SERIOUS GAMES
While I was in graduate school, I had the chance to develop a serious educational game for the Coaching 101 program called “Coaching-Dia.” The intent of the game is to help players become more comfortable with the Coaching 101 content and perform better on the Coaching 101 assessment.
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Check out this mock-up game pitch I created for Coaching-dia.
​HOW THE GAME WORKS
Players will be in teams of eight and one person will be the team captain, who will report the team’s answers to the moderator. The moderator serves as a score keeper and will decide the correct answer if there is discrepancy over a question.
There will be three categories that teams can choose from: Movies, TV, and News. Once the team has collectively chosen a category, they will be given the choice of a subject matter: Pause Paraphrase, Pose a question model (PPP), Types of Questions, SBI (situation, behavior, impact model) or Vocabulary.
Once they have selected a skill area, a movie/TV/news clip will play. After the initial playing of the clip, each team will have 1-2 minutes to decide their answer.
Within the clip, there would be either a type of question asked, a glossary term used, or someone would use a certain type of paraphrase. The goal would be to identify which skill is being displayed in the video, each correct question is worth a total of 5 points and the first team to get to 100 points wins the game. If the team guesses incorrectly, opposing teams can steal the question for a total of 2 points.
Each concept being taught will have 3 clips within each main category. For example, the PPP pattern would have 3 clips in the Movie category and 3 different clips in the TV category. Once all of the clips have been used that category is no longer available.