Overview
Can your design team make a game that functions (RELATED CONCEPT) as a public relations tool and builds a future community (KEY CONCEPT) builder? Can your game help make a fair and just community (GLOBAL CONTEXT)?
Key Concept 重要概念: Community
Communities are groups that exist in proximity defined by space, time or relationship. Communities include, for example, groups of people sharing particular characteristics, beliefs or values as well as groups of interdependent organisms living together in a specific habitat.
Design Related Concept 関連概念:
Function
Conceptual Understanding 概念理解:
Japan's population is changing and communities are changing as well and especially aged communities. Games can function to bring communities together. Japan has a super aged society and this project will ask if games can help reconnect this community.
Global Context & Explorations グローバル文脈と調査内容:
Fairness and development: Imagining a hopeful future, Human capability and development
Statement of Inquiry 探究テーマ :
A game can make a healthier and happier community for all ages
Inquiry Questions (探究の問い):
Factual:
What games do you like to play? Why do you like to play them? What are the social costs connected with an aging population? What are the most popular games in Japan?
Conceptual:
How can games make people excited about something? How can games be a part of community building? How can we apply the principles of gaming to PR? Why do we like games?
Debatable:
How much responsibility does the older generation of KNG student have to build the next generation? How do games and digital devices make us more or less social? How can we use the principles of gaming to make games more appealing to future KNG students?
Let's Make a Game! Part A, B, C, & D (Class 1 - 4)
ABCD Bilingual Criteria (Class 5 & 6)
Demographics of Japan (Many Languages)
Research on People's Use of Game Centers (Jp)
Some Japanese Articles on the game making process
Caine's Arcade (Short English video documentary)
What is a game center? (Eng) & How to Enjoy the Game Center (Jp)
How to build a arcade cabinet. This is wood but could use cardboard maybe...
A selection of game making sites. Some of these are NOT free but might have a free trial. Some of these are harder than others. If these are blocked please ask Mr Andreano to allow access or use a different PC.
Electronic Resources we have at school
Interactive games with VCR/DVD Japanese: プレーヤーズゲーム
Some Examples from 2022