Video Game Assignment.

Mallory said...
Hello, this is Mallory Quinn from the Orange class. Since it was stated in class we did not have to use the provided list, I found two games in my search I found effective. The first was at the website: http://www.newsbreakergame.com. This was an advergame for msnbc news. The game reminded me of one I used to play when I was little called crab catch. You use a bar at the bottom to bounce a ball and knock bricks over. For every few bricks you knock over a news headline appears. I believe this game could be considered an advergame as well as educational. It advertises for the msnbc news channel, as well as educating the public of political, scientific and entertainment news; all important topics of our life in an eclectic grouping. Another educational game I played was a physics game on how to make alloys: http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/steel/index.html. I thought this website was interesting because it was called nobelprize.org and all the games were based on nobel prize winners in physics, literature, chemistry, etc. I thought this website had great intentions but the games were relatively mundane and more instrunctional media clips than interactive so I don't think they could grasp people's attention easily.
September 4, 2008 12:44 AM