Interested in Game-based or Narrative Instruction? Would You Help with a Thing?

We’re developing a narrative-based instructional game to introduce the threshold concepts of the ACRL Information Literacy Framework to students. The bare bones are in place, but we’d love to get feedback and review for the next stage of development. Would you help?

The audience for this game will be undergraduate students and perhaps high school students looking forward to transitioning into college. You need not be an expert in the ACRL threshold concepts, but having a working knowledge would be helpful. I anticipate the time investment to be about an hour (20 minutes to complete the game + review time to answer several questions I have for you).

The game is called Information Fallout, and is loosely based on the popular Fallout Shelter game.

We’re using a rapid prototype design process, so everything is very flexible and things like images are just drafts, but I’ll paste a bit of a visual teaser here:

Will you help us topple this regime and build a new information literate world? Email Matt at leems001@umn.edu.