Playing to Learn

Yesterday in class we played several games, to see which ones we thought were good games and which ones were not.





The games I enjoyed the most were "StopDisaster"

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html






In this game there are diffrent scenarios you choose from like earthquakes, flash floods, tsumanies, and wild fires. You have diffrent goals in each scenario; like to create evacuation routes for the civilians, and save so many civilians each time.




The second game I liked was "What Would You Do"

http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/aids/explore_1360.html





This game had diffrent characters you could play as, the characters are related in some way; they were either friends or sorta in relationships. The game has different dicisions you can choose from and each one has different concequences either bad or good.


The games were alike in the way that both had decisions that you had to make that decided life or death. You were responciple for what happened. Yet the "Stop Disaster" game was about natural causes and the "What Would You Do" dealt with a persons' choice that could be changed

I really enjoy learning from these games, they are helping me learn a lot.