The first weekend of May I participated in the Now I Get It! Jam at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center with my company, Simcoach Games. This game jam was different then your typical jam event. Usually one topic is announced the day of the jam and teams compete against each other to make the best game possible around that topic. For this event, teams were given different topics and were notified of that topic ahead of time. Topics themselves differed from your average jam as well.
"The Now I Get It! Jam was designed around the idea that the power of interactive media can be harnessed to make difficult concepts more approachable by everyone, and that these experiences benefit from the partnership of developers, educators & domain experts."
My team was given challenge #7: Explain the reasoning behind the new common core approach to math and give parents the tools to be able to help their child with math homework in this new style.
With this challenge we built
Journey into Open Water: A Common Core Math Adventure. Journey into Open Water was built to be a shared experience between a parent and child where the two explore the fundamentals of common core math together through exploratory puzzles. We decided early on to make the game about the foundations behind common core math instead of the actual equations and algorithms used in the classroom.
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