Get the right facts. If you don't know what they are, you will learn them as you go on in the game.

I think they do a good job letting people know about civics. They explain to people what is going on with the government, and that is useful information. I don't have any advice other students. They should watch local and trusted news, and listen to what you teachers say is the best advice that I can give.

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Yes it does, because with technology, you can learn about civics online. Here is a link.

Assembling Your Demo

I would search for aliens. That way, if the Earth ever did get destroyed, we would have help from aliens to help rebuild the Earth.

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Select one team game or game idea in your knowledge community that you feel will do an effective job teaching players about civic ideals. List the selected team's school, name and game title. Describe specifically what the game aims to teach and why its design plan or game demo succeeds in achieving this aim. Please write a minimum of 4 sentences.
Elkins High School, Game Design Team, and Jumping for President. It will teach you facts. It explains the purpose well. It will explain facts about the government and country.

Adding Interaction

Do you like working in flash? Why or why not?
Write about your game topic.
Sometimes it is fun, while other times it is not, because it can be hard to work in flash. The main topic of the game is learning about the Declaration of Independence, the presidents, the Bill of Rights, and the branches of government.

Adding Sound

It gives entertainment. The Legend of Zelda using sword movements.

Adding Animation

Seeing how well you did after it is finished. I admire the work done because I know it is hard to do, but people do it.

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So that people can understand, we added navigation to our game. We worked on this together. It has something to do with the game.

Adding Navigation

Write about this topic? Was it hard? Fun? Both?
Find a video online to embed on your blog dealing with your game topic. Why did you choose this video?
This wasn't easy. It was hard to remember all the different stuff to make it work. It wasn't that fun.


I choose the video cause it has something to do with one of our game topics, and because it has Morgan Freeman in it.

Drawing in Flash

The subject of the game is mainly different facts about the government. I have not learned anything new. There has not been any interesting things. There has not been any on the same topic.

Paper prototyping

I like the idea for the game we have. I like that it was easy to make. Their isn't anything that I didn't like about it.

Imagining Your Game

Getting finished with it. Just to get it out of the way.

Mini Game

It was hard. Finally finishing it. Having to figure out what goes where. Not usually. Zelda, they are entertaining.

How well do you believe the average American citizen understands US Ideals and how they are applied in government? Why does it matter?
I have a feeling that most Americans don't know that much about the ideas. To some people it matters, but to most people, like me, it doesn't matter. The people that it does matter to probably matters because they wanna learn about our government.

Planning Your Game Blog

Work on the entire game together. I don't know if I am good at this job yet. No. Doing it right without any difficultly. My teacher.

A suggestion for our game was to change the main idea of the game. A change that we are gonna make is to not make it all about the presidents. Instead, it is going to be finding correct information about the government.

My name is Blade Poling. I am in the team called Elkins Dudes. My teams game is about learning facts about the presidents. It is under the ideals knowledge framework because it has origins/history of key ideas and values. And because it has government systems. Here is a link to my page team page http://myglife.org/usa/wv/rtcwiki/index.php/Team:Elkins_Dudes

Game Strategy is getting facts right before you can go to the next level. There is all 44 presidents. The game is set in the future. It is 2012, and the Earth is destroyed. Facts about the president are blown to the seven remaining planets. An alien race discovers that Earth has been destroyed, and they send their best warrior to find all the facts. Once you find all the facts on one planet, a portion of the Earth is restored.

One of the ideas that I chose was the three branches of government. An idea that could go along with that game would be going through time and learning about them when they were first made. Another idea was voting. An idea for that could be learning how to chose who to vote for, and for what reasons.

Choosing a Topic

I chose those three blogs because they were the first ones I found, and they could help with my topic because they are in the top list for environmental blogs. They seem to have the most concern for the environment. They are talking about global warming and what people can do to stop it.

Playing to Learn

I liked Darfur is Dying because it is an entertaining game. It is a good game that keeps you interested. There wasn't any game that I didn't like, they were all good.

Participation Guidelines

I don't think that anything needs to be added to the list. The two that I think are most important are personal information and Original Work. Personal Information is important because you don't want anyone to know who you are that shouldn't. And Original Work is important because you will feel good about yourself if you create a good game.

Game Design

I hope to create a really good game in this course. I would like to make an action game that people would like to play. I'm excited about making the game, and scared about screwing up.

I liked doing the final website website because I could use the skills I learned in this class. I learned how to make links, put images on the webpage, and I learned how to make a table. You would need the information from this class if you get a job in designing webpages, or you could teach someone else how to use the stuff you learned.

I didn't do much over break. I went sledding a couple times. I didn't get any toys for Christmas. I got a new game, a book, a necklace, a couple shirts, and a stuffed animal.