Game Lab at the University of Shizuoka 静岡県立大学ゲームラボ

Jidokan Project

We volunteer the 2nd Saturday of the month at the Kusanagi Jidokan (children's center). http://kusanagi.shizuoka-jidokan.jp/

About 20-25 elementary school children are part of a "Game Club."

We play lots of different board and card games. We also do some game design activities. We are interested in children's social and academic development. If you scroll down, you can see which games we like to play with the children.

We meet regularly to choose and practice teaching games.

At the Jidokan with some of our favorite games.

The Kusanagi Jidokan.

Internal Notes (2015 2016)

Internal Notes (2013 2014)

Schedule (1:30-3:00pm)

Saturdays: 4/11, 5/9, 6/13, 7/4, 9/12, 10/10, 11/14, 12/12, 1/9, 2/13, 3/12

We meet to choose games on the 1st Monday of the month, during lunch.

We meet to practice teaching games on the 2nd Monday of the month, during lunch.

To Do

think about how to divide kids each time (experience, preferences, games..., game design weeks)
how can we evenly distribute the kids each time?
1. do people want to teach the same kids each time? teach different kids?
2. It might be better if we make a group for them and they rotate each month
3. Some tables had fewer children than others
4. Some games need more people than there were
talk about research agendas: the point of teaching games (learning outcomes? social outcomes? literacy outcomes? 21st century skill outcomes?)
how should we teach?
1. teach in ENG/JP and then play in English?
2. only in Japanese?
3. somewhat in English and Japanese?
4. only in English?
How many different ways can we teach English through/with the games?
1. preteach English
2. teach the rules in English
3. teach the rules in English/Japanese
4. ask the kids before we play what English we can use while playing
5. all play in English
6. the kids play in Japanese, we play in English (/and Japanese)
7. ask the kids to describe their play or win in English
8. other kids repeat what kids say
9. ask the kids after the game what English we can use next time
What kinds of things can we do educationally/socially with the games?
1. Ask kids to teach someone else the game.
2. Ask them to compare strategies. (critical thinking / analysis)
3. Ask them to redesign/improve/alter the games (creativity)
should we develop some worksheets for after the games?
1. share strategies, ideas, designs and learning after playing a game: http://brooklyngamelab.com
Shall we lend games to the Jidokan if kids want to play them more? Can the Jidokan be made responsible like this?
find out how many kids from last year joined this year
look at the surveys we got at the end of last year
should we add a matrix of game difficulty/English skills/player information to our site for parents/teachers to use?
Some Ideas:
1. Are there any good combinations between a game and another game. e.g. Hol's der Geier and Duck Duck Go have some similar rules. This is another way to play more complicated games in addition to a simplification of the games.If we find this (similar mechanisms between games), kids could play more complicated games.
teaching ideas:
1. build and play a LEGO game as a group?
2. try a storytelling RPG game?
3. game design:
  1. with LEGO champion?
  2. with Halli Galli?
other:
1. share the google doc with the staff and parents?

Resources

Interesting project requiring that students suggest and share strategies, ideas, designs and learning after playing a game: http://brooklyngamelab.com
the "SNAKS" (Social, Narrative, Action, Knowledge, Strategy) model from Scott Nicholson's book "Everyone Plays at the Library" (we have this in the Lab) in order to bring games that might appeal to a wider variety of gamers. Once we find out what kinds of games the kids like, we can focus, or offer different games.

July 4

Ayae: Saboteur

Eri: Manimals

Suzuka: Sorry Sliders

JDH/Emi: Trouble, Make and Break, UNO

Marina: Zooloretto

Kyi Phyu: Apples to Apples, Story Cubes

Yusuke: Cockroach Poker

Kazutoshi: Hanabi

June 13

Ayae: Saboteur

Eri: Story Cubes

Hiroko: Dixit, Bim Bamm

Suzuka: Ciao Ciao, Villa Paletti

Emi: Manhattan

Marina: TransAmerica

Kyi Phyu: Apples to Apples

Yusuke: An Artist Goes to New York

Kazutoshi and Teruaki: Word on the Street

Natsumi: Qwirkle

May 9

1st week of April, 2015

introductions
purpose of Jidokan project
2015 schedule: Saturdays: 4/11, 5/9, 6/13, 7/4, 9/12, 10/10, 11/14, 12/12, 1/9, 2/13, 3/12
last year's reports:
- https://sites.google.com/site/gamelabshizuoka/about-the-lab/project-reports
games:
- board/card/playground games (not video or collectible card games)
- Nicholson's SNAKS model
  - S ocial
  - N arrative
  - A ction
  - K nowledge
  - S trategy
  - ..
  - Other (design, change, read rules before coming / do homework after .... anything you want to try!)
some photos
sequence:
- choose, learn, practice teaching
- go to the Game Club (1:15-3:30)
- teach and play games
  - if you can: have a discussion (who was the best player? why?) after the game
- meet after the Game Club to share ideas / take notes
- add notes to the Internal Notes (JDH will check English and write comments)
- at the end of the year:
  - look back through notes (pull out themes)
  - create, give, collect, analyze questionnaire
to do:
- prep name tags, markers
- prep introduction on Saturday
  - leaders: Ayae / Emi
  - introduce the Jidokan project, introduce the kinds of games (SNAKS) and activities (design, change, discuss)
  - introduce ourselves
  - informed consent (pics, notes, recordings tests ok)
    - do research, work for good results
    - complete at event? ok to do at home?
    - Natsumi's questionnaire (1st / last)
    - Ayae's project
    - JDH's English
  - questions for them?
    - JDH: do you want to play a game in English?
    - Ayae: do you want to make a game?
    - Emi: who is joining the Game Club for the first time?
    - what kind of board/card games have you played? (modern?)
    - what kind of games do you like?
    - Teruaki/Eri/Kazutoshi will think about a question....
    - how big of a group do you want to play in? (2 / 4-5 / 10 / 20+)?
    - why do you like games?
  - what might they ask us?
    - can my child play these games?
    - can my child learn English?
    - are the games violent?
    - where can we buy these kinds of games?
- make name tags for the children (collect)
- hand out Spiel Bande flyers
games:
- learn some games
- practice teaching the games
- decide who will lead which games
  - Teruaki/Emi/Ayae:
    - Dobble (8 players)
    - Incan Gold (8 players) - http://www.gvlibraries.org/sites/default/files/rules092906.pdf
  - Eri/Natsumi/JdH
    - Cocotaki
    - Wits and Wagers
take a notebook and pen on Saturday

March 14

February 14

December 13

Hand out surveys
Tell students about 1/10 at Kendai

November 15

October 11

September 13

We will ask the children if they want to:
- play some outside games with us (can they teach us some games they play?)
- OR
- play some "heavier" strategy games

July 5

June 14

17 kids came, and it was quite a noisy and active room!

May 10

We tried to get the kids to reflect on the games, but they too easily say "it was fun" and then just want to move on to the next game.
- How can we get them to reflect and deepen their play and learning experience?
  - Don't show other games?
The long tables were a problem for some action games. We played Jungle Speed on the floor. The round tables are better for some games.
- The kids should change places after each game?

April 25

We went to Hyaku Cho Mori to get some more social, narrative, action, knowledge/educational games for the Lab library

April 12

First Game Club day!
We introduced ourselves and the purpose of the Game Club. We invited questions or comments or requests from the parents and kids. We played a big group game (Wits and Wagers) and then split up into 3 smaller groups. We talked again with the kids and parents, and collected answers for our poster/information about the Club.
Some kids want to do some game design, some kids want to play in English sometimes.
What worked well:
- Making nametags for everyone helps us to call the kids by name.
- Asking the parents to ask questions: one asked if her 6 year old son could learn the games or not.
- We learned that the kids have some game experience: Settlers of Catan, Uno, Game of Life, Othello, Karuta, Janken
- The kids were well behaved.
- Splitting them up helped.
- 21 kids registered, we allowed an extra child to join.
- The poster worked well, but some kids were shy or didn't know the games, genres, each other.
- The Jidokan cleared out the room for us.
Some issues:
- we couldn't introduce all of the genres of games we brought. We couldn't stick to the 10 minutes per game idea we had. We could only play 2 or 3 of the 5 we each chose.
- some kids knew the games, others didn't
- the kids got really thirsty (there is a drinking fountain on-site)
- it was pretty noisy! (PIT is a noisier game but Labyrinth is a quiet game) and it might be hard to play a quieter story telling game (e.g., Hero Kids)
Possible research questions:
- how do the kids learn the games and then teach each other? can they move from learning to teaching? how do they share knowledge in the Club?

April 4

We ordered notebooks for us and name cards for the students.
We planned the questions for our first meeting with the students (and made a poster with our questions to discuss).
We chose games to bring to the first meeting.
We talked about using the "SNAKS" (Social, Narrative, Action, Knowledge, Strategy) model from Scott Nicholson's book "Everyone Plays at the Library" in order to bring games that might appeal to a wider variety of gamers. Once we find out what kinds of games the kids like, we can focus, or offer different games.
We decided not to take photos of the children.
We went over the schedule for the year.

2013-2014

Future

- start thinking about research project (topics, evaluation tools … survey/interview/photos)

- develop survey

- is there a Jidokan research group or conference or association?

- think about kids being leaders/teachers of games? (possible with more frequent visits?)

Summer Design Club?

- work with the Creativity project to teach game design this summer?

game club templates… maps… route, grid, country, cards, dungeon, individual player boards,

Possible research questions or projects

- which games are good at the jidokan for elementary school children?

- the process of changing game rules for children

- effective handicaps to balance new and expert players

- the development of strategy in subsequent plays

March 15

8 plus 2 kids came.

Tsuro

Telestrations

Castle Panic

The Jidokan gave their survey to the kids at the end (lots of "it was very fun") and we explained about the next year's schedule and procedure (one boy said "I will join again.")

Kids can join from April 5th. The first date is April 12th.

February 8 Game Club

It was raining and snowing heavily; only 5 children came. We received a few surveys, and gave out some others to kids who hadn't come before.

Incan Gold

Niagara

Dixit

Creationary

Transamerica

Orchard

January 11 Game Club

8 children came, plus 3 newcomers. We brought all the games we have played so far and let them choose what they wanted to play. We separated the games into "short simple" and "longer more complex" games. This free play style worked well; the kids remember a lot of games.

Orchard, Spooky Stairs, Pit

Kids of Carcassonne, Pit, Villa Paletti

Villa Paletti, Tsuro, Orchard

Labyrinth and Halli Galli

Pit

We handed out the surveys to the Jidokan staff, the kids and their parents, and asked them to bring it back next month. Some of the kids said they really wanted to write about the games.

We didn't give the survey to the newcomers, but said that if they came again next month, we would ask them to write it.

2 more times to play until the next season (longer sessions, and we need to talk as a group to see what kind of format they want to create.)

December 20

Met to correct and proof read the surveys. Contacted a printer to print all the forms.

December 14

Met with Takeshita-san to discuss the surveys. The staff had no major issues, but corrected some of our writing mistakes. They offered to print the surveys, but we have a budget so will do it ourselves. She showed us the records of who came to the Game Club and who didn't. We discussed having a "3 absences" rule to make sure that anyone who wants to play games with us can do so.

We are meeting on 12/20 to correct the surveys, then to contact a printer to have them printed before the January Game Group.

November 16 - Jidokan game club

Spooky Stairs

We took all the games that we have played so far. The kids broke themselves in to groups (girls and boys) and chose their games. There was some disagreement, but they agreed to play others the next time.

Hey Thats My Fish

Kids of Carcassonne

Cockroach Poker

Incan Gold

We met Takeshita-san. She collected our surveys, she confirmed that we would have the club from 1:30-3:00 next year, and also invite other children up to 20 kids if some people didn't show up. She was also taking pictures of some of the games (and asked for recommendations for games to purchase with the budget. We recommended Incan Gold and Tsuro, and suggested that she go to 100 cho mori to look at some games).

November 9

games

next year

survey

November 5

met to work on the survey

October 16

met to work on the survey, added pictures of games from boardgamegeek to the survey to prompt the children's memory

October 12

Shiori:

Halli Galli

Gogogo

Survive

Emi:

Telestrations

Cocotaki

Bim Bamm!

deHaan (in English):

Pit

Cockroach Poker

So bleibe ich gesund

Story Cubes

Candyland

Snakes and Ladders

September 14 game club game design day 2

- made games with the children

- we talked with the jidokan staff. they want us to continue the program next year

- they suggested meeting with the kids to decide the schedule… how many JP days, how many ENG days, how many design days…. the kids should decide if it is their club….

- perhaps we will have 90 min not 60

- next steps

… october.. we refine our survey

… november … give the survey to the jidokann staff to look o ef

… november … talk to the staff about next year

… December …. No club?

… january … Get survey back

… february … give survey

…. march … get survey back

… march … They will release the next years schedule.

If there are more than 20 applicants, what will we do?

Shall we create an additional club at school for other kids?

Planned for Game Design Days

Materials:

1000 blank cards
small origami paper
small memo pad
blank B4 paper
strategy game templates (5 copies each)
(thematic) map templates: Japan, Shizuoka, dungeon, fantasy, space, world, forest, city, school, mountains, train map (5 copies each)
dice and 4 pieces (20 sets)
scissors - 2
tape - 2
glue sticks - 3
rulers - 5
glass beads, plastic blocks, wooden pieces
play money
markers - 2 sets
pencil crayons - 2 sets
pencil sharpener
pencils - 12
erasers - 3
decks of playing cards - 4

Time:

explanation, brainstorming (10 minutes)
design (30 minutes)
try, playtest (20 minutes)

(Prof deHaan will stay an extra hour)

August 1 meeting

Decided Survey Questions

- Prof deHaan will clean up the English of the questions.

- Emi will work on translating them.

- We will ask the Jidokan if we can give the survey.

- We hopefully will give the survey on 2/8 and collect it on 3/15

program = Game Club

1. Questions/topics for the children

Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. You may skip any question you do not want to answer. We would like to use your responses for a research paper and conference presentation. We will respect your privacy and not include any names in our paper. If you would like to see our paper or presentation (before we publish them), please include contact information.

Please sign and date here: …

Please ask your parents to sign and date here, as well: …

In this survey, we use the word game many times. "Game" could sometimes mean a board game, card game, video game, sport, playground game or other types of games.

Background:

How old are you?
Are you male or female?
Do you like games? If so, what kind of games do you like?
How often do you play games?
Do you play games with your family? If so, which games and how often?
Do you play games with your friends? If so, which games and how often?
Which do you like better, board/card games or TV games? Why?
How long have you been coming to the Jidokan?
How many minutes does it take you to walk to the Jidokan?

social

Who did you play games with in the Game Club? (friends, people I didn't know)
Please describe your experience/feeling about playing games with your friends.
Please describe your experience/feeling about playing games with people you don't know.

motivation

Why did you join the Game Club?
If we have the Game Club again next year, will you join? Y / N Why?

games

Include cover page of names and images of all games played.
Here are the games we played at the Jidokan this year.
Did you play this game?
How would you rate the game? 1.2.3.4.5 (really good, good…) why? (because win, lose, difficult, cool, cute, boring, other)
Would you like to play it again? Y N

learning

Did you learn or practice something by playing games? Y N What? From which game?
Through the Game Club, did you change your idea about what board/card games are? Y N What do you think of board/card games now?

Jidokan and Game Club

Did you come to the Jidokan only for the Game Club? Y N
What do you think about the gaming program? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
What do you think about the game design days? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
What do you think about the game teachers? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
Do you want to continue having us come next year? How often? Do you want us to change or expand the program in any way? Do you have any requests (example: tournament, designing, borrowing games? playing in English?, other:)?

Thank you very much for your time and thoughtful answers.

If you have any comments or questions or problems, here is our contact information:

Game Lab, Professor deHaan…

2. Questions/topics for parents/families

Please sign and date here: …

In this survey, we use the word game many times. "Game" could sometimes mean a board game, card game, video game, sport, playground game or other types of games.

Background:

How old is your child?
Is your child male or female?
Do you like games? If so, what kind of games do you like?
How often do you play games?
Do you play games with your family? If so, which games and how often?
How long have you been coming to the Jidokan?
How many minutes does it take you to walk to the Jidokan?
How did you learn about the gaming program? (flyer, internet, word of mouth, children, friends, other: )
Did your child ask you to join, or did you encourage them to join? Why? (study something, communication, friends, pleasure, other: )
What do you think about children playing games? (good, beneficial, harmful, educational, other: )
What do you think about games, in general? (good, beneficial, harmful, educational, other: )
Do you think that children enjoyed this gaming program? Why?
Did your children talk about games after the event? If so, what did you talk about?
What do you think about the gaming program? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
What do you think about the game teachers? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
Do you want to continue having us come next year? How often? Do you want us to change or expand the program in any way? Do you have any requests?

Thank you very much for your time and thoughtful answers.

If you have any comments or questions or problems, here is our contact information:

Game Lab, Professor deHaan…

3. Questions/topics for Jidokan staff

Please sign and date here: …

In this survey, we use the word game many times. "Game" could sometimes mean a board game, card game, video game, sport, playground game or other types of games.

Demographics:

What is your position at the Jidokan?
How many years have you worked at Jidokans?
Do you like games? If so, what kind of games do you like?
How often do you play games?
Do you think that children enjoyed this gaming program?
How is children's interest in the board game? Do you see any changes?
What is the role of games at the Jidokan? Why do you have games here for the children?
What kind of game do you want children to play?
If there were a very interesting game for children, would you like to provide children with the game? Y N Do you have any games in mind?
What do you think about the gaming program? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
What do you think about the game teachers? 1.2.3.4.5 Why?
Do you want to continue having us come next year? How often? Do you want us to change or expand the program in any way?

Thank you very much for your time and thoughtful answers.

If you have any comments or questions or problems, here is our contact information:

Game Lab, Professor deHaan…

Survey Brainstorming

1. Goals and Results

Emi:

Spread good games
Investigate the best game (cutest, coolest, most interesting)
Establish a good relationship with children
Develop better methods of teaching games
Why do we play games?

Shiori:

To make children's creativity rich and to raise it (Because in Japan, we don't learn to be creative)
If they play board games in their childhood, they can remember the pleasure of playing board game, they may teach their child when they become a parent. Because nowadays, there's so many kids playing TV games.
Spread board games

JDH:

social
fun
thinking practice
interest in games, motivation to continue
possible interest in design
possible interest in English

2. Questions/topics for the children

Emi:

Personal data (age, gender)
Who did you play games with today? (family, friends, people I didn't know)
Do you play game? (How often do you play? What kind of game do you play?)
If school or Jidokan had some games (board or cards), would you like to play it?
What games did you play at today's program?
How would you rate the game? (really good, good…) why? (because win, lose, difficult)
What do you feel about the game? (cool, cute, boring)
What kind of game do you like? (fighting, cooperation, strategy)

Shiori:

Personal data
How often do you play board games, TV games?
Which do you like better, board games or TV games?
Did you learn something by playing games? Which game?
What game do you like the best?
What game did you play today? How was it?

JDH:

demographics: age, gender, year in school, distance on foot to jidokan, game play experience
include cover page of names and images of all games played

Jidokan

Did you come to the jidokan only for game club?
How do you feel about the jidokan?

Game Club

What did you expect from game club?
What did you like overall?
Do you have any suggestions to improve it?
Do you want to continue, next year? how often?
Are you interested in designing board games?
Are you interested in other events? For example, a tournament of a certain game?

Games

Please list your top 3 games. Why are they your favorites?
Through the Game Club, did you change your idea about what board games are? What do you think of board games now?
Do you want to play games in English or Japanese?
Did you learn or practice anything from school with the games?
Would you like to borrow some games?

Others

Please describe your experience/feeling about playing games with other children

3. Questions/topics for parents/families

Emi:

Why do you let children participate in this gaming program? (study, pleasure)
Do you like to play games? Why?
What do you think that children play game? and about game? (good, beneficial, harmful)
Do you think that children enjoyed this gaming program?
How did you know the gaming program?

Shiori:

* Do you play board games in your family? How often?

What do you expect children to learn by playing board game?
Do you think playing board game is educational? Why?
Why do you let children participate in this game program?

JDH:

Please evaluate our program
How often would you like us to run our program?
Do you want us to run the program in English or Japanese?
Would you like to borrow games?
Would you be interested in visiting the university for workshops on games?
Did your children talk about games after the event? If so, what did you talk about?

4. Questions/topics for Jidokan staff

Emi:

Do you think that children enjoyed this gaming program?
If there were very interesting game for children, would you like to provide children with the game?
What do you think that children play games at Jidokan?
What do you think about the gaming program?

Shiori:

Do you think that children is enjoying this game program?
What kind of game do you want children to play?
Is there something you want us to do?
How do you think about playing games in Jidokan?
How is children's interest in the board game? Any changes?

JDH:

Please evaluate our program.
Do you want to continue having us come? How often? Do you want us to expand the program in any way?

August 10 Jidokan Game Club

the first game design hour
the staff (Ooba-san and Kato-san, a student from Shizuoka University) put down plastic sheets for them to use the markers on
the Staff will be making the schedule for next year in Nov/Dec (game club, english game club, game design club afternoon?)
some kids took their games home (with extra blank cards to use…) to keep working on. I received 2 boards from some boys.
some kids outside the club asked the staff about the event - wanted to know how to join

July 15 Jidokan Game Club (an extra meeting, only Prof. deHaan and his son)

Labyrinth

Cockroach Poker

another family in the Jidokan asked about the Club, and wanted to join next year

the Jidokan staff asked the children and parents to sign a document to let the Center put some photos up on their website

Meetings July 9 and July 12

- how is the project going? fun, enjoy playing with children

- choose and practice teaching some games, gave rule books

- talk about the readings and survey questions

- when will we give the survey? middle and end? end?

- need to ask permission to give the survey

- talk about the summer schedule for the Jidokan, game design

deHaan: Heroscape

Shiori: Survive (6 players), Story Cubes, Cockroach Poker

Haruka: Zooloretto, The Kids of Carcassonne, Incan Gold

Emi: Telestrations, Spooky Stairs

June 8

Had the Jidokan Game Club from 1:30-2:30. 18 children came (3 tables)

Zooloretto/Coloretto (Haruka)

Dixit (Emi):

Heroscape (JDH)

Other:

- tired after just one hour! (voice, using Japanese, teaching the games, caring about the kids, thinking about the rules)

- kids seemed to enjoy throwing dice (like luck?) and then perhaps start to think more about the rules later?

- we should try to play games more than once?

- take both old and new games, let them choose?

June 6

- choose games, practice teaching them

DEHAAN: Heroscape, King of Tokyo, Cockroach Poker

Emi: Dixit

Haruka: Zooloretto, Tsuro (concerned about length)

Shiori: Survive, Story Cubes

May 11

Paid 300 yen for insurance (for DEHAAN).

Taught games: DEHAAN, Shiori, Haruka, Emi, Gustav, Kou

Games (DEHAAN)

Cockroach Poker

Story Cubes

Kids of Carcassonne

Games (Haruka)

Hey Thats My Fish

Incan Gold

Tsuro:

Games (Shiori)

Tsuro

Hey That's My Fish

Spooky Stairs

Problems/Future:

- DEHAAN should speak in both ENG and JP

- Include more physical games (Shiori's game?)

- Bring more games (to let them choose from)?

- Bring more 5 min (filler) games for the last 5 minutes

- Let students take games home for a month?

May 10

met to choose and practice teaching games

Gustavo and Emi will also join us.

DEHAAN - Cockroach poker, story cubes, king of tokyo

Shiori - Spooky Stairs, Kids of Carcassonne

Haruka - Hey Thats My Fish, Incan Gold

April 15

- Do we need different games for the boys and girls? Why?

… puzzle games for the boys? girls like cute pieces (parents said that … wanted cute games)

… next time: heroscape, castle panic and king of tokyo?

- Need to practice teaching games?

… meet to practice, watch some teaching videos

- How can the children choose their games? Lottery? In turns?

… we should introduce the games, let them choose

… before the game club, put the games on the table, they can choose where to sit

… let's teach as many games as possible, and then see if they can play by themselves

- Children should change tables?

… no

- Next meeting?

… May 10 lunch and 3rd period to play games and teach games

- Game Club schedule ok? (2nd Saturday)

… yes, except for august and september

- General meeting on (5, 19, 26)?

… 19 or 26 both ok

April 13

- Went to Jidokan for 1st Game Club meeting

- 16 children attended at 3 tables

- 1 hour session

- We met Ooba Sensei, Ohara Sensei, Fujinami Sensei

Reflection:

- fun!, but we were a little tired

- it was difficult to teach the rules clearly (but the children understood the rules very quickly!)

- Ubongo

- Niagara

- Hey That's My Fish

- Kids of Carcassonne

- Transamerica

April 8

- Project Goals: find ways to engage people in the community with games

- talk about Jidokan (Children's Center) Game Club format

http://www.chum-shizuoka.jp/tudou/jidokan-kusanagi.html

- decide games for Children's Center

Haruka - Geister Treppe, Transamerica, Niagara

Shiori - Hey Thats my Fish, Make n Break, Kids Carcassonne

JDH - Labyrinth, Ubongo, Forbidden Island

- confirm time and location for 4/13

- set up continuing brainstorming meeting (locations/events, research goals (education, psychological, family, emotional?))

- Intro on 4/23

- General Meeting on 5/12?

2012-2013

March 9

Older man came to watch us play again.
Banno-san talked with me about the groupings, agreed to split the kids up.
* From April will be up to 20 kids – a Game Club!
13 kids showed up – tough to manage with 4 player games.
Orchard
Duck Duck Go
Geistertreppe
Tsuro

Feb 16

Duck Duck Go
Ubongo
Tsuro

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