Rāwhiti By The Sea: The Roadbot's Journey...

Sophie, Marshall, Autahi and Zander were part of the Year 7 & 8 GameCo-Botics group. In Term 1 they started to think and talk about the idea of a video game to teach younger children about road safety.
First, they interviewed children younger children to find out what they knew about road safety and the type of characters they liked. They then had to think of a game that younger children would like to play...check out the presentation of 'The Roadbot's Journey' below!
The Game story: In space the Robot's spaceship runs out of petrol. It has to leave (abort) the spaceship. The spaceship lands on one side of the town. The robot floats into the backyard of a house. In the house is an 11 year old child. This child runs outside. The robot is holding a map (on robot's device), and needs to find their spaceship, and asks the child to help. The journey begins...
Our reflections: I had fun working as a team to create our game. We learnt how to make a storyline and decide on the same things with your team mates. For characters we had to have good art skills. We helped each other by checking what we did was alright, so we didn't present somethign that was terrible.....my job was to find out about scooters. This was interesting and I learnt more about the rules. I had to design the scooter level and design a logo for the game. The hardest part was the storyline. We had to come up with different levels, then actually decide what order to put them in. Next I would like to code some video games. Sophie
I learnt that I am an ok drawer. I thought I was horrible, then I made the map and it looked really good. I liked the basic non-gender robot and I came up with heaps of ideas. We had to think about the stages of transport, badges and t-shirts. My job was mostly problem solving. I drew the map designs and got feedback from the little children. The most challenging part was putting all the ideas into a plan and stages. I would like to do some real coding. Marshall