During October each person in our MPS group we placed into groups, we were asked to pick a piece of paper from a hat, which would tell us what book we would be studying and creating a wiki on my groups was; “The Language of New Media” Lev Manovich (2001) Section 2; The Interface. We were asked to discuss what is meant by the term, Cultural Interface. We had to use the wiki to answer the question; we had to use different ways of presenting the information as a group we decided that we would split up the different parts of the interface. I used Prezi and threads to show and explain the part of the interface I was talking about. Over a number of lectures we had time to create the wiki and also to add comments to other group’s wiki’s.
Once we had met our deadline we were then introduced to our next assignment about creating a game. In our first lecture for the game assignment we were allowed to play with a number of different games, some of the games I played with were; Da Vinci Code the Game, who am I. There were also other games available to play they included; Nintendo Wii, Xbox games, Chest, Ker plunk. Out of all the games who am I had the most people playing it. When playing Da Vinci Code I thought it looked confusing, but once I had read the rules it was easy, once I had played the game a number of times me and my team members joined in play who am I. Playing the games helped us understand and come up with ideas for our own games.
The next few lectures we discussed as a group ‘fun’ and what we think it is and also how games and play are fun in different ways. Once we had a discussion we then split into groups my group members were Phoebe and Megan, we were asked to come up with an idea of a game. The idea that me and Phoebe came up was a lift game, the main part of the game was that users would have to answer a question right to move up levels in the lift, the users goal is to get out on your correct floor by playing the games and answering questions. With two lifts users could compete with other users to try and get to a certain level first. The next lecture we had we user tested our game idea to see if it would work. Once we had user tested our idea we had to create a presentation to present our idea, we then received feedback from other groups, and they gave us ideas to maybe improve the whole game by adding and removing certain items.
When introduced to wiki assignment I was slightly confused, even when I started adding information to the wiki I was unsure if I was doing it right adding the correct information etc. When I was introduced to the game assignment the first thing that came to my head was this will be fun. The only problems were trying to think outside the box to come up with a game that would be unique and different from others. Out of the two assignments I enjoyed the game assignment much more.
http://prezi.com/xomhzqe24taj/the-lift-game/
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