{"id":7817,"date":"2015-02-03T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2015-02-04T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:38:30","slug":"developer-diary-game-over-gopher-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/developer-diary-game-over-gopher-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Diary: Game Over Gopher (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know, Game Over Gopher is the first of six high-quality, high-impact games made by leading game developers who are part of the GlassLab beta partner program. This engaging tower defense game teaches how to plot points on a coordinate grid. A question we\u2019ve heard is: how did the Learning Games Lab involve educators in the game development process?<\/p>\n<p>Game developer David Abraham and artist\/animator Seth Powers talk about the process of planning and designing Game Over Gopher with a team of mathematicians, educators, and instructional designers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/learninggameslab.org\/\">Learning Games Lab<\/a>\u00a0at New Mexico State University \u2013 then building a working prototype, trying out various art styles, and finessing the final product.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j1G-bx-5LVY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/developer-diary-game-over-gopher\/\">Read Part 1 of Developer Diary: Game Over Gopher<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Original Post\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/about.glasslabgames.org\/developer-diaries-how-ideas-come-to-life\/\">GlassLab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post from GlassLab Game&#8217;s Developer Diaries Series, Game Over Gopher, a tower defense game designed to enable students to better understand mathematics concepts, is described and the product development process is highlighted.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":7653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,106,11],"tags":[103,431,450,433,435,432],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7885,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/7885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}