Games in Milwaukee

Yesterday our Star Schools group went to the Milwaukee Academy of Science and tested the Augmented Reality Game we wrote, called "Sick on South Shore Beach" -- about some kids who got sick, and the players' jobs are to work together as a water chemist, a wildlife ecologist, and a public health doctor to figure out why.

We also tested the paper-based "control" game that the grant requires. It's a game that I mostly assembled over the course of the last week, and let me just say that a paper-based game that tries to have all the affordances of an AR game is a might complicated game. I suspect, though, that *any* paper-based game would be difficult to run in a classroom of 12-14 year olds (especially after an afternoon gym class floor hockey activity.)

That said, it went much better than I'd expected.