Game Over Gopher

Stop hungry gophers from eating a prized carrot! Place carrot launchers at strategic locations by graphing values on a coordinate plane.

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  • Hungry space gophers are after the prized carrot. Defend the carrot by placing units on a coordinate grid. Game Over Gopher is Common Core-compliant and addresses topics such as plotting coordinate pairs, differentiating negative coordinates from positive coordinates, and identifying the four quadrants.

    A finalist in the 2012 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge and gold winner in the 2013 International Serious Play Awards.

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  • Link to curriculum

  • Learning Games Lab, New Mexico State University