Weekly Questions

Have you completed any additional Civics Research for your games?

I have done some research on my own time at my house. Just trying to learn about previous political campaigns, and how they make their money.

Have you changed your games, if so what educational value does the game possess?

We have changed our game completely, instead of fighting, we added a game that you run around and collect cash. We felt like it relates better to our topic. We show the player a different view of a campaign race.

What problems, if any did you encounter this week?3

We encountered lag in our game, and how the game loads when we added it to our menus and combined our parts.

Blog 12- 7--------------12-11

This week we made our game complete, we are just running into a problem with lag. don't know what to do. Neither does Jacob. We are hoping to get help soon. Other than at, we are tried other games to see what else we can do for individual games.

Nov 30 -- Dec 4

This week I was absent on Nov. 30. Luckily Jacob made some progress on the game while I was absent. When I came back we decided to change our game, even though the game is due December 11. In two days we got the game completed thanks to some tutorials we found on the internet. We are so happy.

11/16-20/09

This week we ran into some problems. We sent them into the Globaloria people. We have been waiting on the response. I have began brainstorming with myself on some ideas for our individual games. It is a lot to think about. But, with the help of classmates and tutorials it will be a little easier.

11/9/09 ---- 11/13/09

This week we got a lot of our game finished. All we need to do is move on to the actual game. We need to decide what our genre is now. Mrs. Chen wants us to get off of the fighting genre because it isn't allowed.

Oh well, we can do it.

Week in review 11/2-6/09

This week we achieved a little bit more on our game. We also had to do this super long blog. Both were tough activities. I can't wait to get our game finished, it is going to be the best.

Game

1.What is your game topic?
2.How does your game relate to civics?
3.Being specific, with step-by-step instructions, describe your game in no less than 150 words.
4.Describe how the player will learn more about civics when playing this game in no less than 150 words.
5.Where does your game fit into the Civics knowledge framework?
6.Does your game teach about an ideal of government, a function of government, or about citizenship? Please explain


1. Our game topic is about a different view of a presidental campaign.
2. Our game relates to civics by showing you another way to win a political campaign.
3. First, the start screen will pop up saying “The Political Fight Club.” There will be a button that you click to start. When you click that you will be taken to the instruction screen, there you will learn how to play our game. You will also learn what our game is about. Then you click continue, that will take you to the “Select Your Party” screen. After you choose your party, it will take you to the “Stage Select” screen. After you choose your stage, you can select your character. Once you have done all of that, you will see a biography of your character, get asked a few questions, then you are ready to fight! While you fight you will gain campaign money if you win. If you win, you become president of the United States of America! If you fail to win, you will lose, and the opposite party will defeat you. Along the way you will also be quizzed on random facts about our country, your player, your enemy, and other things.
4. Our game “The Political Fight Club” relates to civics because you learn about the campaigning system, some of our political leaders, and ways you can spend campaign money that you will earn. The ways you learn about the campaign system are that you will win money through fights at real campaign events. Then you will learn about some of our political leaders because along with their fighting traits and stats you will get biography traits such as age, party, campaign slogan, and other facts about the person. Last you will earn and spend your campaign money. You will gain your campaign money through winning fights against other political figures. You will then spend your campaign money on actual campaign things such as a real campaign would spend it on ,but instead of actually buying them they will buy you speed boosts, size boost, jump boosts, or maybe a strength boost.
5. It teaches about some of our political leaders and a little about how a campaign works.
6. It deals with a function of government or that is how I would categorize it. It deals with the campaign system is why I would put it under dealing with a function of government.

week in review 10/26-10/30

Last week we worked on our games more. We got our pages to flow better. Our game is starting to look half-way decent. All we need to do now is incorporate the fighting aspect.

Civics-

I found it hard at the beginning to think of a Civics idea, but after thinking for awhile I finally got it. Also, when the Globaloria people came, they helped my team. We also found it easier to choose a topic after playing some other civics games.

Week in Review 10/19-10/23

Well, this week we made a lot of progress. Partly because of the Globaloria people gave us a new idea. We have worked really hard. The coding is still hard though. But we can do it! TEAM ETHNIX!

1.In our game we gain campaing money to become the next president.
2.They answer questions about their character.
3.It teaches about the function of campaigns. You raise money in the game, and see what it takes to become President of the United States of America!


here is an example of the action in our game. (Ours isn't this violent.)



Political Fight - Click here for more home videos

10-12----10-16

This week we worked on our games. We learned how to make buttons. We also learned how to trace stuff, I had trouble with it. Buttons are hard to use, its such a headache. Friday, we played some civics games. They were buggy.

10-5-09 --- 10-8-09

This week we did our Paper Prototypes. It took my team a while to get started, but once got started we just kept flowin' with ideas. It was a really easy week. We did lots of code, gave me a couple headaches, but it is all good!

Ethnix Games

The name of our team is

The members are Jacob and Brandon. The subject of our game is Politcal people fighting.

Three sites pretaining to our game are;
1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/
2.http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/10/the_best_political_fights.html -- Sort of inspiration for our game.
3.http://www.freeonlinegames.com/fighting-games/index.html -- Where our genre came from.


Three interesting facts I learned.
1. That there is already a game like ours.
2. Fighting games are very popular.
3. There is real life political fights.

Last Week

Last week was very interesting. It was the first time I have ever done a paper prototype. I found it to be fun. It was challenging printing off the pictures to put on the paper, but in the end it was worth it. Our video turned out good.

Most Important Part of Flash

In my opinion, the most important part of Flash is the Tools. The tools are essential to Flash. You use the tools to select stuff, draw things, and just about whatever other tool you can think of. Without the tools, your project would be blank!

Class Flash Game

This game has given Mrs.Chenoweth a hard time, and it has give me a big headache. Everyday it seems the code gets worse, but I know in the end Mrs. Chenoweth will prevail. I think we should bypass this project and move on to the group work.

The Lewis and Clark Adventure Game

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/lewisClarkAdventure/ Lewis and Clark Adventure
That is the civics I found. This game is about the Lewis and Clark adventure. (no pun intended). In the game you will explore along the trail of Lewis and Clark to the Pacific Ocean and back. You are faced with activities along the way. Overall, it's a pretty fun game.

1. American Symbols Game: http://www.texaslre.org/asymbols/symbolsgameintro.html
2. Bill of Rights Match Game: http://www.texaslre.org/BOR/billofrights.html
3.Geography America: http://games.crossmap.com/flash_play/america.htm
4. Redistricting Game: http://www.redistrictinggame.org/
5. Branches of Government: http://www.texaslre.org/branches_game.html
6. There Should Be a Law: http://www.texaslre.org/HowAbill/index.html
7. Pick 12: http://www.texaslre.org/jurygame_intro.html
8. Play the News: http://www.playthenewsgame.com/portal/home.action
9. Bump the Birds: http://www.gothamgazette.com/games/ballotbump/

My Reviews:

1. American Symbols is a fun matching game. It tests your American History knowledge.
2. The Bill of Rights Matching game was a challenge, but it is a good educational game.
3. Geography America puts your U.S. memorization to the test!
4. Redistricting, I couldn't figure out how to win.
5. Branches of Government is a basic game, but quizzes you on your branches of government. ( pun intended.)
6. There Should Be a Law teaches you how a law becomes a law in Texas. It puts you through an interactive process.
7. Pick 12 I didn't like it that much. All you had to do is pick people.
8. Play the News is a hard game, if you don't know your history.
9. Bump the Birds is a fun game, you patrol through a maze with some stops that quiz you with questions abut elections.

--Game Genre--

The genre of the game I would like to create would have to be Racing , but since we have to make a Civic Participation game, I guess I'll do that. I think I will re-create the 2008 Presidential Election, but with some added twists.

The Hardest Part to Blogging, in my opinion

The hardest experience I've had with blogging so far was resizing the header image. It was so hard! I couldn't get it right, but after some help from Jacob I got it situated.

what NOT to do to flash games

shame on these people.

woo!