What is the important questions of our time?
What are most of the people in this room feeling right now?
Maybe something that we will feel soon?
Perhaps a game about student debt...
MILLENNIALÂ
SIMULATOR
2017
Robert Rouhani
Experimental Game Design @ RPI (Spring 2016)
2/17/16
What is it?
- A game about the mechanics of crippling debt
- A game about finding a job
Why?
- I'm in some debt
- Student debt is the worst kind of debt
- Underestimation of how significant this debt is
Where?
- Right now in a "Standard Assets/Prototyping" world
- Stereotypical high school/college/office settings
Target Audience
- Millennials
- Internet commenters who believe millennials are 'lazy'
- The tiny subset of those who play games?
Impact
- Provide a better understanding of student debt
- Show how ridiculous national $1.3 trillion student debt is
- In recent news (yesterday)
Ethics
- Is college too expensive?
- Focusing on majors w/ better job availability?
- Get rid of federal student aid?
Details
- First-person, single-player
- Interact with screens to progress through the world
- "Debt" and "Savings" meters
- Platforming mechanics are like classes
- Win when your debt is $0
Tools
- Unity 5.3
- git
- Visual Studio 2015
- Adobe Photoshop CC
- Unity Standard Assets
Demo
EGDProject2
By Robert Rouhani
