Meet the Winners of the 2024 K12 Game On Competition!

Game Description: This game is a journey to becoming a young scientist. As a welcome greeting, the narrator will ask the player “Can you assist me on my experiments?”. The player also get to choose a pet to adopt and accompany them in their quest. There will be a list of fun experiments to choose from, examples are: erupt a volcano, launch a rocket, create water tornadoes, make instant snow, etc. At least 20 experiments in total is ideal. Once the player chose an experiment, the narrator will say, “Let’s gather the materials!”. A list of materials will pop up and the background will change to a laboratory shelf full of different instruments and materials. The player will then drag all the correct items needed to the table, before proceeding to the next step. The narrator will prompt a step-by-step process to follow until the experiment results are shown. Ideally, a video of a real (not animated) experiment will show up and a trivia/fun fact explaining the chemical reaction. If the experiment fails, there will be a reminder to keep on trying and on how to do the steps properly. For every successful experiment, the player gets rewards: a piece of a puzzle, some coins, and sometimes a special gift for the adopted pet. The goal is to gather all the puzzle pieces, which is a picture of a scientist. Once completed, there could be an option of changing the face of the scientist to your own photo, using the camera of your device. This can be saved as a certificate of completion as an official young scientist. The player can use coins to buy treats and special items for the adopted pet. After finishing the game, the player can redo it all and maybe choose a different pet to be with next time.

Game Description: Hi, my name is Nate, and my game is called “My Cats Know Math.” In this game, you will pick addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. Once you’ve clicked on the operation, an equation pops up on the screen to solve. If you get it right, a kitty cat hops on screen and knocks a ball of yarn a little bit to the right. If you get it wrong, a different cat hits the ball of yarn a little bit to the left. To beat a level, the cat must hit the ball of yarn across the whole screen before you run out of questions. At the end of each level, the cats receive the same number of treats as the number of the level you beat. But don’t let the cats get you all tangled in string!

Game Description: My game is called Rhythmic Fractions. On the first few levels, you identify the fraction on the screen. On the higher levels, you add or subtract fractions. When the fractions match up with lengths of music notes, they build up. At the end of the level, a violin plays a melody with the rhythm of the notes. For example, 3/4 and 1/4 and 5/8 might sound like this (violin plays in video). At the last level, the melodies add up into a song and the violin plays the song. Have fun finding the rhythm in math!

Game Description: This is a game inspired by Pokémon, called Math Monsters. Basically you have a monster ball that has a number inside, it’s a random number, and then your opponent throw a ball, and you have to add the two numbers as fast as you can. If you beat the opponent, you get a power up and slow your opponent down.

Game Description: You experience the game as an electrical engineer who has been working for many years. However, you recently suffered amnesia from an accident at work. To keep your job, your boss tells you that you must relearn everything you know about electronics. Using an old electrical manual and a schematic program, you design circuits with increasing complexity until you have designed a basic computer. Even after you beat the game, you can still design circuits whenever you want. Players will learn about electricity, binary, and logic gates, while also strengthening their problem-solving and critical thinking skills.

Game Description: The idea I came up with is a rhythm game with typing elements. It would help those who struggle with reading, typing and forming sentences. My idea of the game would be to blend a mystery storyline into the game. The envisioned gameplay would be typing grade-appropriate sentences to the rhythm of specially created songs. This game would be beginner-friendly and could range to master skill. It’s meant to be inclusive no matter what level of typing you are currently at. By having multiple difficulties with some slow-beat songs for beginners. This is intended to improve players’ typing skills, vocabulary, and spelling making more enhanced writing. The mystery factor of the game would involve encrypted lore in the background, having you even type in entries to police reports so you’d really feel like you’re solving mysteries. Which would add an interesting layer to the overall player experience. In addition, the advanced game modes would incorporate word puzzles that would need to be solved quickly, further strengthening players’ pattern recognition and memory skills.