Task 3 Escape from Dragons- Reflection

During RP1, most of the time the participants were really quiet. They were not talkative and rarely chat with each other. Given the experience of RP1, we decided to reform the content of the games and also the structure of the whole story. First of all, the professor said that our context was not clear enough and the dialogues we had designed were not like what savage people would say. As a result, we decided that we would call the participants by their appearance or dressing instead of their names since savage people did not care about specific names. And we added an argument over the dragons at the very beginning of our games before we talked to the participants in order to imply our savage characteristics.   

Moreover, as for my part, I read the outline of the Lord of the Flies again and added some important elements in my monologue. For example I added the parts that Ralph was the leader but he was a coward and I decided to kill him. I set the forest on fire and asked the dragons to fight with Ralph. Finally he escaped to the beach and was rescued by the British navy. Besides, in order to create connection to Nancy’s game, I suggested that Nancy could also star as Ralph. Ralph was rescued and went back to England. However due to the fire and the attack from dragons, he was too injured especially his sexual organ and brain. The doctor removed his sexual organ and turned him into a woman, Maria Nancy. And sometimes Maria could not remember things easily such as the Christmas song.   

As for the revision of the game, I added another Chinese tongue twister to make the game more challenging. I told the participants that the language was our savage dialect. This one was much harder for international students. At first, I would let all the participants read out the first tongue twister, Peter Piper, by turns. And then they needed to run to touch the conch and read out the Chinese tongue twister.

 May 20^th 2016 was the date we did the RP2. At the beginning, it took some time to fix the technical problems. When it came to my turn, I kept asking the participants questions to have interaction with them. And I also asked the three participants to read the peter piper tongue twister first. Then I asked them to walk back to stand at the same level. The competition began once I said I, 2, 3. I tried to make the atmosphere more energetic so I kept saying ‘’Run run run!’’ and asked the two foreign students to touch the conch even though Mita was the first one touching the conch. So Mosenge ran to touch the conch and finish the tongue twister before Mita.

I think the revision of task 3 made the participants have more chances to speak. The game was more difficult which could raise their interest. And the revision of the plot made the whole project in Second life more comprehensive.