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Introducing Reach Out Central: The game

ROC logo

Reach Out Central (ROC) is an online game designed to help you learn and improve skills for life such as communication, problem solving and optimistic thinking online in a virtual setting using real life scenarios.

Playing ROC allows you to test drive real-life scenarios and situations and see how your thoughts, feelings and actions can impact on your relationships and your mood.

You take on the role of a character that is new in town. It is up to you to work out how to settle in, make new friends and find your way around the place. What you discover is that the choices you make about friends, partying, work and life can impact on your wellbeing and relationships.

The purpose of the storylines are to present real life scenarios that allow you to make choices online, see the consequences of your choice and learn from those choices. You are also able to monitor the impact that a poor choice has on your in-game mood or relationships with other characters in the game.

Throughout the game, comments from a narrator appear to question your decisions, provide advice and encouragement or link you to fact sheets on Reach Out that might be relevant or useful in the game play.  A major aim of ROC is for you to transfer the knowledge and skills you gain online from the game into your lives off line.

To start playing ROC you need to register through a simple online form on the game's home page at www.reachoutcentral.com.au.

When you enter the game you have the option to complete a short mood and feeling questionnaire at the start of the game and each time you log in. This data is saved to your member profile and is a way to track your real-life mood over time.

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Your in-game mood is tracked and during the game a mood monitor captures your character's mood based on the decisions that you make and the activities you participate in. It is represented by a small animation in the top left hand corner of the screen. By clicking on the arrow, you can view a breakdown of the mood along a continuum of four mood scales (e.g. sad - happy, stressed - relaxed, tired - energetic, scared - confident).
 

There are no right or wrong answers in ROC. The directions and outcomes are determined by you. This means you will be able to experiment with choices in a safe environment to see how your decisions and interactions affect your character's mood and other characters' wellbeing in the ROC game, without any direct impact on your health and wellbeing.

Their mood will influence the type of interactions you will have with the other characters and will change your experience of the game.

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Your ROC member page can be accessed through clicking on the 'member page' button next to the ROC logo in the bottom left hand corner. The member page is where you can view your mood tracker responses in a graph over time, a list of links to fact sheets you've picked up while playing ROC, as well as their current in-game mood.

  • This content was created by Reach Out Australia.
  • Last updated 06 Jan 10

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30 Comments (Page 1 of 2)

scottyboy69er

about 1 year ago

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acdc rulez

Marianne - RO Crew

about 1 year ago

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Maybe we should add an acdc song to the soundtrack??

Maddi_love

about 1 year ago

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i can't seem to log on! i joined the new reach out today, and i have changed my password a few times and tried again, but i cant log on to ROC =[

Marianne - RO Crew

about 1 year ago

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Hey Maddi_love - how annoying! So sorry you're having such difficulty! I'll have a look it and email you :)

MegJC4ever

about 1 year ago

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i cant log in either

simonemarn

about 1 year ago

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not logging in :(

Marianne - RO Crew

about 1 year ago

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hey guys - if you are a member, you should be able to log in if you've aready registered. Can you email me at marianne@inspire.org.au and let me know what happens. Thanks :)

Edited by moderator about 1 year ago

dingbattt

about 1 year ago

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how can i log in please :(

xo~Me~xo

about 1 year ago

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i cant log in. help?

Edited by moderator about 1 year ago

Marianne - RO Crew

about 1 year ago

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Hey guys - our registration is currently down - which is hugely annoying. But our techies promise it will be up and running by the end of this week.

So sorry about this, and thanks for your understanding!

marianne

Alphabet

about 1 year ago

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Roc is awesome!

Charmizle

about 1 year ago

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the log in isnt working

Kadin

9 months ago

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i cant log on and u RO crew said it would be fixed 15 days ago and all my friends are having the same problem

Edited by moderator 9 months ago

herewegoagain

12 months ago

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I can't log in.
:(

Charlotte-RO Crew

12 months ago

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Hey everyone - Marianne runs ROC and is the best person to help out with any problems.

I would encourage you to email her marianne@inspire.org.au

Sorry that there have been so many issues getting into the game!

Marianne - RO Crew

12 months ago

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Hey all

Firstly - I'm so sorry about all the difficulties. I know how frustrating it is.

Can you tell me exactly where in the log on process you're having problems? Definitely email and I'll make sure I get the techies onto it as soon as humanly possible (if not sooner!).

Thanks so much for your patience.

marianne

xo~Me~xo

11 months ago

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cant log in - says my username or password incorrect?

xo~Me~xo

11 months ago

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everything fixed :D

smilez :)

11 months ago

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Hi Marianne,  I have a problem with the game. Just recently, for the past two days i can log into the game but i cant go anywhere but 'my house'. I don't have any emails, have not seen any of the people, all i can do is all the stuff around the house, like eat, sleep, watch TV. In the objectives it says i am to find 'mias??' bag but i cant do that if the only place i can go is home, and when no people are to be found. . . . Please help i am loving the game but i am frustrated that i cant go any further and do anything
Thanks.

Charlotte-RO Crew

11 months ago

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Hey Smilez:)

I will forward this to Marianne to make sure she sees it! :)

You can always email her too - marianne@inspire.org.au

Sorry that you are having problems - but we are happy to hear that you do like the game! Yay!!! :)

Thanks for the feedback :)

Marianne - RO Crew

11 months ago

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Hey Smilez

Sounds VERY frustrating! Can you email me telling me what the very last conversation you had was an with her?? Hopefully I can fix it easily!

Thanks so much!

Marianne

smilez :)

11 months ago

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The Last Convo . .Well i'm pretty sure it was about if i would help her look for her bag, Mia was it??
Then the last person i was to have a conversation with was 'my cousins' girlfriend, i was helping her find information out about whether he was speaking to his mate about the issues and stresses his feeling. Thanx heaps, i hope the problems fix-able!! :)

smilez :)

10 months ago

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Hi, sorry but im still waiting for help its been neraly a month since the game has had its errors when i try to play.........whats goin on? :(

WOLVERINE

10 months ago

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u haf 2 register with the game 2

Spud

10 months ago

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Am I the only one who logged in sucessfully first try..? -_o

Porcelain

4 months ago

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Feedbacks:

  • I think ROC shouldn't give us the answers all the same. It's kinda complicated to explain, but I'll try explaining:
1. No one in life is going to speak the same way
2. We are unique in our dialogue
  • I feel as though, you guys don't want us being ourselves.
  • Also, it's up to you guys where you want to send us with 'how we are feeling or coping'.
  • I feel like, I am always at home or at the mall and in reality, I hate the mall & I hate staying at home. Its like a prison cell. Why can't I go to park & be by myself for once or call friends & tell them 'if they want to join the park for a little change of scenery'. 
Questions:

  1. What is the mall for? Can we buy stuff from there? I feel like, it's for chat only.
  2. Why can't I move around to other places?
  3. Why is it when I chat to people, they don't want to chat? It makes you feel uncomfortable, and so I just walk out - aka log out! It's an awkward feeling in there.
  4. Has anyone gone further up in the game or no?
Ratings out of 10 = 4.5/10 (I am a hard marker & a brutally honest person).

:( Im sorry for my feedbacks

Flower_heart

4 months ago

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Hi Marianne, I've had the same issue as a few other people. Basically, I can log in, but can't go anywhere else except the house. My last conversation was with the "mother" about the separation. The last objective I had/have is "Find Mia's bag" which I haven't been able to do at all...if it helps, I'm running the game off of Safari. 

smilez :)

3 months ago

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Hi Marianne, i am officially over waiting for your help to use your game, quite franlkly i think it is extremely rude. I have been waiting over 8 months and my patience has worn extremely thin. Their is obviously a few people experiencing the same issue yet you have not replied once to thier calls. I will no longer be visiting this site.
Smilez :(

Roisin - RO Crew

2 months ago

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Hi Smilez:),

I am so sorry to hear about this, Obviously an email has gotten lost somewhere along the way, sorry.

I will forward your message to Marianne straight away.  It has been necesary for Marianne to email individuals rather than reply in this thread so that she can look into each individual case.

Sorry for any inconvienience

All the Best
Roisin - RO Crew

Marianne - RO Crew

2 months ago

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hey smilez

Firstly - I'm so sorry for not getting back to you sooner. We don't get automatically notified when someone comments which is very annoying. I also don't work on the day to day running of the RO site so don't keep track of comments.

But it's absolutely not any excuse. You are totally justified to feel frustrated and angry. I hope you can forgive me and not hold my behaviour against the whole RO service.  
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The problems with ROC are generally due to problems with the game game logic - there are so many dependency and pre-requisite settings in the game engine which means that if one tiny field is set incorrectly it have a flow on effect to the whole game. We do comprehensive testing, but sometimes things are missed.

So trying to find where the problem is it like finding a needle in a very big haystack - it takes a lot of time and resources. And unfortunately, I've had to concentrate on launching another service for young people.  

I can tell you that we are committed to finding a quicker and better way of responding and fixing problems - so this doesn't happen again.

marianne

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