Looking at approaches to the design of Serious Games.

• This idea essentially follows my guiding questions idea which is very similar to the idea Jim had. Basically, we need to put together a bunch of questions that need to be asked which are intended to help guide the design process. They are designed to help people make the decisions they need to make.

• My idea is to set up a big list of these guiding questions - perhaps in some sort of database (nothing fancy).
• They should be interconnected so that a positive answer might generate additional questions or eliminate others.
• The questions can also be prioritized.

• We could set up a form where users can prioritize the questions. Once they're done it would generate a set of guidelines, sorted according to their stated priorities.

For the time being we'll just collect questions here. If you can think of a category or some other tags or attributes for the questions, fine. If not, that's fine too. I suspect that categories will start to appear after we get enough questions.

• Is there a single, primary message or goal for this serious game?
  • such as: “Drunk Driving = Bad Idea”
  • If so, what is it?

• What kind of time commitment are players expected to commit?
  • on-going virtual environment (where they can come back time after time to continue)
  • fully immersive (hours)
  • short-form (30 minutes or less)
  • mini-game (5 minutes or less per round)

• Will this be a game that people are expected to play on their own or as part of a larger context?
  • Will it be played while under the supervision of some facilitator?

• What kind of budget is available?