Risk 11/29/12

We are exploring more mechanics of this game Risk and it is taking forever to set up! The concept of being able to choose wherever you want to put things is very clever and we want to incorporate that into our game.

Bad strategies of the day: 2 days ago, Jasmine was a fool and put every single one of her units in Madagascar! Although, she ended up winning... Jasmine was never here that day and we made her units do that.

Sidenote: I just lost all of my units in China to Lily! What is this! :( Lily just wiped all my pieces off of Asia and I'm sad.

I am so close to gettting Africa! 

To be continued...

Notes on Game Play Mechanisms: Focused Goal

In most games, there is always a clear end goal that all of the players of working towards. In Risk, the goal is to wipe the rest of the teams off the map through ruthless strategy and in Pandemic, the goal is to save the world by eradicating all four diseases. Our goal is to create a board game that strenghthens and puzzles the mind by breaking all the barriers set by the average board game, and so we want our game to be open-ended so that each player can decide the direction they want the game to take. 

  

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Survey questions

Questions

1) Are you in a school sport or a club currently?

2) Do you plan on being in a school-offered extracurricular?

3) Did you have somebody to guide you through being a freshmen at the beginning of the school year?

4) Would you have benefited from having an upperclassman be a mentor to you? Explain.






5) Would you feel more comfortable getting help from a fellow student or from an adult?

Semester Project

For our second quarter and semester grade, our teachers gave us the assignment of examining our school, Palatine High School, and finding an environmental or logistical problem to identify and solve. We brainstormed a lot and Jasmine came through with a great idea that got approved by Mrs. Sheehan. The idea is somewhat of a buddy system for freshmen. The transition from middle school to high school is definitely crazy hard so we wanted to have seniors and juniors be paired with a freshmen to help them. Having peers who have experienced hardship as a freshmen help them seems much easier for the incoming ones than having an adult try and help. Students listen easier to people that they can relate to. I myself(Andy) was fortunate enough to have my cross country older friends tell me about the good and bad of high school. I feel like everyone should have this opportunity. We first need to survey the freshmen to see if they would have found it easier to survive with a buddy. Then, we need to contact the school board to see if something like this has existed before. For now, we are creating a survey to give the kids to see if they would like it.

Group Brainstorm Session

-Freshmen buddies/mentors to assist with the transition into highschool for students not already involved in an athletic or academic activity before the start of the school year. Incoming Freshmen who apply for the program can be paired up with a Junior/Senior who is either on Honor Roll or has been reccomended by teachers -To allow more space in the student parking lot, Students who carpool regularly will recieve a discount on their parking permit

The Solution- Secondary Project for Quarter Two

We have been assigned the project of using Critical Thinking skills to solve a logistical or environmental problem in the skill. Posts about this project and group discussions about it will be filed under "The Solution" ~Nate