Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Week 9: The Brink

Play this game to allocate global resources:

http://archive1.globalsolutions.org/games/2005games/thebrink.html

What thoughts crossed your mind when playing this game as related to distributing resources?

45 comments:

  1. this game seriously confused me at first, but then once i realized what i had to do, it was very difficult and i didnt know if i was doing the right things.

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  2. Distributing resources is a extremly tough task and who ever has that job in real life god bless you beacuse someone has to do it

    i agree with tim that the game was confusing at first

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  3. I also agree with tim that the game was confusing. Once i knew what i was doing i tried many times to keep the nations balanced but when one nation was showing that it was failing another one was about to as well.

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  4. The game was really confusing, but after i figured out what i was supposed to do it was really easy to balance all of the resources, and it got boring really quickly.

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  5. I found the game to be hard. not to understand but challenging in the way that to help all the countries and have them to survive is close to impossible. there is always a problem happening and you cant always help everyone

    i agree with jimmy it is tough to distribute the resources

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  6. this game was very confusing but i understand it, and it is hard to distribute things equally and keep it well balanced

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  7. At first i was very confused about what i was supposed to do in this game then after i figured out what to do the game was difficult.

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  8. when i was playing this game it was not to hard at first, but the furthur i got into the game it would get harder and harder untill i finally lost.
    i agree with jimmy that it is tough to distribute the reasources.

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  9. Lauren Felaccio
    I also thought this game was confusing, Its hard to figure out what your really suppose to do and distributing the resources.

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  10. uhhhh, this game was weird. I didnt really understand what I was doing at first, but I eventually got the hang of it. All I got from this game was that it is very hard to keep resources balanced bewteen each nation. When you got one thing balanced, another resource would go down making everything unequal.

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  11. This game was a pain after playing the first few rounds as supplies began to run short in all of the nations, distributing supplies bcame harder and harder. At the end supplies ran so low in all of the nations that i lost. i never knew distributing supplies would be so hard to do but now i know

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  12. In this game it was hard to keep all the nations with enought food, water and med supply. Also it took a while for the red cross aids to come .

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  13. It became difficult to distribute after a while and countries began to fall into depressions. It was hard to keep them all on the same level the closer it got to the end. Such is humanity to use more that our means, don't know how realistic it is now. There are more rich countries and countries suffering than all of them on the same level.
    Everyone else thought it was confusing so do I..

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  14. courtney terio- i didnt understand exactly how to play the game at first but once i got the hang of it it seemed like there was no way to keep the nations and resources balanced. one nation would end up with all resources leaving another nation with little to nothing. i agree with SB because it was difficult and countries were falling fast into depressions.

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  15. This game was really difficult to distribute equally because when I gave resources to one nation I felt bad for the others and resources go so fast that it is hard to tell which one to distribute too. I never knew this would be an actual job, sometimes it just seems like products are just in stores and around without actually being shipped from other places and being equally distributed. This opened my eyes a lot. I agree with Timothy and Jimmy that at first it was hard to understand.

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  16. I found this game confusing, difficult, and boring. Distributing the resources was a challenge and it was hard to keep things balanced. I agree with courtney, it seemed impossible to keep each nation on an equal level.

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  17. This game was very confusing at first, but once I got the hang of it, it started to get very boring. After about 20 turns, supplies began to run very low and it became harder, and harder to distribute supplies. I agree with Tims comment.

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  18. The game had a clear objective, which was to keep the supplies up with the help of distribution. The objective may have been very clear, but it was hard to keep the supplies up. Eventually, I started to get the idea on how to keep them up a lot better, but it was difficult, nevertheless. I agree with shaggy because after about 25 turns, the supplies were being consumed more and more and it became boring and more difficult.

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  19. I CANT DO IT!
    I understand what the objective of the game is: keep the world balanced so that no one nation dies out from starvation, thirst, or diseases. Keeping them in equilibrium was way too difficult. With the random events taking like 10 points off everything. I got bord and quit.

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  20. the game was very confusing and it was difficult to keep all of the countries from failing. once one started to go they all did.

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  21. this game was so confusing i didnt know what to do ..then after ifigured out it got really hard.. .....tashana

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  22. I have no idea what is going on during this game, but i kinda got the gist of trying to keep the countries going but if i actually had to keep the resources up in a country the country would definatly die!!!! but i agree with grohl when he/she said that once one countries starts going they all do!

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  23. As i was playing this game i realized it is absolutly impossible to keep all the counties ballanced and distribute the resouces equally. when i played my countryies kept going into depressions. I agree with alex as the game went on it got alot more boring because it got so much harder it felt impossible to play.

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  24. This game was very difficult at times and its seemed alomost imposible to have all the nations the same thing in each catagory. One nation always seemed high in one catagory but low in another.

    I agree with alex very hard to keep balanced

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  25. As far as distributing resources goes I think that it really is impossible. No matter how hard you try and distribute resources there will always be certain factors that are hard to compete against.

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  26. This game was very hard, and very confusing. Moving the resources around created problems for the nations anyway. Lauren's right, its practically impossible to keep everything even in all the nations.

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  27. At first, it was fairly easy to balance out the resources, but as the game progressed it became harder to maintain a good balance. Eventually I found that all of my countries needed everything! I agree with Summer confusing is definetly the right word.

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  28. At first I was all like Ahhhh! Then I was all like ohhhhh. Now I'm all like, that was a huge waste of time. It wasn't hurt, it was unbeleivable easy. Period.

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  29. I honestly didn't understand how to play this game at all in the beginning and it's hard to know which resources are more important to have seeing as you need water, food, and medicine to survive. I don't think that game gives me an outlook on the resources and how to trade them though because all I did was click a button and pick a random number..

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  30. I began to consider the importance of distributing resources amongst other nations, in return for resources we may need. I agree with Jim's posting, whoever's job is to do so should make bank because this game is awful.

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  31. Distributing resources is a extremly tough task and who ever has that job in real life god bless you beacuse someone has to do it

    i agree with connor's comment

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  32. It's difficult to distribute all the resources evenly to keep all the nations stable. I had a hard time playing this game.

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  33. AMANDA DEMERS- this game isss veryy confusing.. its hard to balance out all of these things between nations, figure what supplies to send to what nation and were to take the supplies from became harder to decide... and i agree with tim, i had no idea if i was playing it the right way!

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  34. This game was very hard because you had to power the city with electricity but it would pollute the air.

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  35. its tough to take something from one country that needs it and give it to another that has less. it made me see that not everyone has food at their finger tips at all times and they have to get lucky with crops etc. to really be able to have a good meal. while one country had more supplies at one time, once you took it from them they had less to go around.

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  36. it was alittle hard to understand at first, but you start to understand it. It is hard to keep all nations/countries with the equal amount of resources as well as attitudes that they are getting treated fairly. It starts to get harder further into the game, and i agree with erica not all nations got the same resources at one time and so for one to lose and one to gain is really good and at the same time really bad .!

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  37. [ Amanda Neil ) thiss game was hard & i also agree wid erica.

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  38. I also agree with tim the game was hard but once i figured out what i had to do it became a lot easier

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  39. i agree with Tim the game was confusing but after everything was balanced out it wasnt that hard.

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  40. i thought this game was really hard. i agree with leanna, she's right to say that sometimes we just expect things to be there when we need them, but theres a whole balancing act that needs to trake place.

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  41. the game was confusing but after a while it doesnt get all that hard, but it is hard to keep all nations and countries with equal amount of rescources.

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  42. people who do this have a really good job is should be greatfull and the game was a little hard at first

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  43. I thought this game was confusing at first and I found it kinda difficult. After playing for a few minutes i found it was hard to decide who to distribute resources to because you may need something but others need it more.

    I completely agree with erica. It made me realize that food isnt something that we have the right to, its a privelage to have fully stocked supermarkets down the street.

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  44. This game was difficult, but it was also a little unrealistic. The nations would be producing something, even if it was only one or two rations of food. In this game everything decresed and there's no possible way to balance everything out, you have to sacrifice one country to save the other five.

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