[Sugar-devel] Deducto and Color Deducto activities - creating your own game mechanism

[Caroline Meeks]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:

> Caroline,
>
> Thank you. Appreciate your feedback.
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Caroline Meeks <
> caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> This is cool thanks!
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> Is there a way to lower the floor?
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>   I am sorry, but I didn't get this part. Could you please elaborate.
>

One of the Sugar sayings is "Low Floor, No Ceiling" that is its really
really easy to start, very little learning curve to climb, but you can still
do powerful things as you learn more and more.

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>> Is there a version of this game that a 6 year old could have easy success
>> with that would help ramp it up?
>>
>
> Wish if you could share your ideas on how we could work and improve on this
> area. Will having a "hint" feature in the game that pops up after a couple
> of tries, and after viewing 5-8 true boards and false boards makes things
> better?
>

Hmm, I'm not actually very good at designing games but I suggest taking a
look at the Sudoku game and Implode. Maybe start with a very small board and
totally obvious rules?  How can we teach someone who can't read the
instructions on how to play?

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>> Suzanne, the 4th grade teacher at the GPA, has the students play a "Guess
>> my rule" game with shapes. For example, "All right angles" "Only Triangles",
>> "Two sides the same".
>>
>>
> Very interesting. We will be working on developing lesson plans using
> Deducto and Color Deducto this winter. This use-case will be explored in
> detail before we implement this in the activities. Wish if you could provide
> us with lesson plans that teachers at GPA would like us to implement in
> these activities. Thank you very much for sharing these ideas.
>

Right now they play it with cut out shapes. One student makes a secret rule
(e.g. all right angles) and the other student selects shapes and is told if
they match the rule. They have to guess the rule.

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>> Do we have a place to put game ideas so programmers could pick them up if
>> they want a project?
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> Not at this juncture. We'll start this section within the next 2 days.
>

Great!

Thanks for all the good work!!!

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Manu
>
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>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Manusheel Gupta <manu at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dan,
>>>
>>> Ashita has been working on a user guide for "create your own game"
>>> mechanism for Deducto and Color Deducto activities. The guide is not yet
>>> complete and needs a flow chart, but should be good enough to walk you
>>> through this feature. Please find it attached along with this e-mail.
>>>
>>> On a separate note, this feature is open to development, and we will see
>>> more enhancements soon.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Manu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Ashita Dadlani <ashita at seeta.in>
>>> Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:34 AM
>>> Subject: revised color deducto documentation
>>> To: Manusheel Gupta <manu at seeta.in>,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ashita Dadlani
>>> Software Engineer, Products and Services
>>> Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities
>>> http://seeta.in
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
>> 617-500-3488 - Office
>> 505-213-3268 - Fax
>>
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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
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