Party game

far this semester in my Critical Play class, we have been developing a framework to talk about “values” in video games throughout different game elements. In reflecting back to all the readings assigned so far in this course, the two I enjoyed reading the most was chapter one in Helen Nissenbaum and Mary Flanagan’s book, Values at Play in Digital Games and “Once More With Feeling: Game Design Patterns for Learning in the Affective Domain” written by Claire Dormann, Jennifer R. Whitson, and Max…

of the pit of despair I had sunk into: Lusher was starting an Academic Games team, and she thought I might enjoy playing. I was more than somewhat hesitant; she was more than somewhat…

Starting in October of 2015 I was working with a registered dietitian by the name of Susan Lang, who works at ShopRite in Flemington N.J. The first volunteering opportunity had been to help Susan with a project that was not related to the real service learning, but to her own job responsibilities. Nevertheless, I was asked to stand at a display table and hand out various assortments of healthy store made salads, to ShopRite associates, and given a short script to discuss the taste of each…

precision, and perfection on this searing, blistering August day in 2017. Eye black streaks our faces and dirt is smothered on our deep blue uniforms. Undoubtedly, we are sore from the games we played throughout the week. Game after game, we pitched, hit, and ran. Over and over again. Afterwards, we would party in the hotel, crash the swimming pool, eat at restaurants, and compete at bowling alleys. Despite the entertainment, when it is time to play, my best friends transform into a softball…

September of 2012, I was first introduced to the Fallout franchise when my adopted brother bought the game and forced me to play it. The game has become a real inspiration to me and now is a symbol of my life, my career, and what I want. Fallout has become a symbol of my life because I have been studying and researching the game my entire life. I first had to learn all possible outcomes of the game which proved to be a more daunting task than I had anticipated. To explain the fact, I will go…

For example, In movies like “That’s my boy” When Hansolo had his engagement party him and his friends played baseball and although it was a little tense it brought everyone together leading them to have a fun and exciting evening, as well as in “Chicken Little” although Chicken Little was the least person people thought would win the game for the team at the end of the day Chicken Little brought victory to his team and his community leading them to an unexpected…

could not walk are carried in and place in mats or buckled chairs. There were around six toddlers and four infants brought to the room. The walking toddlers that have been in the room before run in the class and go straight to their special space or games. The other toddlers who were there for the first time…

Have you ever been to a super bowl party or seen the seen the super bowl? In this story I will tell the time when I was in a football championship game. Well it might not be the super bowl, but we worked hard like it was. Read my story to find out if we win, at night, on turf, at Dalzell Field. The whole season only one team went undefeated, the Colts. I played on the colts with a lot of my friends. My coach told us that the practice will be harder than games, and they were by a lot. We had to…

I can remember when I was fourteen years old playing in the Florida Soccer League becoming a very prominent player in the state. I was growing so much as player while making my coaches and family proud. I always was seen as a special player to all my coaches in Florida, but that would change in the eyes of other soccer coaches when I moved Georgia. This was a life changing experience for me because of the adjustments I had to make to my playing style. I never had to face so much adversity in the…

use the tv to watch the hockey games, he’d be cheering for goals and yelling at the referees, and I would always be so confused. “What are they doing?” i’d ask my dad. He’d only reply with, “playing hockey,” and then he’d go back to the game. I never understood why he was so into the game until I got older and ended up watching it next to him. Now I still ask that same question, only its towards the referee’s. “Crap calls, that's what.” Dad always got into the games, actually my whole family…