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 a
  number of cultural items that they will need to
  complete the challenges
• Next, the player chooses a region on the globe
  and touches it, the avatar is then transported to
  the corresponding culturally-themed room

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Game Play cont.

• Once in a room the player will face a challenge
  before he/she can return to the main room
• The player will need the items they received at
  the beginning in order to complete these
  challenges
• If the challenge is properly completed then the
  player receives a reward, another cultural item
  from the room
• The player may then return to the main room and
  choose his next destination/challenge
• Players may track their progress

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The Globe

• Click on a continent, and then your avatar
  will be transported to the corresponding room
  with five cultural objects.
• Example of objects

Chopsticks
Drum
Maracas
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Building with cultural rooms
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Continental Rooms

• Rooms will feature riddles, quiz questions,
  descriptions, and games for the players
• The player may be asked a question about an
  object in his or her avatars possession.
• The questions and riddles will help the player
  figure out
• what object to leave in the room before
  departing.
• For example
• They are made from the fruit of the higuera tree,
  which are
• common throughout Puerto Rico. After taking out
  the pulp
• of the fruit through two holes that are bored
  through the
• dried shell, small pebbles are introduced into
  them. What instrument
• should you leave in this room?

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South American Room
Example of room (Prototype)
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Cultural Items