Late Game Reviews

I apologize for the delay, and I present my game reviews from a week ago:

Review 1-Professional
Darfur is Dying
http://www.darfurisdying.com/
* The game teaches you about the troubles Darfurians are going through and how it's like to live in a Darfur village. The designer seems to want to teach potential players about the suffering of those people, through a fun half fast paced action, half strategy sim game.
* It looks nice, that's for sure.
* Pretty good, but moving around the village was a pain.
* Improving the village movement would make this game much more enjoyable.
* Well...I'd love to learn how to do all of it, but specifically, the character selection and the sim thing.

Review 2-User Made
Super Toaster
http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/resources/en/play/Educational/supertoaster
* You're supposed to learn about alternative energy, but all I got was jumping trees, Frogger style street crossing, and the lack of a supposed toaster (save for the game menu)
* The graphics were okay. Can't complain seeing as the user had only limited resources.
* The gameplay was semi-good, but it changed more than once mid game.
* 1.) Keep the same gameplay throughout. Consistency is gold. The constant change was annoying.
2.) What's with the toaster? Was it even present in the game?
* Not much specifically. I guess the movement and object interaction (like how the cars hit the tree caused game over)

This review won't make a whole lot of sense unless you know the outline we were supposed to use for the project. To see the outline, check the globaloria website.

Blog Customization - Blog List

Today we added a blog list. It was relatively easy, and I only hit one "road bump". We've had snow days forever now, so I've got some catching up to do. I'll add my Globaloria critques to my next post (class is almost over, cursed 2 hour delays).

Just Another Day

Alright, so I got nothing important done in my wiki today, but that's because we had a guest speaker. She had some cool stuff to show off, so it wasn't a waste I guess. Hopefully I'll accomplish something worth writing tomorrow.

NEW BLOG HERE!

I just made this blog, and I don't know what to write, so...I'm jus' gonna wing it.

This project seems like it's gonna be pretty cool. I keep screwing up editing my wiki, but I expected some error. The blog, however, is relatively easy.

As for my potential game, I'd like to make...a good one. I don't want to end up as one of those bad examples teachers use to show kids what NOT to do.