UPDATES (did a play test!!)
Updates, updates, updates hard to try and keep up with this blog but I want to document all of my recent things that have been happening. 1st: I have a fully functioning prototype! Pic below I kept tactile elements from the game of life as a way to see if this would keep kids engaged and they did like them so I think this is something I will want to replicate in my own board game. I went with a candy land strategy where there is color association between the spaces and the cards they have to draw and it worked really well! There are also game chips that represent the "danger meter," which I think was the most successful part of the game. I presented this to two 3rd grade classes for a play test and it went amazing!!! Here are my notes below Ms. Cornish class: kids aren't reading the full information on the cards- not reading the informational tid bits at the bottom (too much info on the card?) the arrows on the hills were treated as single spaces they got excited when a...