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A Digital Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game
Oliver Bendorf, ginger coons, Julienne Corboz, Anna Foka, Roopika Risam
Story
There’s a problem at Dragon High:
Ulysses the Unicorn has transferred to Dragon High. Being a unicorn with a broken horn, Ulysses is having a hard time fitting in.
In this game, children will experience a day at Dragon High, occupying multiple roles as bully, bullied, and bystander.
Playable Characters
Ulysses the Unicorn: New to Dragon High, Ulysses is a target for bullies.
Playable Characters
Deborah the Dragon: Student body president and a noted bully, Deborah does not like anyone who is different.
Playable Characters
Gary the Griffin: The other non-dragon at Dragon High, Gary is content to remain a bystander, even when Ulysses is bullied.
Goal
Playing the game as either Ulysses the bullied unicorn, Deborah the dragon bully, or Gary the bystanding griffin, players must make it through a day at Dragon High without getting suspended.
Suspensions result from: getting locked in a locker and missing class, being a bully, or letting bullying happen.
Players will develop empathy, decision-making, social justice, and socialization skills.
Game Format
Dragon High is a digital Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style game. The digital medium allows students to assume the identity of the bully, bullied, or bystander and to navigate the halls of Dragon High, one perspective at a time.
A later version could provide an online multi-player experience.
Game Play
Point A: The school day starts
Point B: The bell rings and everyone goes home
Players navigate 10 different levels based on scenarios that could happen during a typical school day, such as: stolen lunch money, getting ready for PE class, gossip behind people’s backs, insults and namecalling, and cheating.
Game Play
Each level takes place during one class period of the day. A story or context is presented to the player via animation. The player is then given a set of options to choose how to respond to the scenario. Each choice leads to a consequence, as well as a new choice. The level ends with detention or moving on to the next class. In the course of successfully making it through a day at Dragon High, a character will have experienced a new perspective on bullying and learned to make positive choices.