Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Swiss School
Notes on Sustainability Management School:
-It is located in the city of Gland, Switzerland.
-It focuses on sustainability in business.
-First of its kind in Europe.
-Teaches the fundamentals in sustainability, which allows you to enter industry, marketing, finance, etc.
- Only business school in Europe that provides a bachelors and masters in business administration and sustainability management.
- Living in Switzerland is decent as there are many activities to do there and it's safe as well.
Notes on Sustainable Consumption & Production: A Greener World:
-The planets' condition is deteriorating.
-Transport, buildings, food and drinks account for 80% of environmental impact, which includes CO2 emissions and waste.
-It can be measured by your ecological footprint calculation.
-It measure the amount of surface area needed to store our waste.
-If we don't make changes to our consumption/production habits now, by 2050 we'll need more than twice the earths surface area to absorb our waste and the CO2 it produces.
- Industry is one of the main things that can change it.
-The people have a choice whether they can get products that are ecologically better, and since they do the industry has to keep producing those products otherwise if they stop all of the progress will be lost.
- This progress and gain though, will be canceled out by an increase in consumption.
- The labels on the products need to be understandable to the consumers, thus, in Europe, they have their eco-label to show the citizen they have made a good purchase.
Notes on An Inconvenient Truth:
- It focuses on global warming due to humans and their consumption habits.
- The last 5 hottest years have occurred in the past 14 years.
-The warmer temperature has been causing bigger storms.
- If the glaciers melt, the average sea level will rise by 20 feet and flood Florida, India, Shanghai, and Manhattan.
Notes on Flight Moffett to Phoenix: Best of
- 2 pilots are flying in 2 different planes across America, in a one-seater plane
- The planes are solar-powered, there is no fuel on board.
- All of the technology on the plane can be used on the ground, the companies who made them aren't focused on aviation
- They are doing this flight with the objective of teaching others that they can be more sustainable with materials anyone can buy, and have it be very effective.
-The plane is relatively slow, it flies at 42 km/h
Notes on Arizona University: Graduation Ceremony
During the Arizona State University graduation, Pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard came to congratulate the students.
-They plan on making another solar plane which they hope to fly in 2015
-They have been working on the project since 10 years ago
- A major part on the second plane exploded and caused many problems, but also created opportunities.
How we can apply sustainable consumption in Bogotá:
You can apply sustainable consumption in Bogotá by creating less waste that comes from the product. We use a lot of plastic and other packaging materials that deteriorate the planet because it's difficult to recycle and it never breaks down into natural components. We could use less unnecessary packaging materials, and if that's not possible, we can find greener materials. We could also make the products last longer and allow you to get more use out of them before you have to discard them.
-It is located in the city of Gland, Switzerland.
-It focuses on sustainability in business.
-First of its kind in Europe.
-Teaches the fundamentals in sustainability, which allows you to enter industry, marketing, finance, etc.
- Only business school in Europe that provides a bachelors and masters in business administration and sustainability management.
- Living in Switzerland is decent as there are many activities to do there and it's safe as well.
Notes on Sustainable Consumption & Production: A Greener World:
-The planets' condition is deteriorating.
-Transport, buildings, food and drinks account for 80% of environmental impact, which includes CO2 emissions and waste.
-It can be measured by your ecological footprint calculation.
-It measure the amount of surface area needed to store our waste.
-If we don't make changes to our consumption/production habits now, by 2050 we'll need more than twice the earths surface area to absorb our waste and the CO2 it produces.
- Industry is one of the main things that can change it.
-The people have a choice whether they can get products that are ecologically better, and since they do the industry has to keep producing those products otherwise if they stop all of the progress will be lost.
- This progress and gain though, will be canceled out by an increase in consumption.
- The labels on the products need to be understandable to the consumers, thus, in Europe, they have their eco-label to show the citizen they have made a good purchase.
Notes on An Inconvenient Truth:
- It focuses on global warming due to humans and their consumption habits.
- The last 5 hottest years have occurred in the past 14 years.
-The warmer temperature has been causing bigger storms.
- If the glaciers melt, the average sea level will rise by 20 feet and flood Florida, India, Shanghai, and Manhattan.
Notes on Flight Moffett to Phoenix: Best of
- 2 pilots are flying in 2 different planes across America, in a one-seater plane
- The planes are solar-powered, there is no fuel on board.
- All of the technology on the plane can be used on the ground, the companies who made them aren't focused on aviation
- They are doing this flight with the objective of teaching others that they can be more sustainable with materials anyone can buy, and have it be very effective.
-The plane is relatively slow, it flies at 42 km/h
Notes on Arizona University: Graduation Ceremony
During the Arizona State University graduation, Pilots Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard came to congratulate the students.
-They plan on making another solar plane which they hope to fly in 2015
-They have been working on the project since 10 years ago
- A major part on the second plane exploded and caused many problems, but also created opportunities.
How we can apply sustainable consumption in Bogotá:
You can apply sustainable consumption in Bogotá by creating less waste that comes from the product. We use a lot of plastic and other packaging materials that deteriorate the planet because it's difficult to recycle and it never breaks down into natural components. We could use less unnecessary packaging materials, and if that's not possible, we can find greener materials. We could also make the products last longer and allow you to get more use out of them before you have to discard them.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Growing up Online
15 things that didn't surprise me:
1. That parents and teachers don't know about what goes online mostly.
2. That a dad could get his son's attention easier by emailing him. (I usually do that with my mom)
3. That people don't read full books anymore, that they only use sparknotes to read summaries as they don't have as much time to.
4. That people stay on the computer all day until their parents tell them to get off, because I do that s sometimes too.
5. People rant and hash out their conflicts online, because online you have more courage to and you don't have to talk to their face.
6. That people have different, exaggerated personalities online.
7. That cyber-bullying has and still takes place in public.
8. That Jessica's parents didn't trust her online anymore and made her delete her profile.
9. That there are pro-ana websites and forums that promote anorexia.
10. That the internet has been the greatest generation gap since the rock 'n roll era.
11. Cyber-bullying is more common now.
12. That after Jessica had to close down her account, a day later she made it again.
13. That the internet pulls you away from your family.
14. That when you cyberbully, you can make up rumors and they can spread quickly and be more believable.
15. That you can live with any kind of mental illness and have your parents not know about it at all.
15 things that did surprise me:
1. That people bring their entire desktops to other's houses to have "parties" and play games. I couldn't imagine having to carry the tower and monitor and everything else just to play at someones house for a night.
2. That people can have relationships online with someone they know in real life, but when they see them in person they only act like friends. That just goes to show that you can be a lot more outgoing online.
3. Jessica's mother made her delete all the erotic photos of her while she watched. That's a really harsh punishment and really humiliating as well. I would have just refused,
4. The mothers are surprisingly nosy and hover more than anyone else I've ever seen.
5. That there is a computer crime unit in the police department.
6. The mother wants their kids passwords to things. Too paranoid of a mother in my opinion.
7. That some teenagers are unwilling to use their home computers just to avoid their parents invading their private life and instead use a friends computers.
8. Most kids know how to avoid predators online, and that they just want to talk to their friends.
9. Online anorexics call anorexia "ana" apparently due to respect some goddess named Ana
10. You can tell more things online to strangers, and it's easier to, than to tell your parents.
11. That there were so many drunk teens in Madison Square garden at the rock concert, that 3 hospitals had to close down due to so many intoxicated people.
12. That 2 people can talk online and plot/plan about suicide.
13. That cyber-bullying can cause suicide. In my opinion, cyber-bullying
14. Autumn Edows went back online.
15. Her father supports her modeling and online profiles.
15 things that have changed since 2008:
1. Myspace isn't used anymore, Facebook is newer and more used.
2. Club penguin isn't used as widely anymore.
3. More people have smartphones now and not normal cellular phones.
4. The media doesn't only talk about predators and pedophiles anymore.
5. MSN still existed
6. Email chats were more commonly used.
7. Smart boards were more used as well. ( I think that they should still be used because they seem easier to.)
8. The technology in general wasn't as modern as it is today, obviously.
9. Youtube wasn't owned by Google back then.
10. Youtube was still in prgres
1. That parents and teachers don't know about what goes online mostly.
2. That a dad could get his son's attention easier by emailing him. (I usually do that with my mom)
3. That people don't read full books anymore, that they only use sparknotes to read summaries as they don't have as much time to.
4. That people stay on the computer all day until their parents tell them to get off, because I do that s sometimes too.
5. People rant and hash out their conflicts online, because online you have more courage to and you don't have to talk to their face.
6. That people have different, exaggerated personalities online.
7. That cyber-bullying has and still takes place in public.
8. That Jessica's parents didn't trust her online anymore and made her delete her profile.
9. That there are pro-ana websites and forums that promote anorexia.
10. That the internet has been the greatest generation gap since the rock 'n roll era.
11. Cyber-bullying is more common now.
12. That after Jessica had to close down her account, a day later she made it again.
13. That the internet pulls you away from your family.
14. That when you cyberbully, you can make up rumors and they can spread quickly and be more believable.
15. That you can live with any kind of mental illness and have your parents not know about it at all.
15 things that did surprise me:
1. That people bring their entire desktops to other's houses to have "parties" and play games. I couldn't imagine having to carry the tower and monitor and everything else just to play at someones house for a night.
2. That people can have relationships online with someone they know in real life, but when they see them in person they only act like friends. That just goes to show that you can be a lot more outgoing online.
3. Jessica's mother made her delete all the erotic photos of her while she watched. That's a really harsh punishment and really humiliating as well. I would have just refused,
4. The mothers are surprisingly nosy and hover more than anyone else I've ever seen.
5. That there is a computer crime unit in the police department.
6. The mother wants their kids passwords to things. Too paranoid of a mother in my opinion.
7. That some teenagers are unwilling to use their home computers just to avoid their parents invading their private life and instead use a friends computers.
8. Most kids know how to avoid predators online, and that they just want to talk to their friends.
9. Online anorexics call anorexia "ana" apparently due to respect some goddess named Ana
10. You can tell more things online to strangers, and it's easier to, than to tell your parents.
11. That there were so many drunk teens in Madison Square garden at the rock concert, that 3 hospitals had to close down due to so many intoxicated people.
12. That 2 people can talk online and plot/plan about suicide.
13. That cyber-bullying can cause suicide. In my opinion, cyber-bullying
14. Autumn Edows went back online.
15. Her father supports her modeling and online profiles.
15 things that have changed since 2008:
1. Myspace isn't used anymore, Facebook is newer and more used.
2. Club penguin isn't used as widely anymore.
3. More people have smartphones now and not normal cellular phones.
4. The media doesn't only talk about predators and pedophiles anymore.
5. MSN still existed
6. Email chats were more commonly used.
7. Smart boards were more used as well. ( I think that they should still be used because they seem easier to.)
8. The technology in general wasn't as modern as it is today, obviously.
9. Youtube wasn't owned by Google back then.
10. Youtube was still in prgres
Friday, May 10, 2013
GAFE
Gmail 101
Gmail is Google's free emailing website. When you make a Gmail, you make a universal Google account as well and are given access to it's other programs (Blogger, YouTube, etc.). When you join and make a Gmail account, you're given different folders and options on the left sidebar. There, you can find all of your received emails, sent emails, Google+ circles, chat, and a couple of other areas, such as folders for your received emails (junk, trash, starred, important), and sent emails too (drafts). You can switch from the Gmail area to Contacts or Tasks from the left as well.On the right side, you can change your settings for your entire Google account, for example, the spacing of the words on your page, your profile picture, and other general settings which I will go over later. You may also change your theme, which is the background for you email, to personalize it further. You can also send carbon copies, so it's sending to more than one person, or blind carbon copies, in which it sends to more than one person but the people you list in Bcc don't get listed in the sent box, which the person you originally sent it to will receive.
The Trash and Spam folder are really convenient to use. When you move an email to Trash or Spam, it automatically gets deleted after 30 days. When you write a contact into the spam contacts, everything that user sends you is automatically moved to spam, every time.
Archiving is also very helpful. When you archive an email, you are removing it from your inbox folder, which helps keep it organized, and then moving it to the All Mail folder, so you don't have to lose it by deleting it permanently, but you still have it in your email.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Google Day #1
3 goals for this day are:
-To figure out what specific kind of art career I would like to have,
-To find at least one college that offers a class (possible as a major), and
-To find out what the requirements to enter the college and take the class are.
Useful links:
http://www.n8w.com/wp/552 - Although it doesn't provide a technical sense of how to major in an art career or offer schools to go to, this link gives you interesting information about how to be original in your illustrations and how to be more unique than others.
http://www.theartcareerproject.com/art-as-a-career/#58
http://www.theartcareerproject.com/illustration/#online - These two links (in the same domain, they're just different pages) are extremely helpful because they let you know what the requirements for each class are, and it gives you a list of schools in which you can look further into.
http://www.artinstitutes.edu/denver/ - This is a school I'm considering going to, as it's one of the few art schools in Colorado and I'm going to live there until I do get the chance to go to college. They have all the specific information that I need to decide on a career.
Information:
Some information I learned about in this research time is that to enter the Art Institute of Colorado, you need a basic portfolio of your best works and a high school diploma or GED. There are many pros to this college (i.e. It's located close to where I'm going to live, it has the classes which I'm interested in, and it has a pretty high employment rate after graduation). However, it's very expensive to attend. Another school which has the advantages of being close and having art courses is the Metropolitan State University of Denver. While the art classes alone at AIC are around $80,000, All tuitions for Metro are around $2,500. Ill have to consider which school to go to, but due to the price of AIC, I'll probably go to Metro.
Goals for next class:
Learn the details of each school and look into another one possibly.
-To figure out what specific kind of art career I would like to have,
-To find at least one college that offers a class (possible as a major), and
-To find out what the requirements to enter the college and take the class are.
Useful links:
http://www.n8w.com/wp/552 - Although it doesn't provide a technical sense of how to major in an art career or offer schools to go to, this link gives you interesting information about how to be original in your illustrations and how to be more unique than others.
http://www.theartcareerproject.com/art-as-a-career/#58
http://www.theartcareerproject.com/illustration/#online - These two links (in the same domain, they're just different pages) are extremely helpful because they let you know what the requirements for each class are, and it gives you a list of schools in which you can look further into.
http://www.artinstitutes.edu/denver/ - This is a school I'm considering going to, as it's one of the few art schools in Colorado and I'm going to live there until I do get the chance to go to college. They have all the specific information that I need to decide on a career.
Information:
Some information I learned about in this research time is that to enter the Art Institute of Colorado, you need a basic portfolio of your best works and a high school diploma or GED. There are many pros to this college (i.e. It's located close to where I'm going to live, it has the classes which I'm interested in, and it has a pretty high employment rate after graduation). However, it's very expensive to attend. Another school which has the advantages of being close and having art courses is the Metropolitan State University of Denver. While the art classes alone at AIC are around $80,000, All tuitions for Metro are around $2,500. Ill have to consider which school to go to, but due to the price of AIC, I'll probably go to Metro.
Goals for next class:
Learn the details of each school and look into another one possibly.
Monday, April 1, 2013
Bitcoins
What I know about Bitcoins:
-They're an online currency (and a new one I think)
-Not much else
What I want to know about Bitcoins:
- How exactly does it work?
-Why was it invented if there's already paypal?
-How many people use it?
-Why would you store money in a Bitcoin wallet and not in a bank?
Useful links:
http://bitcoin.org/en/you-need-to-know
http://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
http://coinmill.com/BTC_USD.html
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ
Important information:
- Bitcoins is a relatively new currency, created in 2009 by someone with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
- One bitcoin is worth about $95.45 USD, but it changes very frequently.
- The total value of all the Bitcoins that exist now is about 1 billion dollars.
- Bitcoins can be bought, via paypal (even though thats for physical bitcoins normally), by bank account, and by other physical bank/credit sources.
- Since bitcoins are relatively new, they're also being issued to people who create and own "blocks" that solve the mathematical equations needed to make a transaction. This is called Mining, and every 10 minutes about 25 bitcoins are generated.
- Bitcoins are being used more frequently because it's an easier way to do online, and in some cases international transactions because once you acquire bitcoins you can exange them to your local currency.
-Since 2011, there were a reported 60,000 bitcoin users.
How this relates to my life:
Because our world and we basically depends on money, and this might be a new way to deal with transactions and saving that may be more common in the future, and if you're connected constantly it would be less of a hassle, although I don't see the point in it if there's already paypal.
Question I still have:
I think I need to clarify how it still works as a whole. How does the currency change and who fixes the errors since Satoshi's been inactive from participating in Bitcoin since 2011?
How can you just generate money out of thin air virtually like that?
-They're an online currency (and a new one I think)
-Not much else
What I want to know about Bitcoins:
- How exactly does it work?
-Why was it invented if there's already paypal?
-How many people use it?
-Why would you store money in a Bitcoin wallet and not in a bank?
Useful links:
http://bitcoin.org/en/you-need-to-know
http://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
http://coinmill.com/BTC_USD.html
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ
Important information:
- Bitcoins is a relatively new currency, created in 2009 by someone with the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
- One bitcoin is worth about $95.45 USD, but it changes very frequently.
- The total value of all the Bitcoins that exist now is about 1 billion dollars.
- Bitcoins can be bought, via paypal (even though thats for physical bitcoins normally), by bank account, and by other physical bank/credit sources.
- Since bitcoins are relatively new, they're also being issued to people who create and own "blocks" that solve the mathematical equations needed to make a transaction. This is called Mining, and every 10 minutes about 25 bitcoins are generated.
- Bitcoins are being used more frequently because it's an easier way to do online, and in some cases international transactions because once you acquire bitcoins you can exange them to your local currency.
-Since 2011, there were a reported 60,000 bitcoin users.
How this relates to my life:
Because our world and we basically depends on money, and this might be a new way to deal with transactions and saving that may be more common in the future, and if you're connected constantly it would be less of a hassle, although I don't see the point in it if there's already paypal.
Question I still have:
I think I need to clarify how it still works as a whole. How does the currency change and who fixes the errors since Satoshi's been inactive from participating in Bitcoin since 2011?
How can you just generate money out of thin air virtually like that?
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Design project day 5
1- The biggest problem we encountered was having no legs on the bottom of the game to hold it up, consequently complicating how the ball rolled down the bottom of the machine. We also found decorating it a bit of a challenge, because we didn't have enough time to decorate it like we wanted to. We solved this by using books in the classroom to hold it up, and decorating it quickly (though sloppily)
2- Our biggest AH HA moment was the lower ramp that we put beneath the hole, to catch it and have it roll back. Otherwise, the ball would have rolled away when it scored. We got this idea near the end when we realized we didn't have time to do the whole under part.
3- Rachel resisted the new ideas, but we all agreed in the end, and made it successful (she resisted having a smaller hole, and wanted the game to have a bigger one, so we changed it and it turns out it was for the better)
4- The legs were our doubt, because originally we were going to use Pringles cans for it, but the bookstore didn't have any the length we needed so we overcame that doubt by using books that were in the class to hold it up.
5- Rachel was the 'devil's advocate', and this helped us by helping to solve some of the potential problems we could have encountered (like not having the score hole big enough for anyone to win ever)
6- I learned that if we put time into something, we can make something that functions for someone else to use without us even having to explain it, only leaving instructions. I learned that i can be helpful to a group, and that the design process has a lot more steps then I would have imagined.
2- Our biggest AH HA moment was the lower ramp that we put beneath the hole, to catch it and have it roll back. Otherwise, the ball would have rolled away when it scored. We got this idea near the end when we realized we didn't have time to do the whole under part.
3- Rachel resisted the new ideas, but we all agreed in the end, and made it successful (she resisted having a smaller hole, and wanted the game to have a bigger one, so we changed it and it turns out it was for the better)
4- The legs were our doubt, because originally we were going to use Pringles cans for it, but the bookstore didn't have any the length we needed so we overcame that doubt by using books that were in the class to hold it up.
5- Rachel was the 'devil's advocate', and this helped us by helping to solve some of the potential problems we could have encountered (like not having the score hole big enough for anyone to win ever)
6- I learned that if we put time into something, we can make something that functions for someone else to use without us even having to explain it, only leaving instructions. I learned that i can be helpful to a group, and that the design process has a lot more steps then I would have imagined.
2. All of the kids said they really liked the game because
it was challenging, could be played in many different ways, could be played on
a rainy day, and the instructions were
easy to follow. (One kid said that the game was a little too challenging.) The
teacher said that he wished the game was more self sustainable.
Our goals for making the game fun were to make it a little
challenging but not too much, to have multiple holes to get the ball through,
(like a normal skeeball machine) and to make the game colorful and attractive.
I think we did accomplish the making it a little challenging, but we didn't put
multiple holes because there wasn't enough room and it would've been way to
difficult. We scribbled a little bit of color on our skeeball machine, but it
wasn't that attractive. The main problem was the amount of time we had.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Design project-day 3
In our define phase, our game really fits the descriptions we made of a good game, minus the story line theme. Perhaps we could add a general little kid theme to it to make it more interesting. I think some things we should keep the whole idea of a lower-level skeeball depositor to ease retrieving it, and the borders of the ramp to keep the ball from falling off. We could make sturdier legs for it, though, and make the ramp smoother. We have exact dimensions for it though so that'll be helpful.
PLAN:
1. Gather materials (cardboard, good scissors, packaging tape, hot glue guns, posters,markers, pringle cans, ball)
2. Decorate all of the cardboard
3. Make 4 sturdy legs out of pringle cans
4. Decorate the pringles cans.
5.Build a skeeball machine out of 2 pieces of cardboard and strips to divide it and make the ball slot
6. Connect the legs to the bottom of the machine with hot glue and tape
PLAN:
1. Gather materials (cardboard, good scissors, packaging tape, hot glue guns, posters,markers, pringle cans, ball)
2. Decorate all of the cardboard
3. Make 4 sturdy legs out of pringle cans
4. Decorate the pringles cans.
5.Build a skeeball machine out of 2 pieces of cardboard and strips to divide it and make the ball slot
6. Connect the legs to the bottom of the machine with hot glue and tape
Monday, February 11, 2013
Design project-day 1
Callie Campbell
Rachel Coombs
Sarah Kim
DEFINE PHASE
1. Primary students
2. Medium-level difficulty
3.
Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY&list=UU1aMZ56rL_429UP02uoNsCg&index=4
What was fun about it- The fact that it had interchangeable "maps" is really convenient and it adds variety to the game. I also think that the pitfalls added difficulty onto the game instead of it being one plain maze.
What could be improved- They could use something a little bit easier to control instead of a marble, (because you move it like 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 millimeter over it swerves out of control) such as a ping pong ball or styrofoam ball. Other than that, the game seems pretty sound, although a prize dispenser would be a nice addition.
Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRZcWa0zJI&list=UU1aMZ56rL_429UP02uoNsCg&index=5
What was fun about it: the fact that he added blockers made it a bit more difficult albeit the game seeming pretty easy still. Anybody would be able to play it, as it requires less skill than most games (that's a good thing)
What could be improved: He could offer some prizes or tickets for winning, and make it somehow less easy to cheat on, as you could basically just place the ball in the hole and win, instead of throwing it. He could also use a real ball instead of a cotton ball so that it has more weight and has a better chance of entering if it even passed by it.
Video 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY
What was fun about it: He got to use a leaf blower to make it work, which stimulates pretty close to what an actual arcade ticket grab would go. He also added an emergency exit which was helpful, but asides from that it's very close to an actual ticket grab.
What could be improved: This game is also really easy to cheat on, he could make it so that the tickets couldn't be picked off of the ground, maybe he could make a floor barrier like a cage or something similar which catches the tickets and lets them be blown up, but also so that nobody could grab through the grate/fence and pick them up.
IDEATION PHASE
Brainstorm ideas: We thought about making skeeball, or maybe air hockey.
SKEEBALL
Rachel Coombs
Sarah Kim
DEFINE PHASE
1. Primary students
2. Medium-level difficulty
3.
- Action
- Storyline/Theme of game
- Interactive
- Competition/rivalry
- Good design/Stands out
Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cEWELoxEsY&list=UU1aMZ56rL_429UP02uoNsCg&index=4
What was fun about it- The fact that it had interchangeable "maps" is really convenient and it adds variety to the game. I also think that the pitfalls added difficulty onto the game instead of it being one plain maze.
What could be improved- They could use something a little bit easier to control instead of a marble, (because you move it like 0.000000000000000000000000000000000001 millimeter over it swerves out of control) such as a ping pong ball or styrofoam ball. Other than that, the game seems pretty sound, although a prize dispenser would be a nice addition.
Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYRZcWa0zJI&list=UU1aMZ56rL_429UP02uoNsCg&index=5
What was fun about it: the fact that he added blockers made it a bit more difficult albeit the game seeming pretty easy still. Anybody would be able to play it, as it requires less skill than most games (that's a good thing)
What could be improved: He could offer some prizes or tickets for winning, and make it somehow less easy to cheat on, as you could basically just place the ball in the hole and win, instead of throwing it. He could also use a real ball instead of a cotton ball so that it has more weight and has a better chance of entering if it even passed by it.
Video 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7x-F5irBY
What was fun about it: He got to use a leaf blower to make it work, which stimulates pretty close to what an actual arcade ticket grab would go. He also added an emergency exit which was helpful, but asides from that it's very close to an actual ticket grab.
What could be improved: This game is also really easy to cheat on, he could make it so that the tickets couldn't be picked off of the ground, maybe he could make a floor barrier like a cage or something similar which catches the tickets and lets them be blown up, but also so that nobody could grab through the grate/fence and pick them up.
IDEATION PHASE
Brainstorm ideas: We thought about making skeeball, or maybe air hockey.
SKEEBALL
- To make it fun we will make it colorful, and make it simple to understand and easy to play. We will add some competition by making each hole have a certain score (I.E 3 points for the most difficult one to land, and 1 point for the easiest one.) We're going to keep the scores small numbers so that the kids can add up their own scores.
- Things that could go wrong are that the ramp is difficult to shoot the ball at, like uneven or rigid, and that it could fall apart. To avoid this we're going to use good sturdy materials, and reinforce the whole machine.
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