local games lab
Designing "Riverside: A Milwaukee Game"
Thursday, August 23 2007
It's been more than a year since I first visited the
Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, WI.
This fantastic building borders the Milwaukee river at Riverside park, between North and Locust. The park is the setting for our new ARGH, "Riverside: a Milwaukee game", and the building has been the site of our professional development workshops for Milwaukee area teachers who plan on using our game in their classrooms in the coming year. I've spent much of my summer designing this game, along with Jim Mathews, with help from Ming-Fong Jan and Mark Wagler.
Broadly speaking, the game is about the health of the Milwaukee River corridor. And like the other ARGHs we've been preparing for the Star Schools grant, it is a 10-day affair intended for middle-school students, although we tend to include enough research for an in-depth semester of study by college students.
Here's some pictures.
This fantastic building borders the Milwaukee river at Riverside park, between North and Locust. The park is the setting for our new ARGH, "Riverside: a Milwaukee game", and the building has been the site of our professional development workshops for Milwaukee area teachers who plan on using our game in their classrooms in the coming year. I've spent much of my summer designing this game, along with Jim Mathews, with help from Ming-Fong Jan and Mark Wagler.
Broadly speaking, the game is about the health of the Milwaukee River corridor. And like the other ARGHs we've been preparing for the Star Schools grant, it is a 10-day affair intended for middle-school students, although we tend to include enough research for an in-depth semester of study by college students.
Here's some pictures.
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