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[edit] Nutrition Game Instructions
[edit] Objective:
The objective of the game is to learn about nutritional value of the items offered at fast food restaurants, how they affect your health, and how to eat more healthfully at fast food restaurants by simulating one day of choices at fast food restaurants.
[edit] Getting Started:
You should have been given two objects at the same time you received these instructions. One of them is called “Nutrition Game” and the other is called “Key Pad”. Open your inventory (button located on bottom right hand corner of the screen), locate the two objects under that “Objects” folder, right-click on each object and select “wear”. After doing so, you should see two new objects appear on your screen, one in the upper right hand corner resembling a calculator and one in the upper left hand corner labeled “Nutrition Game”. These objects are called HUDs, short for Heads Up Display. They are only visible to you and will follow you as you walk around Second Life. Think of them as similar to a speedometer in a car, you can see it no matter where you drive but no other driver on the road can. They will aid you in interacting with the game by allowing you to enter information for use in the game and keeping track of health information as you progress through the game. You can move them to a different location on the screen if you wish by right clicking each of them and selecting “edit” from the pie menu. Arrows will appear along the Y and Z axis and you can move the HUD by clicking on one of the arrows and moving the HUD in the direction desired. Keep in mind that an information panel will drop down from the HUD titled “Nutrition Game” so keep it near the top of the screen.
[edit] Playing the game:
The game will communicate with you in two different ways. One way is through chat and will appear in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. If the chat message disappears before you finish reading it, click the blue box at the bottom of the screen titled “history” and it will bring up a box with your chat history in it. The other way the game will communicate with you is through dialog boxes. A dialog box is a blue box that will appear in the upper right hand corner of the screen and will display a question with multiple options for you to select.
Once you have the HUD’s attached, a dialog box will appear asking if you would like to use your personal statistics or the statistics of your avatar for the game. If you select personal you will be asked a series of questions in chat to obtain your height, weight, age, gender, and activity level to be used in calculating the number of calories you should actually eat a day in real life. Your answers should be entered on the key pad in the upper right hand corner of the screen. If you chose to use your avatar’s statistics, an estimation will be made as to how many calories your avatar should consume in one day if he or she were an actual human being. The game will be more personalized if you choose to use your personal statistics but the set up will be quicker if you choose to use your avatars statistics.
Once your selection has been made and information entered if necessary, it will be time to start “eating” meals. You will be given a “caloric budget” which is the number of calories you should consume in one day to maintain your current weight. This value will be recorded on the HUD in the upper left hand corner of the screen. As you “eat” meals throughout the day, this number will reflect how many calories you still have left to eat. During the course of the game the number of calories and amount of fat and cholesterol you eat will be recorded. You are allowed to eat three meals in the course of the day. The game consists of three restaurants, Big A’s Burgers, Sally’s Soul Sizzler, and a Chinese Restaurant. Your meals may come from any of these restaurants. You may browse through the menus in each restaurant to see the nutritional information associated with each food. If you click on a menu item, a panel will drop down from the nutrition HUD giving specific information about the food. To “consume” a food, left-click on it and answer “yes” to the dialog box. If you just want to look at the nutritional value of the food click “no” on the dialog box and then left-click on the food when you are ready to consume it. When you are done with a meal and ready to move on to the next one, click the “Order Now” sign on each menu. This will end the current meal and start the next. If you leave a restaurant without clicking the “Order Now” sign then the meal will automatically be ended when you exit the restaurant and the next meal will begin. The food for each meal must all come from the same restaurant but different meals can be eaten at different restaurants. For instance, you cannot eat a burger from Big A’s and an egg roll from the Chinese Restaurant both for lunch, your meal must come entirely from one restaurant or the other. You can eat lunch at Big A’s and dinner at the Chinese Restaurant though.
Every time you eat a “value meal” in one of our restaurants, you have a chance to win 10 Linden Dollars. Prizes are given out randomly for these foods. Beware though, these meals are usually incredibly high in fat and calories and not healthy for you, so keep this in mind.
After all three meals have been completed, the game is over. You will be given (in chat) information on how your health has been affected by the foods you ate during the day. You will be told how much weight you might gain or lose in one week, one month, and one year if you continued the same eating pattern. You will also be told how your fat and cholesterol intake measures up to recommended daily values.
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