Final Blog

We just presented our game and I am so relieved to be done. It was really fun and I learned a lot! I learned a lot about the presidential election and I hope that people who play our game will also learn a lot about the government. I also learned a ton about flash and globaloria. This was a great expierience and I am so glad I took this class!

5-28-10

We are almost done with our game. We have made a lot of progress over the last couple weeks. Our game is coming along well but now we are having some trouble with the hittest. Hopefully we get it finished because we only have one day left.

Game Progress

We had to start our game over completely. We were having each fact be on a different keyframe but Ms. Stalnaker said that it would be better if we made it a scrolling screen so we did! Now the game is moving along pretty well. The only problem we are experiencing so far is that when our guy jumps on the platform, he lands on his head not his feet. Someone is helping us with that. Other than that all we have left to do is put the facts on the platforms and make it into four different levels.

My Civic Engagement 4/23/10

What Ideals concept is the hardest to teach in your game, and why do you think it's difficult to understand? How does your game effectively teach this concept?

The hardest ideals concept for me to teach in my game is probably facts about the presidential election. People think they know so much about the presidential election but I'm sure after they play our game they will realize that they really do not. My game effectively teaches this because there are facts about the election and you have to know them to progress in the game.

My Civic Engagement 4/16/10

Researching and designing your game has shown you how many different ways the same information can be presented to an audience. Based on your Globaloria game-making experience, how do you feel about the way news and other sources might similarly manipulate information about civics? Do you have any advice for other students who want to seek out reliable media outlets? Please write 4 or more sentences.

Many internet websites change information around to make it untrue. They can manipulate you that way because you may think that it is a reliable source and it isn't. My advice for other students is to check different websites to make sure that information is correct. If you only see a set of information once, most likely it is not true. If you see information multiple times, it is probably correct.

My Civic Engagement 4/15/10

Researching and designing your game has shown you how many different ways the same information can be presented to an audience. Based on your Globaloria game-making experience, how do you feel about the way news and other sources might similarly manipulate information about civics? Do you have any advice for other students who want to seek out reliable media outlets? Please write 4 or more sentences Not all websites convey the correct information. Therefore using websites that have incorrect information can be misleading so many people consider the website manufactures manipulative. My advice for other students is when your searching the web for information, if you find one set of information that you like, go to another website or a few other websites to see if they have that same information. If no other websites have the same information or if they have information that is the complete opposite of the information you liked, then it probably is not true or not good information.

April 15, 2010

My Civic Engagement 4/9/10

The technology of the 21st century has altered civic life greatly. Do you think access to virtual collaboration and communication has an impact on civic ideals? Why or why not? How has the process of designing and researching your game helped you develop your opinion? Please provide specific links and examples.

I think that the development of internet and access to virtual collaboration and communication has had a huge impact on civic ideals. Having the internet as a resource really helped me with my game. For example, I got all of my facts from the internet and it just makes it so much easier. If I did not have the internet then I would of had to look facts up in the newspaper or in magazines and it would have been a lot more complicated because the internet has everything I need in one place.