Work in Progress

Work on my screenplay, "Years of the Siege," is coming along well. (Surrounded by the German Army, the Leningrad General Staff is hanging on by its fingernails until it recruits a young chess grandmaster, 7th in the world, who shows them step by step how to get things turned around.)

It's designed to motivate the players to study harder and pay more attention to their schoolwork, in order to improve the quality of the graduates the school turns out. If the standardized test scores go up, the game is judged as having gotten results.

Buckeyegaming organizes the school's student body into a miniature economy which the players themselves control and regulate, then turns them loose to make money in their own economy. At graduation, each player's bank balance is turned into real money, the gift of the state to each new graduate upon completion of his education.

No one loses. Everyone wins, but some win more than others.

NOTE WELL:

There are four different versions of the Buckeye Game: the Capitalist Version, the Marxist Version, the Laissez-faire Version and the Deist Version.

These four compete to see which does the best job of raising the standardized test scores.