GAME CREATURES
Let kids create their own games.
Behind the design
design context
design challenge
How to cultivate kids' creativity and design ability at school?
Observation:
Kids spend most of their time at school. What if we make the time playful and creative?
research & EVALUATION
Design Workshops: Game design is really hard for kids.
We held workshops for children to design games and see what difficulties they met during the whole process. The main obstacles are that they can't go into the thinking flow and can't turn their life experiences into new game elements. Coming up with a complete game on their own is also a difficult thing for them.
Testing: Tried out several game design methods and
tailored the most promising one
By researching existing design methods, game design methods, and creative thinking methods, such as modifying games, forced combination, bodystorming, role-playing, place storming. We then chose the most promising one and further developed it into a new way for children to design games successfully.
see all methods we've tried : https://issuu.com/16426/docs/tisdc_methods_we_tried
Evaluation: What’s essential for kids to build a game?
To create a game design process that is suitable for children, it is important to build scaffolds to guide them think out of the box to some extent, to integrate and converge thoughts, and to keep the whole process fun to maintain their attention.
final solution
Leverage children’s innate power of telling stories
We found that children are good at telling stories during our testing phase. By letting children create a creature and go into an imaginary world to tell stories through scripts, they accumulate game elements unconsciously in meantime. This way, they can create games easier. With creatures in the imaginary world, children can think more creatively as well.
Designed by: Chien Chih Hsu, Hou-Jen Chen, Hsuan-Tzu Shen
Responsible for: problem clarify, product design, visual design