Thursday, August 21, 2008

Jamestown Colony

Play the Jamestown Settlement game. Leave your comments after you are done explaining or describing some of the things that you learned while playing the game.

http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

25 comments:

NDuBois said...
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jmarker said...

I did pretty well. We all survived. I didn't become governor but at least I didn't die.

edaniels-campbell said...

So I am pretty much boss at this game. I was Governer twice cause I am that awsome. The only thing that was fair was my Health rating but everything was good. This was pretty sweet I guess. If our class ever has to find a new world...I hope you guys choose me as your Governer.

Alright, so the thrid time I pretty much blew it. So scratch that whole "Choose me for Governer of new world!" Yeah I wouldn't do that.

jmarker said...

Yey! I'm finally governor! Third times the charm!

James Fisher said...

The First Time I played I recieved good in everything but location, marshes are not kosher places to build a colony.

Second Time I kicked colony and became a governer.

Third time.. I didn't really play it a third time.

nfullerton said...

I BECAME GOVERNOR THE FIRST TIME!

i traded with the indians, built houses, and focused on food and hunting, planting corn, tabacco and sassafrass.

i learned that health and safety was more important then looking for gold.. especially since it was all fools gold.. so tabacco is the way to go for money

i don't know why, but its kinda fun to get all your colonists killed.. i think i shouldn't get this job in real life..

Horton said...

The games pretty lame...common sence choices lead to survival and greed just leads to hardship. Living in the time that we do its easier to say that we should trade with the indians rather than fights them, and in order for you to make enough food you cant waste the labor force on a gold rush.
so umm ya heck with govenor its gotta be like president of the universe

smills said...

I did pretty good, governor twice and only killed everyone like..3 times
it was pretty important to have a lot of food and not fight the indians.

tlatuch said...

The first time i played I was govenor but my health and sanitation was poor. other than that everything was good.

i've only killed once, which was like the fourth time for only growing tobacco =x

Christopher Mayhew said...

squanto hit me, i didn't kill everyone, that much, a lot of food is good, and shouldn't grow just tobacco and mine for gold... i think food is important?

Anonymous said...

so i did pretty well the fisrt time and was also promoted governor too!

Devon Wright said...

I owned the gypsy,half pint, the first time i had all goods but then through trial and error i was able to obtain 2 excellents and 2 goods. It reminded me of oregon trail.

John DeGennaro said...

So It appears that I can't do any better than 'good' on all four. Oh well, at least I got it on the first try, right?

NDuBois said...

I got goods for most of the time, 2 fairs , 1 excellent and an undefined. The undefined was because I was so rich.

aesposito said...

I started off doing really really badly, I killed everyone, multiple times... It's pretty self-explanitory and just takes decent decision making skills. I ended up getting 2 excellents. It was pretty fun... and simple

jmarker said...

Overall I thought that this game was fun. It made you realize that it's not so easy to survive, especially if you starve to death!

cbarney said...
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cbarney said...

The first game I got fair at everything so no governor for me.

But come round two, i wrecked house getting TWO excellent markings...no joke. So yeah I got the skills to be governor.

Third time I just wanted to waste my people which was easy. All I had to do was attack the Indians, which is apparent suicide. So make nice with the Indians as a rule of thumb.

Stacey Howard said...

I did alright. I got promoted to governor twice, but I never got an "excellent"...oh well

cstever said...

I cannot get three excellents!! And even if I get two of them, I don't become governor... But for the most part I become governor.

cstever said...

Oh, and if you grow all corn your food supply becomes excellent!!

Jess said...

I was governor a few times, but i didn't even get ONE EXCELLENT!!! Apparently it isn't as easy to succeed as you would think =(

TReidy said...

TYLER = GOVERNOR!! this game is kinda ridiculous more than once since the questions are the same from the Indian, but it's a good game to play A: to get out of class, and B: even though it is simple, it does somewhat help to know where and what type of colony to set up.

John DeGennaro said...

So, I forgot to post this before now, but I did rather well on my first try. I got all good at first, but couldn't do any better.

John DeGennaro said...

I ended up doing fine on this. I got all goods on the first try, but couldn't do any better