PowerGame

Level 1Level 2 Level 4Level 5Bonus level! **POWER GAME TECH 1 ** ===**Area of Interaction: Environments ** === ===**Significant Concepts: Basic video programming and the appeal of virtual environments. ** === ===**Unit Question: What is the appeal of a virtual environment? ** ===

===**REQUIREMENTS: ** === ===**Take the Power Game Test on Skyward. ** === ===**Create a new page on your wiki. Name it "Power Game". ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Copy and Paste this page onto your wikispace. ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Create your own video game using Power Game. ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">You must work on this video game for 7 days. You should add new elements to your game every day! ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Make at least 5 levels on your video game. Your width for each level should be at least 2600. ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Take one picture of each of your levels. You should have at least 5 pictures. ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Name all of your pictures, "Power Game 1", Power Game 2", Power Game 3", and "Power Game 4". ** === ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Upload all of your pictures onto your wikispace. ** ===

- The design cycle affects how we work and move forward with everyday things. ==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How has virtual environments changed our society? - Virtual environments have created good and bad problems, ranging from the ability to create a hypothetical situation to becoming addicted. ** ==
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">INVESTIGATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. Take the Power Game Test on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skyward] .**
 * 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="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> How has technology impacted our environment? - Technology has made our lives easier, but at the same time, it makes us more lazy. ** ==


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? - The appeal of the virtual environment is the idea that none of it is real so whatever you do does not have an affect on the real world (unless it causes you to loose your job, house, and family). **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are environments? - Environments are surroundings. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are the requirements of this assignment? -Look above **


 * <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="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Be nice to my software and computer. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<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="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Pay attention to the quality of your work! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Don't be a whiny baby that I have to babysit! **

A virtual environment allows us to do anything we want without consequences. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">
 * <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. Did you follow the plan I made for you? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I mostly followed the plan, but I was gone one morning and had to make level four and five on the same day. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. Does your game meet all the requirements? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">My game meets all the requirements listed above. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. How could you improve your game? **
 * I could have made my game longer or more difficult.**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">7. 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;">They liked the way I set it up and the backgrounds, but wanted a harder game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">8. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Answer both questions below! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Investigate:I did not really research the program, but I spent a day figuring out what basic buttons and tools I would need and how to use them **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Plan:I followed the plan and adapted when I needed to change it, I need to make sure I give myself extra time in the future. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Create: I made a good game that follows all the requirements, but it could have been better. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate:After looking over the game, I went back and made tweaks here and there, but once again I wish I had left myself more time. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">15. Were you responsible in using the software and computer? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I was responsible using the software and computer. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">16. What is the appeal of a virtual environment? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">17. What problems did you have using power game? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I had trouble with editing characters and keeping all the others the same. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">18. What did you like the least about power game? **
 * I felt that it limited my creativity.**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">19. What did you like the best about power game? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I liked the ability to make a "video game". **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">20. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> I deserve a 5 because I did a good job, but it could have been better. **