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Offline CultureShock

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Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« on: March 11, 2011, 07:52:13 am »
UPDATED 4/8/11 (Changed the Rush feature, and hopefully fixed the bugged sound clip.)


Here is a new version of the iconic bomb game. I decided to make a Starcraft version since it seems to be pretty popular here. I’ll be honest; I too am a fan! It works in a very similar fashion to the other bomb games, but uses “minerals” instead of points. It should be fairly straight forward if you read the “Rules” slides, but if you have any questions – feel free to ask!  After you click the answer part of the slide, just one more click will retrieve the “reward” and the effects should all be automatic. So don’t over click!

 I started this project during a desk warming venture with little interference aside from my own laziness. After I began this project, our cities MOE decided to filter our internet. Almost every Starcraft site was blocked for me, so as you can imagine this proved difficult. I used proxy sites, but those too became blocked. This hampered many things including my sound selection (until I found this unblocked nugget http://wavs.unclebubby.com/starcraft/), so if someone has a good Zerg rush (zerglings of course!) sound file -- that would be awesome. Feel free to edit this in any manner you see fit. I hope this will get the kids excited to participate (As this is my entire goal). Enjoy!

So without further adieu,

See attached*
File 1 & 2 no longer available. (Downloaded 758 & 296 times.)
File 3 - Slide 2 sound clip.
FIle 4 - Updated/fixed 97-2003 format
File 5 - Updated/fixed current version.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 07:53:09 am »
Also, if you happen to be good with some technical things, I thought it would be cool to add some music to the first slide to make it a more “themed” bomb game. Ideally using a small portion of a score like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJA5mc3pCBE which is actually an amazing track composed for a game.

p.s. If you’re a mega SC fan you’ll notice a few differences. One such difference being the wraith sound for stimpack, but I thought it was fitting.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 08:07:17 am »
NICE

Thank you for this! I teach at an all boys middle school and a starcraft themed game will be a hit!

Kurt
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 08:10:50 am »
F***  Yeah! hahaha...this is SOOOOO COOL....much obliged for your time and effort! :) My middleschool boys will love this!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2011, 08:14:27 am »
Feels good, man.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 08:16:06 am »
I know nothing about StarCraft but I will def use this. Is the second Pic supposed to have sound? Because it doens't
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2011, 08:18:03 am »
I'll try this next week in my after-school class, I think it'll be a hit, thanks for the work you put into this!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2011, 08:19:49 am »
dayam!  Kickass work... I love it more than my students will.. hahha
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2011, 08:23:04 am »
WOW!!!  Thank you--this is awesome.  I start teaching night classes at my all-boys' high school next week.  Since I know nothing about Starcraft, I think I'll let them write questions for the game!  ;D  Truly amazing PPT!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 08:36:10 am »
Hm. This is weird - it won't open on my PPT, even the .ppt, not the .pptx, and when I open it with OpenOffice, it loses almost all of its functionality.

Anyone else have this? It looks rad, but it's not working for me~
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 09:37:26 am »
Quote from: cad123 on March 11, 2011, 08:16:06 am
I know nothing about StarCraft but I will def use this. Is the second Pic supposed to have sound? Because it doens't

Yes it is, I even edited the sound to be school appropriate. I tried uploading it separate, but this forum doesn't accept wma files. I'll try to take care of that later.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2011, 09:39:03 am »
Quote from: CultureShock on March 11, 2011, 09:37:26 am
Yes it is, I even edited the sound to be school appropriate. I tried uploading it separate, but this forum doesn't accept wma files. I'll try to take care of that later.

The forum accepts .zip and .rar files if you know how to put it inside those. Alternatively you could convert it to a .wav so it could be embedded in the PPT itself, if you know how.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2011, 09:41:37 am »
I'll see if I can figure it out after my classes today. Also, thanks for the kind words! =D
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2011, 09:46:11 am »
Also, not specific to this, but I'm a bomb game newbie.

If the team answers correctly, they get the minerals, right? If they answer wrong, they get nothing? I think I get that.

So... for Infested and Nuke, if they students get it wrong, they get that, and if they get it right, they just avoid it and stay at the same point level?

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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2011, 09:47:50 am »
Brilliant!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2011, 09:57:46 am »
Quote from: cowboyshirt on March 11, 2011, 09:46:11 am
Also, not specific to this, but I'm a bomb game newbie.

If the team answers correctly, they get the minerals, right? If they answer wrong, they get nothing? I think I get that.

The way I play is to let a team choose their question, get an answer out of them (or the class if they won't speak), then give them whatever the slide offers.  My students love the unpredictability of the game more than anything, so a team always gets their due from a slide whether they answer correctly or not.
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2011, 10:07:03 am »
Oh lord.  My boys are going to tear my classroom apart over this.  감사합니다!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2011, 10:22:49 am »
This is AMAZE-BALLS!  Thanks for posting!
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2011, 10:25:51 am »
I am new to the bomb game. Could someone provide brief instructions just to make sure the newbies aren't  missing anything!?!

Thanks in advance :)
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Re: Starcraft bomb game (It’s about time!)
« Reply #19 on: March 11, 2011, 10:29:59 am »
Quote from: cowboyshirt on March 11, 2011, 09:46:11 am
Also, not specific to this, but I'm a bomb game newbie.

If the team answers correctly, they get the minerals, right? If they answer wrong, they get nothing? I think I get that.

So... for Infested and Nuke, if they students get it wrong, they get that, and if they get it right, they just avoid it and stay at the same point level?

Similar to Aadi, I too let the students choose the number, and then give them a fair amount of time to answer. If they don't, I usually let another team "steal" the question, or I give them a hint! So I award the minerals accordingly.

I don't let the kids avoid the "reward/consequences" of the slides. I make sure that some how the slide is answered haha!

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