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Game DesignExperimenting with ARIS
Vivian Harris
Festival of Learning 2012
ARISARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for
creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive characters, items, and media placed in physical space.
http://arisgames.org/
http://arisgames.org/projects-and-papers/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TH9OAuE-c&noredirect=1
The PlanTo make an interactive ARIS game for a high
school teacher visit to our upriver schools and community
Base it on the idea that the bushranger Thunderbolt, who really did have a hideout in this valley, may have hidden treasure here.
Use the game to encourage interaction between the high school teacher visitors and the local parents and community members.
Reasons1. FUN!
2. Encourage high teachers’ use of technology and game based learning.
3. Suggest its use for year 6/7 transition days and maybe for cross school Macleay Educational Community fun day.
What HappenedHow to make an ARIS Game
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wxKZI2nGgoEvJJcb63Q5MJKa_pZErJIh17aKZnLehmQ/edit
It didn’t WORK.
I couldn’t get it to be sequential.
So at 9pm the night before the visit I changed to Plan B……
QR codes
I changed all my narrative and clues to QR codes.
QR code Treasure Hunt. Need ipads, ipods or iphones or equivalent with QR code reading app eg Scan
QR code generator
website eg i-nigma
Clues
First Clue-Setting the
sceneThe bushranger Captain
Thunderbolt (Fred Ward) and his wife Mary Ann Bugg are
rumoured to have had a hut at Stockyard Creek, not far from
Bellbrook. There are persistent whispers about a treasure. Look
for another clue at Bellbrook School.
What did I learn?Games are Fun!
Give yourself plenty of time to make a game
Test it, test it, test it
Sometimes simple can be better than complex
The FutureI would still love to spend the time to get it right
I would love to make a historic village tour for Bellbrook with historic photos popping up when you pass the real place (the sequence problem wouldn’t matter then)
It would be great to make a game that included the whole CBD of the town.
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