Game Review: Career Quest

Originally posted on: Monday, March 25th, 2013

You may have played the new game, Career Quest, or... you may have not. Well, I'm here to give my two-cents on the new game. Not that my opinion matters.

How to Play:

You begin by joining a quest at the ACT career center. You will be given a description of a career and approximately 120 seconds to find out what the career is, and where it is in the room. There are six career clusters to choose from. The career only fits into one. You will be given "hot or cold" clues until you are in the correct room. In that room there will be several sub-categories of the cluster. When you choose the right one, it will say "correct area". From there you will see a list of careers. Find the correct one that matches the description and click on it. If you get it wrong, don't worry if you still have time you can try again. If you found the right career, you win and earn 3-6 clams depending on your speed. After that you can join another quest.

The Verdict:

2 out of 5 stars
**

In my opinion, this game isn't worth your time. With a payout of only a few clams? I say, play it to get your salary up, and then move on to a different game. However, I do think it is a good tool for kids and teens to learn more about careers that might interest them or even discover ones they've never heard of. If you want to do that, then don't join the quests so you can work at your own pace. Remember, 120 seconds is not enough time to make a major life decision, so don't jump to conclusions!

Updates

Originally posted on: Sunday, March 24th, 2013

Well, I haven't been active on Whyville or posting on here. It's been a while. But I still somehow can't give it up. I have considered giving my blog to someone who'd like to actively post on it, but I'm attached (is that sad? lol). Anyway, I just had to come on Whyville in March to get my medals (four year veteran on jelloroks woot woot), and I thought, why not check up on my blog. Anyway, enough about me. Here's some new (ish) stuff that's been going on in Whyville.

• See when other whyvillians are typing in chat. A cute little purple pen shows up.
• Whyville's 14 years old!
• Whyville app coming soon? Tesract says they're working on it!
• The gallery in the times has been getting used more! Yay for a budding artist like me ;)
• Raven Island Treasure Hunt: I think it was two weeks ago this happened. I don't know if this was a one-time thing, or if it will happen again, but I hope it will! That weekend, little gifts popped up around Raven Island and you could have won projectiles, clams, pearls, and face factory vouchers.
• ACT Career Club/Career Quest
• AMD Game Zone: Wand Games. Play or create your own game for a chance to win awesome prizes like an x-box 360 with kinect, a lenovo laptop, or a wii u!
• Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Partners in the Wellness Clam Storm and creating new games to help kids and teens deal with stress.
• Bankinter: Due to extreme inflation in Whyville, you can only earn a maximum of  500,000 clams of interest in your savings. Psh. "Only". So if you have any more than 5 million clams in your savings, the rest won't get you any interest. Also, you can have up to five CD's open at once and each can only have 1 million clams in it.
• New "sent" box in y-mail. Been wanting this for a long time!
• "Did you mean _____?" in city records. Awesome for me because I make frequent typos :p
• Robot Checkers players, meaning you can play against a computer when you don't have any friends (like me)
• Reef runs on Flash and Java
• New colour palette in the Face Factory
• Trading post: Works with Flash or Java, old parts' dates are not reset, and designer's name is shown.

Phew! I think I got 'em all. I now see that the city workers have been very busy while I was gone. I hope to start posting again. I'm trying my best! 

-Jello