Week 3 Ideas

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#1) Spaceship Design Kit: Custom build your own fleet of interstellar spaceships. Choose from a variety or resources including ion, fusion, and warp engines; lasers, torpedos, missles, cannons, and a variety of thruster configurations. Use built in paint program to paint ships as well. Launch ships against computer opponent or other person's fleet. Good opportunity for fan-fiction type of cross-matching (i.e. Battlestar Galactica vs. Starship Enterprise).
#2) Amusement Park Design Kit: Build your own Disneyland. From Roller Coaster's to Bumper Cars to Skeeball, you design it and watch it run. Much in the spirit of SimCity, except you can drop your point of view to that of a patron of your park, and tour around and test out the rides! With new VR headsets, a magnificent experience is possible. Premade parks of the most popular accross the country (King's Island, DisneyWorld, Busch Gardens, etc...) should be ready to explore and learn from. Hook up over the internet and explore with you friends.
#3) Moonshiner: Set back in the years of prohibition, you must create stills to make your moonshine, and then smuggle it to accross the county line to your distributer. Some rudimentary brewing skills will be learned, as well as some ways of getting around the laws. Bribe the local sheriff to make things easier. Should be as historically accurate as possible to make it a learning experience as well!
#4) Urban Warfare: You play the role commander of a U.N. peacekeepig force. You must drop in on a war-torn city and restore order. Explore buildings, protect the innocent citizens, and subdue the warring factions. Make sure you don't injure the innocent, discrimination is mandatory. Again, this should be as accurate as possible to actual combat techniques.
#5) The Unabridged Multimedia History of Video Games Starting with Space War, a history of every game ever made, with screen snapshots, descriptions, and/or playable demos of them. They have done it for movies, but what about video games? Searches by types, keywords, or manufacturer would be available. A simple idea, but someone is eventually going to do it.
#6) The Underground Railroad An educational game that lets you explore the inner workings of how slaves escaped to freedom. A great tool for social studies teachers, this game would allow you to change perspectives from slave, to operators like Harriet Tubman, or even the plantation owners. Plan daring escapes, but be prepared to pay the consequences if you get caught.
#7) New World Explorer Play the role of famous explorers from Columbus to Champlain to Magellan. Re-inact their voyages, discover strange new people and places win respect and gold for your country. Again, potential for educational use is primary purpose. Through a game, the player can understand the magnitude of what these explorers were up against.