Education and quiz sites from purposegames.com

Some months ago I stumbled upon the excellent quiz site purposegames.com. It is a site that adheres to the web 2.0 principles of letting you all add games to the site and build a community around it, and it is also made by a single person. The site was started in 2006 by David Andersson and now has 13,768 games, 124 groups and 29,201 members. When I played around on the site there were 3 registered members and 87 visitors around.

The biggest difference is the kind of quiz games you can play on purposegames.com. The site specializes in very engaging, visual games where you have to point and click the right answer on an image. To give you a flavor: here are two samples I enjoyed and are typical:
- Game on the national flags of Africa,
- Game on the animals,
- Game on the cartoon, etc

You can play these games registered (then your score is stored) or anonymous, and when you play them again, the order of questions will be different.

Here are some of the things I wrote down:
- The main menu is games - create - community - leatherboard. Except for the last one that is similar to the quiz zone, author zone and club zone we have. The leatherboard is where you find the latest scores on the tournament. Purposegames has tournaments that spread over time. That is actually a good idea.

- Registration is easy : just one page, and the password is send to you via e-mail. You don't have to wait to be able to have access to all parts on the site, including creating new games. Only when you create games for the first time you need to agree with the terms and conditions.

- Games are flash-based. I like the clear and soft site design and looks. Wish I could do that :-).

- The community has players of the week and the month, and a history of players of the month (I like that idea very much.) It also has a member directory and you can see who is online and who are the top 5 contributors. Furthermore there is a discussion forum.

- There are a few Google advertisements on the site, but they don't bother at all.

- The home page has a game of the day.

- The site is only in English.

- There are two kinds of games: image-based games and multiple choice games. Games have a high score tab, rating, comments but you can also add a game as a favorite. Games can be marked as public or not.

- The help section is very limited, just a minimal FAQ. But when you create games, you do get clear instructions.

- The editor is easy and intuitive with clear instructions. They also use a concept of making - preview - publish. And the editor is actually a combination of a form-based screen where you need to fill in the boxes, and a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) at the same time. Very impressive. You cannot add feedback to questions or extra links, and for some reason my first question wasn't saved, but otherwise it went very smooth. Check it out:
http://www.purposegames.com/game/02d5832aac/info

There's three thing you can do,

1. Create, purposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!.
2. Play, play games and tournaments to compete against your friends, co-workers, and classmates! Become the reigning champion of your community!
3. Learn, he easiest way to learn something is to have fun while doing it! Geography, Science, and Languages, any subject is easier and more fun to learn by playing a quiz game!
   

My end conclusion: very good site, worth checking out!

Review for the wildlife Park 2 game PC

Wildlife Park 2 looks like an ordinary simulator of a zoo. Probably, you've have a chance to play a similar game, Zoo Tycoon, for example. But if you examine this game more closely, you will understand that it's a bit different and have several surprising innovations. First, if you played the original Wildlife Park, you will notice that the second part is much better from the point of view of its design and graphics. Objects and living creatures look less awkward and more realistic.What's more, it was a very good idea to make a sort of a story including relationships between characters. All missions are logically connected and thoroughly thought-out. I liked the way the process of training is organized. You will learn all the secrets of timing animals and other useful "tricks" with the environment step by step. One more specific feature of this game is that it's possible to reconstruct extinct animals with the help of their remains. By the way, the process of timing is not complicated, so that you dont' need to rack your brains over this affair. Speaking about weak points, the control panel is not handy, though it's possible to accommodate it. Still, I didn't like the way it had been realized. However, generally, it's a very good game, interesting and unusual a bit.

Great Concept In All Aspects
Wild Life Park 2 can be said is very realistic. This game incorporate various aspects, so as the owner of the wildlife park, we are not only solely focus on the development of the park, or just focus on the provision of the animals but moreover you will be given the responsibility to build, to provide facilities for visitors, and to provide comfortable artificial habitat for your animal. Beside that, you must also consider about the production of food, the quality of water, the health of plants and the suitability of climate. The land should also be concern of, the land level and land irrigation will impact on the environment and the balance of your park. Are these complexities make you eager to try? If so, then continue reading below.

Focus On The Habits Of Animal
As the owner of the park, of course you must provide a variety of attractive animals so you can attract more and more visitors each day. So, for the procurement of animals, you need to consider about the types of animals in accordance with your park area. Pay attention to the temperature and climate of your park whether the animal that you want to buy is suitable with the climate or not.

You have to adjust the soil temperature around these animals, so the animals will feel as comfortable as in their original habitat. Suppose you want to take care of seagull, the area needed to be sloppy. If you want to take care of giraffe, then try to provide a flat region. Pay attention to the trees and stones for your animals. If the animals need high trees (such as giraffe) then place tall trees for its food consumption. If the animals need fruit trees, then place trees that can produce fruits, such as lemon trees, apple trees, and many others.

Now, It's Time To Manage Our Park
Beside focusing on the situation and comfortably of your wildlife park animals, the other factors that plays an important role is the functionality of the park, the aesthetics level, and the comfortable of visitors.

You also need to build various kind of facilities such as living area for your staffs. Beside, you also need to built several water towers to produce clean water for your animals need. You can also build some functionality buildings to produce meat and food for your herbivorous animals. In addition, you can also add some minerals to these animals food so you can provide additional nutrition for them.

In addition to those functionality buildings, you might also need to consider about the aesthetic level where this will reflect how beautiful and how interesting your park in visitors' eyes. Every tree that you placed, has an attractiveness value that shows how high the interest of the visitors in this area. Besides that, you also need to arrange the trees as beautiful as you can which will interest your visitors.

It's your turn to satisfy the visitors now. Besides providing paths, you can also provide road equipped with jeep rental station. Visitors do not have to walk, but they can also rent a jeep to go around your park. Also provide some chairs for the pedestrian who want to get a relax and provide some trash bin for them to throw garbage in order to maintain the cleanliness of your garden environment.

You also can provide some automatic machines which sell soft drinks and snacks. In addition, you can also provide some entertainment facilities, resting areas, and various other facilities that will satisfy your park visitors.

Graphically Is Good
This game also supported by a good quality graphics. You can see more detail of the animals. The visitors will also perform many kind of various actions. Every action in this game is very detail and nice to see. You can see the staff filling the food and drink of the animals, the visitors watching the animal attractions, and of course, you will see some unique actions of your animals.
All of this is rendered in full 3D environment. You can rotate the camera, zoom the screen and also set the viewing angle. All you want to see, can be done by moving and clicking on the mouse.

Nice Sound
For sound quality in this game is good. You will listen to the various animals' voice, the bustle of visitors, and various sound effect. With this complex voice, the parks atmosphere will feel more realistic, as if you were in the middle of the park.

Conclusion
Finally, after knowing the myriad features and high complexity of this game, can be said that Wild Life Park 2 is one of the impressive simulation game, and for those who loves the animal world, this game might be a recommend for you to try. And, for those Zoo Tycoon's fans, you might also try this one. I can guarantee you to get more exciting with this game.

Publisher: Deep Silver
Developer: Virtual Life
Genre: Strategy

System Requirement:
- CPU Processor 1 GHz
- RAM Memory 256 MB
- VGA Card 64 MB
- HardDisk Space 1 GB