My Gaming Habits

What types of games do you enjoy playing? What are the titles?

I enjoy playing Strategy games such as "Jewels", "Bloxorz" and "Don't Fall"

When did you begin playing games, on what type of game system?

I Started playing games when i was around 6 years old and I played the Nintendo 68.

Do your parents/guardians limit the amount of time you are allowed to play games?

My mom does NOT limit the time that i play video games, Specially because I am not a game addict, I hardly even play video games.

Do you think it is possible to get completely addicted to playing video games? Why or why not?

I think that there is a possibility that people can get really addicted but as I mentioned I don't think that will ever happen to me.

Globaloria and Gamefication, Game Design, & Game Mechanics.

What do you learn in Globaloria?
In Globaloria class all of the students are able to learn how to create a virtual game from scratch and we are also always learning how to interact with other people while making your game.

Name at least five of these skills.
I have learned a lot of creativity, independence, critical thinking, intelligence, flexibility and integrity.

How can these skills prepare you for a successful academic future and how could you use these skills to find a great job?

This skills are going to prepare me for my future in various ways. one of the ways that is going to affect me positively is that they are going to teach me how to help other people and also how to figure out things by myself. It is also going to help me by figuring new ways of seeing things in this world specially if am I am going to be in a place where my creativity is going to be needed all the time.

Tell me what the difference is between Gamification, Game Mechanics, and Game Design.

Gamification: Its adding this together to a place or thing that does necessarily have them.

Game Mechanics: Its how the game actually works

Game design: Its all the creation of the game in every aspect.

New Goals For 2012

I have various goals for this year. I am going to try to accomplish all of them and I know that I am capable of making this happen. This is my list of goals!:

1) Become a better athlete!
2) Turn in my Reading Log in E.L.A class.
3) Be On time to class
4) Get NO tiger tracks.
5) Wear my ID!!.
6) Get commended performance on the STAAR test.
7) Pass my Spanish literature exam for college credit.
8) Get perfect attendance!!!

9) Get straight A's for the rest of the year.

10) Not getting tiger tracks at all.

11) Pay more attention is Social Studies!

12) Talk less louder.

14) Loose Weight!

15) Accept that I am not always right.

About My Topic

My topic is about: Gang Violence

This issue interests me because:

Gang violence interests me because there is a lot of gang violence going on now days. there is not one day when you can actually turn on the television and change it into a news channel without watching something about gangs and violence. I am really into this topic and I have really creative ideas for my game.

I want people to learn:

I will really like to teach people how gangs are affecting the citizens of the United States. There are innocent people who are getting affected because of this so called gangsters that are only causing us trouble. I would like to make them learn the actual statistics of the gangs and where they are located. I would also like to teach them some of the cases where people do not have to do anything about this tragic cases but they still end up being hurt in some kind of way.

This issue need to be addressed because:

Gang violence really need to be addressed because there is people dyeing every single day. there are gang member who had a future ahead of them. Its really sad to see this people end up like this when they are so smart. I also think it should be addressed because its not worth ed for them to live their gang member lives which the most could last ten years and that is if you dint get beat up until dead, intoxicated with drugs, or just getting shot, or in prison. its not worth it at all.

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Imagining Your Game Questions!

WHO are you designing your game for? I am designing this game for teenagers In age between 13-17. This game is specially going to be designed for players who like the puzzle and maze genre and to people who will be interested into games that will teach you about gang violence and how it is affecting the residents of the United States.

WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic?

My game will teach the player the statistics of the people who are involved in the USA of the different types of races. It will also be included statistics about the high gang violence cities of the united states!

WHERE does your game happen?

My game will have the background of different places of the united states depending on the place that the topic is about. The background will help the player feel like if that person was really in that place and it will give them the potential to start playing the game as son as possible.

HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic?
What happens in the world that helps the player learn?

How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game?

In this game the player will learn about this world how gang violence is affecting the different cities and citizens of the United States. The players will use what they've learn to answer questions while they are trying to go through the game.

WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz?

It would be way better because when you are just reading things off of a paper most of the time it will stay in your mind then it will go away, but when playing a game the concept of the learning experience and the information will stay in your mind because you are actually having fun and in order to pass the levels you have to answer questions about the facts tat you've read.

Civics: National Politics

I think that this video is weird and wrong in so many different ways. To start of i think that this video should of been made by the actual person who is running for president. This person is trying to help him but instead he made a bad impression of him. It is so weird that he always had the close up on his face and he said that he would, make the united states united, no one can just make everything okay out of no where. Another thing that I think that is super weird is that almost at the end of the video he just started to smoke a cigarette, I mean what kind of weirdo will do this in a video trying to protect a president! last but not least the main thing that caught my attention was when the actual person that is running for president comes out at the end of the video and he looks directly into the camera with a creepy look then he does this mysterious smile.

''March of the penguins!''

1.) Some of the challenges that the penguins have to overcome are staying away from predators, keeping their babies warm for them to be able to survive, looking for food and mating.

2.) Their habitat challenges their livelihood everyday because they need to keep their eggs warm enough so that they would not become practically pieces of ice and also because they can not find much food because of their environment which makes a lot of penguins die of starvation.

3.) The penguins have to adapt to the lac of food and also walking almost all of their lives. This makes them be able to survive from predators and brutal winters.

4.) There is a time where there is no sunlight because of the tilt of the earth and because its revolving around the sun so there are gonna be times where there are sometimes going to be days without sunlight. It affects the climate because it causes the penguins to not be warm no more.

5.) It is really important that the ground be frozen because if its not then the penguins are not being able to reproduce. Witch could create extinction to them. It is specially important because they have this ritual that the emperor penguins gets to choose who he wants to mate with and in order to mate they cant be on water they need to be in ice.