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.