Games+Learning+Society 10 Conference

Facilitated by Courtney Francis and Jolene Zywica.

Text Adventure Creation Tool (TACT)
Evan Wright
TACT is a web-based, classroom friendly tool which allows students to easily create and play each others text-based adventure games. Teachers can provide feedback to students directly through the web interface and can get a complete dump of a project to facilitate grading it. The project has several classroom applications and can help teachers meet numerous Common Core ELA standards.

The Ward Game: A Pervasive Novel Study
Paul Darvasi
The Ward Game is a pervasive game where students experience the world of a novel in an embodied and immersive fashion. Designed to teach Ken Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, players are transformed into patients and the school's classrooms, corridors, bells and clocks became those of Nurse Ratched's ward. For 30 days, players are plunged into the world of the novel through a modular elixir of video game mechanics, videos, social media, interactive tools and locative activities.