"Playing To learn" genre: Puzzle/Maze

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1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:
The game that have actually thought me a new skill was B-Cubed. This game thought me how to actually think before I do something which most of the time I just do a certain action without actually thinking.

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:
There was not any puzzle games that had a social issue collaborated in their games.

3. The game or games I liked the best:
The game that I liked the best was 2 B-cubed because I love when I have to move things around with the arrow keys and also because I have to think before I take a move its kind of like chess.

4. What happens in the game or games:
In this game you have to move the cube through this different mazes in order to get to the next level. you also have to really think about what move you are going to make because once you have stepped on one it goes away.

5. How you play the game or games:
In this game you have to move the arrow keys in order to move the cube and in order to beat the game.

Playing to learn "Update the blog"

What did you learn from your choice of games and genres to review?

I learned a lot with this review. Some of the things that I learned was that there are some certain game genres that do not have an specific social issue involved in their games. I also learned that there are some genres that would be good to make a game on including an social issue and that they are not that many games on that genre.

Name any game features that stood out to you, either because they were interesting or because they could be improved.

I saw that some of the games that where in this game gallery were actually pretty poor in graphics and i think that could have been better. I also really liked some of the features of the games like for example i really like that in one of the game the background was moving as you were going through the game, it was awesome!

Write down any questions you have about the game or genre you chose. You might answer them yourself later!

I have some questions that i would like to ask. One of the questions that i really have stuck in my mind was how can i make my game idea into a puzzle/maze genre game?

Playing to Learn Genre: Sports and Racing

Sports and racing games involve a lot of athletic competitions. This games are almost always time so that you have a pressure on you.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

The game that taught me a new skill was a game named "Gravitee". This game taught me how to think about gravity in different planets.
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2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:

There was no game that had an social issue involved in it.

3. The game or games that I liked the best:
the game that I liked the best was called Gravitee. I really liked this game because I like when games have sports involved in them and this game has golf in it.

4. What happens in the game or games:
In this game that i really liked there is a ball that you have to be moving in order ot learn more things about the gravity of the planets and also you have to be thinking of how much the mass of the ball is and how its going to affect in it another planet.

5. How you play the game or games:

In this game you have to click where you would like the ball to go but while you are thinking about where to click you have to think about the gravity that is outside in the universe and in the planets that you need to play in.

Playing to Learn, Genre:Strategy

Strategy games are games where you have to use critical thinking and to actually analyze the situation that you are in on the game. Most of the time strategy games are dealing with real life situations and usually you have the pressure of time in order to complete a task.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:
The game tat taught me a new skill was names "The debate". This game taught me that you have to think before taking an action or bad things will haven if you do not do so.

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2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:
The game that taught me information about an existing social issue was "Survivor". This game taught me about how the animals have to do things in order to be able to survive in their habitats.

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3. The game or games I liked the best:
The game that I liked the best was named "Be who you want to be". I liked it best because sometimes its fun to cartoon yourself but also to think how people will make fun or you or what they will think of you.

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4. What happens in the game or games:
In this mentioned games you have to use critical thinking a lot. I actually like thinking before I take an action in something so this kind of games are really the time of games that i would be playing.

5. How you play the game or games:

In the game called "Be who you want to be" you have to click on the certain thing or things that you will like to see in the cartooned character. In the game Survivor you have to move the wolf with the arrow keys in order to survive.

Playing To Learn! Genre: Action

Action games are the most common ones in the whole game business. in this genre you have to always keep moving and have to do certain activities at the time.

Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:
The game that thought me about a an existing social issue was oil spill because it just happened not even a year ago and numerous animals got affected by this issue but it was not solved as fast as they thought it was going to be fixed.

Game I liked best:
I liked the game save the animals the best Because i really like how they made the background move while you are moving with it also. I also like how they made the main character move his legs while he was walking making it seam like if it was really walking. I love the graphics and I like the concept of making people realize that they need to do something to try to save the animals that got infected or in danger because of the oil spill.

What happens in the game:
In this game you are thought some of the animals who really got affected by the oil spill. Also the player gets to feel like if they are making a change by playing and by acknowledging the facts in this game.

How do you play it:
In order to play this game you have to do do certain actions. You have to use the arrow keys in the keyboard in order to make the main character move and to save the animals.

Mini Game

Was is hard to make your Mini Game? What was the best part of this topic? The worst part?

I can easily say that my mini game was a little bit hard to make because i wanted mine to have the best graphics that i could make. fortunately i did made that happen. other than that i can tell that the code and the rest of the making was really easy.

The best part of making the game was messing around with the new flash. I love experimenting with something that i don't know much of like the new flash. It was way easier to do the small details that i like to do in this new flash than the other old one.

The worst part about making this mini Game was that i forgot to put the name of my files on my projects page. That was the only thin that i wasn't satisfied with while doing this project.

9/11

How old were you on September 11, 2001?
I was three years old.

When did you first learn about the attacks and who explained the events to you?
my six grade history teacher explained to us what was the 9/11 and what had happened.

What kind of impact did these attacks have on your life or your parents lives?

This impacts have a lot of impact in my life. It makes me feel insecure feeling that something bad is going to happen or that we are going to be attacked again. I just cant imagine me trying to survive leaving everything behind. I think that all I would do if i was there I would be running all the time just trying to survive.

What was the issue with this game?
That it was saying that there is no way to stop terrorism. And the person who made the game is just trying to get money out of something very tragic.

9/11

How do you feel about it?

I actually feel very bad because it teaching children bad things and its making them get the wrong idea behind it.

What is the problem with portraying on such an awful violent event through a video game?

The making of this game is very violent because its showing the youth that the violence can not be stop at all.

How can you make sure that your web games tell the whole story or teach a lesson in an honorable way?

By actually putting information about the event and by doing the right actions for people to not feel bad or anything.