Sunday, April 10, 2016

ROBLOX: Natural Disaster Survival

This game isn't exactly tied to global warming or climate change, but because there seems to be a relationship between extreme weather patterns and global warming, I thought this would be a fun game to experiment with.

ROBLOX is available on Xbox One for free! When you first enter the game you are at the main menu where you can create an avatar and pick which game you want to play. The Natural Disaster Survival is one of many mini games, and is also one of the top rated games. There are volcanic eruptions, meteor showers, mass flooding, acid rain, tornadoes, and many more! I haven't played the game long enough to have gone through every disastrous event. The point of this game is exactly what the title suggests, survive the natural disasters. Each time you survive you an event you gain points. If you die, you are sent to a viewing area where you can watch the events take place. When the natural disaster ends, points are tallied and a new disaster begins. There are also times when two disasters will happen at the same time, called double disaster, this is when only the best players are able to survive.

This game may seem childish and fake, but it is a very fun and creative game. After all, it is a game. For a better review you can watch a short video on YouTube. Every disaster seems ridiculous, and some are a little far fetched, but in a future where global warming and climate change are most prevalent, most of these disasters will be regular occurrences.




10 comments:

  1. I like that you found a game on a different platform, like the Xbox One. This seems like it would be a fun game! I agree with you that this might seem unrealistic, but in the future, climate disasters will occur more often, with more force.

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  2. What a creative way for a wide range of ages! It really shows just the destruction of climate change has on Earth.

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  3. This game sounds really fun, and as a bonus trying to survive the natural disasters that we may face in the future can also help people realize that changes need to be made.

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  4. This would be an interesting activity when teaching how the weather is going to change.

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  5. I think if developers could create more games like this or even more related to climate change it would have a better impact on children. It may seem that these natural disasters are extreme but I'm sure events we are seeing now seemed extreme to people in the past.

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  6. Surviving natural disasters will probably become a must have skill (if you can call if that) for many people in the coming years. This game seems relevant even if it doesn't directly discuss climate change, and the XBOX platform would probably keep players online for longer than would a computer game.

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  7. So this sort of reminds me of Minecraft, which is incredibly addictive. It also sounds like it does a good job of pitting people against the disaster and each other, and whoever is the strongest will prevail. It may be that way in the real world if such an event happened.

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  8. I want to play this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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