Atmosphir+and+Power+Game

ATMOSPHIR and POWERGAME  TECH 2

Area of Interaction: Community and Service Significant Concept: Video games can be used to understand math, technology, engineering, social studies, English, and/or science. Unit Question: How can my learning help my community?

Day 1 Take the Test on [|Skyward].

INVESTIGATE: (Write in complete sentences) __Identify the Problem __ 1. What is the problem you need to solve? The problem we need to solve is to create an educational game for an elementary aged student.  2. How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? The design truly applies to the real world because it can be found and used in any imaginable vocation. For example, an engineer must use the design cycle to create robust bridges that with hold a lot of weight. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 3. How will this video game serve my community? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">This video game will serve my community by teaching young adolescents how to learn educational information while having fun playing video games. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 4. How can my learning help my community? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">My learning can help my community because later when I have an occupation, I can assist in teaching young kids and aiding the elderly. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 5. How does this help others? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">With my knowledge, I can help create a safer and more astute community. For example, if were to become a doctor, I could perform simple check ups for the people living around me. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 6. What are the requirements for this assignment? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">As I have said before, there is only one requirement for this assignment, and that is to create an educational video game for a student in elementary school. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 7. What is Atmosphir? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Atmosphir is a program in which you can create a video game in 3D form. This is quite new to society and Ms. Bradfield as well. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 8. What is PowerGame? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">PowerGame is also a program in which you can design your own video game. This was introduced a couple years ago to society, and Ms. Bradfield knows how to use it as well!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Day 2 <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">9. Spend one day experimenting with Atmosphir. List five things your learned about Atmosphir: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 10. Are you going to use Atmosphir or PowerGame for this assignment? **My partner and I are going to use Atmosphir instead of Power Game for this assignment because it enables you to design more creatively, and it contains less glitches.** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Day 3 __<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Design Brief __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">11. Write a short statement of what you are going to make, why you are going to make it, and for whom you are making it for. **We are going to make an educational, yet very entertaining game. The reason we are making this game is so elementary students can realize that learning is having fun. As we stated before, we are creating this video game for elementary aged students, to learn in a fun and entertaining environment.** __<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Formulate a Design Specification __ <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">12. What are the requirements for this assignment? **The two requirements for this assignment are:** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 13. What are the limitations you have with this assignment? **The limitations we will have to work with are we are new to this program, and we will have to make sure it has an educational purpose while being fun at the same time.** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 14. How will you "test" your project? **We will play this game to test it and see if it serves an educational purpose.** <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">PLAN: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">15. Brainstorm ideas. Use the chart below: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> [|IB Brainstorming Chart .pdf] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 16. What idea did you choose and why did you choose it? **We just loved our creativity so much that we decided to combine all of our ideas into different levels to make one fantastic, yet educational game.** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 17. Does your idea meet all of the requirements? **INDEED, it does. We are so creative that our ideas meet all the requirements even without trying.** <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 18. Use the story board paper below to plan your video game. Include how many levels you will have, what will be on each level, how will you include teaching skills to young students, and what will your questions be about. [|story board.pdf] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">19. Explain how you will use your time to get your project finished in 12 days:
 * **I learned how to jump**
 * **I learned the different controls**
 * **I learned the basics of designing your own game**
 * **I learned how to bring up the different backgrounds**
 * **I learned how to change the look of the characters**
 * **Create an educational video game for an elementary aged student**
 * **Use Atmosphir or Powergame**
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 1: Take the test on Skyward and answer the Investigate questions.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 2: Experiment with Atmosphir.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 3: Complete the Design Brief, the Design Specification, the Brainstorming Chart, and the Storyboard.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 4: Finish the Storyboard and start Atmosphir.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 5: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 6: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 7: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 8: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 9: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 10: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 11: WORK!
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Day 12: Finish Design Folder and Atmosphir game.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">CREATE:
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Use appropriate software create your video game . (and be nice to my computer!)
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Follow your plan and story board.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Pay attention to the quality of your presentation!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATE: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">20. If you made any changes to your plan or story board, explain why you changed it: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">21. How could you improve your game? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We could improve our game by making it a little more organized. The game is a bit scattered as well as the questions. We were planning on making a science level, a math level, etc., but it all just collapsed into one. We also feel that improvements could have been made in the usage of all the programs on atmosphir. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 22. Does your game meet all of the requirements? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Our game does meet all the requirements because it is educationally designed for an elementary aged student. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 23. Share your video game with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your game? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We shared our game with J.C. and he liked it a lot. His thoughts about it were it is challenging, yet educational with all the questions. Despite that fact that he failed playing it a couple times, he finally reached the finish flash while having a great learning experience. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 24. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">25. Were you responsible in using the software, Internet, pictures, and computer? We were most definitely responsible using the software, Internet, pictures and computer. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 26. How can my learning help my community? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">My learning can help my community because later when I have an occupation, I can assist in teaching young kids and aiding the elderly. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 27. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">We think we deserve a 5 because of all the hard work and effort we put into this. Also, we made great use of the design cycle which truly helped us in creating a great project on a software we have never even heard of.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Why did you change your plan?
 * We didn't make any changes to our plan and even if we did, we would we would have made extra levels. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Why did you change your story board?
 * We changed our story board by mixing all the levels into one and making the game super hard. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Investigate: We completely inquired all the ideas that were running in our brains about creating an educational video game. Later, we observed the design of normal video games and tried to compare ours to their.
 * ** Plan: ** Planning this was quite easy for us. We laid out all our ideas on a brainstorming worksheet and thoroughly explained them. Since they were all so wonderful, we decided to use them all. We need to improve on planning for a longer amount of time, rather than maybe one day before creating.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Create: We think we created this game rather well, but didn't make use of all the cool facilities. We should improve on maybe creating a little bit faster and incorporating our ideas into the actual game.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Evaluate: We evaluated well by looking at the rubric and seeing if it applies to our video game. We feel that we shouldn't underestimate our game so much because it met all the requirements and is pretty darn educational.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">28. Reflect on your attitude on each step of the Design Cycle. Did you completely answer each step without complaining, being a whiny baby, or saying "it's too hard". Explain your answer: We completely answered all questions and followed the steps without complaining. We did become a little cranky because of the new software we had to use, but frankly this assignment was quite simply. We truly enjoyed this project and the no problems occurred. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> 29. What grade do you deserve on your attitude? (1 - 6) I think we deserve a 6 out of 6 because we were always happy, responsible and caring.
 * ATTITUDE: **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">You will receive an IB grade and a letter grade. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> How You Will Be Graded:

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Quality - 15 **

 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Completing all the requirements - 20