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3. Settlement: A planet has been discovered, and land is up for grabs
Settlement: A planet has been discovered, and land is up for grabs. Who knows what wondrous items may be found on this planet? Gold? Artifacts? Weapons? Who knows? Throw your lot in with our company, and you’ll be the first people to settle on this new planet.
Vacation: Come to the idyllic planet of Aephaan for a fun-filled week of space tournaments, with a $200,000 prize for the grand champion across all competitions, with lesser prizes given to other winners. All expenses paid for competitors still participating.
Exploration: The newly discovered molten planet Primordia offers a unique look into how planets form and what they look like in the early times. Any scientists concerned with this field will want to buy a ticket now.
Game Missions
written by
Callum and Ben

4. Development Laboratory
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5. Kelly and Edward
Matthew, Ryan, Ellis

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8. Scratch (developed at the MIT Media Lab)

9. Gameland to kids … “We have a problem!”
Are your parents making your life miserable ... restricting your time playing games and socializing on the computer?
Why do parents  think computers are bad for you? 
How can computers help you?
Your Mission
You must convince your parents to give you a reasonable amount of time to learn the computer skills you'll need to be a player in tomorrow's high-tech world.  
The world needs you to help solve the messes your parents' generation have created. 

10. Why Are Computer Games Important?
Harvard Business School Press, ‘Got Game’
1. Gamers are better at handling risk and uncertainty, and believe taking measured risks is the best way to get ahead.
2. Gamers are more creative and have better problem solving habits.
3. Gamers are more sociable and have a greater need for human relationships. 10

11. Why Are Computer Games Important?
Harvard Business School Press, ‘Got Game’
4. Gamers think of themselves as experts and want to tackle problems head-on.
5. Gamers aren’t discouraged by failure and believe each setback is just a chance to try again.
6. Gamers are more flexible about change. 11

12. Why Are Computer Games Important?
Harvard Business School Press, ‘Got Game’
7. Gamers are better at seeing problems from a deeper perspective.
8. Gamers are great at learning in informal ways.
9. Gamers are more globally oriented and out-ward looking.
10. Gamers are more confident and have a more positive out look on life. 12

13. Why Can Computer Games Be Bad? 13

14. Why Can Computer Games Be Bad?
1. You can be influenced by too much violence.
2. Single player games can be non-social.
3. Addiction to anything can be dangerous.
4. There can be online predators. 14

15. Types of Computer Games?
Shoot – Half-Life, Astroids
Role playing – World of Warcraft, Pokemon
Strategy – Starcraft
Race – Viper Racing
Sport – Fantasy Football, FIFA World Cup
Simulation – Sim City, Tycoon
Chance – Black Jack
Adventure – Mario Brothers 15

16. Rocket Works Graphics In your Power Point lab book: Draw a character.
Draw a planet.
Draw a background that you see when you land on the planet.
Draw animated frames for your character.

17. Rocket Works Graphics And you may encounter these space ships.
Callum, 11 & Ben, 11
Chenery School
Belmont, MA
Matthew,
Ryan & Ellis
Concord Academy
Summer Camp
Concord, MA
Mark,
Noah, Andrew
Concord Academy
Summer Camp
Concord, MA
Edward & Kelly
Concord Academy
Summer Camp
Concord, MA
We invite you to help us create more storylines and graphics.
Join the Build-It-Yourself crew.

20. Rocket Works Graphics
In your travels, you’ll have to deal with these aliens!
Jonathan, 10
Open Window School
Bellevue, WA
Chloe, 9
Park School
Cambridge, MA
Kelly, 10
Concord Academy
Summer Camp
Concord, MA
We invite you to help us create more storylines and graphics.
Join the Build-It-Yourself crew.

21. Who? What? Where? Why? When? Rocket Works Story Line
Write a story line in your Power Point lab book about what you want to happen on your planet.
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
When?

22. Who? What? Where? Why? When? Rocket Works Story Line
Write a story line in your Power Point lab book about what you want to happen on your planet.
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
When?

23. Rocket Works Sound Effects
You must create your own far out sound effects.
Set up a microphone and speaker
Get a bunch of contraptions that make sounds.
Use Audio Recorder to record short, (less than 5 second) sound clips from the contraptions or from you and your team mates mouthing off.
Edit the sound effects by deleting bad sections, contorting the sounds or adding sections.
Play the sounds clip from Audio Recorder and record the sound effects in Scratch sprites.

24. Rocket Works Logic and Programming
Make a character move across the screen when you press the right arrow.
Import a background.
Make a character say “Hey there” when it gets to the middle of the screen.
Make a character move right, left, up, or down when you press the arrow keys.
Add a second character and make the two characters have a dialog when the first character comes close to the second character.
Animate the characters.
Create two scenes and move back and forth between the scenes.

25. Useful Build-It-Blocks (Modules)
Rocket control
Games
build-it-yourself.com/biy-projects/proj-scratch-templates/index-scratch-templates.html

26. Lessons to be documented in Lab Book
Pixel vs. vector graphics
Animation
Problem solving tricks
Advantages of modular construction
Presenting ideas
Program primitives
build-it-yourself.com/support/support-projectware/biy-projectware-presentations.html

27. Workshop Exercises: (for advanced students)
Download Scratch on home computer.
Summarize parents’ views on the pro’s and con’s of computers and computer games.
Program animated cartoon sequence or make a computer game on pro’s and con’s of computer games.
Create mini game modules.

28. 4 Defining Traits of a Game
Goal
Rules
Feedback
Voluntary participation
From “Reality is Broken”