Thank you everyone

Thank you everyone for participating in this gaming project. Thank you students for staying with us although we had some problems. Thank you readers for following this blog.

This project is now over and we’ll start planning the next one in the autumn. We will consider the feedback from the students and try to make this course better. Have a nice summer everyone.

CIV

Because we didn't got the multi player game working, we needed to play single player. So I decided to choose Russia as my country. Now I'm planning to build the greatest army in the universe. I really don't give a damn about my folk. After I have developed my army as much as it needs to, I'm just simply going to kill everyone in the earth and see what happens.

So umm yeah. There's my house. No more no less. Pretty simple and easy to build. There are also a fireplace and a secret gave (that isn't so secret anymore) in it.

Final words...

So...
I think this was a refreshing course. It was kinda nice to have much a different course, among every else.
I think Minecraft worked well with the course, because it's such a creative game. It's simple enough to learn, but complex enough to keep you interested. Only thing that I think held it back in this course, was the multiplayer. I didn't really enjoy, when the server mode changed from creative to survival, just because there was really no "survival" there, and I personnally don't enjoy gathering all the recourses, if there's not even a little bit survival in it: monsters, hunger etc.
I didn't really like CIV and maybe that's why I don't think it should be in this course. It's much harder to learn than Minecraft, and quite frankly, I dont think it's as fun.
Overall, I think this course was fun, screwing around in Minecraft and all that stuff. But there's still a lot to improve. I think you could do much different games on this course. Example: play a game that's heavily story-driven, and the students have to write an essay about it.

Farewell

Minecraft build

So in Minecraft, I built this.
I went with somewhat of a Ancient Greek architecture. It has piston-doors and inside it has a little fountain and a testificate.
It's not much, but I have build some other stuff in my world, but they are mostly based around screwing around with redstone, so I wont show them now.

Minecraft bonus

Here is what me and my friends managed to build in Minecraft. We made up our own server and started to build different kind of things. The woodhouse in front of picture is enchantmen room. The lava building behind the enchantment room is supposed to be a beacon but I think it should be little bit bigger to work. We have also our own ship where we can spend our time. The big tree in middle of picture is house, believe it or not! I found out that Minecraft is enjoyable game and I like it very much so we decided to spend our time in good way and do lots of homework because in this course homework was actually pretty fun!

Difficulties to victory

This course started in a messy situation. Things didn't work at all and everyone were quite annoyed. I really wanted to play civilization on multiplayer but we didn't make it. It was a huge disappointment. But in the end this course was fun and I enjoyed it. I think that in next year this will be huge succeed! This course improved my english skills little bit which is a miracle because my english sucks. :)

Teemu

Civilization continues

I told in my first post about civilization that I plan to destroy Roman empire. I did that quite easily because I had war elefants which are as good as pretorians. Now I put my attention in Greece empire because they are in my way of dominate. I am the best in research too because I balanced well with economy during war time. My civilization holds western -, middle - and eastern europe and soon the whole Europe when I destroy Greece empire.

Teemu

Minecrafting

I didn't make it to play even this in multiplayer when other does. I think that I wasn't good enough in this course. :p 

I am really novice at minecraft so my house looks simple. And that it is. Its a small house made of bricks. And it doesn't even have the roof because its not finished. I made the house next to a lake because that place seemed fun. 

Teemu

Civilization single player

We didn't make it to play in multiplayer at this course. So I played singleplayer with German empire. I started scenario called earth. I have played it before and I really like it because it is based on true world map and empires. I chose Germany so I started in middle Europe where was fight for living space so I have planned that I destroy Roman empire before they get pretorians which are really good military unit. I still have to balance with war and peace because during war time economy gets worse and then I get far behind in research.

Teemu

Starting civ

Sadly I missed last contact lesson, so Im little bit confused what I should tell in this blog. So I started the CIV and first thing in my mind was getting in to war with someone. So first time I played it and got straight into war. That didnt work out so well. Then i needed to get new strategy. My strategy was being nice to everyone and not getting in to war with other empires. That worked out little bit better but still I think I cant play CIV without some helping guide....
Now I have few cities and lots and lots of warriors so i can start a war where I have some possibilities to win.

Civilization IV

So here is my empire at the beginning and also in the end, because I started war and now I cant expand because I didnt have enough warriors or archers to beat my enemies. I still have no clue what I should do in this game. I just keep pressing end turn button and thats how I keep going. Sadly I had to take this photo with my phone, because my computer refused to take screencapture. I still have lot of learning in this game.