Monday, November 28, 2011

  • WHO are you designing your game for? I am designing this game for students from ages 12-15.So they can develop the skills of analyzing something before going into action.
  • WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? People how the managed to get a way with such elaveret heist.By showing them what skills they used.Like planing,Quickness and patience and all of this will be Incorporated into the history behind heists..
  • WHERE does your game happen? In many different places but back in history.
    • Describe the world you will design for your game. It will be a very old world where but challenging world where u have to look at things very closely.
    • How will this setting add to the learning experience?The setting will be a non distracting setting where you pay close attention to every small thing.Where you need the patience and analyzing skill.
  • HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic?The player will learn about past heist in history.
    • What happens in the world that helps the player learn?The game will take you through multiple heists.
    • How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game?They will pay close attention to the things around them.They will be able to use these things in real life situations.
  • WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz? It's a different thing from just sitting down and having a book thrown at you and having to learn about this stuff like that.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Emperor Penguins of Antarctica

What challenges do the penguins have to overcome?One of them is the major drop in temperature,blizzards,predators and shortage of food.
How does their habitat challenge their livelihood each day?Well the top one is their surface is slipery and unstable,thus making them not be able to run from the predators or get to food quick  enough.
What types of adaptations do penguins need in order to survive brutal winters and predators?Learn how to stay warm in the winter.By culdeling with the other penguins.Hunting their food.Hiding from predators.Their fat and fur.
Why is there a period of time in which there is practicully no sunlight?How does this affect the climate?The earth is rotating around.Yes the climate drops!
How could climate change negatively impact the mating ritual?

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Playing to Learn, Genre: Sports & Racing

Cars, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Soccer, People, Turtles, Timer- These are all things you may find in a Sports or Racing game. These types of games usually have some type of competition that the player must participate in to win the game. They model real life racing or sporting events. 
1. Game that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:Billiards
2. Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:This game taught me about using your head and using your angles to see where and were not to strick the ball.
3. Game I liked best:Billards
4. What happens in the game:You try to make the balls into the pockets.
5. How you play the game: You play the game by hit the ball in angles and making them into the pockets.

Playing to Learn, Genre: Strategy

Strategy games involve the use of critical thinking skills to accomplish a long-term goal. In a strategy game their might be a need for analyzing a situation to make the best moves possible in order to win the game. Sometimes there are time constraints or obstacles to overcome.
1.The game that taught me a new skill or subject:  Ayiti: The Cost of Life

2.The game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:
 Ayiti: The Cost of Life,is a game that challenges its players to manage a rural family of five in Haiti over four years and keep them healthy, get them educated, and help them survive.:

3.The game that I like or liked the best:Ayiti: The Cost of Life

4: What happens in the game or games:You have to sustain a life in a rural life..

5:How do you play the game or games:You just have to sustain a family in this life by making  choices that u think are best.

Playing to Learn, Genre: Action

Action games are usually made up of characters that are fighting or engaging in some type of combat. It could be violent combat, or fighting with special abilities or weapons. There can also be war or a good guy fighting the bad guy to save a planet or a person.
1. Game that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:Survivor 
2. Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:It taught me about the holocaust involoving a prisoner/jew who tries to escape.
3. Game I liked best:Survivor
4. What happens in the game:You have to try to escape from the building.
5. How you play the game: You use the arrow keys to aboid the bad guys and spacebar to jump over them.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Playing to learn, Genre:Puzzle/Mazes

Puzzles and mazes are a genre of game where the player generally has to find there way over or through obstacles and also need to use knowledge to solve problems that are put in front of oneself.

1.The game that taught me a new skill or subject: Worlds hardest game ,it teaches you about analyzing something before you go into action.Pay attention to them.


2.The game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:

3.The game that I like or liked the best:Worlds hardest game

4: What happens in the game or games:You get little yellow balls and pass the level & every level gets harder.

5:How do you play the game or games:Try not to get caught by the little blue balls.

Playing to Learn,Genre;Adventure

An adventure game consists of a central theme or story of exploration and plot development or going through obstacles to reach a point of achievement.


Mario was a adventure game because there are many obstacles in your path throughout the whole game to your goal destination.