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"School Gaming"

School- a place of learning, a place to meet new friends and to socialise. School is also a place of torture, no, there are no stretch racks involved, but it does prevent you from enjoying your favourite past time. Whether it's computer games, fishing, climbing or whatever, school gets in the way. Lessons are boring, and have a tendency to make me nod off. When in school, I think about computer games. How to complete a level, what haven't I tried and new techniques all pop into my mind as a reluctantly study Radioactivity in Physics. But what if there was a way, say, to integrate Computer games and lessons, a way that was fun yet educational. Maybe it would be something like this:

English: Now, English can be very boring, especially when we are instructed to read Shakespeare. Instead of reading the same chapter over and over again, highlighting 'key' points, you would play the role of Shakespeare: Book Hunter. Based on the popular Turok series, dinosaurs are replaced by books, and those lush outdoor levels? Yep, replaced by a library. As you work your way through the library, books will attack you from all angles. Luckily, the English department got a grant from the Government and bought lots of supplies. Armed with a Quiver, an ink well and your knowledge of Poetry, you must attack the books. When they finally drop to the ground, an FMV sequence will start, and the book will tell you its knowledge on Shakespearean poetry. Without knowing it, you are actually learning poetry, and you will be able to create your own version of Romeo and Juliet in no time!

Mathematics: There's no doubt about it, Maths is tedious, so why not make an adventure out of it? You play the role of Pythagoras, as you embark on an epic quest to find the lost city of right-angle triangles and algebraic functions. Team up with you buddy, Copernicus, and use your Philosophy and mathematics powers to fight evil decimal points and square roots as you try to save the world from a Quadratic equation invasion. (Try saying that when you're drunk :D) As you progress through the game, the equations get bigger, and before you know it, you will be fighting against the likes of Y= x² + 3x- 7 and ƒ(x) = x² (3x-7) + 2. Before each boss encounter, you will have a test, score a grade C or above and you get to fight the boss, but fail the test, and you will have to play that level, or year, again. Hopefully, by the end of the game, your test average will be that of an A, but score an average of an A*, and you get to play the secret level. This consists of trigonometry, whereby you will have to solve the angle to get home. Fascinating!

Science: Physics has to be the main contender in the "Put me to sleep" award. Try staying awake as your teacher rambles on about Ionization and using equations like S= D/T. Why not play a Scientific Mario games? " Is there even such a thing?" Oh yes, it's called 'Super Mario function of the line'. Based upon Super Mario Sunshine, 'Super Mario Function of the line' will see you jumping on test tube enemies and trying to work out the function of the line before the evil Hydrogen Molecule Mario sends off Alpha radiation into the town. Mario has to clear the radiation up before the town's people mutate. Bowser has come back this time, but not to steal Peach, he's come to attack everyone with Gamma rays and Hydrochloric acid. Peach, who decided to stop baking cakes for Mario, has actually done something useful for once and has somehow managed to 'Bake' Mario a calculator, so that he can work out the Functions of the line and clear up the radiation. This will grant you valuable information on Radioactivity and Line Functions, whilst jumping from graph to graph.

Then you wake up in the middle of a physics lesson and think, "Why can't that be true?"

"Fred, since you like thinking aloud, why don't you tell me, what is the bond called in which the atoms share electrons?"

"ARGH!"

Thanks for reading.

MiCRoCHiþS

Good post Chippolatas!

If only.....if only....

;)

Heh, well, your screename did anyway!

:D

Thanks for all the replies guys.

Lol, great topic Microchips...aparently, accoring to Mr.Chips I inspired the physics bit *feels proud*

Likely GAD contender...:D

Excellent post their chips!

AfroJoe wrote:
> No problem Howey. ;-)



It's Howsy, you foolish person.

But good post Chiiphilahti, I liked the english one the most, with book hunting and the Hoyven-Glaven.
(:)

*Nods*

Thanks for the replies. As you said TS, learning games can be very easy, but at the same time, can be incredibly hard. On the old computer network (with Windows 3.1, LOL!) there is a Maths game called MArtello towers, which happens to be one of those 'command' games, ie, "There is a gate in front of you." and you would have to type in "Open gate". As you actually progressed through Martello towers, mathmatics would appear everywhere, even when you didn't expect it. It was too hard, but then again, it was in year 7, so I should be able to complete it now.

:)

Nice post, it would be interesting to see a GOOD learning game instead of 'Bobby the Bear's Mathematical Basketball' where the hardest question is 3 X 5 and is about as interesting as a log.

As my good friend Tony would say "It's GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!" :D And as my good friend the bird would say anyone he disagrees is "CUCKOOO!"

Fosbe, you should still go along with it, don't let me prevent you from writing posts. :)

And thanks for all the replies.

:)

LOL nice one, i was actually writing something like this at the moment but after reading yours i have scraped it.