Hub Uy, Kelly Saxton, Diego Cruz Castillo, Erin Finnegan, Song Hia, Paul Hiam, Michael Oneppo, Yurika Mulase, David Gochfeld, Matthew Goral, Hugo Lucena, Danara Sarioglu, Sung Hoon Kim, Thea Rae, Rucha Patwardhan

A showcase of the best games from the Designing Games for Kids class at ITP

Description

Designing games for kids ain’t easy, but it sure can be rewarding. Kids can be the harshest of critics and also the most appreciative of players.

Designing games for kids entails crafting a complex and dynamic system to produce engagement and at the same time make it look super simple. No 20 page booklets of rules. No relying on the good will of the player to hold their attention.

Kids Play @ ITP is a showcase of projects from the 12 weeks of Designing Games for Kids class at ITP where ITP students hone their skills as an interaction designer and set out understand how kids learn and play.

1. Kymera – Long ago and far away, there was a land of four elements: Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. The animals who lived there were peaceful. One day an evil curse fell upon the land, causing all the animals to battle and mutate. Now horrible monsters roam the land, with multiple heads, torsos, and feet, all in terrifying combinations called chimera. The only way to restore peace to the land is to battle your way to the other side, and accumulate enough magic to remove the curse

2. Dungeon Drop – a collaborative dungeon crawler RPG board game where four characters explore a collapsing dungeon in order to defeat a Minotaur lurking in the fiery pits.

3. Slangasaurus – Invent Your Own Slang – Slangasaurus is the groundbreaking first game to let you compete with your friends in battle of creativity. Invent your own slang in a race to become the Slangasaurus. The first player to get 5 points wins

4. Toxic Cleanup – A board game that would encourage kids to think about biodiversity, and illuminate some of the complexity involved in maintaining it in today’s world. The game is modeled on the process of rehabilitating a polluted site and re-establishing habitat for animal species.

5. Space Race –An action packed card game where players build a space ship, suit up their astronauts and race to space. Players represent rival countries vying for the best collection of space ship parts. Parts are lined up from a factory. Play action cards to change the order of the line or sabotage your opponent’s ships! First to space wins.

6. Oasis – strategy game where players hunt for oasis, collect coins and use them to build roads to water settlements and cities on their way to victory.

Classes

Designing Games for Kids