Russ Riegler's Blog (27)

Story ~ Toy ~ Puzzle ~ Game

My Idea for a game is called: Trivia and this will be the culmination of my project for EdTech 532.

Below I have outlined my goal(s) for the learning aspect of this game as well as the idea that the…

Answers:

1) Milk

2) Beer

3) Clinton

4) leather

5) tent

6) Einstein

7)…

 Peasants's Quest

http://www.homestarrunner.com/disk4of12.html

"You are Rather Dashing, a humble peasant living in the peasant kingdom of Peasantry. You return home from a vacation on…

Covert Front a Role Playing Game

http://www.dailyfreegames.com/flash/rpg-games/covert-front.html

In Covert Front you are a top secret agent code-named Kara in an…

The Zelda Game is considered an action-adventure game as it contains both a bit of…

 RIEGLER LEARNING THEORY

PLease respond with your comments on my mix & match (Riegler) learning theory.

Questions to consider:

1) How do you feel about the assumption that: "All mammals learn the same"…

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“Education should be fun and entertaining and not presented as hard labor”.

Professor Albert Einstein

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CAVE is an acronym for Community of Academic Virtual Educators. Within an island space in the virtual world of Second Life, five unique and influential organizations bring their significant resources to bear for teaching and learning. The partners include:

• Boise State University's Department of Educational Technology
• AECT_SL
• iNACOL
• ARVEL SIG
• and the ICT Library.

Perhaps the most exciting element of this…

The Terrametric Analyzer can be used only when anomoly is visible a glowing green ball is visible.  It operates on several simple commands:

"rad"=Analyze Radiation    Type "Rad" into the local-chat to analyze the objects radiation…

Quest debriefing for April 15:

This evening the crew was subjected to a role-play scenario in which Commander Dali offered two note cards to each member of the group, and then asked the crew to break up into their respective groups and depart to their crew’s quarters.  Each section was then given an assignment and the recipient of the assignment was a member of the crew with the highest rank of that particular group section. The crew became somewhat…

Hi folks!

Recently my good friends Molly and Nic wanted to have a party for Molly's Rez Day in Second Life, so I pitched in and offered to help Nic plan the festivities.

First thing I needed to do was find a suitable place to hold the party...NO homestead properties can be used as they only will be allowed to have about 20 avatars there.

Estate/Full Region areas will hold up to a hundred or more avatars easily and will work…

The following are a compilation of SLURL's that will take you literally hundres of free items found with Second Life.

Feel free browse the them and have fun!

·         Period costumes or clothing including Western, Roman,…

Great game using a role play format...once had a neighbor in SL whom built an entire virtual city ...he had a lot of fires in his city though and I would hear the sirens go off at all hours of the day & night...finally I showed him how to "confine" his sounds to his parcel only ...hated to bother the ol chap... as he had quite a group of citizens helping him build!

URL to RPG Sim City Game:

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Quest: Comments on Dr. Jane McGonigals’ presentation on Ted: ideas worth spreading

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Feedback…

Wow! 

Great games of challenge and dexterity. I finshed in 165 seconds with 12 total overtakings/max. overtaking combos was at 7 so I've earned 3400 overtaking pts. ~~ Hi-speed points: 700 ~~ time bonus 15500 track score/total score 19600 !

Not bad for a first time out ?

http://www.owensworld.com/games/driving/shut-and-drive

Club One Island is an interactive weight loss community in Second Life.

The sim design is totally awesome and is so very realistic to that which one may see in Real Life.

Services and features are abundant and are geared toward inspiring people to exercise in the Virtual World as well as in the Real world.

Just a few of the  many services that are offered at Club One Island include swimming; weight room; sauna; kids room;…

A Particle Generator was obtained from an alien ship and our Science department was assigned to examine this object thus determining its possible uses and capabilities.

Upon examining the particle generator I’ve found the following adjustments are available, which refine output particles:

There are  16  categories  of adjustments as well as Target and Texture feature…

Shoot'em Ups



A Shoot'em Up game generally includes...



The main goal is for the character, machine, or object to make it through levels.

In most cases, the character is being attacked and gameplay hinges on a limiting foes.

Can rely on “twitch” behaviors; rapid eye movement and reflexes.

 

Strategy sometimes is less important.

Excellent reflex games.

URL:…

Action Games 2 ~~ Platform Games

The player moves through multiple levels, completing them, and gathering objects.

• Educational artifacts, tasks, and contexts can be added to enhance educational value.
• Often require joystick style controls.
• Still based on “twitch” or reflex skills
• Mostly found in arcade and console style games.

Excellent games for the young & old!

Every games requires slightly…