Health Game

Health Game

The goal of this game is to educate players as to the fun and interesting facts about the fruits and vegetables they eat daily.

Game Pieces:

The game comes with a game board, 4 game pieces, crop cards, pair of dice, points recording sheet.

Rules

•  2 to 4 players
• player is allowed to pick one card
• the more you collect cards the more points you gain
• every player must make three complete rounds around the board
• players can challenge the other players by asking important facts about the crops they have collected
• If they are answered correctly, proceed with the game, but if not, the player has to give away the cards to the other player
• If a player has finished all three rounds and everyone is still not finished then he/she can still go around the board and collect more points
• the players with the most points wins the game

Making the Game

Characters:

 

APPLES		PEACHES	LEEKS		CABBAGE
Apples float because 25% of their volume is air. ------------------------------ The largest apple ever picked weighed three pounds, two ounces.		The botanical name for a peach is: Prunus persica ------------------------------ The peach originated in China, where it is the symbol of long life, and one of the most ancient domesticated fruits in China.	Leeks are one of the easiest plants to grow in your home garden. ----------------------------- In America, Leeks are commonly found in most areas of Texas throughout the year, but especially in late spring and during the winter.		Cabbage is considered Russia’s national food. Russians eat about seven times as much cabbage as the average North American. ------------------------------ There is a legend told to children that babies come from Cabbage Patches.
ASPARAGUS	KALE		STRAWBERRY	BLUEBERRY
Asparagus is a member of the Lily family. ------------------------------ Asparagus spears grow from a crown that is planted about a foot deep in sandy soils.	Kale was assumed to originate in Greece, with early historic records on the Romans calling it Sabelline Cabbage. ------------------------------ Cabbage like kale smell bad because of sulfur and mustard compounds in the plant released from cooking.		Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. ------------------------------ The average strawberry has 200 seeds.	Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color. ------------------------------ July is national blueberry month because that is the peak of the harvest season.
BLACKBERRY	GARLIC		PUMPKIN	CANTALOUPE
The blackberry is an aggregate fruit that is composed of many smaller fruits called drupes. ------------------------------ Blackberries are red and hard when they are immature and turn black and shiny when they ripen.	Approximately 90 percent of the garlic grown in the United States is grown in California. ------------------------------ Garlic, along with onions and chives, is a member of the lily family.		“Pumpkin” first appeared in the 17th century when the Cinderella fairy tale was written. ------------------------------ Pumpkin seeds help avoid prostate cancer in men.	1/2 cantaloupe contains 100% of recommended daily vitamins A and C, plus lots of potassium ------------------------------ It has only 60 calories per cup

CHAIYYA CHAIYYA

CHAIYYA CHAIYYA PARTY GAME

Made by: Game Dev Girls + 1 

 Game Necessities  

-Spinner

-Bollywood CD (should have 18 different Bollywood songs)

-CD player/computer 

 

It's that simple 

 

Rules

 Remember: green means easy, yellow means medium, and red means hard

 

Step 1: Divide yourselves into two groups

Step 2: Decide which group will be the judges and dancers

Step 3: The dancing group spins the spinner. Whatever colour the spinner lands on, that is the song category that must be played. The group must now look at the video and try to imitate the dance steps.

Step 4:Use the spinner to determine which difficulty to choose from. Green is easy, yellow is medium, and red is hard.  Choose a song from the difficulty level and imitate the dance. Everybody in the group has to participate.  At the end of the performance, the judges now have to disqualify the worst dancer.

Step 5:  Once the judges have eliminated a dancer, you switch. Now the judges become dancers and the dancers become judges. Follow step 3 again.

 

Winning the Game

Whoever is left standing after everyone has been eliminated wins the game. 

What if:

The same songs are chosen?

Answer: Songs in the same difficulty cannot be chosen again until the whole difficulty has been completed once.

More than two people are fairly good dancers?

Answer:  Do not eliminate them. Continue the game as normal.

There are too many people playing or vice versa?

Answer: There is a minimum of 4 different players or groups.  This allows for no stalemates in judging as the performing group cannot give a pass or not.  

Types of Play

There are two modes you can choose from.  Elimination or Point based rounds.  Both modes still use the same judging system however in Elimination if you fail two rounds you are eliminated, however you will still judge.  The point based system gives your group one point per pass on a round.   Decide how many rounds everybody wants to play. They can choose 3, 7 or 10 rounds.  The group with the most points win.

The winning group gets to single out a person to do a dance of their request.

 Creating the Game

We made the spinner out of cardboard and just cut it into a circle and coloured it the colours green, red, and yellow. The actual spinner was an actual  Bollywood dancer. It was an excellent idea on my part. 

As for the songs, we researched them on Youtube and other song sites. We made sure and picked the songs that were appropriate, has good dance steps, and fun as well.  

 

 

 It was fun making this game. In addtion, it was educational in terms of learning about the Indian culture. I got to listen and dance to some of the Bollywood songs played on our CD. I just thought it was interesting and fun. We had some good laughs. 

 

Storytelling

Storytelling in Games

INTERVIEW

What is your name? Gender? Race? Age?

Answer: My name is Isabella Penelope Madero. I am female. I am Mexican. I am 26 years old.

Where were you born?

Answer: I was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. My entire family is from there and still lives there.

What year is it now?

Answer: It is 1911 

Do you have a romantic partner? If so whom?

Answer: Yes I do have a romantic partner. My husband's name is Fransisco I Madero.

Who is your best friend and what is he/she like? 

Answer: I do not have a best friend.

What is your economic situation?

Answer: Currently, the Mexican Revolution is in effect. It is led  by my husband Fransisco. He is leading a group of men to go against President Diaz.

Would you steal? How would you feel about lying? Can you be trusted by your friends?

Answer: I will only steal when it is necessary.In general, I will feel bad about lying but, if it is to protect my family then I will do it with no regrets. Yes i can be trusted by people.

What makes you happy? What makes you sad?

Answer: My children make me happy. The situation happening with the politics in my country and the fact that my husband is in a position where President might kill him makes very sad and frightened for his life as well as the men following him.

Are you afraid to die?

Answer:Yes

Do you have any phobias?

 Answer:I am afraid of drowning. I have this fear of water when it is higher than my waist.

Are you quick tempered or patient?

Answer: I am very patient with people.

Remixing

Race Around The World (remix)

What's it about?
Race around the world is basically a simple board game that allows 2 to 4 players in a race around the world. It also tests your knowledge about important facts which occurred in different countries. The blocks on the board represent the areas where you are traveling. Players move by using a dice and whoever gets the end wins a $1 million.

Rules
  Players must go forward at all times unless told to via the red or green cards. When a player lands on a red stop sign he/she must pick up a red card and obey the instructions. When a person lands on a green stop sign, he/she must obey the instructions. If 2 or more players land on the same block the other person has to choose a country in which they must say a fact or something important or unique about the country. If the person cannot answer all the questions asked by the other players, he/she must go back two spaces.

Remix

If a player ends up on the same block as you then both of you have to go back to the beginning. Also, if you roll the dice and you get an double number then you must take up a card no matter what colour it is. If you answer correctly, then you remain. However, if you answer incorrectly then you have to start from the beginning of the game. By these new settings and rules the game has become more of a chance game.

Tic-Tac-Toe Modification

Tic-Tac-NUMBERS

For my next class I have to modify the game Tic-Tac-Toe. 

My New Modification:

I changed the chart from a 3x3 to a 4x4 chart. I changed the chart to make it a better formation for the new rules and additions. I have placed numbers at the end of each row and column. So the 4 rows will have the numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8 at the side of the chart. The columns will have the numbers 8, 7, 6, and 5 at the bottom of the chart. 

Now in the original Tic-Tac-Toe, one player writes X and the other writes O. However, in my modification, the players have the option of writing an X or an O. 

In this case, the Xs and the Os equal a number. X = 2 and O = 1. Players can differentiate by writing their Xs and Os in different colour pen or writing small symbols to show who wrote what.

The goal is to add up the Xs and Os so that it equals to the numbers.Your job is to get the Xs and Os equal to the amount of the row or column you use while trying to block the other player from doing the same.

Whoever gets their Xs/Os to equal to one of the numbers at the bottom or side of the chart wins the game. 

Below shows an example of the game. ( this is me playing with an opponent-brother) We used different colour markers so we will not forget who put what because remember, players can write both Xs and Os.

Remember X=2 O=1

As you can see the opponent has blocked my plan of placing all 4 Xs in row 4 by placing an O.

The opponent is the winner because he has placed another O at the top row making them equal to 5.

My Experience

While playing this game, I realized that it takes more time in terms in making decisions. In the original Tic-Tac-Toe, the players' decision-making was limited to just writing X and O. However, in Tic-Tac-NUMBERS, players have to take more time to ponder upon their next move and actually think about what they are doing. More importantly their addition skills is tested. This game uses tactics and skill. In addition, it is fun and people appreciate the difference in dynamics.