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Flippabottle

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For this elective term, I have been taking a STEAM course called Game Changers. In this elective course, we have been learning about games and game design. Some of these games include tabletop games like a board, dice, and card games. We learned about game creation and how to innovate and invent our own games. We were also able to make our own tabletop games. One of our field experiences was to go to CHITAG (Chicago Toy and Game Fair) and present our game. While we were there we were able to get lots of feedback for how to make our games better. I was on of the lucky ones who also got an interview with a couple of different television companies. We learned about what an elevator pitch was and how it’s so useful when selling your idea. For this Action Project, we were supposed to produce our final version of our games. My game is complete but not perfect. I had a really hard time creating the physical components for my project, but I overcame it with just pushing through. I had a sign

Mancala or Go?

For this elective term, I have been taking a STEAM course called Game Changers. In this elective course, we have been learning about games and game design. Some of these games include tabletop games like a board, dice, and card games. We learned about game creation and how to innovate and invent our own games. Throughout learning how to create games, we played multiple different types of games. One of the reasons we played games was to figure how each game worked. We also had a Skype interview with Jay Little, the creator of many popular role-playing games such as Edge Of The Empire Roleplaying Game. Jay gave us very insightful information about the game including design, elevator pitch, and marketing strategies. For this Action Project, we are recommending games to some kind of social program. I was proud of the games that I chose. It was hard for me to figure out how to write it down, but I overcame it by just coming up with mad-libs like checklists. I simply made a checklist that I