Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Exercise #3



10 Choose a game. Play it. Prepare to talk about it for a minute.

(Assessment for speaking)

Video Game Review Worksheet

Fill in this form, photograph it and upload it to your e-portfolio

Name:  Ibrahim Fouad AL Hamam         
Section _CPC_
Name of Game: Sweatshop
Date of Release: July 17, 2011
 Age Rating: 12 and above   
 Publisher: Litteloud

1- What is the objective of this game?
The purpose of the game that you have to keep your company to earn benefits and to give your employee’s things to give them energy so they won’t die. It’s like real life

2- What genre does this game fall under?
Its one of the strategy games

3- How hard is this game? it easy to learn how to play? The game is hard in a way that u have to focus how to keep up in it. It’s easy but u have to think what to do exactly like for example how to server the water to the areas were the employee are tired.

4- Does it remain challenging as you advance?
Yes it does. Because every level it gets harder and challenging.

5- What is your overall opinion of the game?  Why?
Its amazing because it makes you to think how to b fast of taking the steps and how to manage the place with no mistakes.

6- Evaluate the graphics. The graphics is not bas for 2D game. Its acceptable.

7- Evaluate the sound. The music is bad because it distract the thinking  when u try to do the moves and steps.

8- Will this game hold up to repeated replaying?  Why / why not?
In my opinion yes because it show how people in the factories how hard they work to make living for them and their families. it also show how smart you are to finish the levels because it gets harder and harder so you have to use your mind and make some strategies with specific time.

9- How does this game compare to other games in the same genre?
This game is good and better than rest because it gives an image about the reality life of hard workers.

10- Give an overall rating for this game and explain why.
To me this game is rated 9 out of 10

Exercise #2




1.   Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
(Practice for note taking)


What do you think about Jane McGonigal’s vision?
Watch the video – take notes,
Photograph your notes and upload them to your e-portfolio


( Jane McGonigal visions for how games of all categories can to make the world a better place. McGonigal, believes that we need to make our reality work more like a game and how games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds.



  • ·     It was spent 5.93 million years playing world warcraft
  • ·     5.93 million years ago, the first human ancestors stood up
  • ·     10,000 hours gaming by age 21
  • ·     There are 500 million global games
  • ·     World warcraft the game was played since 1994

·     Malcolm Gladwell, is the remarkable best-selling writer whose ideas are transforming the world. According to Gladwell’s , people who are excellent at something have invested roughly 10,000 hours in developing the skill by the time they are 21. Since the eighties, 21-year-olds have on average spent 10,000 hours playing video games. Consequently, numerous people are vivid at the skills taught by video games. )