Numedeon has just announced the second
annual AMD Game Design contest in Whyville.
Last year
10's of thousands of children participated, through Whyville, in game design (Please
find also 1st Annual Whyville Game Design Contest: Serious Gaming With Game Design winners).
Whyville is on the way to signing up
hundreds of new classrooms and classroom teachers to participate in the contest
and anticipates doubling the number of classrooms and students involved this
year.
The Game
Design contest will be based upon Whyville’s unique collaborative game design
platform that allows students to design games together within an interactive
interface.
As
described below, this contest challenges Whyvillian's to design their own games
using game making tools that are part of the AMD Game Zone in Whyville.
Here is the
website teaser:
Wanna win
your choice of a lenovo IdeaPad Notebook, a Nintendo Wii U Console 32 GB, or an
Xbox 360 with Kinect? Like making games?
All you
have to do is make some unique and fun WAND games in the AMD Game Zone and
publish them for everyone in Whyville to play.
To learn
more about WAND Games, visit the AMD
Game Zone and play some of the many games that have already been published.
High school mentors from the Watsonville Technology, Education, Community (TEC)
program experienced in game design are on hand to help you design games. Their
help desk is located inside the AMD Game Zone.
There will
be four prizes awarded one for each of these categories:
Most
challenging game
Most
creative game
Best
looking game
Classroom
winner
City
Workers will team up with the TEC Mentors to pick winners for the first three
categories from those games rated most highly by Whyville's citizens. The
winning classroom will be the one with unique submissions from the largest
number of students.
Contest Dates:
·
Submission starts March
4, 2013
·
Ends May 1, 2013
Legalese
for the contest can be found here.