Things to Do with Nutty
Battle (Level up)
Travel (Gain abilities)
Each Urbite has a specific interest or theme that they will teach your kids about!
- Each Urbite has a list of places in your city that it wants to visit
- You can only see one at a time though
- When you visit the place in real life, your Urbite gains new abilities (or attacks) for battle
- This encourages kids to...
- Each Urbite has stats (ATK, DEF, etc.)
- When they battle, the one with higher stats has an advantage
- You can battle your friends
- When an Urbite wins a battle, it gains experience
- With enough experience Urbites can level up, which means answering a...
Visit parts of your city!
(Of course, adults will have to take them...)
Urbites
Question about your city!
Urbites will make today's children
Good Citizens
Community Volunteers
(or City Creatures)
working title...
Some places Nutty would encourage players to visit in Raleigh include: Pullen Park, the Greenway, Lake Johnson, or Durant Nature Park
This is Nutty
In Nutty's case, it would be a question about a park,
or something else nature-related.
(He's an Urbite)
Raleigh
Urbites are virtual creatures that help your child learn
about the civic, cultural, and economic aspects of your city.
Businesspeople
Leaders
Wireframes!!!
(cc) image by anemoneprojectors on Flickr
Most Importantly: It doesn't teach kids about their community!
A few other differences
- In Pokémon there is an emphasis on collecting hundreds of creatures. Urbites encourages kids to stick with one for a long time, fully leveling it up before moving to another one.
- The battles will be different (WE PROMISE)!
- No traveling around a weird Pokéworld (Just the real world :D).