Game Review

While going to the wiki reviewing game genres and topics, I have learned which topics it would and wouldn't work out while creating an educational or social issue game. If you are creating an educational or social issue game it would probably wouldn't be the best idea to make your game genre on sports and racing. It is very hard to think of a way to incorporate education or social issues into it. It would probably be much better and easier to make an action, adventure, or strategy game. Some of the game features that stood out to me were how in some games the main character's limbs such as arms and legs, were moving.

Playing to Learn, Genre: Sports and Racing

Sport games usually have the sports that we play in real life today, like basketball, baseball, football, soccer, etc. When you are playing a racing or sport game you most likely have an other person playing against you, trying to beat you.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

Gravitee

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:

The Final Count Down

3. The game or games I liked the best:

Gravitee

4. What happens in the game or games:
In Gravitee you play golf in space trying to get it into the hole in the next planet trying to find its mass.

5. How you play the game or games:

To play this game you have to click and drag the golf ball using your mouse and put it into the hole.

Playing to learn, Genre: Strategy

Strategy games require you to use critical thinking and making very careful decisions about your next move. Strategy game also require you to analyzing the situation.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

PaleoQuest

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:

Ayiti the Coast of Life.

3. The game or games I liked the best:

Ayiti the Coast of Life.

4. What happens in the game or games:
In this game you have to pick your strategy, either happiness, health, money, or education and when the seasons change you have to make sure your whole family is healthy and happy.

5. How you play the game or games:

To play this game you have to click on each family member and make sure they are all healthy and happy. You also have to make sure the houses and garden is all taken care of.

Playing to learn, Genre Puzzles and Mazes

Puzzle and Maze games are usually to make the player think about the next move fast with little time. These games are usually hard and the player has to find their way out of somewhere or solve a problem fast.

1. The Game that taught me a new skill or subject:

Cubefield

2. The Game that taught me information about a new or existing social issue:
I couldn't find a game that really taught about a social issue, but if I could make a game about a social issue, it would be about getting the poverty people on the streets and take them to homeless shelters so they can turn their life around and no be poor anymore and do something successful with their life.

3. The game or games I liked the best:
Cubefield

4. What happens in the game or games:
You have to get a little spaceship like object and take it to the end of the cubefield.

5. How you play the game or games:

You have to use the arrow keys to move the spaceship and move it side to side and try not to hit any of the cubes. If you do hit any of the cubes you die and have to try again.

Playing to Learn, Genre:Adventure

Adventure games are characterized by a centered around a theme of exploration and plot development. Adventure games instead require careful thought and planning.

1. The game or games that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:
Sally's Energy Ride

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:
A little robot thing is cleaning up the environment around him that is covered in filth and also trying to save energy by putting solar panels and water devices in his environment.

5. How you play the game or games:

You drag the garbage into the little robot to clean the level setting. And as the levels increase, you have to drag solar panels and water devices to save energy.

Playing to learn, Genre:Action

Action games comprise a very wide variety of activities with some basic similarities of gameplay. Action games usually require fast reflexes and timing to overcome challenges and often (but not always) include combat as a main theme.

Game that taught me a new educational skill or gave information on a subject:

The game Trap Cat taught me that their are way to many cats on the streets and that can harm us as humans and that we need to do something about it.

Game that taught me about a new or existing social issue:

Immune System Defender

Game I liked best:
Trap Cat

What happens in the game:
The game Trap Cat taught me that their are way to many cats on the streets and that can harm us as humans and that we need to do something about it.

How do you play it:

You have to click on the cats to have them not on the streets anymore.

Trap Cat: http://www.austinhumanesociety.org/resources/trapcat

Immune System Defender: http://www.brainpop.com/games/immunesystemdefender/