Platogo is a social networking Flash gaming site. It works like this. You upload your flash games and then add friends, challenges, rewards, and level editor components. Compare you’re your scores to friends, challenge them in game play, give rewards and edit one of your game levels with the level editor.
For a wider audience for you games you can share them with the entire Platogo community and/or get even more exposure by loading them on to Facebook using the Platogo guide provided. This manual is straightforward and gives you step-by-step instructions on how to that.
To broaden my student’s perspective on Flash games, I’m going to have them play and evaluate games on Platogo. It always helps to see how someone else puts something together because you get ideas of how you can make it better or different. Also, you might say, “Wow, how did they do that?,” which gets curiosity and creativity going. It makes you want to figure out how they did it.
My online gaming students are going to be excited about this site, but I’m going to check it out further to see if I can create a private Facebook group that they can load their games to. Furthermore, I’ll need school and parent permission.
Crystal,
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of using this Platogo tool for gaming. What an awesome find! I know my graphic and media arts students would love this as well. Hopefully it will be a program that would not be blocked and that getting permission for using it as well as from parents will be easy. What a great opportunity for your students to explore other games that have been created, to try and then critique each one. Should give them lots of good ideas and a foundation from which to begin their own creations. I can't imagine them not being motivated and excited about using this once you get all the logistics worked out. Good luck as you try this with your students in the fall. Thanks for sharing!
I think this is a really fun site. In the resident program we have a contest called Hall Wars. Sometimes it is hard to get everyone together to compete in games so online games could be fun too. Flash Games are a great way to de-stress get your mind off things. Thanks for sharing this fun tool.
ReplyDeleteI can use this since I develop Flash Games. This is cool. There are actually very effective flash games that even improve your typing skills, or teach mathematics. Great Post, ill be using this.
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