Friday, August 24, 2007

Political PUB style game

My overall goal for my application was to essentially have a game that would increase your awareness about politics. All of you made some comments that mean a lot of. Unless you’re a person that just likes trivia you won’t be interested in this application. I also did research on how everyone could be on the same leaderboard. Being on the same leaderboard wouldn’t be hard but you might rack up a lot of charges on your phone bill for Internet use. Then people would just delete the application anyway. My initial idea would put this in competition with Tetris or any other java based phone game. The problem is phones are getting more like laptops and politics are not as interesting as Facebook. If I was to do anything with this idea I would go about it all the different. I would aim it at younger children. One game show that I’ll try to model is where in the world is Carmen Sandiego. I watch that show all the time , Most of the time I couldn’t get the answers right on the show unless it was a rerun. But I watched a lot a TV so eventually I learned a lot. I also don’t think people are wanna go to a web site to check their scores. Unless the leader boards were put in a newspaper or attached to a larger application like Facebook I don’t think it would work.

2 comments:

  1. I think the overall problem with an app like this is the forum within which it's absolutely usable. If you move away from a standalone app and move towards melding the idea with Steve's DebateThis premise, you might have something here. (The quiz questions could possibly boost your rank among other debaters.)

    The Carmen Sandiego is a great angle though. In this respect, if this were aimed at children, there could be a definite connection between this idea and Locker Stocker. You shouldn't just toss this idea out - it could totally work with one of the other projects we're working on.

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  2. i agree with jon - it's a perfect tool for the locker idea. The basic structure could be used at lots of levels, the look might change for younger audiences, teen boys, whatever. So might hte questions. But the structure would be the same.

    Micah - i'd strongly encourage ya to go to the locker group and see how the quiz/game concept might fit.

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