My teenage sons have developed a video game for our museum that is currently being sold in our gift shop. They used the game engine RPG (Role Playing Game) maker. The game is similar to the handheld Nintendo DS Pokemon games, in this version, the visitor explores the museum and interacts with our museum employees or guests. There are opportunities to "earn points" by answering questions about electricity and other science areas related to our field trip program and museum exhibits.
It was a great project for my sons, as one developed the game and the other made an accompanying website, forum, leader board and video tutorial. They learned so many computer skills in developing and marketing this game and was not staff time intensive in getting this project completed. We had some preliminary interest from a local national corporation that would be interested in replicating this project at another museum using teenagers. If you are interested in this project or think it could be viable at another museums, please feel free to connect with me via my E-mail below. Cheryl Moeller Community and Corporate Relations Manager The Bakken Museum 3537 Zenith Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55416 Phone: 612-926-3878 Ext. 250 Fax: 612-927-7265 Email: moeller at thebakken.org or cmoeller at ieee.org http://www.thebakken.org A one-of-a-kind museum exploring the mysteries of our electrical world
