Blog #23: Independent Component 2

(My Board Game)

Content:  

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: “I, student name, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents ___ hours of work.”

• I, Ethan Walls, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 Hours of work.

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• Ramsey, Dave. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Pub., 2003. Print.

(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

• Done.

(d) Explain what you completed.    

• I created a game board that has people answer financial questions that will let them move further on. 

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

• This component helped me take my knowledge and research and make a game out of it that people can enjoy. It also has helped me understand my answers more. All my evidence is on my blog with the Independent Component 2 Label

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 

• This component has helped me answer my EQ by having me research even more on the answers I created. Like how the debt questions helped me more on answering my first question, A person can become a millionaire if they know when to spend their money and when not to. 

Blog # 22 Interview 4 Reflection

Label:  Interview

(No I will not kill anyone.)

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?

• I learned mostly that people who are not able to control themselves, will mostly like get into debt and stay there. If they seek help to fix their problems, they would be better off.

2.  How will what I learned affect my final lesson?

• This information will help me answer some questions I have had for a while, like is having and expensive house a bad idea?

Putting everything on Game Crafter

Today I started to put all my cards and board design on the Game Crafter website. After that my Dad and I printed out the board and questions so we could play to see how it was. After that, we then ordered it soon after I found a box to put it in and game pieces.

Hours Completed: 1 Hour and 30 Minutes

Looking Over Everything I made for the Game

Today I looked at everything again to see if there was anything wrong aesthetically. There were minor things that I had to change, fixing the design of some cards that looked off, and figuring out how Game Crafter did their decks. Decks were weird when I first was putting in some of the cards to see how the cards would look, when I put the back of the card for a deck, I realized that it would be for every card in the deck. Not only that but figuring out what proofing was and how to put everything into an order, then going  to see any mistakes on the cards.

Hours completed: 3 Hours and 30 Minutes

Editing the Questions and Answers

Today I edited all the questions and answers so that they make sense and that the questions fit with the category. This took a while since there was two questions that didn't make sense and a lot of the answers weren't good at all.

Hours Completed: 3 Hours and 20 Minutes

Creating the Rules

Today I created the rules for the game.

Hours Completed: 20 Minutes

Using the Template from Game Crafter on the Cards

Today I fixed the cards with the template since the cards I made before had to be fixed or parts of it would be cut off when the cards are made.

Hours completed: 1 Hour and 25 Minutes

Making and Finishing the Cards

Today I started making the cards. This took multiple days to finish I started on the 9th through the 11th. On the 9th I completed the 5 cards front and back. On the 10th I completed 5 cards front and back, and on the 11th, I completed the last 5 cards front and back.

Hours completed on the 9th: 1 Hour and 25 Minutes
Hours Completed on the 10th: 1 Hour and 25 Minutes
Hours Completed on the 11th: 1 Hour and 25 Minutes

Creating the Design of the Cards

Today I created the design of the cards, and started seeing how the questions would fit on the cards.

Hours Completed: 1 Hour and 20 Minutes

Creating the Rest of the Questions

Today I finished creating the rough draft of the questions with the Debt and Investment Categories. This also took a while to do since the debt category was difficult to find questions that don't involve credit cards and the usual things people will get debt from.

Hours Completed: 3 Hours and 50 Minutes.

Creating the Questions and Answers

Today I created the rough draft of the Savings and Lifestyle Questions and  Answers. Researching all these questions took a while and coming up with answers for them. Especially when I was getting to the end of the savings questions.

Hours Completed: 5 Hours