Talk:Requirements for Cook It
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Teach_Culinary_Vocabulary
According to the Meeting Minutes of the 11th June, this game should teach vocabulary for kitchen utensils - It was confirmed Jun 2nd that the utensils vocab is extra to the curriculum, but relevant to the game. (Garret)
As it is going to be as interactive as possible, I think it would be nice to have a tool-tip text for all onjects on the screen regardless of curriculum. They utensils won't be part of the game play. Which bring me to the Name of the game Cook It! I don't think there will be cooking involved, should rename it? (Mark)
Satisfy_Syllabus
When the game is written, how can we confirm that it has satisfied the syllabus (or part of)? How might we measure that? (Garret)
The Cultural Aspects
At the end of the meeting on July 2nd a few questions about "the cultural aspects" of the games came up. There were different ideas about what this meant, so it's worth discussing further.
Should cultural aspects be depicted in every game or just the designated game?
All games should try to impart some cultural information. There will also be a designated game (design still to be decided?).
What constitutes "cultural elements"?
This could potentially include:
- geography: cities, landmarks, rivers, mountains, beaches
- customs & festivals: religious, secular
- daily life: urban, rural, work/home life
- architecture
- dress
- historic details: modern, medieval, ancient
- music: traditional, popular, classical
- famous people
- literature: writers, fictional characters, stories
- popular culture: tv, cartoons
- sports: teams, managers, competitions, kits, fans, champions
Defining what we want to depict will help us to source supporting media/materials, and will help to decide how to incorporate it into the games.
How can we incorporate these into games?
This depends on what we want to include. Some preliminary ideas were:
- Include clickable pop-ups within games to show information as snippets of text (in English?)
- Have a border around the games showing cultural details
- The theme of some games can inherently satisfy the criteria. Cook it! can show regional foods, Geography can show regional geographies and architecture. The themes of other games are not so obviously linked to cultural details.
Who will decide if we have included enough cultural information, and how will they decide that?
what are the acceptance criteria for this?
