week 3

Game of the week: Win White House

Learning Element

The element of learning in this game, is finding out how the electoral college works. The game teaches how  presidential candidates get elected. The game starts off as you are picking what party that you want to be republican or democrat, and then you select topics that are your main talking points.  The player learns that they is a lot of fundraising and battling for big states like California Texas New York and Florida.

System Dynamic

The game is like a board game in where they two party take turns and they have to battle for states using four different options, fundraising polls, visits and ads. Using these four tools you are able to win and lose different states. In the game there is an economy and that dollar points. With the dollars points you could make ads and take polls to find out what the state’s key point is.

Fun and Accessibility

The game is honestly hard to learn how to play. I was lost in the first round. The game is not that fun because it is extreme repetitive, and it gets boring after a while doing the same thing over and over again. The fact that is really repetitive is a fun killer.

I would rate the game 5 of 10.

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About Robert O. Duncan

I'm an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Sciences at City University of New York, with joint appointments in Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. I also have an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at New York University. My research interests include cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging, glaucoma, neurodegenerative disorders, attention, learning, memory, educational technology, pedagogy, and developing games for education.

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