We are done with our demos. I think the biggest struggle with our game demo was flash. It was confusing. My favorite thing about this class was to be able to work in a team and to be able to work on a computer instead of sit in a desk all day and read in a text book. My least favorite thing about this class is that it was hard. It was one of the hardest classes i have ever been in. It was pretty hard. Some advice i would give someone that was going to take this class is to work hard and be ready to work a lot and to be able to work in flash and be able to understand all of the things that you have to do. And to be ready for a hard class. I think our biggest accomplishment was to be able to work into flash and be able to get through that and then be able to finish a good game demo. Another big accomplishment that we did was to be able to go up in front of our class and present our game demo while we were being taped. I think we did a great job.

Presentations

We are going to be practicing our game presentations next week. We have some things we have to complete. We need to put sound in our game. I think that will be easy because all you have to do is find the sound and drag it to the key frame you want the sound on and then all you have to do is drag it up to that key frame and then it will make that sound play when you get to that key frame. After the sound we need to finish the buttons and i think they will be easy. I think practicing our presentations will help all of us because if we practice it then it will be easy when we really present it. I think that we will do just fine and we wont have to worry about something going wrong in our game, i am really glad that we get to practice first before we really have to present them because if we didn't get to practice then we wouldn't be able to see if we needed to work on something else in our game and we would be worrying that something would go wrong in our game and then when we presented something could go wrong. I think that we will do a very good job and complete and make a very good game.

Game demo update #2

This week we have accomplished a lot of things. I think we have been doing good and if we keep up the good work then we will have a good game. Our biggest trouble was the buttons. We have kind of figured them out. I think we have done really good this week. I think we got more done than we usually do. We have our game demo updates on our team page and you can still go and see them. If you ask me i think we are doing a tremendous job. Yes, i am confident that our game idea is going to turn out great.

Game demo update

This week we have been working more on our game demo. We have accomplished a lot. I think we have struggled a little on the buttons. The had a lot of trouble with the keyframes. It was hard. I think our game will turn out great. We have been putting a lot of work into it and we have got a lot done. Here is the link to how much we have accomplished on our game demo:http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/bmswiki/index.php/Team:The_Dream_Team

Goals

Some of the goals i hope we accomplish is to get a lot done. I hope that we will be able to get the game demo done without having any problems at all. I think that we can accomplish that goal by working as a team and working hard. Yes, i think we are contributing equally. We have accomplished a lot and we are still doing a good job on being able to get things done. Sometimes we have some trouble but the teachers help us solve the problem and we are able to find the problem and get it fixed. Sometimes it takes a while to figure something out but the teacher usually helps us and then we are able to figure them out. Three major goals i hope we accomplish is to get some more of the pages done, work hard, and be able to figure things out. I think that we are doing a good job.

Game demo presentation

We have accomplished a lot of things. Yes, i think that all of us are contributing equally because we have been working. The easy parts i think were when we worked on the different keyframes of the game demo. It was pretty easy because the teacher helped us when we needed help and when we messed up they helped us solve the problem and helped us fix it. We have accomplished a lot. We are getting a lot done.

Flash

We have been working on Flash in Globaloria. We have been working on our buttons and trying to get them to work. I have learned how to put sounds in the keyframes because i watched a video on it and it explained very well how to do it. I think the most difficult thing is to put the actions in the keyframes and the frames. It is very complicated. You have to copy and paste them and sometimes you have to write them and you can sometimes write them wrong and then it will be messed up and then you will have to go back and fix it. Actions are confusing and they are very hard. Thats what I am stuck on in my game demo skeleton. If I knew where to put the action in the right spot then I would be able to use my buttons.

Sound

Today we watched a video on sounds. The sounds part of the game is going to be easy. All you have to do is go to a website and the one that was mentioned on the video was a site called find sounds all you have to do is find a sound that you want there. Then you have to save it. Then all you have to do is go to flash and then click on it and it will be in the library. Then drag it out of the library and put it on the layer that you need it on and then it will be on the game. Then you can test it then when it plays you should hear the sound that you put on the game.

Game demo skeleton

In Globaloria we have been working in flash. The other day we had a live session with meredith and she showed us how to use some tools and stuff in flash. We have been working hard in flash. It is pretty hard. We are working on our game demo skeleton. It is pretty hard. We have been working on it for a couple of days. We have to put in all of these keyframes and frames and stuff and we have to put in actions and some other stuff. It is pretty fun. But it can sometimes get pretty confusing. Like if you put a keyframe in the wrong place then you have to delete it and then put it where it is supposed to go. It is pretty hard at first but i think when we get used to it then it will be pretty easy.

Teams

We have been working on our team page. We have decided on our team roles too. I am the project manager, Madison is the artist/visual/sound, and Sammie is Coder. We put down some of our game ideas down on our team page. Our background is blue and we dont have any characters. Our noises are going to be regular game noises. The objects that are going to be on our game is going to be shapes. The text that is going to be on our game is going to be the instructions that will tell you how to play the game and what to do on the game. The buttons that are on our game is the play button and the play again button and the quit button. I think we will do a great job and make a great game.

Paper Prototyping

We worked on paper prototyping and then we had to go and video it. It took us the whole class for us to get ours videoed because we kept messing up. But in the end it turned out good and we got it done. It was pretty fun. First we had to tell them what our team was called and then we had to read the directions to the game. Then we had to read all the things that our game was going to do. The paper prototyping was kind of hard but it was pretty fun when we got to video.

Team Expectations

My team is called The Dream Team. We have been brainstorming some things like who will make sound and who will be the person that works in flash or the artist and manager. We all have different things we have to work on. I am going to work on the sound and Madison is going to be the artist and Sammie is going to be the manager and the person that works in flash. Our game idea was to do the game on volume. We all agreed to do the game on volume and we all agreed to what positions we got to be in.

Game idea reflection

I uploaded my mini game onto my wiki and here is the link:http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/bmswiki/index.php/User:BrandenG/Projects. It is half way down the page and you can play the game. We had to follow all the directions to get it uploaded and to get it on our wiki. It wasn't that hard it was kind of easy. All we had to do was make the game and then click on the upload multiple button and then clicked upload file and then it uploaded it right onto the wiki. It was pretty neat and i think it was kind of fun. Uploading was a little hard but i finally understood it and uploaded it. We also uploaded some text with it too. It was the hard part cause you had to go and count how many words you had because you had to have less than 200 words and over 100 and i had to keep on counting and then i had to keep going back and forth trying to follow the directions and it telling me how to do it. But it paid off because i got my mini game done and the text too.

Mini Game project

We have started on a Mini Game, and it is pretty easy. So far we have 3 layers one of them is called bunny Layer and our actions layer is a big part of our project because that's how we put our actions in into the mini game like to make your rabbit move up and down you have to go to your actions layer and then you have to put in a formula in the actions layer and then click Test Video and it will show you what your game looks like up to that point. We worked on a Collision which means when your carrot goes to your rabbit the rabbit eats it and the carrot starts from the beginning again. Then we set up our score. That is where the rabbit eats the carrot and then your score will go up by one every time your rabbit eats a carrot. Flash is pretty simple.

Flash Introduction

I read an introduction to Flash today and it seems kind of hard. I read some comments too and they think it was hard too. I think making the figures and trees and walls and stuff will be hard but i think all of the other stuff will be easy. I would like to learn how to make a Flash thing without it being hard.

Social Issue Review

Yesterday, we went to the choosing a topic and then we went on choosing a game topic and then we got to write down some of the Social Issues in our city. Some of the Issues we put down is Poverty, Environment, Civic participation, and Health, and how our city relates to them. I found out that our city has to get the environment better and better health. We also need good educations so we can go to college and get a job. If we get those problems solved then our city Will be a good one.

Playing The Games

We got to play games and then do a game review and post them on our wikis. I liked to play the games, they were fun and they are really good. They had good graphics and they had good themes. The first game i played was:

Darfur is dying, It was a good game. You got to be little africans and run around to get water without being caught by the militia. You can go to the camp and get health and eat and then the militia will raid your village and then you have to hide without being killed or captured. Then you can forage for water. Thats where you get to run and try to find the water well and get back to the camp so you and your family could have water.



The second game i played was Slider puzzle. It was like a jigsaw puzzle and you got to slide the puzzle pieces and make the picture the way it was supposed to be. I think the game was pretty hard because when you went to slide the puzzle then another piece would get in your way and then it makes it all confusing so then you have to move the pieces and find the correct piece and move it all around until it gets to the other piece that it is supposed to go with. It was still a pretty good game though.

Globaloria Week 2

We have done alot of work so far and we have got alot done. We have put up pictures on our wiki and we put in a video. What my favorite thing we did in week two of Globaloria is when we uploaded pictures and we we put them on our wiki. I think that was pretty cool. Globaloria is a fun class, we get to do a lot of fun stuff. The thing i found hardest is when we set up our links to our blog. It was hard and i was very confused. It was fun when we got to go and get videos from viddler and put it on our wiki. That was pretty fun. Everything we do in Globaloria is fun. We got to put gadgets on our blog. It was pretty cool. We went on google and got pictures and then made a file called Globaloria and then we put the pictures in the folder and then we went to our wiki and we put them on our wiki. Globaloria class is awesome

Blog Review

I viewed a blog today Allen.74, good pictures and good video. The pictures were a little blury but they were still pretty good.