Author Topic: Three Kingdoms War Game (Read 12170 times)

Jonni · « **on:** October 08, 2014, 04:45:29 PM »

Here's a PPT game I made inspired by strategy games such as Total War. Faintly.
It's set in Korea during the Later Three Kingdoms period.
Student's seem to love it, though it can be rather competitive.

I use this as a dictation game with boards so you'll have to come up with your questions / expressions.

Someone could add question functionality, that would be cool.

jwharrison30 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2014, 05:51:19 PM »

This looks great, thank you!

Uncandy · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2014, 06:21:09 PM »

This looks excellent, can't wait to try it in class

emwsu · « **Reply #3 on:** October 10, 2014, 11:28:38 AM »

This looks great! And they can re-battle as sites as well!

I've been thinking of having some sort of improv speak off- rather than a dance off. This may be how they battle.

moc-moc-a-moc! · « **Reply #4 on:** October 10, 2014, 03:40:27 PM »

This is amazingly innovative, thanks.

laschutz · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2014, 11:02:44 AM »

I was just about to try a similar, no-tech game in my classes this week, but this looks way better. How long do you usually play for? Could it realistically last the whole period?

Jonni · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2014, 11:25:17 AM »

Yeah this could easily last a period (I did it as an after school class recently), as long as one team is not significantly better at English than the others, because there is a lot of ebb and flow. Make sure you have enough phrases ready!

adkav · « **Reply #7 on:** October 14, 2014, 04:01:05 PM »

Played it in my third grade middle school today.

It went only really well.

I said the beginnings of sentences aloud, and they had to finish those sentences related to the lesson on whiteboards. I then wrote down the "1st place" verbs from the "winning" sentences on the board, so they couldn't use them again. It's like real war... it gets harder the longer you're in it. Haha.

My third graders are split into three groups already in class... each group contains 10 students in 5 row pairs. So, I gave each group one marker, one white board, and one dry eraser. I rolled a digital die to see which row went for each round... if I rolled a 6, each group could decide which pairing from their group would answer the question.

I'm thinking of adding a timed element for the white board passing as if to say "in war, you must be prepared and ready." Maybe like, after I roll the die, you have 10 seconds pass to the board or something like that before I start reading the question.

laschutz · « **Reply #8 on:** October 14, 2014, 05:40:41 PM »

Thanks for this game Jonni. It's been going well for me in most of my high school classes.

The only issue I've had is when one team dominates; then the other teams tend to give up... so just be careful in making teams equal. As an equalizer I've been assigning each student a number, and having all the #1s write the answer to the first question, then the #2s, so you don't have that one overly eager kid writing and winning every question. For the most part the kids get really into it and it's a great game. I've only had a couple classes where it falls flat because one or two of the teams give up.

I've had a couple situations when one team loses all their cities and castle pretty early on in the game, and they're not on the map at all. In order to keep the game from ending super quickly between the other two teams, and also obviously to keep the losing team participating, I tell them they must still play. If they get 1st place on a question, they can RPS for their castle back. If they get second place, they can RPS for a city of their choosing back.

jimmythefoot · « **Reply #9 on:** November 19, 2014, 04:19:09 PM »

Thanks for this idea, it was a big hit with my classes. I used it as an end-of-unit revision game for several levels, so I added a few slides of questions and answers. Obviously you'll have to change the material to be relevant to your own classes.

IanTedstone · « **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2014, 12:38:16 PM »

Hello!

My classes also loved it so thank you. I changed a couple of things. I named the stars real cities and made it roughly geographically accurate. I also made the circles bigger that change the stars colour.

Regards,

Ian

Jonni · « **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2014, 03:06:55 PM »

It's really gratifying to see this idea get used and adapted.

Originally I tried to name the places after major cities of the 3 Kingdoms period, but it was hard to find information, and also it was clear that the old major cities were very unevenly distrubuted throughout the peninsula. But you did a good job with modern city locations, Ian.

Does anyone think it would be a total disaster if I tried a similar game based on the old regional Eastern powers -- China, Japan, with Korea caught in the middle? I would love to simulate sea combat too somehow, especially after watching Myeong Rang.

Thanks for adding question functionality Jimmy!
Ships as question buttons is a great idea. When I get some time I'll incorporate this (credited) into a more polished version up top.

Epistemology · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2014, 02:46:59 PM »

A really nice idea. An idea for a bigger version of this game, to put in 6 full teams, may be to do a simplified version of RoTK. Students should know the story and the major characters. Such a ppt could have the 3 major forces, along with 3 minor ones

seantheman · « **Reply #13 on:** November 27, 2014, 04:14:45 PM »

Great job thanks. So many things you can do with this idea.
The modified ppt by MayorHaggar is a little better, also to that version...you should unlclick the

"on mouse click" box for transitioning to the next slide.
This will save you coming to the end of the PPT if you happen to click outside one of the small buttons

Jonni · « **Reply #14 on:** December 02, 2014, 05:28:48 PM »

Epistemology, what is RoTK? Googling turned up Tolkein's Return of the King, which would actually be quite a cool 6 team setting (lets see, maybe: Gondor, Mordor, elves, dwarves, Isenguard and Harad), but I don't think that's what you meant.

Epistemology · « **Reply #15 on:** December 02, 2014, 06:09:06 PM »

Quote from: Jonni on December 02, 2014, 05:28:48 PM

Epistemology, what is RoTK? Googling turned up Tolkein's Return of the King, which would actually be quite a cool 6 team setting (lets see, maybe: Gondor, Mordor, elves, dwarves, Isenguard and Harad), but I don't think that's what you meant.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms. No idea why its referred to as RoTK when RotTK or RTK would be more appropriate, but it stuck for some reason.
That being said, a LoTR one would kick ass...but that could be harder to put together.

a2volle · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2015, 11:47:23 AM »

Didn't Jonni or someone else eventually make a world-war version of Three Kingdoms? I could have sworn I saw it once but can't find it now.

Falling_Sky · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2015, 01:47:07 PM »

I don't have the original link, but I have the game I can upload (I'll delete it if someone can find the original link).

a2volle · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2015, 02:32:22 PM »

Very much obliged!

My kids loved the Three Kingdoms game and I want to play once more, but I thought it would even more fun to up the stakes for the second go-round.

kyndo · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2016, 01:49:50 PM »

Quote from: a2volle on December 17, 2015, 11:47:23 AM

Didn't Jonni or someone else eventually make a world-war version of Three Kingdoms? I could have sworn I saw it once but can't find it now.

I played IanTedstone's version of the game, and the kids loved it.
However, I also thought that an international version would be amusing, so I stole this idea and made my own template. The three kingdoms are now Korea, Japan, and China.

The map is a little bit more interactive, and a bit cleaner (I prefer a more minimalist style). Rather than stars that change colour, the regions themselves do.

Also, to choose their kingdoms, the kids pick a colour and aren't told which country it represents until after they've chosen. Their responses are always good for a few laughs... surprisingly, the "Japan" team gets really into taking over Korea!

Here's the file, including the question print-out that the teacher reads from (for those teachers too lazy to come up with their own lol).

Directions are in the slide notes!

Enjoy!

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