Last year (2020) my wife and I started to create our own game but had to put it on the backburner because of various things that had come up making our lives crazy. I still look at the box that our game is in and have looked at the notebook that has our “chicken scratch” thoughts in it thinking that soon, we need to get started on it again.
Then I remembered that back in either junior high or high school a project that our class had to do was to create our own version of Monopoly based on one of the fifty United States that we were assigned to. Mine just so happen to be the state of Utah.
From what I remember from the project of “ancient days” is that we had to research major events, places, and people from the history of the state and write up a couple page report covering all the topics. We then had to create our own game board and assign each spot including utilities and railroads to items that we highlighted in our report.
After the whole class had given their reports, we had spent about a week in groups of four playing each other’s Monopoly game.
Some of you may be thinking that was such a cheesy project, and others may think that this would be the coolest thing to do with school kids. I am with the latter, I loved the project and would love to do it again.
Since my wife and I are planning on homeschooling our child and future children, I am sure doing game creation projects will be on our future. I would love to start this in the early stages of schooling since our daughter already loves to be involved in our gaming hobby.
I would like to know, have any of you had to do any similar projects?
We homeschooled both of our girls. I love this idea. I've made a few games, and my older daughter took to it (though right now she denies it...lol).
ReplyDeleteI would check out www.TheGameCrafter.com. It is one off service that will make your games look professional. It is a skill that will server them well in college, and possibly in future endeavors. One the plusses here is that you and your children can learn to use some free programs to make your games. In particular, Gimp (A bit-image manipulation program for things like jgp's, pic's, and png's), and also InkScape (a vector-image manipulation program, used to make printing smooth). If you have money, you can use Adobe or its equivalent, but Gimp and InkScape are a very potent pair. I can afford others and I stick with those two.
I would also recommend getting some sort of drawing table that has at least a 10 inch diagonal (you can pick them up on amazon for $50-$70. I have an affordable Huion ($59), and it works great. It will allow you to draw your art digitally.
Games are great, and I love your thinking. I think the skills picked up making the game would make it serious bonus.
I hope this helps.
That is a great idea. Maybe we can come up with something Brian & Dad could help out with their wood working skills.
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