[Testing] Fwd: Free From Malaria Game

[World Class Project- Dev Team]

Dear Maryse,
 
Thank you so much for your review of the game, we are thrilled to have you test
out the content for us.
 
I will make changes regarding points 1 to 4 in your email to make the narrative
clearer. I will also fix the various developer typos and messages etc.
 
With regard to
 
"This map shows only the distribution of Malaria Falciparum, while
 there are 3 other types. I would be more accurate to take a map showing
 countries infected by any types of Malaria parasites."
 
So far I only have open source data for P.falciparum from the Malaria atlas
project:
 
http://www.map.ox.ac.uk/
 
and have not found any data for bergei, yoelli,chabaudi. I will be happy to
include maps if you could suggest any data sources for these strains? 
 
Will it be easy to swap the world map to a Map of the Pacific region
> if we want to adapt it for OLPC Oceania?
 
In the next release towards the end of August I hope to include all maps from
the malaria atlas, for each continent and endemic country including Pacific
regions for P.falciparum. I don't recall any maps for the other strains but
again would be grateful for any direction.
 
Thank you once again for your reviews. I hope to now create a pootle translation
project and will try and get the application translated.
 
Best wishes
World Class Project
 
 
 
 

On 22 June 2010 at 09:18 Tabitha Roder <tabitha at tabitha.net.nz> wrote:

> Forwarding Free from Malaria feedback to olpc testing list and to
> develop at worldclassproject.org.uk as per support note on
> activities.sugarlabs.org
> Tabitha
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Maryse Benzler <MaryseB at spc.int>
> Date: 22 June 2010 15:52
> Subject: Free From Malaria Game
> To: develop at worldclassproject.org.uk
> Cc: Ian Thomson <IanT at spc.int>, tabitha at tabitha.net.nz, David Leeming <
> david at leeming-consulting.com>
>
>
>  Hi all,
>
>
>
> First of all I would like to congratulate you for the creation of this
> activity.
>
> It’s really those type of easy educational games that the XO needs. I’m
> looking forward for your next one about Water.
>
> I just tested it for our OLPC project  in Oceania as we have Malaria in
> Vanuatu, Solomon islands , PNG… and it will be very useful for children in
> those countries.
>
>
>
> *I have a few comments and suggestions concerning the message:*
>
> 1.      The boy is bitten by a mosquito and the comment is *“He was now
> infected with the malaria parasite*” That’s not entirely true: First the
> mosquito should be from a certain type (anopheles), and second the mosquito
> should already be infected.
>
> 2.      Showing a girl bitten by a mosquito the comment is : *“parasites are
> carried back into the mosquito the next time it bites a person”*. It would
> be better to say “when he bites a person already infected by malaria
> parasites”.
>
> 3.      Concerning the symptoms : *“you can get high temperature, fever or
> start sweating”* I would rather keep either “high temperature” or “fever”, I
> don’t see the point of keeping both.
>
> 4.      When the Mum is spraying the windows screen, I don’t see why it is
> written *“His mother now keeps the windows closed” *then what is the point
> of having mosquitoes screen? Rather say something like, “his Mum can now
> leave the windows open because of the mosquito screen”.
>
> 5.      This map shows only the distribution of Malaria Falciparum, while
> there are 3 other types. I would be more accurate to take a map showing
> countries infected by any types of Malaria parasites.
>
>
>
> *Few other comments on the developer side:*
>
> 1.      On the last picture with *“The end”,* if you want to restart the
> game, there is the icon at the top with the round arrow saying “Restart the
> scene or the game”, it should be called only *“Restart the scene”* as shown
> on the home page, as when you click on it nothing happen.
>
> 2.      If you click on the home icon then a message appears with a spelling
> mistake *“Resart game?”*, and telling you *“you are in the middle of a game.
> Are you sure you want to go to the home screen”. *In fact you are not in the
> middle you are at the end… I assume this is the same message which appears
> when you want to quit in the middle of the game.
>
>
>
> *And finally a question : *
>
> 1.      Will it be easy to swap the world map to a Map of the Pacific region
> if we want to adapt it for OLPC Oceania?
>
>
>
> Hope these comments would be useful.
>
>
>
> All the best for your future projects.
>
>
>
>
>
> *Maryse Benzler*
> IT Project Assistant
>
> SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community
> Noumea
> New Caledonia
>
> Ph +687 26 20 00 ext 144
>
> maryseb at spc.int
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