Globaloria and Gamefication, Game Design, & Game Mechanics

Question 1) What do you learn in Globaloria?

I learn how to make a game/games that can be both fun and educational. The goal for us is to create a game that will appeal to the people who will play them and help them learn the social topic our game revolves around.

Question 2) Think about all of the skills you have learned over the past two and a half years. Name at least five of these skills.

1) I learned to edit pages on the wiki by adding and removing code

2) I learned how to add pictures, videos, animations and flash swf.s to our pages.

3) I have learned how to use flash

4) I have learned how to create animations for one specific item when using flash

5) I have learned how to move items in flash frame-by-frame

Question 3)

How can these skills prepare you for a successful academic future and how could you use these skills to find a great job? Remember, you do not have to grow up and be a game designer to use the skills you are learning in Globaloria

These skills can be used in a variety of ways. They could make a great impression in a college application, they could be used for modeling things such as cars, the knowledge of editing the html of a page could be proven useful when creating a web page for a product you are advertising of creating and the big one, you could use your skills in the video game industry.

Question 4) Tell me what the difference is between Gamification, Game Mechanics, and Game Design. These are all ingredients for creating a video game or any type of game. Game Mechanics as the name might hint is how the game works such as the actions and the results of your action, what happens if you run this way or hit this person, things like that. Game Design is the design of the surrounding area and everything else, such as the characters (main one included) the cars (if any) and trees, sand, water, dirt, grass, snow, things like that. These are what holds the actions. Without design, who will hold the actions? Gamification is a factor that uses both game Mechanics and Game Design and combines them. In the article with this information the author says "In essence, gamification is the act of adding game elements to something that doesn’t inherently have them."