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- Speed cleaning:<\/strong> A timed mini-game challenge where the player cleans up their home. It\u2019s a slightly different challenge with every game, and the cleanliness of the home at the end of the game translates into the amount of health available for the next mini-game. (I like to have all the chores done before I start my workday, which means I speed-clean for about 10 minutes every morning. I find that the cleaner my apartment is, the better I feel about starting my day, which then translates into my ability to focus at work.)<\/li>\n
- Taking care of houseplants:<\/strong> A slower-paced but continuous game where the player maintains the health bars of numerous houseplants. This includes activities like watering, dusting, rotating, and repotting. If the player is not attentive enough, it will be reflected in the health bars for the plants, and the plants will visually droop and turn yellow.<\/li>\n
- Enrolling in courses:<\/strong> A speed game where the player must attempt to, as fast as possible, refresh the course registration page at a certain time and enrol in courses with limited spaces. If the player fails at enrolling in a course, they can add themselves to the waitlist and hope that a spot becomes available if another player exits the course. This incredibly nerve-racking game is available twice a year. The next round happens on February 13, 2023.<\/li>\n
- Making money:<\/strong> A game where the player gains currency by completing quests as part of a guild. The quests are typically cooperative play. If the player is kicked out of a guild, they must find another guild to continue gaining currency. The currency is used to acquire items such as food, clothes, and a home, all of which are critical to the wellbeing of the player\u2019s character. Additional currency may be used to acquire other inventory and power-ups; however, currency does not allow the player to acquire additional lives. The player can also use the currency to acquire entrance to the \u2018education\u2019 quest; upon completion of the ‘education’ quest, the player’s knowledge stats increases, which allows the player to take on more challenging quests at their guild and increase the amount of currency they acquire through completing these quests.<\/li>\n
- Taking care of myself:<\/strong> A Tamagotchi-like\u2013but much more complex\u2013game where the player has to monitor their character\u2019s wellbeing bars and take action as needed. These bars include hydration, hunger level, stress level, physical health, and quality and quantity of rest. If the player fails to address an issue with one of the bars, it negatively impacts all of the other bars, as well as the available resources to play all of the other games above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Reflection\/thought for my group project:<\/strong> These activities seem more fun to me as games than they actually are in real life. I wonder if it is because the idea of games implies that the game can be reset if the player is failing, and the player could try again with the knowledge and skills they built in their last round. This makes me think about how we can leverage “failure states” in our group project to enhance learning (Powers & Moore, 2021, p. 615). (This exercise also reminded me of the \/r\/outside<\/a> subreddit.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n2.3: Objectives<\/h5>\n
List five games, and in one sentence per game, describe the objective in each game. (Fullerton, 2019, p. 34)<\/small><\/p>\n
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- Gran Turismo 7:<\/strong> Win driving races to earn increasingly higher-performing cars<\/li>\n
- Awesomenauts:<\/strong> Get to the enemy team\u2019s base by destroying their defenses, while protecting your own team\u2019s defenses and base from the enemy team<\/li>\n
- XCOM:<\/strong> Defend earth from alien invasions by managing the defense organization and commanding its soldiers in combat<\/li>\n
- Overcooked:<\/strong> Prepare food ordered by customers, either by working collaboratively with other players or controlling two characters at the same time<\/li>\n
- Pokemon Yellow:<\/strong> Catch Pokemon and use them in battle to earn badges and become the best Pokemon trainer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Reflection\/thought for my group project:<\/strong> As I look at these objectives, I see that these games, as with many other games, focus on solving problems, building skills, and improving as the player progresses. How might we design for progression in our group project, ensuring the progression is “challenging … but achievable … to the players” (Fullerton, 2019, p. 68)? How will this be reflected in the objective of our game?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n2.8: Story<\/h5>\n
Have any stories within a game ever gripped you, moved you emotionally, or sparked your imagination? If so, why? If not, why not? (Fullerton, 2019, p. 46)<\/small><\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n(Meta Quest, n.d.)<\/p>\n
The plot of Elixir<\/a>, perfectly supported by its interactions, stuck with me. Elixir is a virtual reality (VR) hand tracking game, which means the player interacts with the game using the movement of their hands. In Elixir, the player is a human who is starting a role as the apprentice of a sorceress, and the sorceress guides the player in using magic with their hands.<\/p>\n
Elixir was my first hand tracking game. I found the hand tracking to be seamless (i.e., not buggy, no lagging), which enabled a fully immersive experience where I could focus on the story.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n
(Vizm, 2021)<\/p>\n
I was beyond fascinated when I learned to use fire and electricity with my hands, and shocked when my fingers briefly turned into tentacles\u2013it all felt so real. After my first time playing, I recall being momentarily confused when I remembered I couldn’t do magic with my hands in real life. It made me think of Bandura’s concept of self-efficacy as “contributors to performance” and how VR can be used in training to “buil[d] muscle memory” (Bandura, 2012; Farrell, 2018, p. 26). In my mind, I had learned to do magic.<\/p>\n
Reflection\/thought for my group project:<\/strong> How can we “integrat[e] [our story] with play … [to] create powerful emotional results” and increase immersion (Fullerton, 2019, p. 46), so that our players can focus on the story and the learning?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n3.3: Interaction patterns<\/h5>\n
For each of the interaction patterns, create a list of your favorite games in each pattern. If you can\u2019t think of any games in a particular pattern, research games in that area and play several of them. (Fullerton, 2019, p. 64)<\/small><\/p>\n
Note: If a game has modes in multiple patterns, I listed it under my favourite mode.<\/p>\n
Single player versus game<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/Grand_Theft_Auto_V-150x150.png\")
\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/Beat_Saber_logo-150x150.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/XCOM_Enemy_Unknown_Game_Cover-150x150.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/pokemon_yellow_main_169-150x150.jpg\")
\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Gran Turismo 7, 2023; Grand Theft Auto V, 2023; Beat Saber, 2023; Meta Quest, n.d.; XCOM: Enemy Unknown, 2023; RollerCoaster Tycoon (video game), 2023; Pokemon, n.d.)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): Gran Turismo 7<\/a>, Grand Theft Auto V<\/a>, Beat Saber<\/a>, Elixir<\/a>, XCOM<\/a>, RollerCoaster Tycoon<\/a>, Pokemon Yellow<\/a><\/p>\n
Multiple individual players versus game<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Kahoot, 2023)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): Kahoot!<\/a><\/p>\n
Player versus player<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Awesomenauts, 2023; Jackbox Games, n.d.)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): Awesomenauts<\/a>, Quiplash 2<\/a><\/p>\n
Unilateral competition<\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Bomberman Party Edition, 2022)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): (N\/A)<\/p>\n
Multilateral competition<\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Fall Guys, 2023)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): Fall Guys<\/a><\/p>\n
Cooperative play<\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/Overcooked_cover_art-150x150.jpg\")
\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jocelync\/files\/2023\/02\/Streets_of_Rage_2-150x150.jpg\")
\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(LittleBigPlanet 3, 2023; Overcooked, 2023; Streets of Rage 2, 2023)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): LittleBigPlanet 3<\/a>, Overcooked<\/a>, Streets of Rage 2<\/a><\/p>\n
Team competition<\/h6>\n
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\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n(Mattel, n.d.)<\/p>\n
Link(s) to game page(s): Pictionary<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Reflection\/thought for my group project:<\/strong> It looks like I gravitate towards \u2018single player versus game\u2019 games, followed by \u2018cooperative play\u2019 games. How might this influence my perception of games, and how can I be more mindful of this perception as I approach the design of our group project? How will we design our game to support the greater “distributed teaching and learning systems” (Gee & Gee, 2017, p. 1), especially considering the interactions of players within and outside of our serious game? In other words, how will we intentionally define the context of our game?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n3.9: Resource Types<\/h5>\n
For each of the resource types just described, create a list of your favorite games that use resources of that type. If you can\u2019t think of any games that use a particular type of resource, research games that do and play several of them.\u00a0(Fullerton, 2019, p. 85)<\/small><\/p>\n
- Awesomenauts:<\/strong> Get to the enemy team\u2019s base by destroying their defenses, while protecting your own team\u2019s defenses and base from the enemy team<\/li>\n
- Gran Turismo 7:<\/strong> Win driving races to earn increasingly higher-performing cars<\/li>\n
- Taking care of houseplants:<\/strong> A slower-paced but continuous game where the player maintains the health bars of numerous houseplants. This includes activities like watering, dusting, rotating, and repotting. If the player is not attentive enough, it will be reflected in the health bars for the plants, and the plants will visually droop and turn yellow.<\/li>\n