Game Information
| Title | The Quest for the Kukui Cup |
| Presenter(s) | Philip Johnson, Robert Brewer, Yongwen Xu, George Lee, Carleton Moore, Michelle Katchuck, Greg Burgess |
| Session | Play the Past: Where Meaningful Play and Digital Humanities Meet to Talk |
| Time | Thursday, October 18, 11:00a-12:00p |
| Location | Gold A |
| Format | Game Exhibition |
| Description | The Quest for the Kukui Cup combines concepts from information technology, community-based social marketing, serious games, and educational pedagogy to support sustained change in sustainability-related behaviors.
A defining feature of Kukui Cup challenges is a blend of real world and virtual world activities, all tied together through game mechanics. In the real world, players participate in workshops, geocaching, scavenger hunts, artistic/musical events, win prizes, and most importantly, learn about their current lifestyle and its impact on sustainability behaviors. In the virtual world of the Kukui Cup web application, players earn points, achieve badges, increase their sustainability "literacy" through readings and videos, and use social networking mechanisms to engage with friends and family about the issues raised. The challenge is designed to make real-world and virtual-world activities complementary and synergistic. For more information about the Kukui Cup project and the results of our game instances so far, see: http://kukuicup.org For information about the open source technology that we developed and upon which the Kukui Cup is based, see: http://makahiki.readthedocs.org/ For real-time energy monitoring, the Kukui Cup also uses WattDepot, another technology we developed: http://wattdepot.googlecode.com/ To create and run a Kukui Cup game instance, Makahiki must be installed and configured. If the Kukui Cup game instance will include real-time energy data, then WattDepot must be installed as well. For a guided tour of the Kukui Cup web application, please see: http://makahiki.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guided-tour.html |