Task 6 reflection

Our story is the romance of the three kingdoms, which is such a famous Chinese story that everyone knows it. On top of that, almost every boy has imagined that he were a general in the three kingdom period and killed enemies and enemy generals for the glory of his kingdom and brought victory to his king. It’ a chaotic dynasty that every king got a chance to be the ruler of China. So it’s really fascinating that we could choose it as our topic of these games and, as a game creator, I can take a role in this story.

I’m responsible for the task 6 “Big brother’s sandals. Honestly, I didn’t expect I will play a game like this. But, when I was assign Liu Bei I began to think that what kind of game I can create for such a character like Liu Bei. Then straw sandals came across my mind. Yes, Liu Bei was selling straw sandals when he was young. And, this time he has lost his beloved brother, Yun Chang. So I suppose that he must be very sad and suffer from an emotional breakdown and can’t be a king anymore. On this account, he chooses to sell sandals again and goes back to who he was in a mood that maybe he will meet Yun Chang again. And when they meet again, their brotherhood must be recovered to what it once was when they first met.  At the end, it turned out to be a very funny game. An old man selling sandals and he’s so stupid that he can’t tell the price.

In addition to what I did in my game, I also helped Mita to create the objects in her task. Which is pretty funny, too. When we were play the game, I thinks the biggest obstacle I met is that I can’t properly make international student figure out what I mean. Maybe next time we just attach the rules to an object or something, haha. Anyway, I think there’s much to improve in my task and I think next time I can get It better, if I get a chance to play a game like this some day.

task 5 reflection

I never play a game of virtual reality. Therefore, at the beginning, I am excited about playing Second life. I create an avatar who is a woman and to my surprise I can change the gender of my player anytime anywhere. When I log in this game I realize that it is indeed the virtual reality. Everything here looks like true things in our daily life. And then, we have to design a role-play gaming for international students. We choose “Romance of Three Kingdoms” as our topic. It is a story of Chinese history and we have to present a brand new feeling by Second life.

I am responsible for the task 5, at the first time the game is "Supporting the front" which is a easy game that asks international students to collects the Chinese items. Although the game run smoothly, teacher advises me to change the game. After the discussions with teacher, I change the game into “Jumping over the peg.” It is a chess game which is interesting and has relationship with my character. My character is KM who shows all his loyalty to his master in his life. Therefore, his personality is loyal and dedicated. Besides, he is a planer full of wisdom. As a result, his appearance is simple and pure and so does his house. He spends much of his time playing the chess game in order to training himself thinking and having different strategies. Therefore, the goal is to remove pegs from the board by jumping over each peg with another peg; this removes the "jumped" peg. The game is over when no more jumps are possible. You win the game by removing all the pegs except one from the board. A perfect game would leave one peg in the center position. However, the process of playing this game is not really smoothly because the rule is too complex. In fact, although I explain the rule a lot of times, they still feel a little confused. And it also makes me feel frustrated. It is a pity that there is no chance for me to improve the game. But they think this game is interesting so it makes me feel better.  

After playing this game with international students, I learned not only about the functions and skills of Second Life, but also the skills to design a good game. As the designer of the game, we often have difficulty in explaining the game clearly. Besides, when the players don’t follow the instruction and rules and behave active interacting with us, the game will have some problems. Therefore, we can learn a lot from this project just like the ability to solve problems and how to make the participant have interest in our game. For me, it is a special and interesting experience to visualize our dramatic spirit through this game and also a rare chance to interact with foreign students

Task 6 transcription

1:39~6:55 

He :hellgunner ST: storyteller G:gossiper H: himit N: nadia Ha: ha

He: OK, can you hear me?

H: yeah

N: Yes

He: OKOK

He: Ok, let’s begin. Yuan Chang, is that you? I have been believing that you would come back to me once again, now you are… Wait, how do I know you are my brother, Yuan Chang? Maybe you are just an assassin of Cao Cao who disguise as him! If you want me to trust you, you have to play a game and clear it to show me your loyalty. OK, then I will explain how to play this game. I will say two Chinese sentences which describe the colors and prices of the sandals on these objects. You have to move these objects to which these sandals attached into a logical order from left to right. Left cheaper, right more expensive. OK, can you understand?

ST: Let me explain the rules. Ummm…. Suppose that you all learned some Chinese before you come to the three kingdoms. And so Liu Bei because he usually… he used to sell sandals in front of the gate, so now he’s going to sell it, and he’s going to say two or three Chinese sentence with logic, and you need to arrange the sandals with logic. For example, from the cheapest to the most expensive. So can you understand? Can anybody answer me? Nadia?

Nadia: Yeah yeah, I’m here.

ST: Can you understand what we are going to do?

Nadia: Not fully understand. I’m not fully undertand.

ST: Not fully understand. Ummm…OK

G: So we… we have to put the order from the……..

He: OK I will say two….

G: We have to… Liu Bei, you can say the..

He: I have… I will say two Chinese sentence to describe the colors…you see the sandals? Which have colors, right? The price. Which is more expensive or which is cheaper? And… I will say these in Chinese. So you have to move these objects into an order from left to right. Left, cheaper. Right, more expensive. OK?

N: OK. The red? Cheaper than… From cheaper…

He: Yeah. From left to right. Right, the cheapest. Left, the cheapest. Right, the most expensive.

ST: And Liu Bei will say…

He: I will say…

ST: Tell you the prize.

He: yes yes. I will tell you in Chinese. So you have to… Can you understand Chinese?

ST: You just say it, just say it.

G: We will figure it out.

He: OK, 藍色比紅色便宜,then, 黑色最貴.

N: Oh.

ST: 藍色比紅色便宜, and 黑色最貴.

He: Yes.

ST: So which one should be on the left, on the very left side?

G: Left is the cheapest one.

ST: OK, so I think we got the answer, right?

He: OK, congratulation.

N: 藍

He: Yeah, 藍色

N: the cheapest.

He: Yeah, yeah

ST: 藍色比紅色便宜

N: I mean this, Blue, blue one.

ST: 藍色比紅色便宜, so it’s the cheapest one.

He: Yes.

ST: The most expensive one. So we got the answer right?

He: Yes, congratulations.

G: Congratulations. Oh do you know what the man he is? That is the king of the kingdom 蜀. Now, it’s really a hard time even the king has to sell sandals in front of the gate of his own castle

Task3- Reflection

Task3-Reflection 

101102020 Tiffany 陳季荷

Our project is "The Romance of Three Kingdoms", which is composed of Wei, Su, and Wu kingdoms. Our story mixes the historical events with romantic imagination, creating our own version of Three Kingdoms. Each student portraits a historical person and designs a game. We play the game twice and have invited total of six foreign students to join our project.

My role is an unimportant soldier named Nobody. My task is Carrot Squats, which is also a funny game. Since the first two tasks are more serious, we want to put some relaxing element in it. Originally my game is to combine gestures and numbers. They have to say the number when doing the gesture. Two people cannot say the same number at the same time. However, after the first experience, I find it difficult to play this game in Second Life because the lack of eye contact. It is hard to have two people say the same number. Therefore, I change the game. In the second time, foreign students need to repeat the gestures I do and say the name of it. I think this time it goes much more smoothly than the first time. This time I slowly explain to them how to do the gesture, so they won’t be confused like the students of first time. Yet we do face other problem. One of the student’s computer had some problems that she couldn’t do the gesture. Eventually, we let her guess the name of the gesture so she can participate in as well.

The three gestures I choose are bow, laughing, and whistle. It is different from my original plan, but I decide to go something easier in the last minute. I think it works well. The students know which gesture it is immediately. Whistle, the last gesture, makes the game more interesting. In the end everyone is laughing.

The first time we encounter some problems but we are able to finish the game in time. After it, we revise our script and adjust our games to make it easier for foreigner students. The second time we still face some problems, but overall everything goes well. I think our project is quite successful.

Through this project, I realize how challenging communication can be. Sometimes I explain the rules many times but they just couldn’t get it. Sometimes they don’t give any response. I think it’s not only about improving English but also changing the way of explaining. I learn some techniques of communicating through this project.

 

Task 9 Transcription and video

Nadiayun: NK　Hachang: HC　Himitguan: HG　God knows who: GKW

NH:Nightmarehottie　Little Chao: LC　Zhou Yu:ZY

ST: Story teller　GO: Gossiper

NH: I want to write a story about, about our adventure in my diary, can you (.) help me with that?

NY: Yap. (.) I like that.

HG:      [Yes.]

HC: Um hum.

NY: You have, you?

HG: ((laughing))

NH: Hum, where’s Nadia?

NY: Here, I’m here!

NH:        [You, you’re here, okay.] (2.0) Hm, so, <please> >follow me can you see-

GKW: ((kissing animation and sound))

NH: -me?< I am with, with purple ashes. (.) No, not ashes, can you see me?

GKW: Du-----------

NH: Yap, and            [we can go (.) up, go up to the hill.]

NY: Na, $Mic$, ((laughing))

HG: ((laughing with his own voice))

NH: Go up to the hill. You can see three green fires↑.　(2.0) Yap?

LC: Yes.

NH: And near it, near it there’s a chair? (1.0) Many boxes? (2.0) Can you see that?

ST: <Chair>?

NH: Yes, where-

ST: Oh, box.

NH: Yes, box. Boxes. Yap. ((going up the hill))

NH: I think you’re tired, so we can sit (.) and the-

ST:                                     [Oh, nice I wanna s-(it)]

NH: AND, (.) um, Ha, Nadia and Himit you can sit on the colored cha(ir)-colored boxes↑, (1.0) can you?

((Everywith the big bell ticking in the background))

ST: You can right-

HG:          [I am stuck in between.]

ST: You can right click the button and choose sit.

NH: Hm, ‘Sit here,’ there’s a button ‘sit here.’ OK. ((long breath)) uh…

HG: <Uh.>

NH: Everybody, uh- Is everybody ready? (1.0) Yap? (1.0) Yap?

(3.0) ((Big bell ticking, as if referring that we are getting out of time))

LC: Okay.

ZY: Okay.

NH:[Nadia,] can you sit on the <yellow> box? (6.0)

NY: (Sit the-)

HG: Click on the box.

ST: You can right click the yellow box.

NH: Yeah,yeah.

ST: [Oh, nice.] That’s beautiful.

NH:        [OK.] So, am, uh, I will start a story with three sentences, <and> the one on my LEFT, is (.) Ha? And, he should, he should continue with another three sentences. Is that okay?

GKW:    [Wow.] ((SL animation)) (2.0)

GKW:    [Wow.] ((SL animation))

NH: Is that Okay?

ST: UHHH…

HG: ((uncertain smiling))

NH: Then we will continue our story-eh? Why, why Himit, sit on the tree?

ST:　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　[Himit.]

ZY: ((smiling))

ST: Himit.

HG: Ya.

ZY: You need to sit on the blue box.

((HG, NH laughing))

NY: $How can you sit$-((laughing))

HG: Hahaha ((laughing))

NY: (Put the things.)

ZY: Yes!

HG: Yeah.

NH: OK, everybody is ready right now? OK?

NY: Um hum.

NH: Our story will begin, OK? And it starts from Ha.↑So um, you think what happen after Zhou Yu and Little Chao get married? What do you think?

HG: (Hem.) (4.0)

ST: You can like create everything you want. You can like say everything, anything.

NH:                            [Yes.]　　　　　　　　　　　　　[Yes,yes.]

HG: He learned, he learned-

ST:              [Or they have children, like, how many?]

((NH, HG laughing))

HG: eh, two?

ST: Two, okay, two children.

NH: Ok they have two children, and then?

HG: Hey.

NH: You have-

HG:       [Story ought to get, story.]

NH: You can tell the story. (.) With three sentences.

(8.0) ((Big bell ticking))

GKH: (Hello?)

ST: Or twins?

NH: Oh, they’re twins?

ST: Or fox?

LC: FOX? Ah hey.

((NH, GO, NY start laughing))

HG: wow. (SL animation)

((Silent for 21 seconds, an implication of problems on physical facilities.))

NH: So maybe we can turn to (.) Zhou Yu! What happen next?

ZY:                                           [Yeah, yeah.]

NH: Yeah.

ZY: [Yes,] I think eh, after he, after two years marriage, um, Little Chao’s sister’s husband is killed by uh, Chau Chao. Eh, and Little Chao is very worried about my, I may suffer from same fate. So, so Little Chao wou-will not let me go to the field.

NH: OK.↑You can, uh, you know the plot? Everybody clear about the plot? ((laugh))

ZY: Eh, maybe Chau Chao will poison me.

((ZY, NH laughing))

ST: Okay, so, the thing is that: after they got married, but Little Chao, Little Chao’s-

NH:                                       [Um hum.]

ZY:                                         [Yes.]

NH: $Sister’s husband.$

ST: Husband. Is killed. So she’s worried about that her husband will also get killed.

NH:                                     [Zhou Yu.]

NH: Yap.

ST: So,    She didn’t want her husband to go to the field, right?

ZY:   [Yes.]

NH:                                        [Yap, Ok.]

ST: OK.

NH: We finish this term and next one is Nadia. (2.0) Nadia?

NY: Yap. (2.0)

NH: What happen next? (2.0)

ZY: (singing tone) Nadia~ (7.0)

ST: Nadia are you there? (hh)

GO: (Nadia? That is…)

ST: >It’s also<what do you think that will happen? (8.0)

(We can clearly hear the bell ticking when there’s no one speaking)

NY: Hm…

(3.0)

ZH: (吵架。)

NH: Oh, Ok. Maybe they have quarrel over eh, whether to go to the field. Or whether to attend the war. (4.0)

NY: (I think-) (6.0)

NH: Hello, can you hear me? (8.0) What’s going on?

LC: Not.

NH: ((coughing)) (2.0) Ok, maybe, (1.0) Nadia can, eh?

NY: Different, the same-(poor connection) whats-

NH: What? (3.0)

NY: Couldn’t-waltz?

(light voices, talking) (13.0)

NY: >OK,I,< I am listening. (7.0)

ST: Are you, are you talking? Nadia, are you speaking? (2.0)

NY: I am not, I am just discussing with ((microphone is moved))

NY: ((Tried to speak)) Discuss, I am just discu-ing. (13.0)

ST: Or maybe (youth) first? Go back to you?

NH: Oh, shoot. (5.0)

NH: Ok. (3.0)

ST: Ok, so I think we should move on to the next one, right?

NH: [OK.]

ST:    Can we?

NH:          [OK.] And next one is Little Chao. What happen next?

LC: I think maybe the Little Chao really worries about Zhou Yu, so they would have lots, uh, quarrel. But, uh, although they fight for many times because Little Chao didn’t allow Zhou Yu to go to the field, Zhou Yu also insist to go to war.

NH: ((laughing))

LC: Fortunately, he didn’t died. It’s possible because Little Chao missed him and then pray for him every day. She sang the song written by the Zhou Yu.

ST: Oh.

ZY: Yeah. I won’t die.

NH: ((Laughing)) But, uh, I have bad memory so I cannot, I cannot recall the song, so now (hh) Himit? Can you sing the song? That-Zhou Yu proposal, propose to Little Chao?

LC: [Sing the song!](3.0)          

NH: $(hh)$

NY: Himit. (To NH) You mean the song ‘Would You Marry Me Today?’

ZY: Yes, yes.

NH: [Yes.]

LC: [Yes, yes.]

NH: Or we can all sing together?

LC: Yes, maybe we can sang (.) together?

NH: Yap.

NY: We can sing together.

NH: Ok, one two three. Hm? Huhhuh.

GO: ((Singing)) Listen to me.

ZY:          ((singing)) [Listen (.) to me.]

ZY: ((singing)) Listen to me.

((ST, LC, NH sing)) Hand in Hand.

NY: Hand in hand.

NH: $Would you marry me$

ZY: Come to live with me

(2.0)

ST: Creating the happy life.

ZY:        [Creating the happy life.]

LC:          [happy Life.]

NH:         [Happy Life.]

ZY: Yesterday’s too late.

NH:   [Too late.]

ZY: Tomorrow could be pity.

(Others try to follow on the right tempo, but…)

NH: Would you marry me-               [Today.]

ZY:                [Would you marry me today.]

ZY: Yeah!

NH: Yeah! OK, end! Next one is my turn. Um, the battle, eh, Zhou Yu still goes to the battle of Redcliff, and it ends. But Zhou Yu is alive, he didn’t die. But on his way to home, he gets infected by a $disease$ and dies.   And they, they are-

ST:                                    [Hah!]

ZY:                                    [Ouh.]

NH: Buried in a forest together. Amazingly, many butterflies gather on their graves, and gently files away with a light spinning on the sky. OK. And, eh, I think it is a wonderful story, thank you for your time to finish it. It is such a good memory, I have good time, and wish you all too.

ZY: Yes thank you (for your help.)

Game Design

Originally, I want to play the game like Big Wind Blow. We decided to build some cubes, and assign who should take which cube. For example, the one has ears attached in his or her outfit should sit on the red cube. After everyone gets the seat, they would form a heart shape while looking down in the air.

However, this idea is not really suitable for the last task. We keep the mode of storytelling relay. In the first gameplay, most of the players don’t know what to do due to the lack of clear directions. To let them get into the situation and control the plot of the ending story, we built a circle of cube. Three of them are colored and separated with other three white cubes. This design could make sure that the story plot would follow a certain path and ensure that we don’t waste too much time on thinking plots.

The following are lines of task 9.

NH: OK, I will start the story with three sentences, and the one on my left should say another three sentences to continue the story, is everybody ready? OK, then we can start from 外生1, what happened after Zhou Yu and Little Chao get married?

外生1: ---------

ZY: However, after two years marriage, Sun Ce(孫策), husband of  Little Chao's sister is assassinated by 曹操's comrade. Little Chao is worried about that Zhou Yu may suffer from the same fate, keep asking him not to go to the field.

外生2: ---------

LC: Though quarreling over whether he should go to the war many times,  Zhou Yu still join Battle of Redcliff.(赤壁之戰) All Little Chao can do is to wait in their empty house. She thinks of the song Zhou Yu used for proposal and sings it very often.

NH: Now 外生3, could you sing that song and continue our story?

外生3: --------

NH: The battle of Redcliff ends; fortunately, Zhou Yu is alive. On his way to home, he gets infected by a disease and dies. His corpses is sent home and Little Chao is infected and dies too. They are buried in a forest together. Amazingly, many butterflies gather on their graves, and gently files away with a light spinning on the sky. That's a wonderful story, thank you for your help to finish it.

　In the end of the story, I add the element of The Butterfly Lovers to increase some romantic atmosphere in the end of the story. In the second gameplay, we did have a great start. Ha says Zhou Yu and Little Chao had twins. But when it was Nadia’s turn, she seemed to encounter some problems in her computer that make her cannot be heard clearly. So we had silence for eight seconds. And much silence in Himits’ turn. Though I told Hazel that she doesn’t have to help us in task9, she does help a lot.

It is not easy to design a game online, but I think we could make it better and funny. We have to care the complexity of the tasks and to think of the potential risk of physical facilities breakdown.