Wait, Wait, Don't MEME Me

Wait Wait Don’t Meme Me! is a meme generation voting game that gives players a topic, asks them to make a meme about that topic, and then vote on which player’s meme best describes the revealed description.

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Game Development Progress

10.24.16 Launched final v1.0

9.1.16 Finished Beta version

2/22/16: Iteration has produced a "final" design.

1/21/16: We created the concept and paper prototype materials setup. We will still need to push on the learning goals here, and what this game will be teaching. Like the other games, I want to figure in a way to make the creation of content meaningful outside of the instanced game experience. Maybe we could have them create their own memes/images using real facts? I'm not sure.

Should there be a way to have individual voting? Either on the side or as a bonus thing. Whenever there are team votes there is always going to be disagreement. It might be cool to have a side challenge of seeing who can individually guess the most correct and perhaps win a prize for it?

1.21.16 What if instead of the "did you know" memes, we use real political cartoons, and each team would get a blank one to fill in their own caption and submit to the pool. Then, each team needs to select the real published caption image. Same rules apply in terms of points in fooling/guessing the real one. This would make it less about using "objective facts" and more about engaging with political discourse, and using visual literacy to understand why they would make that caption.