Introducing Reach Out Central: The game
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.
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.
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.
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scottyboy69er
9 months ago
Reply Reportacdc rulez
Marianne - RO Crew
8 months ago
Reply ReportMaybe we should add an acdc song to the soundtrack??
Maddi_love
8 months ago
Reply Reporti 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
8 months ago
Reply ReportHey Maddi_love - how annoying! So sorry you're having such difficulty! I'll have a look it and email you :)
MegJC4ever
8 months ago
Reply Reporti cant log in either
simonemarn
8 months ago
Reply Reportnot logging in :(
Marianne - RO Crew
8 months ago
Reply Reporthey 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 8 months ago
dingbattt
8 months ago
Reply Reporthow can i log in please :(
xo~Me~xo
8 months ago
Reply Reporti cant log in. help?
Edited by moderator 8 months ago
Marianne - RO Crew
8 months ago
Reply ReportHey 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
7 months ago
Reply ReportRoc is awesome!
Charmizle
7 months ago
Reply Reportthe log in isnt working
Kadin
3 months ago
Reply Reporti 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 3 months ago
herewegoagain
5 months ago
Reply ReportI can't log in.
:(
Charlotte-RO Crew
5 months ago
Reply ReportHey 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
5 months ago
Reply ReportHey 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
5 months ago
Reply Reportcant log in - says my username or password incorrect?
xo~Me~xo
5 months ago
Reply Reporteverything fixed :D
smilez :)
5 months ago
Reply ReportHi 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
5 months ago
Reply ReportHey 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
5 months ago
Reply ReportHey 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 :)
4 months ago
Reply ReportThe 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 :)
4 months ago
Reply ReportHi, 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
4 months ago
Reply Reportu haf 2 register with the game 2
Spud
4 months ago
Reply ReportAm I the only one who logged in sucessfully first try..? -_o