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Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« on: June 24, 2011, 02:12:41 pm »
After the events at Char, Jim Raynor and his intrepid band of rebels decided to take it easy after rescuing Sarah Kerrigan, the former infamous Queen of Blades, from the clutches of the rapacious Zerg. Intending to take a break for a while, they decided to return to Earth to teach Korean children English...

Edit (7-7-11): Not content to leave well enough alone, I decided to revisit my old StarCraft 2 game and improve it by applying to it all of the things I learned through the other games I've made and toyed with. This is now more like a traditional bomb game and less like a linear set of questions: there are now three sets of 15 questions all in a bomb game-style arrangement (though like before, the students can choose which set of 15 questions to tackle first). The three paths (A, B, and C) can represent different levels of difficulty (e.g. an "easy" "medium" and "hard" set of questions) or specific types of questions (e.g. a set of speaking questions, listening questions, and reading questions). I've also made the text fields for the questions bigger (and made them look more "StarCraft-y"), added more animations, and I've clarified the special items. This file is saved and uploaded as a .pptx.

Okay, tl;dr: in short, this is a very nice Starcraft II - themed game. Kids will love it because when they're not in Hagwons learning English after school they're in the PC Bangs playing Starcraft until 2 am...

Some requisite legalese: thanks to all of the fine people at Blizzard for making this possible. All respective trademarks and copyrighted material are the property of their respective rights holders. And get Starcraft II - it's an awesome game, and you can make the excuse that you're learning more about Korean culture...
« Last Edit: July 08, 2011, 03:50:45 pm by rampancy »
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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (Quiz Game)
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2011, 03:02:01 pm »
I may or may not have seen someone else do a starcraft bomb game like this. with what you provided. i see real potential to an alternative to the old bomb game, mario game, and doraemon?

a different game to suit your taste!

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (Quiz Game)
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2011, 08:31:15 am »
Hey thanks for sharing...i have a serious love/hate relationship with these types of bomb games/mario games...but i'm sure my kids will love it!

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2011, 03:53:15 pm »
Thanks for all of the positive comments! I forgot to mention - I was able to get it to work as a .ppt file, so I've posted that too. I used some fancy slide transitions and animations for the .pptx that might not work as a .ppt in older versions of PowerPoint, so you may see some animation bugs as a result of that. I've also used some fonts which may be uncommon, so there may be some formatting errors as well from that (though I tried to use fonts included with Office for Windows as much as I could).
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my purpose in this universe? (Answers: 'Cause you are. 'Cause you do. 'Cause I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one.)"

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2011, 04:33:48 pm »
sounds good, i will check this out :)

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2011, 04:43:28 pm »
Nice game, well done.

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2011, 07:57:25 pm »
Thanks! Coming from you, I really appreciate the compliment!
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my purpose in this universe? (Answers: 'Cause you are. 'Cause you do. 'Cause I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one.)"

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2011, 08:39:42 am »
Where are your questions?

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Re: Starcraft II: Wings of English (3x15Q Bomb Game Template)
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2011, 10:41:19 am »
This is a game template (which is why I marked it as a Bomb Game Template), so it's up to you to supply the questions. I did post full games based on an older version of this template for Grade 5 Lesson 7 ("How's Your Sister?") and Grade 6 Lesson 7 ("My Father is a Pilot.").
"You shouldn't ask yourself such worthless questions. Aim higher. Try this: why am I here? Why do I exist, and what is
my purpose in this universe? (Answers: 'Cause you are. 'Cause you do. 'Cause I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one.)"