YouTube as an Instructional Design Tool
Topic: MS Word Skills - Changing Fonts
- Students will learn how to edit fonts in Microsoft Word.
- The video incorporates a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow to teach about fonts as a concept.
- Microsoft Word is used to model the process of editing fonts to students within a Word document.
- This instructional video was created and edited using Camtasia software.
MS Word Skills - Changing Fonts Space Invader Game
The changing fonts Space Invader game is based on the classic Space Invader game. The game was created at classtools.net. Before playing the game, watch the first 1:30 minutes of the video above to answer the questions while playing Space Invaders successfully. Basic directions appear directly below. Finally, more detailed directions are below this section.
Basic Directions:
Basic Directions:
- Click on the button below to play the game.
- Choose Space Invaders from the menu.
- Click on the start button.
- The purpose of the game is to shoot the invaders with your laser base.
- Avoid Space Invader shots and prevent an invasion.
- Use arrows on the keyboard to move left and right.
- Press the space bar on the keyboard to shoot.
- Good luck!
Detailed Directions for playing Space Invaders:
The invaders travel sideways, and each time they touch the side, they drop down 1 line. On screen 1 they need to drop 11 lines to reach the bottom and 'invade'. From screen 2 through to screen 9 they start progressively lower down the screen. At screen 10 the game reverts to the screen 1 start position and the cycle begins again.
There is no time limit, except for the fact that if you do not shoot them all before they reach the bottom of the screen, the game ends.
The more invaders the player shoots, the faster the remaining invaders move. When the invaders are low enough to touch the base shelters, they erase them as they pass. The last invader moves very quickly but slightly faster from left to right than the right to left.
Any missiles an invader drops on the row above the 'invasion' row will not harm the player's laser. This is a very important feature that must be fully exploited to obtain a high score.
An invader can have a maximum of 3 missiles on screen at any time. The player can have only 1 laser shot on screen at any time.
When an invader's missile collides with a player's laser shot, the player's shot is always destroyed, but the invader's missile occasionally survives, almost certainly if it is a wiggly missile.
Source:
https://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/space-invaders/play-guide
ClassicGaming.cc. (n.d.). Space invaders: Resources, images and material from the classic arcade game. Space Invaders | Resources, Images and Material from the Classic Arcade Game. Retrieved March 1, 2023, from https://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/space-invaders/play-guide
The invaders travel sideways, and each time they touch the side, they drop down 1 line. On screen 1 they need to drop 11 lines to reach the bottom and 'invade'. From screen 2 through to screen 9 they start progressively lower down the screen. At screen 10 the game reverts to the screen 1 start position and the cycle begins again.
There is no time limit, except for the fact that if you do not shoot them all before they reach the bottom of the screen, the game ends.
The more invaders the player shoots, the faster the remaining invaders move. When the invaders are low enough to touch the base shelters, they erase them as they pass. The last invader moves very quickly but slightly faster from left to right than the right to left.
Any missiles an invader drops on the row above the 'invasion' row will not harm the player's laser. This is a very important feature that must be fully exploited to obtain a high score.
An invader can have a maximum of 3 missiles on screen at any time. The player can have only 1 laser shot on screen at any time.
When an invader's missile collides with a player's laser shot, the player's shot is always destroyed, but the invader's missile occasionally survives, almost certainly if it is a wiggly missile.
Source:
https://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/space-invaders/play-guide
ClassicGaming.cc. (n.d.). Space invaders: Resources, images and material from the classic arcade game. Space Invaders | Resources, Images and Material from the Classic Arcade Game. Retrieved March 1, 2023, from https://www.classicgaming.cc/classics/space-invaders/play-guide