SuperherOlympics | 2015

Stanford University

Master's project

Academic Advisor

Carl Wieman

Expert Reviewers

Alison Darcy

Chris Bennett

Sharon Ofek

Renate Fruchter

Team

Seth Trudeau

Learn more

www.superherolympics.com

The teaser

Project for the integration and collaboration between pre-teens and teens from different backgrounds.

Project for the integration and collaboration between pre-teens and teens from different backgrounds.

Create your own Superhero Identity and work together with other heroes in this multi-player massive tabletop game designed in the Learning, Design, and Technology program at Stanford University.

Superherolympics is a multi-player massive-scale board game designed for early adolescent Third Culture Kids who are navigating different cultures in their home life and in their world at large.

Players create their own unique superhero identities that give them a sense of empowerment and benevolence, and then they are matched together in dynamic pairings to complete mini-game missions together.

By engaging in low-stakes, fast, and frequent collaboration with others, they are able to develop their collaborative and cooperative skills while also practising different forms of self-presentation, through the safe abstraction of their superheroes.

The thesis

Video of our project defense, that goes into all the details behind the game.

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