Hidden Agenda Facebook Game Makes the Zynga FINALS
Recently several Game Design & Development students got together to enter the Zynga Hidden Agenda Challenge, a contest that explores creating games to help educate high school students. Vivian Liao, Rachel Emery, John Lynk, Jo Collins, Matthew Everett, Priscilla Yin, Richard Senft and Matt Monasch formed a development team and took this mission to heart. They created "Dig Deep" which is a sidescrolling arcade game based on Earth Science. The objective of the game is to dig and find minerals. Once the player finds a mineral, they must identify it by performing geological tests. As the player collects and processes minerals, they can upgrade their drilling equipment and invest in more efficent and environmentally friendly fuels. The community as a whole also works to uncover new dig sites across the globe, where more valuable minerals may be found. You can read more about the game here. If you get a chance to play it you should help out the team and comment here. The team made the finals (top three), and even though they didn't win the ultimate prize, we're so very proud of their efforts! Plus, we heard that they enjoyed that trip to San Francisco courtesy of Zynga...
