SuperherOlympics | 2015
Stanford University
Master's project
Academic Advisor
Carl Wieman
Expert Reviewers
Alison Darcy
Chris Bennett
Sharon Ofek
Renate Fruchter
Team
Seth Trudeau
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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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