Exchanging Cultures EC Game

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Exchanging Cultures (EC) Game

• EC is a diplomatic game within Second life with
  both short term and long term goals.
• Short term Interact with and complete the games
  within EC
• Long term Create virtual communities and
  relationships based on the exchange of cultural
  items such as dances, art, recipes, clothing, and
  images of other places for travelers/explorers.
• Each player becomes a diplomat who must attempt
  to understand the cultures of the people that
  he/she is building relationships with, as well as
  share elements of his/her own culture

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Game Play

• Each player starts at the World Exchange
  Cultural Center or WECC, which is the
  headquarters of the EC game.
• WECC is represented by a geographic globe which
  will be floating and rotating in the air
• This globe is a gate for accessing continents,
  regions, and cultures that the player will
  interact with by touch the part of the globe that
  he/she wishes to experience
• When a player enters the WECC they receive six
  cultural items, one from each continent and
  category, which they will use to trade with other
  players

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Game Play cont.

• Each continent has six different categories of
  items which must be acquired in order to master
  the continent
• The categories of items are plants, animals,
  dance, food, instrument, dress or clothing
• When a player has all six items for a continent
  he then clicks on the corresponding place on the
  globe, and is teleported to the International
  Reward Room
• In the Reward Room the player leaves his six
  items, and receives a special cultural item from
  that continent which can be used as a required
  item for any other county, essentially it is a
  universal item
• The player also receives one item from each of
  the other continents that he has not yet mastered

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The Globe

• Example of objects

Chopsticks
Drum
Maracas
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Market Oracle

• At the base of the Globe there will be a Market
  Oracle which will facilitate trade among players
• The Market Oracle will be a place where players
  will post what items they have available for
  trade or what items they are seeking
• Players will then be able to contact people who
  have items that theyre seeking
• The Oracle will also give hints to players about
  where they can find various cultural items in
  other areas of the Second Life world.

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Scoring

• Scoring will be based on the number of special
  cultural items that a player has
• Once a player has received all six special items
  (one from each continent) he is considered an
  International Master
• International Masters can then assist other
  players in obtaining items, or build new cultural
  items