Game Journalism Day 3 - TACKLE

Game Journalism Day 3

Question 1: How many days to do you have to complete the challenge?

SHOW your VIEWERS how TO...do SOMETHING 'useful'

Task 1:

What does it take to make fishing tackle?

screen shots

Make some fishing tackle.

screen shots

Go to an ice fishing hut and fish


screen shot

ice fishing hole

Question 2: What did you do today?

Outline the steps you took to make fishing tackle and to go fishing
Where did you go and how did you survive to complete the task? 
Details are important. Screen shots help too.

Game Journalism Day 2 - SURVIVE

Game Journalism Day 2

Question 1: What is the challenge?

write it out... 
Screen shot: water (potable)

Screen shot 3 SHELTERS: Hunter's Blind or another shelter other than the main cabin

hunter's blind

ice fishing hut

lodge on lake

Screen Shot: corpse

Question 2: What did you do today?

Outline the steps you took to survive.
Where did you go and what did you accomplish? Details are important. Screen shots help too... minimum 2.

Question 3: What is the charcoal for?

Question 4: What survival tip do you have?  (Tips and tricks)

Game Journalism Day 1 -BEGIN

GJ Day 1

As a game journalist you have the task of exploring new games.  Your goal is to inform your audience on your blog. On this day you have heard of a new game and nothing else - so you play it.
Take screenshots - Print screen or FRAPS - always add your URL.

ON your blog:

Title:  Game Journalism Day 1 -BEGIN

Choose: Challenges - Hopeless Rescue

Question 1: What is the challenge?

ScreenShot 1: Show what is in your backpack with a screen shot.

(everyone's is different)

ScreenShot 2: Place your snare and screen shot it

ScreenShot 3: Start the wood stove and screen shot it

Question 2: What did you do today?

Details are important. MIN. 2 Screen shots.

Questions 3: What do the different keys do for you?

Algodoo

Algodoo

http://www.algodoo.com/

http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/

 Algodoo is free

FIRST - Do the Tutorials /2 marks

Crash Course /22

Tools /27

Sketch tool /25

Show me then POST a screen shot showing completion

Rules for handing in the following challenges:

Show your teacher that your solution works.

You get 3 successive tries:

Complete 3 Successfully = 4/4 marks

Fail 1of 3 trial runs =  3 /4 marks

Fail 2of 3 attempts = 2/4 marks

Fail 3 runs and a rebuild will be requested.

* Screen shot the beginning, middle and ending scene.
add your blog address to each

Always leave your scene at the beginning and ready to go.

Create an Algodoo folder in dropbox or Onedrive

Place your solution in DropBox or Onedrive and link it to your blog. 

Choose 5 of the first 9 then 10

 NO THYME, NO HOVERING, NO THRUSTERS

Deliver the Goods FILE  Advanced	Desert Gap FILE	ACID challenge FILE
Landslide FILE Advanced	Bus child to school LINK	Marble Machine LINK
Junkyard Wars LINK	Loch Ness LINK	Save the planet LINK
	#10 Your Own Challenge

 Deliver the Goods

You build a bridge out of boards. I give you a board – clone it. You’re allowed 15 of them.  Start by connecting to the grey blocks on the canyon walls. ONLY use AXLES! The truck must make it complete and completely to the other side. Two boards together may only have 1 axle.

Desert Gap

Build a vehicle in the box. Drive it over the gap. It may only flip once.

Do not change the scene. Only use axle power. Everything you create in the box must cross the gap. NO MAGIC. Your car must look like a QUINCE.

ACID challenge

Build pipes then attach propellers and gears. The acid must flow efficiently from one vessel to the next.  Try to capture lost fluid or add more or else you may run dry. Do not cut holes in the vessels.

 Landslide

Save the town. Only build in the boxes. Do not fixate to the scene. Everyone must survive. If the fall over - even slightly - they have not survived.

Bring the children to school

Must fit inside the box
NO THYME, NO HOVERING, NO THRUSTERS
Only Use: Wood, Steel, Glass and Rubber
Children may not break bones

Children may only be stuck to their seats using 1 fixate on their orange body.
Driver Must Be included, and has to hold onto a steering wheel

Marble Machine

Build a machine to move the marbles. The parts you add - the ball must touch.

Junkyard Wars

Build vehicle from the junk pile.  Drive it to the end.

Your vehicle looks like a BMW 507

  

Loch Ness

Build a paddle wheel boat and cross the Loch. No jets.

Save the planet

   

You have to capture it, push its off collision course or send it back into orbit.

Rules:

-build inside the red line

-No Killers

-No Immortal

-No attraction

-No attaching to background in any way

-No attaching to earth in anyway

-No stealing ideas

-No editing the scene

-No gravity binding or anything to do with gravity.

-No scripting

-No collision G (it’s used to scene)

If you destroy Earth - 0

If you destroy Moon– 2/4

If you catch the Moon - 3/4

Send the moon back into a stable orbit - 4/4

#10 Your Own Challenge

  

Solve your Challenge. Write the rules. Develop the Template

Screenshot the template – screenshot the solution

Post the template and solution links from your dropbox

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