginning parts of the game, creating and avatar/picking a region, and create a movie trailer.  I believe that our game opening is very catchy and will hook the students. As a group we have worked to gather images of different locations and avatars that may be seen in our game.
    This process has been an eye opening, I never thought that I would be part of a group that would create a game proposal which could eventually turn into a real game.  This has been a wonderful learning experience that has opened my world to a new type of learning and learning environment for students.  As we worked through designing the game I had my students in mind and could visualize them playing the game. 

Week 11-Game Reflection

   Oh the ups and downs of this game.  It has been an eye opening experience developing a proposal for a game.  On a large scale I never thought there would be a possibility of proposing a game that would have the chance of being turned into a true game.  At the beginning of this course when it was stated that we had to develop a game, I wasn't sure what to think.  
   The process that we went through this game was helpful in understanding how a game is created.  One of the challenges that we faced as a group was thinking to much into the project. When we would think that we had it all figured out we would question the work we had down or wonder if we were doing this right.  Many times during this process I felt lost and unsure exactly what we were doing with this project, but my wonderful group helped guide me through the process.  At times I think we tended to over think things or think we needed to do more than we actually needed to do. 
    This process was truly a collective learning group.  The first time creating a project using this method was challenging in a sense, because most of us are use to creating a project with knowing what exactly is expected.  What we may have thought as no guidance was really a chance for all of us to tap into our strengths to create the best game possible. Besides working and discussing within our group the last Twitter session was extremely beneficial to help guide the finishing stages of our project. This allowed a huge weight to be lifted off all of our shoulders.
   I think one of the most rewarding experiences of this process is tapping into a creative section in my brain that I would not have done before.  I have never been a gamer nor have I ever had the desire to work on building a game.  I will admit that I was dreading this part of the course when I first read that we had to create a game.  Boy was I wrong about creating this game.  It has turned out to be a great activity. I have enjoyed this process greatly and even though it has put me out of my comfort zones on many different level it has been a great experience.   I look forward to seeing what the other groups have created and hope our game proposal gets the most votes!