In this class project, a total of five games were chosen and based on the popular Nintendo game Mario Party and its mini-games. My group consisted of three people and we chose the mini- game Hot Rope Jump to bring to life and renamed it as Jumping Over Poverty. These games that we recreated were recreated in the sense that they brought more awareness to certain things going on in the world, ours being about the poverty line and how hard it can be to stay above it.
Shown above are our characters that participants of the game can chose from and to wear while jumping and trying to stay above the 'poverty line'. These characters that we choose are Podoboo, Thwomp, Baby Bowser, and a Koopa Shell. As the hosts of the game, my group members and I wore a green or red shirt and blue painter's suits as overalls to resemble the Mario brothers, Mario and Luigi.
Below the characters to chose from are a few pictures from the event and a few of the groups of people that participated. We were surprised that we got anyone to play because we began to spread the word of the event so late and close to the date of the event. This event of Mario IRL was actually quite successful, with each group getting a few groups of people to play their games.
Overall planning this event and getting the costumes and game materials put together it took a lot of time and patience in order to finish everything well and on time, but in the end it was worth it because the event was actually successful in getting people to play and join in on what we were doing. I know that some groups had issues with their group members and working in the group as a whole, but I believe that my group worked well together, and because we worked well and each did our part in the project we were able to finish all of our pieces and obtain everything we needed for our mini-game.
