Build

Build Activity

Goal

The goal of Build is to trace, arrange, and place the building pieces into the blueprint before time runs out.

Game Play

One of Books’s primary responsibilities is to ensure that everyone has a safe place to sleep during the night. Thus, Books must build a shelter in any location on the map where characters will end their day. The shelters last for a varying number of days, depending on the difficulty of shelter built. When a game day ends and characters are in an area that does not contain a shelter, "Exposure" will affect them negatively. While characters in a shelter regain 20 energy units, characters that are unsheltered lose 30 energy units. Make sure all characters end their days in an area with a shelter!

With a building blueprint in the background you are given pieces of the building plans that have been cut into random shapes. To successfully construct the shelter, complete the following steps:

1. Tap or click on an untraced building piece. The corners of the piece will turn blue.

2. Select any one of the blue corners of the piece. A blue dot and a red dot will appear on opposing corners.

3. Start tracing along the edge of the piece, from the starting corner selected towards the corner with the blue dot. Incorrectly tracing a line to the red dot will cause the piece to reset and require you restart the tracing process again.

   

4. Once a puzzle piece is revealed, move and/or rotate the piece so that it mirrors the underlying pattern on the background blueprint. Use the Rotation Control (shown below) to rotate the piece as needed. When the piece is close to being correctly positioned and aligned, it will slide into place and lock in place.

   

   Once all the pieces are in place, the activity ends and a shelter is built on that map location.

CONTROLS

Reveal Blue Print - Select and trace the edges of a piece. Make sure to trace towards a blue dot, never a red dot. Continue around the entire edge of the piece until the blueprint image is revealed.

Rotate Pieces - Once the blueprint is revealed, use the Rotation Control to rotate it into its correct position.

Position in Place - Once the piece is correctly rotated and positioned, you will hear a sound indicating that it has been locked into place.

Tips

• Touch any piece to move it to the top of the pile.

• Don’t worry if you can’t finish the whole puzzle, getting even a few pieces in the puzzle will give you a shelter for a short bit of time.

CLINICIAN INFORMATION FOR Build

Difficulty Level

The difficulty level of Build increases with the number of:

• Length of time to complete the puzzle (Range 60-100 seconds).
• The complexity of the puzzle (Range 2-9 pieces).
• The number of trace points (Range 2 to 5).

The player may have difficulty with the following:

• Tracing the edges of the shape. This takes practice. Sometimes players will trace a piece in the wrong direction, moving toward a red dot (instead of a blue dot). They will have to restart the tracing process.
• Using the Rotation Control. The player can control the piece to rotate the in any direction needed.
• Placing the object into the correct position. Remind the player that they only need to move the object close to position and then the game will automatically lock the piece into place.

Cognitive Skills MEASURED or Challenged