This document describes an Octalysis Prime design challenge to make the Food Heroes flashcards and board games more engaging for repetitive home play. Participants are asked to review the Food Heroes materials and videos, apply the 5-step Octalysis process to design replayable game experiences using the cards and boards, and submit their work by the December 20th deadline. Rewards include Chou coins, experience points, and the chance to have their design implemented and win a trip to Shanghai to see the impact of their work. Key assets provided include links to the flashcards, games, curriculum videos, and previous Food Heroes challenges. The goal is to help make learning about food and nutrition more fun and gamified.
Octalysis Prime Design Challenge: Project: Food Heroes, Part 2
1. Octalysis Prime Design Challenge
Project: Food Heroes - Part II
November 2019 (Deadline: December 20)
2. Why We Offer Challenges in Octalysis Prime
The OP Design Challenges provides OP Members opportunities to practice their Octalysis
Gamification Skills to make everything awesome.
Watching OP videos is a good start, but applying your knowledge is part of the journey that
Octalysis Experts must take! This time around we are visiting a real-life project that aims to
impact the world in multiple ways.
Of course, you will earn upvotes for EXP, credibility, prestige, and a massive amount of valuable
Chou Coins to help you level towards Silver or even Gold Status.
We are continuously striving to improve the quality of these challenges: Your feedback is welcome!
-The OP Team
3. Challenge Rewards (for OP Members):
Winner
6,000 Chou Coins
1,400 EXP in all Core Drives
The Legendary Geomon: Thrakos
Finalists
2,500 Chou Coins
600 EXP in all Core Drives
and….
4. 1 Week (or more) Free Trip to Shanghai!
Stay at the 29th Floor Penthouse Suite with Food Heroes
and see your design impact in action!
5. Introduction for Food Heroes Challenge Part 2
Here’s Peggy Liu to share the history and details of this challenge.
https://youtu.be/8PLzZbXI5IU
6. About Peggy Liu
Peggy Liu, Chairperson and co-founder of JUCCCE, is the 2010 Hillary Laureate. An
internationally recognized expert on China's energy landscape. Peggy was honored as a Time
Magazine Hero of the Environment in 2008, an energy adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative in
2008, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2009, the Hillary Laureate of 2010 for
climate change leadership, a Forbes "Women to Watch in Asia" in 2010, a Huffington Post
"Greatest Person of the Day" in 2011, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global
Previously, Peggy also served as a management consultant at McKinsey, a software product
manager for Internet Chameleon, Symantec C++ and Norton OEM products, and computer
programmer. She is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science and completed a program in Global Leadership and Public
Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
7. Octalysis Challenge Scope
The scope of the challenge:
1) Review the Food Heroes flashcards and game boards
2) Brainstorm and Design how to make them more engaging when played
repetitively at home instead of just a few times in class.
3) Focus is to make them suitable for an online game or for daily dining
room play.
You may redesign flash cards and board games to further gamify.
You may look at the stories we have written to introduce these materials
and tweak them as a preview to the games.
8. Design Challenge Steps
1. Review Peggy’s Video, the game cards/boards and as many Food Heroes content as you feel
appropriate for your design (TOG consultants get a dump of info and they have to figure out
what is relevant!)
2. Watch the 5-Step Octalysis Process in OP (link to Video)
3. Complete a Strategy Dashboard (based on best assumptions), Brainstorming (required), and a
cohesive Game Loop based on your recommended Brainstorm - goal is to create replayable
experiences for children/families using the (physical/digital) cards and boards.
4. Bonus: create a Battleplan Spreadsheet and Visual Wireframes
5. Submit your work to the Challenges Section in Octalysis Prime. Each upvote gives you Core
Drive EXP! (If you are not in OP, considering registering for a freemium account or send your
submission to erik@chouforce.com
6. If you are named a Finalist, present your submission to the Food Heroes team to get a chance
at becoming the Final Winner!
9. Flash Cards and Game Boards
Flashcard sets:
Power cards, Menu Cards (one set for American foods, one set for Chinese foods),
Fake Food Cards.
Board games:
Rainbow Table, Menu Map, Where Things Grow, Worm Composting.
View the Flash Cards and Game Boards at http://yukaichou.com/FHFlashcards.
10. Why Food Heroes?
Why food education is so necessary globally. https://www.foodheroes.org/
11. Extended Preview
This video shows how to get even more info on the narratives and
in-game activities:
https://www.loom.com/share/162ec2827f084502a535b775aed1f8e0
Go to: www.foodheroes.org → curriculum → register
12. Key Assets to Assist You
Get all the Challenge assets http://yukaichou.com/FHFlashcards:
13. Teacher Training Videos
To view the the videos used to train FH Teachers:
Go to www.foodheroes.org → teacher training with password foodheroes
28. Winning Criteria (not all is required):
1) How clear and complete is the Strategy Dashboard Setup
2) How creative and applicable the brainstorming is for Food Heroes
3) Whether the Game Loop flows well for the game(s)
4) How well the game design and game rules are defined (Cards, Board Game,
and Flow) in the Battleplan Spreadsheet
5) Visuals for any new designs via wireframing or storyboard
29. Extra: Review of Previous Food Heroes Challenge 1
Food Heroes 1 was a blast!
Here’s Food Heroes Challenge 1, from December 2017:
https://yukaichou.com/education-gamification/food-heroes/
https://www.slideshare.net/fdlink/octalysis-gamification-design-challenge-f
ood-heroes-81998347
https://www.slideshare.net/fdlink/children-healthy-eating-gamification-octal
ysis-design-for-food-heroes
30. Extra: Teacher’s Guide to Curriculum
The Teacher’s Guide to the Curriculum online and Quest 1!
Summary: https://www.foodheroes.org/our-curriculum
(Videos already shared on Slides 14-27 above.)
Manual to Train Teachers, Part 1:
https://online.flowpaper.com/7b590791/190407Quest1AllEnglish/#page=236
Manual to Train Teachers, Part 2:
https://online.flowpaper.com/7b590791/190403Quest2AllEnglish/
31. Extra: Rainbow Race
In this folder is preliminary design for a table game called “Rainbow
Race”, loosely designed off of “Shoots and Ladders”. We’d like to create
something like this in addition to our other materials for use in the home to
support our in-school curriculum or sell as additional merchandise.
32. Remember
1) A big thank you to Peggy and Food Heroes
2) Ask for help on the Octalysis Prime Slack: #04-real-life-help
3) Use resources provided on Octalysis Prime, including Yu-kai’s videos
about the 5-Step Octalysis Process
4) Top performers may also get a chance to be recruited by The Octalysis
Group to become a full-time Octalysis Gamification
Designer/Consultant
Deadline: Please submit your Challenge by December 20, 2019.
Good Luck, Have Fun, & Prime On!