Thursday, February 23, 2012

notes 2-23

My job is to finish all of the scenes that I am going to put for the Game Demo. Since I have to have completed the Intro, Team Introduction, Audience, Gameplay, only that I have completed the Intro and the Team Intro, due to codes, I just need to complete the other ones. I also have to finish the Learning Goal, the Fun Factor, the Smart Factor, Style Factor, and Originality Factor. Each time I have made changes to my Game Demo, I have to save it as my Team Name_ and whatever scene we are in. For example, if I am doing the Intro, I will save it as UnknownGameIntro.I also have to add the previous button for the players to go back, if they didn't understand the instructions. When I am in the Audience scene, I have to get away from the line that says,"This game is for everyone!" I have to say this specific age.For the Style Factor, since my game is about the Presidential Race, for the background I can put stripes, due to the U.S. flag. So far, I am completing the scenes, it's just that I have to put codes, so that the scene can go to the other ones.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Behind the Swoosh:Nike

In Globaloria we watched a YouTube video about Nike sweatshops in Indonesia. A man named Jim Keady was going to work as head soccer coach at St. Andrews Catholic School in New Jersey home to the best soccer team in the world and Nike wanted to sponsor them. Keady started to do research and found sweatshops in Indonesia where they made $1.25 a day. Keady went to live as one of the workers for a couple of months and almost starved to death and lived in basically slave quarters and they had horrible work conditions. On his way back to the states he went to Nike campus and found Phil Knight at a eating with a friend. Keady asks Knight all these questions and he just ignores him. Keady now goes to high school schools and inform students about the working conditions in Indonesia.

My opinion is that if they want to work let them work I know its messed up they can still do things about it but if they don't want our help then why give it? Its as simple as that. I will still buy Nike Products because if we don't buy then their not even going to get paid and you guys wouldn't like to see that either.