Week 10 - Assignment 2

Game: 2048

Platform: Android / iOS

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estoty.game2048

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/2048/id840919914?mt=8

1. What gaming elements provide users the learning content and how?

• Text: Matching 2 like numbers will produce their added result. For example, merging a 2 and a 2 will create a tile with the number 4.
• Visual-graphic elements: The graphics in the app are extremely simple. The simplicity of the design makes it a better game, in this case all you see are number tiles and some colors. Each number tile is associated to a color, this is useful because you do not necessarily need to know math to match tiles. An example of this is my 4 year old son, he was able to match tiles by color. Through this he learned addition.
• Audio elements: The application on has one sound, because it is such a basic sound it becomes hypnotic. This game has a rhythm to it and the sound adds to the players tempo.

2. What is the goal of the game? Swipe to move the tiles, when two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one.

When a 2048 tile is created, the player wins.

3. What are rules of playing this game? You start with a grid of 16 squares two of which contain tiles. You combine like numbers to produce their sum. In order to combine numbers you swipe right, left, up or down. Following each swipe a tile is added. The goal is to get one tile that has the sum on 2048 without filling the 16 square grid. An example of this is match 2 and 2 to make 4, 4 and 4 to make 8 and so on an so forth.

4. Does this game have any scenario design? This game has no embedded scenario.