Power+Game

=== Area of Interaction: Environments === === Significant Concepts: Basic video programming, and the appeal of virtual environments. Also, the positives and negatives of technology.) === === Unit Question: What is the appeal of a virtual environment and what are the negative and positive consequences? ===
 * POWER GAME TECH 1 **

REQUIREMENTS:

 * 1) === Take the Power Game Test on Skyward.  ===
 * 2) === Create a new page on your wiki. Name it "Power Game".  ===
 * 3) === Copy and Paste this page onto your wikispace.  ===
 * 4) === Create your own video game using Power Game.  ===
 * 5) === You must work on this video game for 7 days. You should add new elements to your game every day!  ===
 * 6) === Make at least 5 levels on your video game. Your width for each level should be at least 2600.  ===
 * 7) === Take one picture of each of your levels. You should have at least 5 pictures.  ===
 * 8) === Name all of your pictures, "Power Game 1", Power Game 2", Power Game 3", and "Power Game 4".  ===
 * 9) === <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Upload all of your pictures onto your wikispace.  ===


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. Take the Power Game Test on [|Skyward] .**
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">INVESTIGATE **
 * 2. ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">How has virtual environments changed our society? Oftentimes people prefer to do things in virtual environments than the real world because they are tailored to be attractive to consumers. Also, virtual environments have enabled us to communicate across long distances easily.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 1.3em;">How has technology impacted our environment? The natural environment has been impacted because different types of resources have needed to be used to create computers, and also manufacturing of modern technology can cause pollution, which harms the natural environment. Technology has impacted the built environment because lots of times buildings are built or things are created to fit or use modern technology.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? In virtual environments we have more control over what happens and we can do things in a virtual environment without much physical effort.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are environments? Environments are surroundings and situations that impact how you act and do things.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">List three positives about virtual environments: 1. speed up communication, 2. fun, 3. easy to use
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">List three negatives about virtual environments: 1. time-waster, 2. cost lots of money, 3. encourage people to do less physical activity
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are the requirements of this assignment? take the Power Game test, create Power Game page and answer questions, create a video game in Power Game with 5 levels of 2600 with each, take screenshots of each level and post on wikispace
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Why and when does the toolbar change in PowerGame? the toolbar changes when you click on a new element in the UI so that you can change individual properties of each object
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">List three items in the toolbar: Player Start Location Tool, Character Tool, Ammo Pack Tool


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">PLAN **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the plan I outlined below: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 1: Skyward Test, Design Folder on your wikispace, answer the Investigate and Plan sections. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 2: Finish Skyward Test, Investigate, and Plan sections. Start Power Game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 3: Complete first level. Don't forget that the width for each level needs to be at least 2600. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 4: Complete second level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 5: Complete third level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 6: Complete fourth level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 7: Complete 5th level and the entire Design Folder, including uploading pictures on your wikispace. **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">CREATE **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Be nice to my software and computer. **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the steps of the plan I made you for you! **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Pay attention to the quality of your work! **
 * **<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Don't be a whiny baby that I have to babysit! **

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">SCREENSHOTS: **

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">4. Does your game have all five levels? If not, why? Yes, it does. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Are all of your levels at least 2600 in width? If not, why? Yes, they are. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. How could you improve your game? I could add music and I could add more weapons and maybe more types of enemies. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. Share your game with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your game? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">7. Were you responsible in using the software and computer? Yes, I was. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">8. What problems did you have using power game? I didn't really have any problems but some things about Power Game were annoying - the level routines didn't carry over from one level to another, so I had to remake them every time I made a new level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">9. What did you like the least about power game? I think it needs to be more easily customizable, and you shouldn't have to manually create all the solid material in a level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">10.What did you like the best about power game? It's really easy to add tiles to a level and the built-in stuff makes the game look more cohesive. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">11.What is the appeal of a virtual environment and what are the negative and positive consequences of virtual environments? (Write at least a paragraph!) **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Virtual environments are very appealing because, for one reason, they offer an escape from the world. They can have most of the things you enjoy in real life, while taking out things you don't like. Also, they can be easier to use than the real world; communicating online can be a lot simpler than driving to someone's house or even calling them. There are also drawbacks, however. Spending too much time in virtual environments causes us to forget things we need to do in real life, like a job to earn money, having good hygiene and interacting with real people. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">12.What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) I think I deserve a 6. **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px;">**THIS IS HOW YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR LETTER GRADE:**
 * 1) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Investigate - 10  ===
 * 2) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Create - 10  ===
 * 3) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Evaluate - 10  ===
 * 4) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Attitude - 10  ===
 * 5) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Your game has 5 levels that are 2600 in width - 50  ===
 * 6) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">A picture of each level is on your wiki - 25  ===
 * 7) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">You answered the unit question - 20  ===
 * 8) === <span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">TOTAL = 125 POINTS  ===