I have chosen to do a maze game based off of the popular iPhone application, Maze Finger, with some new features. Included in those features are its new name (MazeMania), ecology related question rounds, new user input (the almighty mouse), and much more.
I have chosen to a similar game for the Nintendo DS, as I think there is a lot of potential in the touch screen and stylus. This game will be different in that the questions will be geared toward helping high school students prepare for the English part of the SAT by using old test questions.
I have also talked to my teacher, Dr. Malloy, and we are thinking of writing a paper to present at the Games+Learning+Society Conference based on the differences of the two very different platforms, education in games, and a future user study. The abstract can be found here. This played a pretty big role in why I am doing very similar games for each platform.
