Save from today (thursday)

Link to the latest PS3 save. I got a chef in there and worked on the chopping/something machine- not sure where it's going. as of today, there's a conveyor belt that goes through this "machine" and out comes the pieces of the chicken. ha. I'll be back in tomorrow afternoon to work on it some more.

Wed. night new save

I did a bit of work on our shrimp, made a version 2 chicken that, if I'm being perfectly honest, is my best work ever... ever. I decided that it might be funnier to have decapitated chickens running around, so I made a headless chicken with a bloody bone stump sticking out from the neck. I may have to retire after tonight, there's just no where to go from here. I also did the farmer for the beginning section. The latest and greatest chickens are at AKM/main. The farmer is at AKM/gp.

Any way here is the new save PS3.

shrimp in da hiz-ouse

got the shrimp working. Who is working next? I can work wed night and thurs. afternoon. Here is the link to the save PS3. If you click it, the zip file should just download to you computer. Have fun.

Notes on Kitchen 1

- Greeted by chef who gives recipe
- Blender/Slicer: 'acme' factory / tubes/ funnels that use the emitter
(how much of the mechanics do we hide during the play through)
reference: charlie and the chocolate facotry

- Possibly use a Dumbwaiter as an elevator mechanic
- How to design a mechanism that understand when the "3/4" measurement is satisfied??

For Tuesday

<---- They are chasing a chicken for gumbo. I kid you not. Apparently this is a thing. Did you know this? I didn't. Excerpt: "Some degree of inebriation is permissible and even desirable,'' a permanent exhibit on Cajun Mardi Gras at the Louisiana State Museum notes soberly about the courir, which locals nickname the "chicken run.'' Greg, this is all you. I'd also suggest reading the wiki articles on Cajun and gumbo, if you guys aren't up on those things.

Moving Erica's comment about the tags/one-sentence here, let's start working that out.

I like your suggestions for tags: cooking, fractions, measurements, farm, kitchen. Maybe add Cajun or gumbo or Mardi Gras as well, for the aesthetic. That said, I'm bad at tags (delicious doesn't work so well for me), so I'll leave those up to you guys.

One-sentence starter (I like the recipe idea): Chef Sackboy needs your help with gathering ingredients and preparing his delicious Cajun gumbo, but follow his recipe carefully - your miscalculations will be deadly!

miscalculations? eh? like that? Also, name of the level: Chez Sackboy..

We also need to identify our design principles for Tuesday. To start:
1) Designing a fun activity is more important to us than explicit teaching.
2) Cooking is a fun activity, and can be used to reinforce fractions skills.
3) LBP allows us to measure ingredients and chase chickens in a way that a conventional classroom does not.

Sweet.

The kitchen motif looks awesome, can't wait to see it. By the way, Christina, in order to zip a folder, just control-click it and select compress form the pop up menu. It looks like the save data will have to be zipped in order for us to share it this way.

I've started some playing around with robot chickens. They're awesome. I hope to play tomorrow night.

Chopper/Slicer

I couldn't download the zip file so I just played a little and thought about the chopping machine. Working on the mechanics on paper, here are 2 options for mechanices - working on another version with fast rotating knives.