Project Description

This game is about a possible experience for high school students. It is about building your self esteem and feeling good about yourself, while avoiding those who dislike you. If you are touched by one of the negative students then you lose the game. The goal is to collect all of the power ups to continue to the next level. This has a real life implication because it is a situation present in almost every high school around the world.

Inspiration

We are in a class called Games for Change at Columbia University. The end project of the class was to create a game that deals with real world problems. We choose self esteem issues in high school because we are both of that age, and have seen it happen to a number of people. It is a serious problem and some students have even been driven to such extremes as suicide as a result. We decided to try and do something about this, and this game is our attempt at a solution.

Who will enjoy this the most?

We believe that high school students will enjoy this game most because they are the ones who can most closely relate. Adults can also play and enjoy this game because they may have also encountered such situations in their high school years.

The Project

http://www.popfly.com/users/408558/Sophmore%20Year

This link is to the game which is made and hosted by Microsoft Popfly