Thank you all for your participation.
We have one final blog about the game that we'd like you to think about - Look at the one titled 'Post Game Evaluation' - you can add your comments as you reflect about the experience you had.
Contact us at this email address: geography.development.game@gmail.com to let us know what you are thinking about and whether you want to take part in the beta testing or in the name the game activity.
Make sure you identify yourself. Unidentified emails will be ignored.
Use this format when signing off: Name/School/Class/How to contact you (e.g. email/tel)
For students wishing to make a suggestion for the name of the game - use the following heading in the email title:
'Name a Game'
For students wishing to take part in the testing of the game - use the following heading in the email title:
'Beta Testing'
For any other comments - either leave it in the blog under the suitable blog posts or else email it to us.
Thank you!
Game Development Team
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Give it a shot!
The game is yet to be named. Come up with an original game. Give us a good reason why your suggestion should be chosen.
The best suggestions will be considered by the game development team. The student whose suggestion is selected will be credited. (This game will be distributed to all schools.)
Contact us. See latest post.
The best suggestions will be considered by the game development team. The student whose suggestion is selected will be credited. (This game will be distributed to all schools.)
Contact us. See latest post.
Feedback on technical features
What features would you like enhanced in the game? Describe the functions you'd like to have as a player that would enable you to be play better. Comments on the graphics, display, functions available, types of levels in the game.
We're looking for people to test the game before release. Contact us by leaving your name and email address on the blog. We will contact you when we are ready.
Contact us. See latest post.
We're looking for people to test the game before release. Contact us by leaving your name and email address on the blog. We will contact you when we are ready.
Contact us. See latest post.
Post game evaluation
ANSWER INDIVIDUALLY
Comment on the experience and any insights you had gained through this game experience.
For example:
What do you like or dislike about working as a team? What are the advantages/pitfalls of working as a team?
What did you learn about the possible factors that aided or hampered a city's development, the importance of the different parts of the economy?
Consider the possibilities and/or limitations this game has for enhancing your understanding about a city or country's development, the variations in development status within a country, the strategies that can be adopted and factors that could have caused these strategies not to work as well as anticipated.
Comment on the experience and any insights you had gained through this game experience.
For example:
What do you like or dislike about working as a team? What are the advantages/pitfalls of working as a team?
What did you learn about the possible factors that aided or hampered a city's development, the importance of the different parts of the economy?
Consider the possibilities and/or limitations this game has for enhancing your understanding about a city or country's development, the variations in development status within a country, the strategies that can be adopted and factors that could have caused these strategies not to work as well as anticipated.
Mission 2: Team Debrief: Team evironmental strategies
[Team’s environmental strategies]
ANSWER INDIVIDUALLY
• When presented with the alternative options to produce via capital-intensive or environmentally friendly methods , which option did you take? Why?
ANSWER AS A TEAM
• How many in the team opted for the environmentally friendly method in reaching the next level of play?
To what extent does that reflect society's response to the management of natural environment and the issues surrounding it today?
ANSWER INDIVIDUALLY
• When presented with the alternative options to produce via capital-intensive or environmentally friendly methods , which option did you take? Why?
ANSWER AS A TEAM
• How many in the team opted for the environmentally friendly method in reaching the next level of play?
To what extent does that reflect society's response to the management of natural environment and the issues surrounding it today?
Mission 2 - Team Debrief: Team achievements and experience
[Team achievement and experience]
ANSWER AS A TEAM:
Q1a
Record the results shown in the city's indicators panel.
Tax rate: $
Total population:
Total healthcare coverage: %
Total literacy rate: %
Total pollution: Units
Q1b
Did your team manage to attain the objectives set out in the mission objectives for session 2? What were the strategies that your team used in trying to meet those objectives? How effective or successful were those strategies?
Q1c
Other than cash assets, labour force literacy and pollution levels, what other indicators could be used to assess how well is your team doing? Were the pre-set indicators a fair assessment of how well your team played or understood about the issues? Why? Or why not? If your team could choose how you'd like your team to be assessed in your performance, what would you choose?
Q1d
Pen down how you'd prefer your team's performance to be assessed:
Indicators/ Variables:
Quantity:
Q2
Was there a 'choke point' in the game where the team could not proceed any further? What was a probable cause of the 'choke point'? Was any particular role responsible? How did the team resolve the problem?
ANSWER AS A TEAM:
Q1a
Record the results shown in the city's indicators panel.
Tax rate: $
Total population:
Total healthcare coverage: %
Total literacy rate: %
Total pollution: Units
Q1b
Did your team manage to attain the objectives set out in the mission objectives for session 2? What were the strategies that your team used in trying to meet those objectives? How effective or successful were those strategies?
Q1c
Other than cash assets, labour force literacy and pollution levels, what other indicators could be used to assess how well is your team doing? Were the pre-set indicators a fair assessment of how well your team played or understood about the issues? Why? Or why not? If your team could choose how you'd like your team to be assessed in your performance, what would you choose?
Q1d
Pen down how you'd prefer your team's performance to be assessed:
Indicators/ Variables:
Quantity:
Q2
Was there a 'choke point' in the game where the team could not proceed any further? What was a probable cause of the 'choke point'? Was any particular role responsible? How did the team resolve the problem?
Mission 2
INSTRUCTIONS
Read the following specific mission objectives:
You have 20mins to achieve the following aims.
As a team, you have to reach the next level where you can have alternative ways of making the products for sale in the marketplace. By the end of the 20min, you should have at least $2500 in the city's cash assets and at least 40% of your labour force should be literate. The pollution should not exceed 50 units.
Read the following specific mission objectives:
You have 20mins to achieve the following aims.
As a team, you have to reach the next level where you can have alternative ways of making the products for sale in the marketplace. By the end of the 20min, you should have at least $2500 in the city's cash assets and at least 40% of your labour force should be literate. The pollution should not exceed 50 units.
Mission 1 - Team Debrief
ANSWER AS A TEAM:
As a team, describe the roles and functions of the government, and the other parts of the economy. How important is each player to the game?
As a team, describe the roles and functions of the government, and the other parts of the economy. How important is each player to the game?
Mission 1 - Individual Debrief
ANSWER INDIVIDUALLY:
• What type of feedback/information do you receive from the game? What did you do with that feedback/information?
• Describe your observations about the impact of your actions. Propose what could have caused the city's indicators to rise and/or fall.
• For the players who are taking the government role only, describe the differences you observed about the role that you play compared to the other players. What features are available only to you but not the rest? What type of decisions do you have to make in the game?
Mission 1
INSTRUCTIONS
Read the following specific mission objectives:
You have 10mins to explore the features of the game.
As you explore, find out who are the producers of resources that are being sold in the marketplace. What are the different products that you are able to make? Find out who is/are buying or using the products that you have made. What does the ‘thrash bin’ icon represent? What could you do to reduce the quantity shown?
Read the following specific mission objectives:
You have 10mins to explore the features of the game.
As you explore, find out who are the producers of resources that are being sold in the marketplace. What are the different products that you are able to make? Find out who is/are buying or using the products that you have made. What does the ‘thrash bin’ icon represent? What could you do to reduce the quantity shown?
Instructions to posting comments and replies
Dear all,
When posting your comments and replies, please indicate clearly the city's name, your role and personal name (yes real name):
In this order - City Name/Role/Personal Name
For example:
Alexandria/Farmer/Kenneth Tan
Alexandria/Government/Mickey Soh
Alexandria/Manufacturer/Ang Ling See
Alexandria/Retailer/Rabi'ah Ghazali
When posting your comments and replies, please indicate clearly the city's name, your role and personal name (yes real name):
In this order - City Name/Role/Personal Name
For example:
Alexandria/Farmer/Kenneth Tan
Alexandria/Government/Mickey Soh
Alexandria/Manufacturer/Ang Ling See
Alexandria/Retailer/Rabi'ah Ghazali
Welcome
Dear all,
Welcome to the blog set up for the trial of the Geography game on development.
There are altogether 3 missions. Each mission brief contains instructions for the team, and questions are posed for individual players as well as whole team.
The aims of the game - be competent, collaborate with each other, be environmentally sustainable.
Hint: The fastest finger may not always win.
Have fun!
Welcome to the blog set up for the trial of the Geography game on development.
There are altogether 3 missions. Each mission brief contains instructions for the team, and questions are posed for individual players as well as whole team.
The aims of the game - be competent, collaborate with each other, be environmentally sustainable.
Hint: The fastest finger may not always win.
Have fun!
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