Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Playing To Learn Game Review

What did you learn from your choice of games and genres to review?
- Some things that I learned from these games review, are some new facts about the genre they creating and actually what the genre really meant, with the definition.

Name any game features that stood out to you, either because they were interesting or because they could be improved.
-Another game that had really stood out to me was the Bullseye game because it didn't really help me or give me facts about what Im learning about.

Write down any questions you have about the game or genre you chose. You might answer them yourself later!
-I really don't have any questions about any games.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Playing To Learn, Genre: Sports, Races

Cars, people, football, soccer, basketball, these are all types of games that can be sports and races game.


The Game That Taught Me A New Skill Or Objective:

The Game That Taught Me New Information About A New Or Existing Social Issue:
The game that taught me a new information is the game The Final Countdown, because it told me more information about oil spills

What Game Or Games Did You Like Best:
The game that I liked best was the Neon Rider

What Happens In The Game Or Games:
In the Neon Rider what you have to do is drive your little motorcycle and change its color on the different plat form that you land on.

How Do You Play The Game Or Games:
On the Neon Rider the way you play it is that you use the keys W,A,S,D to move the motorcycle, and use the arrow keys to change different colors and you follow the race until the end without falling.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Playing To Learn, Genre: Puzzle/Mazes

A puzzle and maze game is when somebody is under pressure or being timed and has critical thinking and when the player has to put something together or to reach a goal.

The Game That Taught Me A New Skill Or Objective:
-The game that taught me a new skill was the Elemental Elegance game

The Game That Taught Me New Information About A New Or Existing Social Issue:
-The game that taught me new information was the Element Elegance game, that had taught me new chemical elements, and show me what I make when I put them together.

What Game Or Games Did You Like Best:
-The game that I liked the best was the Roller coaster Creator 2 that was on notdoppler games

What Happens In The Game Or Games:
-In the puzzle game, you have to make a roller coaster route, for the roller coaster for it to be able to reach the end of the ride and collect all of the stars.

How Do You Play The Game Or Games:
- To play this game all you have to do is click and drag onto the scene to make the route, and make the roller coaster reach the end without it falling and making it get all the stars from the route.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Playing To Learn Genre: Adventure

An adventure game are games have to do with careful thought and thinking with a theme or story included, almost like action games but have exploration in the game.

*Game That Taught Me A New Educational Skill Or Gave Information On A Subject?
-Synchronized Savers had taught me not to only recycle but how much pollution gets in the air a day

*Game That Taught Me About A New Or Existing Social Issue?
-Synchronized Savers had taught me some stuff on the game like how many people live on our earth and how more people than more pollution, and how recycling can really help the world

*Game I Liked Best?
-The game that I liked best was the Synchronized Saviors

*What Does It Do?
-What you do is you have to recycle the trash and click and drag it into the little robot that collects it

*How Do You Play It?
-To play the game you have to click and drag all of the recycle that you see on the game and put it into the robot that will collect it, and to win to the next level after picking up the recycle you have to fix the stuff like the trash can to go to the next level.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Playing To Learn Genre: Action

-Action games are usually made up of characters that have fighting, shooting, and physical moving.

*Game That Taught Me A New Educational Skill Or Gave Information On A Subject?
-Trapcat! The game have gave me some information about how many cats are in the whole US.

*Game That Taught Me About A New Or Existing Social Issue?
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*Game I Liked Best?
-The game that I really liked best was the Survivor game, because that was the only game that loaded and that I got to play.

*What Does It Do?
-On the game what you have to do, is to get your friend and escape from the camp, And you have to jump over the people without being touched.

*How Do You Play It?
-You use the arrow keys to move and use the space bar to jump, and you have to jump over the people and if you touch them you have to start over from the beginning.