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Gcompress 'Traffic'
Ranking: 3.5/5 stars
The Traffic game is a puzzle game where the player must adjust his/her surroundings to create a path for their car to exit. The player must move the surroundings either vertically or horizontally in various and strategic ways training the player's mental problem solving skills.It is a very similar game compared to ‘RUSH,’ which is an online mathematics game. The main similarity is that both RUSH and Traffic operates the same way, as in, how the player interprets the puzzle and solves it.
A positive side to Traffic is that it incorporates its own design rather than completely plagiarising the original game, RUSH. Its design and layout is unique and has a simple feel to it. The colours involved in its design helps differentiates each surrounding and blocks from each other, making it easier for the player to identify a path for the player.
A negative side to Traffic is that it only has 5 levels and a dice button where it jumbles up the surroundings. This weighs the game down in its flexibility and the attention it gets from players due to having a small amount of levels, while RUSH has an amazing 12 levels.
Another factor is that with Traffic, all the levels have the same difficulty and even when the dice is used, the difficulty is still basically the same. However, RUSH has a progressing difficulty as the player advances towards the next level, giving the player more momentum to continue playing the game.
An interesting feature of Traffic is that it only takes up a small consumption of memory and still gives reasonable average graphics quality. It also helps players develop problem solving skills, as they play more and more.
In conclusion, the game has a very good concept and would make players enjoy playing it. Although the attention it pulls soon disperses because the game has an insufficient amount of levels and the same difficulty throughout the levels. With its features of problem solving and its skills in helping players develop their mental skills; Traffic is a perfect game for people around the age group of 10-17, the age where people need to train their mental minds the most.
A picture of Traffic:
These past few lessons in Control Technology, we have been doing an activity on a program called Turtle Art which runs on the Sugar Operating System. The activity consisted of making shapes with codes and the Turtle being the guideline. The activity was challenging for me because I've never done any code editing programs such as the Turtle Art before and needed sometime until I eventually got used to the Turtle Art.
One of the parts that I struggled most with was understanding how to use the variables in Turtle Art to make shapes that contain its ration regardless of its size. My teacher and countless friends assisted me to thoroughly understand how variables were or can be used in Turtle Art, or other programs. I finally got the hang of it after a mind blowing 10 minutes and made a shape soon after with the use of variables, the following image represents what I made.
Here is the picture of the shape:
Here are the codes used to make the shape:
Today I further explored the Sugar Operating System and learnt how to set up my school's internet upon the Sugar Operating System. I did this by changing the default proxies and then I login into my school's account and access the internet.
After connecting to the internet on the Sugar Operating System, I thought I'd try a new activity on the Sugar Operating system, an activity I've never played before. I played the JigSaw activity, at first, I tried to solve a picture on an advanced setting but it was too hard and after many tries, I quitted and tried the beginner level. As you can see I am very bad at Solving Jigsaw puzzles and even on the beginner level, I still needed help, so I asked a friend and miraculously he solved it within seconds. I was astonished and asked him how he did it but all he said was that it was easy. This made me feel uneasy because it left me in doubt, am I really that slow?
Here is a screenshot of what happened ;)I purposely left the last piece to make it a bit more entertaining? I guess?
Today I am mucking around with the Physics activity, it is really fun and good for children to develop the basics of physics. The activity has many features which allow the user to move, grab, drag, draw, place, motor, pin, joint, play and pause objects in the activity. There are a wide variety of objects such as the, Polygon, Triangle, Circle and objects that you can draw. This makes it simulate what would happen in real-life in a somewhat mild simulation rather than a professional simulation.
My first impression of the Sugar Operating System was that the interface and commands looked extremely unique compared to the commonly known operating systems used in school, like the Microsoft Windows XP Operating System, but it also looks a tad bit similar to the Linux Operating System. The Sugar Operating System has a special but complex navigation system, but once you are adapted to it, you are sure to navigate very easily and freely. I was surprised that the Sugar Operating System was running on a slim, compact and uniquely small notebook called the XO. The size of the XO and its use surprised me because it was very small and very much portable as well as some versions of the XO could twist its screen to a full 180 degrees.
The contents of this operating system targets children and teaches them the starting point in the use of computers and the-like because it has spectacular and unique programs which allows children to develop their skills in English, Maths and computing in a fun and non-boring manner.
