Main description:

The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans is a companion to The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game, now in its second edition from CRC Press. This book covers four multiplayer classroom projects played in the real world in real time to teach and entertain. They were funded by grants or institutions, collaborations between Lee Sheldon, as writer/designer, and subject matter experts in various fields. They are written to be accessible to anyone--designer, educator, or layperson--interested in game-based learning. The subjects are increasingly relevant in this day and age: physical fitness, Mandarin, cybersecurity, and especially an online class exploring culture and identity on the internet that is unlike any online class you have ever seen. Read the annotated, often-suspenseful stories of how each game, with its unique challenges, thrills, and spills, was built.

Lee Sheldon began his writing career in television as a writer-producer, eventually writing more than 200 shows ranging from Charlie's Angels (writer) to Edge of Night (head writer) to Star Trek: The Next Generation (writer-producer). Having written and designed more than forty commercial and applied video games, Lee spearheaded the first full writing for games concentration in North America at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the second writing concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a regular lecturer and consultant on game design and writing in the United States and abroad. His most recent commercial game, the award-winning The Lion's Song, is currently on Steam. For the past two years he consulted on an "escape room in a box," funded by NASA, that gives visitors to hundreds of science museums and planetariums the opportunity to play colonizers on the moon. He is currently writing his second mystery novel.

Contents:

Section 1 Skeleton Chase 2: The Psychic

Chapter 1 Introduction to Section 1 3

Chapter 2 Foreword to Section 1 9

Jeanne Johnston

Chapter 3 Design Document 11

Chapter 4 Episode 1 - Trailhead 27

Chapter 5 Episode 2 - Gimme Shelter 45

Chapter 6 Episode 3 - Stardust 65

Chapter 7 Episodes 4 and 5 - Crop Circles 83

Chapter 8 Episode 6 - Champions 103

Chapter 9 Episode 7 - Skeleton Chase 123

Chapter 10 Afterword 137

Section 2 The Lost Manuscript

Chapter 11 Introduction to Section 2 141

Chapter 12 Foreword to Section 2 143

Shihchia Chen Thompson

Chapter 13 Design Document 145

Chapter 14 Episode 1 - The Heritage Library Program 169

Chapter 15 Episode 2 - China Bound 171

Chapter 16 Episode 3 - Last Class before China 175

Chapter 17 Episode 4 - Capital International Airport 177

Chapter 18 Episode 5 - Reception 185

Chapter 19 Episode 6 - The Teahouse 189

Chapter 20 Episode 7 - Codebreaking 193

Chapter 21 Episode 8 - The Forbidden City 199

Chapter 22 Episode 9 - Police Headquarters 203

Chapter 23 Afterword 207

Section 3 Secrets: An Internet Mystery

Chapter 24 Introduction to Section 3 211

Chapter 25 Foreword to Section 3 215

David Seelow

Chapter 26 Design Document 217

Chapter 27 Episode 1 - Primal Empathy 231

Chapter 28 Episode 2 - The Present Is the Past of the Future 241

Chapter 29 Episode 3 - Have a Hart 249

Chapter 30 Episode 4 - Change of Heart 255

Chapter 31 Episode 5 - Follow the Money 263

Chapter 32 Episode 6 - Wolves in Sheep's Clothing 271

Chapter 33 Episode 7 - The Experiment 277

Chapter 34 Episode 8 - Showdown 287

Chapter 35 Afterword 293

Section 4 The Janus Door

Chapter 36 Introduction to Section 4 297

Chapter 37 Foreword to Section 4 299

Zachary N.J. Peterson

Chapter 38 Design Document 301

Chapter 39 Episode 0 - Introduction (Week 1) 325

Chapter 40 Episode 0 - Introduction Continued (Week 2) 329

Chapter 41 Episode 0 - Door Bell (Week 2) 331

Chapter 42 Episode 1 - Unlocked Door (Week 3) 333

Chapter 43 Episode 1 - Unlocked Door Part 2 (Week 3) 335

Chapter 44 Episode 2 - Tower Door (Week 4) 339

Chapter 45 Episode 2 - Tower Door Part 2 (Week 4) 343

Chapter 46 Episode 3 - Open Door (Week 5) 345

Chapter 47 Episode 4 - Janus Door (Week 5) 349

Chapter 48 Episode 5 - Knocking on the Door (Week 6) 355

Chapter 49 Episode 6 - Back Door (Week 6) 359

Chapter 50 Episode 7 - Pick a Door (Week 7) 363

Chapter 51 Episode 8 - Trap Door (Week 7) 367

Chapter 52 Episode 9 - Spirit Door (Week 8) 369

Chapter 53 Episode 10 - Locked Door (Week 8) 373

Chapter 54 Episode 11 - Golden Door (Week 9) 377

Chapter 55 Episode 12 - Swinging Door (Week 9) 383

Chapter 56 Episode 13 - Kicking Down the Door (Week 10) 385

Chapter 57 Episode 14 - Cell Door? (Week 10) 389

Chapter 58 Afterword 393

Chapter 59 Postmortem 395