I think the biggest accomplishment of this class was knowing that my teammates and I got our game demo done really well and though we were nervous we ended up presenting really well. The biggest struggle throughout this class was getting the action scrip to work. I think it was my biggest struggle because I would get really frustrated if it didn't work and sometimes I just didn't know what to do, but with the help of my teachers and classmates I got it done. I mostly liked seeing all of the game demos at the end because it showed that all of the hard work we did pay off. The thing that I liked least about this class was that we had to spend so much time on it and sometimes things would just not go the way you wanted them to. I would tell a new class to try not to get frustrated because everyone in the class is doing the same thing you are, so it's best to ask for help. There wasn't really just one part that I like about my game-demo because we worked really hard.

Presentation

We will be presenting our game soon and we still have a couple things to do. We still have to get our buttons working and put sound in, but I think if we continue to work hard we can get it done. I think if we practice our presentation it will be a lot of help because that way we will know what we need to say. I think my biggest concern is that I'm going to mess up on the presentation, realize we did something wrong, or if we left something out. We have made a lot of progress in the past week, so I think we are going to have everything ready to present. Adding the rest of the buttons is not going to be a big problem because we have finally learned how to get them working right. I don't think sound is going to be that hard to add either because when we watched the video on how to add it, it didn't look that hard. It has been a lot of work, but my teammates and I have been working really hard and we can't wait to see how it looks when we are done.

Demo Update 2

This week we have continued to work on our game demos. Everything is going well. We have accomplished a lot this week. We have all of our scenes done except on a couple of them we still have to get the buttons working right. Our biggest struggle is gettign the buttons to work, but I think we will figure it out soon. We have accomplished all of our goals this week by working hard and trying to get everything to work the first time we try it. Our goals for next week are to get all of the sound working on our game and that is the biggest thing we have to do. I feel like my teammates and I are doing a great job on working together and everyone is contributing equally. We are all helping with the design and picking out sound clips for the game. We have all contributed ideas on how to get the buttons to work because they haven't been working, but we usually can come up with a way to get it to work. I feel really good about our game idea because we are accomplishing a lot and we don't have very much more to go.

Presentation Update

This week we have accomplished a lot more than last week. We have added three new layers and we've gotten everything working on all of the other layers. I think our biggest struggle is the key frames because we don't know where to place them and what to put in them. I think once we get the hang of how to work the key frames everything is going to start going a lot faster and we will be ready to present soon!
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Goals

This week I planned on accomplishing getting more layers put in my game demo. My team and I have been doing a good job by meeting our goals. We successfully put in more layers as planned, but we still have a lot of work to do. We accomplished this by working together and working hard. If one person didn't know how to do something someone else could always help and figure out what to do. We did not get as much done as I would have hoped, but we are finally getting the hang of how to do everything. Next week, I hope to accomplish more than we did this week. I hope to get all of our layers and scenes added in. I would also like to get our buttons and and working on every layer. I think we will get more accomplished this coming week because we know a lot more than we did earlier in the week. I hope to accomplish all of our goals for next week by continuing to work hard with my team.

Game Demo Presentation

The past two days we have been working on our game demo presentations. My team has accomplished a little bit day by day and we are trying to get things done as good as possible. I have personally accomplished getting the intro scene done and ready for our game, but I did not do it all myself, I also had the help of my teammates. The easiest thing is deciding which team members are going to be doing what. This is the easiest thing because all we have to do is look at who is good at what and then assign them that task. The hardest thing is getting everything to look and do what it is supposed to do because id one thing is out of place it could look wrong and if you type in one wrong letter in a code that could mess it all up. I think everyone on my team is contributing equally and is doing a great job to help get everything done. My plans for the rest of the week are to keep working hard with my team to get everything done and see how everything goes from there.

Working in Flash

These past two weeks we have been working in Flash on our game demo skeletons. I have learned a lot so far. I did not know much about Flash at all when I first started this. I have learned that you don't have to be able to draw very good because they already have straight lines and shapes programed in for you and those things can help you draw other things. I feel very confident about drawing in Flash because though I am not creative and cannot draw very well I'm feel comfortable doing it. The most difficult thing to do in Flash are the codes because you have to be so precise on everything and the slightest mistake can mess up the entire code. I have made a lot of progress in my game demo skeleton because I did not understand why we needed layers or frames, but as I moved on I understood better. I have not gotten my buttons to work right yet, but I have help from classmates, so I'm sure I will get it done soon!

Adding Sound

Yesterday I watched videos on how to add sound to my game. I found that it was not as hard as I thought it was going to be and I think it is going to be a good addition to my game. I thought it was a little confusing at first, but as I watched the videos longer I caught on to it. I learned a lot in the adding sound tutorial because I knew basically nothing about it, so I'm glad I got to watch the tutorial. I plan on adding very fun and interesting sounds to our game to make it more fun to play and even if your answer is wrong you still get a cool sound anyway. I think sound is important to games because it make it more fun whether you are winning or loosing. I don't play very many games, but the games I occasionally play always have sound because I feel like it also gets me more into the game. The games I play are mostly Mario Brothers because they make it fun to play and they get you more into the games because of their fun and up beat sounds.

Game Demo

These past couple of days we have been working in Flash on our games. Recently we had a live session with Meredith with Flash and I learned a lot about the layers and scenes. I learned that everything must be on its own layer and I learned short cuts on how to delete and add things. It cleared a lot of things up for me on what to put in the layers and how to name them correctly. The game demo skeleton was hard at some parts, but as I started to add more layers and more scenes I got the hang of it and it got easier. I think I will be able to eventually make one on my own, but I might still have questions about some things.
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Working in Flash

Yesterday I worked in Flash with my group. It went really well there was a few things that we didn't understand, but then when we got together we figured it out. We work really well together because we always asked each other what we thought about each other's scenes. Our topic is volume and we are doing really well with it. Since we've moved along in making our game in Flash I have memorized the formulas a lot better and became faster and better at solving the problem. The inspiration for our game was our other classmates and I think when all of our games are done each one of us is going to be better at the topics we focused on. I like working in Flash becqause it's a little bit of a challenge, but it's really fun and creative. I am exciting to see what our game looks like when we are finished!
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Teams

Yesterday we chose team roles. I got the role of a the coder that works in action script. I think I will be good at this job because I am very precise and with this job you need to be precise to get everything to look the way it should and work the way it should. We did not have any disagreements with each other. We worked really well together and whatever we thought each other would be good at that is the role that we chose for that person. I'm looking forward to playing our game at the end because I think it's going to be really fun! Our inspiration with our game was our classmates. They were our inspiration because a lot of them struggled with volume and we chose this concept to help people with that.

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Paper Prototype Reflection

Yesterday we did our paper prototype video. Branden was taping the video while Madison and I worked together on how the game was going to work. Everything went good, but we faced a couple problems at the beginning. At first I was the only one going through the steps, but I messed up a few times so then we decided to have Madison step in. Well, she also messed up and so we came together and thought it would be best if we did it together. I liked how we ended up working together and were able to do everything better. It ended up woking out really well and I think it turned out great!

Team Expectations

Yesterday, we were introduced to our new new members. My team is myself, Madison, and Branden. I am really excited to work with them because we all contributed some great ideas. Our team, The Dream Team, is concentration on working together to make everything work out. I think that Madison will be the best for designing and drawing. I think Branden will play a great role of doing sound, and I will do all codes and team manager. We as a team are going to focus on volume. We haven't thought a lot about how our game is going to work, but we thought about having the user pick a shape and then they will be given measurements on the shape then they will have to solve the problem. All team members were in agreement with this because two out of the three of us already had this concept in mind. Madison is the best artist of all of us, Branden will be finding the resources, and I will be working with flash. I am looking forward to working and making a game with my new team members.

Gmae Idea Reflection

Yesterday I thought about more ideas for my game. I explained how my game is going to work in flash, and uploaded it to my projects on my wiki. I learned how to write in flash and upload to my wiki. I am most excited about designing the game and making it fun. I also explained how my game was going to work and how it was going to make you better at volume. I am excited to start my game and I hope I learn more about volume as I make my game.
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Games We Play

In my free time I don't usually play games, but if I don't have anything to do I will play sometimes. I play games off of miniclip.com and that's really it. I like a lot of types of games and I never play the same game over and over again because I get really bored with the same games. I like these games because they are are all different kinds. The games I play are very different from  the minigame I made because the games I play are more complex. My minigame is very easy, all you have to do is move up and down. Other games that I play are different because you have to also move up, down, and side to side and sometimes you have to use different keys to make the person jump or crouch down.

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Mini-Game Project

The last two days we have been working on our mini-game project. I think that it is really fun. Some parts are challenging, but once I understood what I had to do it started to get easier. I think it's cool that all you have to do it copy and paste things, so that makes it easier. We have done things like game loop control, keyboard control, collision detection, score and some other things. I think the one of the hardest things we have done is score because there was a couple problems with it when we tried to do it. Adding layers is probably the easiest thing we have done so far. I think this is a really fun project and I can't wait to finish it.

Introduction to Flash

The introduction to flash tells you about flash and how to use it. One thing that found was important about Flah was the layers. The layers are important because they can create an entire scene for your game. I think the layers will be very easy to use because you can delete layers without having to worry about other layers being deleted. You can also hide, reveal, lock, and unlock layers. Ithink adding motion will be one of the hardest things I will have to do, but we might not have to do that. I am looking forward to making this mini game.

Choosing Blogs to Follow

Today I chose blogs to follow. I think the blogs I chose will help me because they talk a lot about math and they show very interesting pictures about different concepts. They have some really cool pictures that don't have to do with graph or numbers. One of the blogs I found had a picture of a die and had some questions to go along with it and I thought that was really cool. These blogs also taught me a few things just by reading them today and trying to find blogs to follow.

Social Issue Review

Yesterday in class I reviewed social issues. Some of these issues are poverty, environment, social networking, economy, and fundraising. One of the issues that got my attention was fundraising because I think raising money for the less founate is really important. Another social issue that got my attention was poverty because I think health care is very important.

Game Review

I had fun playing all of the games! Some of the things I liked were the colors. One of my favorite games I played was called Darfur is Dying. It had a very good concept and it was explained very well. One thing I didn't like about the game was it had a lot going on in the camp and I didn't really understand what to do at first, but as I played I got better at it. I really enjoyed playing this game!

Another one of my favorite games was Scuba Diver. The concept was very fun and the game was easy to play once I got the hang of it. I loved the colors the game had. It was really pretty and that's also what made the game fun!

Globaloria Week 2

I thought that being able to upload videos and pictures was really cool. I thought it was really cool that you could get pictures from anywhere and put them on my wiki. The videos were very funny that my classmates and I uploaded. I also changed colors on my background and that was also very easy. I am excited for next week to see what we will be doing!

Blog Review

Today I found this blog that I found really cool. I really liked the colors she used and all their gadgets. I liked that when she wrote they were really funny. I also liked the way she set up her blog. Now I can improve my blog by looking at others because of what learned just looking at this blog because they have been doing this all year.