Project Pitch

For this stage of the project you will give a pitch of the initial direction of your educational game and provide a set of guiding questions to prompt the audience to give you feedback. This is primarily an opportunity for you to get insight from other people before you focus in on actually doing the work.

Presentation

You have 8 minutes total. The general idea is that you go over the topics covered in the scoping proposal, pushing them further where appropriate (e.g., more specifics about domain and tasks, more detail about your game ideas), and it is important that you address the points made in any feedback that you received on the written scoping proposal.

Points you should hit (though this is not a mandatory structure):

1. Project title
2. Team members and their areas of strongest expertise
3. Domain you intend to build a game for
   1. What's an example task that players should get better at by playing your game; 
   2. What sources for domain knowledge, reasoning questions, problem-solving tasks (e.g., text books, etc.) will you use?
   3. Do you plan on working with a domain expert? If so, how you plan on getting in touch with one?
4. Who you envision to be your audience
   1. Where will you find players in your target demographic to try out your game?
   2. What is a hypothesis about what is hard for players in your audience to learn to do well at the given task?
5. Provide some preliminary game ideas.
6. What your next steps are.

Some other possible things to talk about:

1. Similar (educational) games that serve as inspiration
2. If you plan on creating a digital game, what will you use for implementation (e. g. programming language, game engine, etc.)
3. Instructional principles embedded in your game
4. Anything else that is relevant to your plans

Peer Feedback Guiding Questions

In addition to the presentation itself you will also create a set of 5 guiding questions for your peers to answer while watching your pitches. These questions are primarily meant to help you get feedback on your design from everyone else in the class. Before the pitch presentation session go to https://peerpresents-test.andrew.cmu.edu/ create a presentation for your team under the Final Project Pitch slot and add your guiding questions. Be sure to add your teammates as well.

Submission Format

There is no direct submission process for this assignment. Instead please go to the Project Pitch Presentation Signup sheet and add your team's information there. The ordering is on a first come first served basis. Please do not edit other people's existing entries.