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Researching Games

  For this assignment, I was on the search for games that are directly related to the topic of my client for an upcoming group project. My client is a Dr. Sarah Jacquet and the subject matter is based around the principles of geology, specifically the 4 laws of geology and how they can be used to reproduce the timing of a geological sequence. Part 1:  What did you find? For this part, I started as most people probably did and preformed a few Google Searches. I soon realized that no matter what terms or phrases I searched for, I was pretty much pulling the same results. One “rabbit hole” did lead me to a game on Steam, so I then did an additional search on Steam to see if there were any more relative games, which I didn’t The most relative games I found were “The Geology Game” on Steam and a series of learning games on this website: https://www.legendsoflearning.com/ . Additionally, I was able to find several resources online of “learning modules” that could be used in helping fac

Simulation or Game?

 This week we play tested four simulations, here are my evaluations of each. Space X I didn’t really enjoy this. It was far to slow for my liking and the controls were very hard to understand at first. I tried a few times but was never successful, and it wasn’t until after the 5 th attempt, did I realize I what I was trying to accomplish. The first few attempts I reset because I never felt like I was getting anywhere. I think the instructions could have had a little more guidance as to what the actual process was. The goal was obvious, dock the ship, but there was no understanding of what that actually means. I would say this was a simulation. Sky-High I liked the simplicity of the design for this. I didn’t like the instructions and the over abundance of information you needed to try it out. I was successful in that I achieved a score of 4, however, my game ended because I two aircraft came to close to each other! I believe Sky-High is also a simulation. Circuit Lab I re