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The environment we are currently living in are suffering from pollution . Our oceans are being filled with trash, our forests are chopped down. And our skies are filled with pollution with greenhouse gas.

Computer Systems improve the quality of our designs.

The project will be using computer systems such as games to educate people about the environment.

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During the process of doing this project. I will learn about how to create an app that can educate. I might also learn new information about the environment we live in.

I am interested in this subject because I feel the need to spread awareness to other people who can one day save the world from permanent and irreversible damage to the environment.

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The area I will be working on would be the environment and games. Combining these two things together should spark the children's excitement to learn.

The kind of app I will be making would be a 2D game, although this might change later on. Because this suits combining the game with another subject.

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I am making this app for third graders because younger individuals have more will and interest to learn around themselves. They would have a mindset to not harm the environment.

This is important because if we do not take actions immediately we would face environmental changes we've never seen before.

They will get information and knowledge about how we are polluting and slowly destroying the environment, they will also learn and how to preserve it.

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1. Computer Program - to be able to construct an app, we need to first find an app that construct the app.

2. How to use Adobe Xd (Tutorial)-  This would be important because I would need to learn how to construct an add before constructing it.

3. How is the environment being affected by us? - I would need knowledge so I can put it into the app in order to educate.

4. What is C.A.D? (Computer Aided Design)

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1. There are thousands of programs that constructs apps out there, such as smartbidnet, but they are all charged. The only program I did find that is not charged is Adobe Xd

3. Humans have impacted the environment in many ways such as pollution, climate change, and deforestation.
- Greenhouse gas such as cow-fart and Carbon dioxide are released into the air causing the heat to be locked inside. And most of it comes from either carbon emissions and red meat farms.

3. To get wood, humans cut trees, to farm, we cut trees, to get land for building, we cut trees. The amount trees we cut are so large we do not have enough time to replenish it. so far about 40% of the amazon rain forest have been cleared and the action is irreversible.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-human-impacts-environment/

4. CAD is computer assisted design. According o Autodesk, CAD is a technology used by architects, designers, drafters, and engineers. It allows the users to build their concepts and construction documentation through photo-realistic renderings, and simulate how a design performs in the real world.

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Existing product:
Tetris is an existing game where you try to connect block pieces together to destroy a level while trying to stay alive for as long as possible. The game is really simple and does not contain complicated things. to be able to achieve a good score in this game, you needed fast reflexes and good hand-eye coordination.
- Release Date: 1984
- Controls: Simple controls, buttons to turn the puzzle pieces.
- Graphics: Pixelated and not colored originally , as newer versions updates the game it has better graphics.
- Age groups: Appropriate for all age groups
- Platforms: Nintendo entertainment platform, Gameboy.
Conclusion:
- I would like the level of simplicity in my game so it is easier for kids to understand and play the game properly.
- I would not like the reflexes to be involved since if it is all about it it wouldn't teach kids any information about the environment.
- I would like the graphics to be pixelated since it doesn't need to be to high quality. but colored because kids are interested in colorful things.

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The game boy is a handheld 8bit game console created by Nintendo. It was designed to be carried by hand. It has pixelated graphics and is uncolored though it has a green shade.
Release Date: 1989
Controls: It has the simple buttons controls consisting of 4 arrows pointing at up, down, left, and right, A, B, Select, and start button.
Features: To play a game on gameboy. You'll have to use a disk-like cartridge and insert it into the machine to play the game.
Graphics:

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I am going to make an interactive game that is fun and can educate children about the environment we live in and how to preserve it.

The app will be a mini game such as Tetris that is not too hard for younger students to understand. Games which attracts children are the ones with lots of color and interesting content. I plan to have most of the content interactive and fun like in video games a some parts like a quiz and gives information about the environment. However, In my opinion, the most important part of a game is to have a rewarding system, like this, the kids will actually have a goal to work towards and be engaged in the game. To maximize the information we can give to the Children, I want to also make a test feature. Which gives you a test based on what you have learned and will be extremely rewarded if completed correctly. This gives children a sense of confidence and pride. This can drive them to keep going and continue to play the game even giving them more information.

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To be able to determine how successful the program was, we would need to see how much the 3rd graders have learned over the course of using the app.

If the 3rd graders had little to none understanding about the environment, I would not have done a very great job. If the 3rd graders shows understanding and concerns about the environment, it means they have received information which means I did a good job.

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I have conducted some research from A2 and A3 which will be extremely helpful later on in the app building.

For this project I have decided to use a computer program to construct an app. The app I've chosen is adobe Xd. It is free, and it is reliable. I've learned a bit about how I would use it to construct an app and I would need a course to fully understand how it works.

To be able to give knowledge to the 3rd graders. I first would have to understand it. I have dug into how the environment has suffered from our behaviors, I also researched about how it can be better preserved to future generation will protect rather than destroy.

Computer aided design is a technology used by engineers, designers, architects and much more. It allows them to built concept and experiment with them. Even simulating how they will act in the real world.

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Gameplay/Mechanics:
- My game will have a simple objective of collecting trash from the ocean and putting and sorting it to the right trash type.
- My game will have a UI which leads to the trash sorting game, settings, and test(Quiz), as I mentioned in A4 which would be a test of knowledge that would be in an RPG (role play game) style with a person telling you the quiz and providing multiple answer choices for you to pick the correct one.
- There would be rewards that will be given to the player once completed the task.
- There will also be daily tasks that can be completed to get a higher amount of rewards.
Character/Avatar:
- My avatar will be a young human being collecting trash.
- My avatar will be able to walk left, right, up, and down to collect trash and sort them in a set period of time.
- Rewards can be used to upgrade the amount of trash that can be carried by the avatar.
Graphics:
- The graphics will be pixelated like in the game undertale.
- the graphics will include lots of bright colors.
- It'll be able to run smoothly on modern phone and a tablet and have good optimization.

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I drew some pictures about how the UI would be like on a phone.

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I also drew some pictures about how my character and skins would look. Later I put them onto a pages document and created them using various shapes of different sizes.

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I created a lego character using lego blocks in real life. It was not very high quality and the colors looks weird.

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We could also use 3D printing to create characters, We need to use a software that allows the build to export to a file that can be 3D printed. I did some exploring in tinkercad and created my first model. A problem I had with the model is that when I turn it into lego, the pieces become unimaginably ill, and corrupted.

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Today I finished making the model and colored each of my limbs so they represent the lego blocks in Lego mode to see if I can make each block correspond. But when it turns into lego it still looked awful, but I found a solution, which is to make the scale larger for it to be much more detailed.

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I have created another character in the app, this time with success, I used spheres and cylinders to create the character, but I'm not sure if it will print properly.

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There are linking errors in the part where you play the game, every answer leads to the same thing. Your characters are pretty good, but there are some mistakes such as, there is a small gap on the silhouette. He also thinks that I should include more information about pollution.

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She gave lots of positive feedback such as my characters has different shapes and colors, she also mentions how she could correct the problems and get better at it. But there are no points of improvement.

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From the feedback given by my classmates. The points I will be improving on will be:
- Color scheme, more colors added. Such as more types of blue, like sky blue, dark (Navy) or gray.
- Fix up the characters (remove the gaps from the silhouette).
- Fix up the small errors, link up the things properly so each answer will result into a different response.
- Add more information about water pollution. (Fact cards?)

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Over the time I have developed the application adding more content and making it more entertaining and reliable

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Over the time I have developed the application adding more content and making it more entertaining and reliable

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This is me getting in the basics of the App, the homepage, the key content leading to it. and stuff.

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As you can see this is a lot more detailed, colorful, and informative then the first version. I have added all the content, I have created interesting characters that'll probably help kids learn better. I also worked out the game so it is more interactive.

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I've also recorded a part of what I was doing in the app in a time lapse, this will highlight how I make the characters and how I link up the buttons to the pages.

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I've also done some research about the color scheme of my app, this is important as we are looking at people's aesthetics.

Students from Grade: Blue/Green

Parents: Yellow/Blue

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This app will have a pretty significant impact on the society if it is successful and that a lot of my customers enjoy using it.

The app will have an impact on the environment because young people will be educated about the danger the environment is in and develop beliefs and values about how they need to not do anything that will harm the environment.

The app will also make the customers happier because the game should be enjoyable and entertaining, because it has multiple choice interactive gameplay. And make them more eager to learn about the environment and making the app even more successful.