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.

"Playing To Learn" Genre:Adventure

1. The game or games that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:
Save the animals.

2. The game or games that taught me about a new or existing social issue:
Synchronized Saviors

3. The game or games I liked best:
Synchronized Saviors

4. What happens in the game or games:
You move the red ball using the pen in order to win the game.

5. How you play the game or games:
Using the pen , the gamer is expected to collect the flags with the red ball . You can draw different shapes to move the red ball around.

"Playing To learn" genre: Puzzle/Maze

Action games is....

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?