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Name:  Abdulla Zeyoudi     Section CMN

Name of Game: Joy Kingdom

Date of Release: August 2012 AgeRating: 7years Publishers: Sojo Studios

What is the objective of this game?

To improve the life of animals in the real words, as Sojo donates from 20% revenues to 50% of their profit plus straw beds and food bowls.

What genre does this game fall under?

Adventure games.

How hard is this game?  Is it easy to learn how to play?

It’s not that hard just follow the hint that provided by the games and you start to see the big idea behind. (Clean the spirit of animals from shadow in the first area which will rise your experience to advance for the seconds levels.Each animal need different levels of experience).

 Does it remain challenging as you advance?

Joy Kingdom creates a powerful experience by emphasizing the positive in its game, abstracting the negative to a fantastical shadow.

What is your overall opinion of the game?  Why?

I like this game,It’s very interested way to help and care for animals around the world even the animals in the wild.

Evaluate the graphics.

I like the graphics 8 out of 10.

Evaluate the sound.

Sound is good 7 out of 10.

Will this game hold up to repeated replaying?  Why / why not?

Yes, Every time you choose a different animals to take care off and to flow how it grow and improve.

How does this game compare to other games in the same genre?

The idea behind the game is how to purify animals’ spirit from shadow and at the same time you donate for real animals to take care of.

Give an overall rating for this game and explain why.

I like this game, It just open my mind to a new way in how to care for animals around the world.Also i found that this game is motivate us to experience how animal grow.

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Jane McGonigal from Brooklyn California, design games for the past 10 years and she looking forward to save the real world by learning new skills from playing games.

3 billion hours of online gaming a week, she thinks not enough and people should play more hours around 21 billion hours a week, so they can save the world.

The first thing make gamers feel good is the Epic Win which encourage them to continue and develop new skill and her example is world of war craft where people meet, collaborate and assist each other.

Players spent 5.9 million years to achieve the azura quest.

 Online game will make us evolve to be better species in the future and she gives example of first evolving of our ancestor.

US children from 5th grade to high school spend 10,000 hours on gaming.

Gamers like to help each other which bond them to getter which create strong social network.

The result of Edward Casanova research show that by playing games person will bring the best out of it.

 A great famine hit the kingdom, so they infinite dice games to make people forget about their hungers by eating in one day and playing the next day, so at the end they survived for 18 years, but didn’t end there, so the king decide to play epic games and split the kingdom of Lydia in two some of them stay. The other have to search for new lands and it seem that they make it after all as they pass there DNA to the Roman Empire.

She made three online game one called world without oil, which make the player to live whiteout oil in 2007 around 700 players play this game. The second super Struck human have 23 to survive and they have to save the globe. The last one is game evoke certified by World Bank institute.

Gamers are specials they can make changes and save planets Earth from extension.

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Jane McGonigal:The game that can give you 10 extra years of live

How to increase the live span of each individual by 7.5minates?

How to spend those extra minutes in your life?

Top five regret of the dead?

- I wish i have worked so hard.

- I wish stay in touch with family and friends.

- I wish to live my life happily.

- I wish experience my true self.

- I wish live my true dreams.

Playing games and specially Avatars games make us more creative, emptions and it manage our life.

Top 5 things boost your happy life?

- My priority change I’m not afraid to do what make me happy.

- I feel close to my family and friends

- I understand my self-betters.

- I have new meaning to my life.

- I am able to focus on my dreams and goals.

Four type of games that gives you 10 extra years of life.

- Physical

- Mental

- Emotional

- Social

The upper four activities increase the life span of each individual by 7.5minates.

How to spend those 7.5minetes by doing more exercise to gain more bonus life until you achieve the 10 extra years which will give you more times to play more games.