PE and English games

This week in PE and English, we learnt about Kabaddhi and Lacrosse. On Wednesday we played Kabaddhi for the first time after we talked about how to play, and adapted some of the rules. In Kabaddhi, there are two teams on each side of the court. Each team alternates from being Raiders and defenders. The raiders run over to the other side, trying to tag people, and then get back over to their side. But on the way back, the defenders can tackle the Raider so they don't get over and get points. Usually they have one breath to get over and back but we played with a time limit. We also made it so we could only grab and hold the raider instead of tackling them.
Lacrosse was also full contact, but we took that part out. Lacrosse is a game where there are also two teams. Each player has a Lacrosse stick (a stick with a net on the end, for carrying and scooping up.) The aim of the game is to get the ball into the goal, but people can try and attack your stick with theirs to knock the ball out.
Originally, Kabaddi comes from India and Lacrosse is from America. Kabaddi took awhile to get used too because there are so many rules. I enjoyed both games and would play them again.

Palin Game

This week in English and P.E we learnt how to play a new game called Palin. Palin is a game originated from Argentina and Chile and it is a bit like hockey as the players use a ball and sticks to score goals. Traditionally they make their own sticks but we went down to the beach and found some hooked shaped sticks to use. On Wednesday morning, we tried the game out on the outdoor courts. We had to make up a few rules because we weren't very sure on the exact rules as there hasn't been any written down on the internet. A few rules we changed/ made up were the length of the court and the type of stick and ball. Usually, the length of a Palin field is 200m long by 12m wide. We weren't sure of what the size we changed our court to was but we cut off about a quarter of the width of our court.  I thought the game was going to be really boring but it was actually pretty fun apart from the cold whether.

Connections ( virtual and augmented reality) - English

Lately in English we've been trying to make connections between The Hunger Games and Uncanny Valley. These both have virtual and augmented reality in them. The difference between these are with virtual, you are going into the gaming world and augmented, the gaming world is coming to you. For example with virtual reality, you can swim with sharks. With augmented reality, you can watch a shark pop out of your drawings.
Today we were split into groups and worked around three workshops which were, a padlet, writing about what experiences we would like to have while using virtual reality technology. We wrote "With the virtual reality technology we would like to experience roller coasters, underwater swimming, some sort of scary themes and maybe something like a maze." The second question was how will virtual and augmented reality be used in education in the near future, our answer was "We think that virtual and augmented reality will be able to be used in education by being able to explore new places.  We could use these during school, and we could write about what we saw in new and different countries." Our next station was colouring in and after we'd finished drawing, we'd scan it on a phone and the drawing would become augmented. The last station was writing down ideas and answering questions about video games. For example, questions like 'list as many video games as you know' and 'why do people play video games.'

In The Hunger Games, augmented reality was used when the game makers changed day time to night time, when they put in the fire and the dogs came in to try kill off everyone.

In Uncanny Valley, they go into the virtual reality world by putting a nose ring in. They think they're going into a sci-fi game and killing other players characters, but when there's a glitch in the system, one of the players find out they're actually controlling robots, that are fighting in the real world, killing real life people in somewhere like Syria. This short film has a twisted and deep story behind it.

Solo Taxonomy

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1zT7btCbrHfDk7WQCP_aVPXN0oA6qgIYJOgo8lc13Uys/edit

Evaluating Game Platforms

I am evaluating game platforms. The first game trailer we watched was called 'Journey.' The graphics in the video looked really good but the characters looked a bit weird, I thought. The music made it look very exciting and interesting. I'm not sure if playing the actual game, would be as interesting and good as the trailer looked though. 

The second game that we watched was called 'Never Alone.' The graphics in this trailer was also really good. There was a lot of adventure and out there things. Personally I don't think I would play this game, I think it looked quite childish. This game was made in Alaska because a lot of the community didn't have much to do with the youth so they made a game for the students. The students grades were only at 54% and after the game was released, they went up to 91%. I think this is a really good idea that could affect communities, people could make games for their youth and bring more people together. How could this work for our community?

Error Control

What are Parity Cards?
Parity Cards are little cards like in the picture above. In the one above, there were rows of 8 by 8. We had to make sure the black cards and the white cards were even. If they weren't, we flipped them. When we played the game above, if there were an odd amount of black cards, we would flip the card at the bottom so it would be black and there was an even amount of black cards. For the first row there is two black cards, which is even. For the next one there was five blacks cards which was odd, so I flipped the bottom one so then there was six cards (even.) If there was an error in the cards, we could break it down and find the error by going row by row until we came across the mistake.

Services 3

Monday 7th August

Last week we decided our paint colours and started to paint on all four sides. We also figured out a design to put on the sides of the trolley.
This week we need to give our trolley a second and third coat of paint and do the design on one side.