finished!!

The biggest accomplishment for my team was that were finished and everyone seemed to love to game idea. I think the biggest struggle was getting flash to work. I liked working with the teams the most, because it's more fun when your with a group of people then being and thinking about stuff by yourself. I don't like blogging. I just think it's a pain, but I'll still do it. I would give people that go into this class to get ready to pay attention, because if you don't you're going to be completely lost. I thought that in our game demo presentation, that my favorite part was the whole concept of the game. I'm glad were finally done!

Presentation

For the presentation, we will be presenting our game demo we have been working on for the past two weeks. I think we'll be ready by next Monday to be presenting or at least sometime next week. I think we'll do a good job presenting. We just have to fix our frames, then we'll be done. I'm not sure how long it will take though. We also need to get the actions and buttons working. I'm hoping to get done by sometime next week, but not sure when.

Completing the game

We are still trying to stop the frames from being out of order. No, we haven't gotten to the goals, because were still trying to fix the demo in flash so that all the scenes will actually work, but were getting there. For next week, I say that we need to fix the problems definitely by Friday. Throughout this coming week, we should be improving our game, adding the different scenes, and fixing the game up. Yes, I think Shaina and Triston are working equally. Shaina is trying to fix the frames, Triston is drawing on flash, and I have been uploading stuff we've done to the team page. I feel confident in this game idea. I think it's a good idea for this topic.

Accomplishments

The team's biggest struggle so far is on flash, it's messing the scenes up, and our buttons are working, but you can to click them multiple times in order to move to the next scene. I think were making good progress on our game. We have a lot done. I think we should finish this by Friday. I think we'll have a good presentation. This is what we've done so far.

Meeting Goals

I'm not really sure what our goals were for this week, but I think they were to finish the scenes we have now, and add more by today. We finished the scenes, but it's kind of messed up right now. They're working they're just not really working in the right order. It's complicated, but we'll fix it. For next week, I think we should finish it by at least Thursday, if not then Friday. I'm sure that we'll complete it before then though. I like my team. I think everyone is contributing equally and working hard. I could do more writing, and planning ahead. The three Major things we need to get done next week are finishing the scenes were working on now, add new ones, and fix our problems.

Starting to Assenble Game Demo

The past two days we have been working on our game demo on flash. My team has done a fair amount of work. Shaina finished the team introductions page, Triston is working on the primary game scene, and I have finished the intro scene. It was pretty easy. Everything was easy really. Yes, I think that all the team members are contributing equally, because we're all working hard and fast. I think that our plans are to finish the scenes and than add new ones. Flash is getting easier to use every time I use it. I think we'll finish everything within the next two weeks.

Flash-Game Demo Skeleton

We've worked in flash for the past two weeks and it's been confusing, yet easy. I've learned a lot about it and how to use it correctly. It's very easy to get an error though. I feel confident on doing everything, but codes. Putting in different codes has been the most difficult, because there are so many possible variations of them for different things. It's really confusing. I haven't gotten to far with my game demo skeleton, because I can't seem to get it to work. I haven't gotten my buttons to work on flash yet. I'm hoping that another classmate will help me with it.

Adding Sound

We watched videos on how to add sound. I learned a lot. Such as, how to add sounds to the game. It helped me a lot. I'm not entirely sure of what sounds to use for our game yet. When we do add sound, it will make the game more interesting, and fun to listen and play. Sound is important in games, because it's what makes the game more interesting, fun, and enjoyable, because it's not that boring. I'm not sure what games have good sounds in them, I don't usually play a lot of games. I think that adding sounds will be easy.

Working With Flash

I thought that the live session with Meredith was really interesting. I learned a lot more about flash, and how to use it better. I'm getting a better general idea on what I do for the game. I learned a variety of details on flash. Such as, how to make a game skeleton, use different codes, etc. For making the skeleton, overall it was hard, but not difficult. Actually it was kind of easy. It was hard, because it was just really confusing, and you can mess everything up very easily. Which can cause you to get mad and stressed. It was easy, because Mrs. Forinash helped us with all of it and went step by step through everything. You can see my game skeleton by clicking on this link below.
http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/bmswiki/index.php/User:MeredithG/Projects
I'm looking forward to be using flash. I think it will be challenging, yet easy.

Team Game

Our team game is called Paint Your Own Room. You can choose a color to paint a room, and determine how much the paint will cost to cover the square footage of that room. I think it's going good. Flash is getting easier. So far I haven't done anything, because I was absent. I'll be working on it soon.

Teams

My role is the artist/visual expert. I'm good at this because I listen to a lot of music and used to working on different projects that involve using that type of stuff. No, I did not have any disagreements with my team. We all agree on pretty much everything. I look forward to designing the game and use the different animations. The inspiration for our game was that we all know and understand area. I think that as we go on, we'll create a good game.

Paper Prototyping

Today, Shaina, Triston, and I made our team video. I didn't really like anything specific about it. I think that our game will be very educational though. I think that it will all work out.

Game Comparison

No, I do not play any games on my free time. I usually just go on facebook or myspace. The game that we're making now is more educational then any game I've played.

Team Expectations

My team name is Team Blue. The members in our team are Shaina and Triston. I think we will make a good game. Overall we couldn't really think of any good ideas. I think the roles that were chosen for each other will be good for our game. I think that Shaina will be a good game designer. The game idea that my team is focusing on is area. Yes, all of the team members were in agreement with this. I don't really know who is a good artist, but I think that anyone on the team could be good at it. I'm pretty sure we all are good at finding resources, and confident with using flash. I think that we will make a descent game. It will be fun, but maybe a little bit confusing.

Mini Game Project

The past few days have been easy. I don't think that flash is hard at all, it's just a little bit confusing. I didn't have any errors. It was all pretty easy, and some parts I would be confused, but Mrs. Forinash would help the whole class and me out. I think that as we keep on using flash it will become easier and easier gradually as we use it more. Flash is somewhat hard, but easy. It's hard because if you do one little thing wrong, it will say error and you will have to find out what you did wrong and try to fix it. It's easy, because flash is like this one movie program that I have at my house. It's where you can make movies for anything. Such as, a school project or a gift of some kind. Anyway, I'm used to using that program and it's very similar to flash.

Flash Intro

I think that flash will be fun, and easy. But, on the comments people say it's hard. I'll find out for myself. I think it will be easy, because I've used flash before. It's not a huge challenge. I think it will be easy to combine the images. I think it will be hard to figure out the different form of the program. Most people are used to word or something similar. Overall I think it will be a good experience.

Blogs I Follow

I chose Lets Play Math, Math Recreation, and Ars Mathmatica. I chose these three blogs because they had the highest rating. These blogs can help me critically think about my topic by giving me different information about math topics. They can also give me more information for my game. They can help me learn more about different subjects in math. Such as, area, volume, the order of operations, etc. People could me having varieties of conversations on my topic. They could be talking about its difficulty. These blogs can help me make my game better.

Social Issue Review

Yesterday, we answered questions on sections one and two under Topic Assignments. I answered a few questions on my community. It focused on how environment, health care, poverty, education, and civic participation affect my community. It affects my community in different ways. For environment, it could be clean and an "Eco friendly" environment, or it could be the complete opposite. The environment for my community is good. Another example, could be for education. The education could be excellent, like in my school, or it could be very poor, and people wouldn't get as good of an education. You can have many different views on these topics. Overall, class yesterday was somewhat difficult. Our work we did didn't save, but it all worked out now.

Game Review

I enjoyed playing Consumer Consequences and Toothpaste Power. Consumer Consequences was a game that show's how many Earth's it would take if everyone lived like you. It asks you questions on enviromental you are or should be. Overall it was a good game. It was probably one of the best games I have played on here. There wasn't anything specific that I didn't like about it. Toothpaste Power, on the other hand, was really simple. At first, I got confused because there were no directions. The second time I played it, I got it. It's pretty much common sense. All you do is try and shoot the plaque before you lose your three lives. I didn't like that I couldn't really understand what the drawings were, or that there wasn't any directions. Other then that, it wasn't the best game I've played, but it was okay.

Week 2

I think Globaloria is easy. It's not incredibly hard to upload pictures and do the other stuff, but it's not that easy when your absent. I think that this class will be easier as we go on and get used to what to do. I think that customizing your profile is one of the hardest things to do. I would like to learn how to make that easier for me. I enjoy getting pictures, because I can use it to express myself and you'll get to know my personality better.

Blog Review

I think that Nathan did a good job on his Blog. He had different videos, and pictures to make it exciting. He did an excellent job!!! I liked his cartoon video.