CHOOSING A TOPIC

• 1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Site
• 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRice
• 1. www.freedomfromhunger.org/
• 2. http://feedingamerica.org/

    My name is Brian Gore and my topic is Freedom from Hunger. These links helped my research because it gave me lots of information to help me with my game design when i was working on it. i got a general idea where there was the most poverty and hunger and thats where i decided to where my game would take place.

GAME REVIEW

 '''GAME REVIEW #1: MOST EFFECTIVE Learning Game'''                           

* Name of the game that taught you the MOST about its learning topic: wv animal squad resue

* What social issue or educational topic does the game explore? It is a game about stray animals and what you should do to help them.

* What can you learn from this game? How to take care of animals and what you should do If they are hurt

* What game genre is it? Do you think this genre is a good choice for creating a learning game? Why or why not? It is adventure, I think it is a fairly good choice because there is some adventure in saving animals.

* Design Analysis (Does it look good? Does it clearly illustrate the issue or learning concept?) the game does look good and it does clearly illustrate the issue.

* Usability Analysis (Is it clear what you need to do as a player? Does it work well?) yes

* Suggestions for improvement. How would you change the gameplay to make the learning and play experience work together better? the graphics could be a little better and they could have set the game play better.

* List 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content) I would first want to learn how to design a game, and I would like to learn how to put content in the game.

'''GAME REVIEW #2: LEAST EFFECTIVE Learning Game'''

* Name of the game that taught you the LEAST about its learning topic: medical mysteries

* What social issue or educational topic does the game explore? I taught about diseases and what they used to kill them

* What can you learn from this game? Not really anything

* What game genre is it? Do you think this genre is a good choice for creating a learning game? Why or why not? Adventure, I don’t think it’s a good choice because I don’t see how this kind of game fits in adventure.

* Design Analysis (Does it look good? Does it clearly illustrate the issue or learning concept?) yes it does look good but it didn’t illustrate the issue and I didn’t learn anything.

* Usability Analysis (Is it clear what you need to do as a player? Does it work well?) I need do design good games that gets my point across.

* Suggestions for improvement. How would you change the gameplay to make the learning and play experience work together better? i would try to put more information I the game to help people learn more

* List 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content) I would want to learn what content is suitable for game and what’s not and how not to bore people with my games.

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[[Image:blog-icon.png|40px]] Update

mini game project

We just started the mini game project. It seems like its going to be fun, but we havent really gotten going because some people dont know what they are doing or they do anything. I think if we will get this done fast if we can do this by ourselves instead of doing it with the class because we keep having set backs and we dont have but like ten minutes to do something. Well hopefully we get it done before the end of the year.

The BrainPop Videos

i learned that you arent supposed to give out certain information about yourself or others on bloggs. you are also not supposed to say peoples names on blogger. i also now know that blog is short for weblogs. and that bloggs are for all sorts of things like music and newsletters and other things. my plan for keeping my learning log updated is to do it everyday. 

MY BREAK

this week i had a pretty good break. i got what i wanted so i coild have fun the whole one week of break. i couldnt get out much because my mom decided to work the whole week instead of take the week off. i aslo whatched alot of football during the break because i had nothing better to do than to sxit around and watch tv. other than that i had a good break.