Settlers of Manhattan
Settlers of Manhattan was an independent Study at Parsons the New School for Design conducted by David Carroll and Colleen Macklin. I worked with Dong Yoon Park and Kelly Nichols to design a game using he Waag Society’s 7scenes software running on Nokia NSeries phones.
The main impetus for the project was to explore new ways to design and prototype locative mobile games to help educate High School kids about the original Dutch Settlers of Manhattan in the early 1600’s.
Play-Testing on the Nokia
Players were playing as an advance scouting team gathering resources for the main settlement teams that are arriving by ship.
Players' Maps
Each team of settlers has different needs. Teams must explore the play-space to gather the required resources. They may also trade with other teams to attain the needed resources. The game was played by three teams of high school kids on December 9, 2009 at the PlayTech Festival.
Me, Introducing Settlers
Players consulting their map
One of the teams
Click here for a full PDF of the project.