Day 5 - Wrap-Up
You played the game. You have tried different strategies. You've won - you've lost.
Play once more.
Try something different. Try something Bold - aggressive - strategic or perturbedly cardinal.
This is your final posting
Take some unique screen shots and explain how they affected the game.
Finally, your readers want your OPINION and they want the reasons for these opinions.
They do not want a knee jerk (unthinking) response.
They would like to know why you feel the way you do.
Day 4 - Plan
BEFORE you begin
write your plan for today.
Reminisce about the issues you
had to face last time
then PREPLAN today's activity.
had to face last time
then PREPLAN today's activity.
Start
TAKE NOTES
then ...Blog today's gameplay
always for your readers
Day 3 -Review(1)
Start your own colony.
- Make notes of the items you choose, the order you place them along with size and quantity.
- Play - but make notes of choices especially when you choose to be aggressive versus conservative.
- for example - when choosing plants to grow - What is the reason for choosing 1 type over another?
- Other than just survival - what is your goal
- milestones?
- a telescope? (in order to build a meteor destroying laser)
Day 2 - Preview
Load
the game and do the tutorial.
- Explain how to set up a colony.
- What should you do first and what choices do you have. Add screen shots.
Remember the walk-thru?
- How was this tutorial different from the walk-thru?
- What would you do differently?
- What went wrong?
- Offer tips and tricks.
- Show how the help works and what's in each of the menus.
Talk to your readers and guide them through the startup process.
Day 1 - first impression
PlanetBase - What is this game?
- go find out and write a report revealing report about it. Title: My first impression of Planet Base
- Go to their website (see link below) for ideas and images.
- go to YouTube for ideas and images
- include in you post links to references.
- screenshots are mandatory
- describe each screenshot
- add blog address to screenshot
Write about the game.
Incorporate these questions in your answers and add screen shots.
What is this game about?
What do you do in the game?
What is the goal of the game?
Write about what happens in the video.
Explain what the specific goals are in the game
and how to use them.
Explain how the controls work and what to pay attention
to.
Add screen shots.
information about game:
Space Colony Survival
Strategy!
Watch the video before
you start the tutorial – or you may kill your colonists
http://planetbase.madrugaworks.com/media/
PlanetBase is a strategy game where you guide a group of
space settlers trying to establish an outpost on a remote planet.
In the game you play the role of the base architect and
manager, telling your colonists where to build the structures they will need to
survive. You will have to ensure that they have a constant supply of oxygen,
food and water to stay alive.
You will get them to collect energy, extract water, mine
metal, grow food, manufacture bots, and build a fully self-sufficient base.
Even if the game
is not intended to be a simulator, all the mechanics are plausible, and based
on what the expected challenges of establishing a colony in an new planet would
be.
A little long but gives good ideas and a lot of poor choices:
People die of starvation!
Let's Try: Planetbase - Part 1 [Space Colony
Survival Strategy!]
Let's Try: Planetbase - Part 2 [Space Colony Survival
Strategy!]
Information about Game Journalism:
Your Job.
GAME JOURNALISM
reveal/preview/review
FROM THE INTERNET: The writer responds to personal experiences presented to them by the game world. The story is not necessarily indicative of the experience any other player will have with the game.
reveal/preview/review
FROM THE INTERNET: The writer responds to personal experiences presented to them by the game world. The story is not necessarily indicative of the experience any other player will have with the game.
You have been given this new game and told to write a series of posts about it.
The DAY 1 post with the 'reveal'. You write a first impression firstly based on the trailer then another on the walk-thru video. A screenshot is necessary.
The DAY 2 post will be the 'preview'. You will play through the tutorial and write about your experience. Take screenshots to supplement your writing. Afterwards you will also write about the features of the game based on the website.
The DAY 3 post and each day afterwards constitute the 'review'. You play the game. Here you describe how you played the game and how to play the game with screenshots. You give insight in the form of tips and tricks you have discovered. These, in particular, should be accompanied by screenshots.
The more comprehensive the blog post the better the mark.
