GameCareerGuide Game Design Challenge: The Letter

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Gamasutra sister educational site GameCareerGuide has posted its latest Game Design Challenge, in which readers are invited to submit a design for a game called The Letter, which begins with a significant missive. To quote the challenge, which is open until Wednesday, August 26 and requires written submissions of not more than 500 words: "Though paper letters aren't such a big part of our lives anymore, they were once of tremendous significance. Email, Twitter, blogs, instant messaging, cell phones, and Facebook have all drawn us closer, but there was a time when momentous information would come in a letter; information that could change the course of someone's life. This design challenge deals with such a letter. You will design a game called The Letter which opens with the main character receiving a very significant letter. What's the content of the letter? Where does he or she go from there? That's up to you. Setting, content, genre -- those are the decisions you will make. The only restriction is that your game's story must begin with the protagonist receiving a letter." Full details on how to participate are available on GameCareerGuide. All readers of the site are invited to participate in the challenge.