Final Blog

Wow! This semester flew by. I had so much fun doing Globaloria it was a great experience, but it was hard at times. One of my biggest accomplishment was adding action. My biggest struggle was getting the buttons to work. The best thing that i liked about this class was how great Sarah and I presented are presentation. The least thing that I liked about this class was how much time we had to put into the game. Next year my advice for the kids that take it is to realize the big struggles that they are taking this to go into this class. The most that I liked about my presentation was the cleanness of it.

Finished

What a long semester it has been for me. The year is almost up and summer is going to be hear at last! Finishing this game has been a challenge for me, but i made it through. I had a lot of fun working on it and having a great time with Sarah "Moose". That's a inside joke lol! We finished everything today. I was so happy getting it over with, but one hard thing is going to present the demo, because I'm not the best at presenting things. I get a little nervous and I don't like the attention towards me and every ones eyes glaring at you. It bothers me. Today we put the demo on are team page and it looks awesome! I hope everyone likes are game demo and will like to see the concept of it. This might be my last blog for this globaloria, so sianara! I won't miss yea!
Demo

Practice Presentation

We are working on are biggest struggle. I just figured out how to do the action script and after I finish that and get it to work then I'm going to upload it to my wiki team page. Then I will be done with everything I think. Sarah and I are working hard and equally to finish this game up. I work in flash and she uploads things to are wiki and keeps that page up to date. I think it is very good, and the action script doesn't seem that hard until it won't work, and if that happens I'm going to be very mad and frustrated. You don't know how happy I am to be almost done with the game, the class, and the school year! Next week I just want to finish the whole game, and be done. I'm so confident in are game right now I can't explain it. We are making great progress and I love the concept of the game, and everything.

Presentation

Yes, I did overcome a few of my struggles, but I'm still confused on somethings. Sarah and I are trying to fix are game demo with all the action script, because that is the hardest thing right now and I really need to work on that right away. Somethings are harder then others, because I understand it better. I might not have met all my goals this week, but I will finish this game demo and I will make it a nice on at that. So, Sarah and I are going to be working very hard. We both are contributing the work, and we always have something to do know matter what happens. We have a lot to do the next weeks!

Biggest Struggle

For a while we have been assembling are game, and it has been a pain. We need to do a lot the rest of this week with the action script. We almost finish the skeleton, because my teacher told me I need to put my intro scene first, and I forgot about that so I need to finish that. The rest of the week will be to improve the game. So we are going to fix everything then work on are buttons and action script. Team Page!

What I Accomplished

This week are progress has been great. I accomplished a lot, but I didn't finish somethings. I am almost there. I finished all but one scene and I will finished it next week. I am also going to start making buttons next week and maybe get to my action script. Next week seems a little hard, but I know we can do it or atleast I know I can. We have one scene where I am confussed about, because its when you get an answer right I don't know whether to put it after every question or not. Then I only want one to come up not both, because if you get it right the slide that says correct go on will come up. But if you get it wrong the slide will say sorry wrong try again. I'm confussed about that I hope my teacher will know how to help. Sarah and I are getting along great we always have, but when I get made I kind of yell at her. I'm trying not to though. Will get through it! This is one of are slides from are game: Soup Can!

Assembling Our Game

The last to days my partner and I have been assembling are game. Sarah and I have accomplished a lot. We just need to finish the slides then the actions, sound, and i think we are done. Personally I have accomplished how to draw in flash, to put actions and flash, and a lot of other things. As time goes on working in flash will come easier to me. Drawing in flash is one of the easiest things, but working with the action script is hard and frustrating. Are team does not have many people at all its just Sarah and me, and we split everything equally. Sometimes I do things that she doesn't know how to do, and she does things that I don't know how to do. Usually one of us are always busy. For the rest of the week we are going to try to finish the slides with all the pictures. Next week I am going to try to start working on the action script, but if i can get to that this week I will start on it. The actions seems to take longer then anything so far.

Working in Flash

For the last two weeks I have been working in flash on my game demo and adding buttons to the demo. I'm not to confiedent in flash, but I am okay at the drawing part. The demo part like where the scene should end and where the next one should start is my weakness. Its just very confusing because you need to put a keyframe in then actions and all kinds of stuff. I' m making progress on my skeleton, but it is taking time and I need help with my buttons. Not many people can figure it out. Are teacher has been gone and we have had a sub. That what is making it confussing, becasue the sub can't help only the classmates. The ones that can do have been helping, but once it came to helping me mine doesn't work I just get a bunch of errors. Its all very confussing and it is hard to stay focused, because the only thing that I want to do is quit. I can't do that though, because I don't want to give up like a lot of students. So today I'm going to have to work on my buttons today and hopefully I can get it up and running! I just got mine to work I don't know what I did, but its working. I'm not sure if it is working right, but when I click team it goes to the next scene.

Adding Sound

The importance of sound is to make the game more interesting and to let the player have more inspiration towards the game. It also make the game unique, because you don't want anyone to have the same sound. It will enhance my game by the look and thrill of the game. The sound also depends on the game, because you can't have a driving game with a cat meowing it doesn't work. You would need the sound of an engine. It heps you get a better idea of the game, and it attracts people to it. An example of a game that I played with sounds was Taxi Gone Wild, and you have to jump over cars to make it to the end and when you jump it makes a weird sound. That is an example of a sound that doesn't help the game out it makes it very annoying. It has a mute button just to stop that sound ours will have a mute button, but they won't need it or i hope not! When I put sound on my game I will make it a cool sound so it will attract people to it. In my game I might make a sound of someone eating something or burping if you lose the game, because when you lose all your pie is gone. Maybe if you when the game I can have a sound of fireworks I don't know yet. Sarah and I will have to think about the sound idea's now.

On Wednesday we had a live session with a women named Meredith. She taught me so much, but we did have a few interruptions with the connection. She taught all the class on how to make a game skeleton and how you need different layers for when you add something to the scene. I didn't know that and I did my game demo wrong the first time and I need to restart it to make it better. Then Mrs. Forinash showed use how to do it on are own. I understand it a little better, but what we did was to make key frames to change the slide when it reaches a certain spot. I had to leave early for a softball game so I didn't get to finish and start to learn how to make button so I will probably catch up on that Tuesday.

Drawing in Flash 2

I have learned alot in flash it is very hard to get everything accruate. If you mess up on thing almost everything else messes up. It makes me very mad. I will be making something small then it will become big, and its just frustrating. It can only be done on one computer so I have to do it all on my computer and it is hard to get every one to help. Sarah just reads me what I need to put on there. I have had a lot of fun. I have read other classmates blogs about there group and they seem like they are coming together.

Drawing in Flash

Yesterday and today we have been drawing in flash. It has been so much fun creating are slides for are game, but it does get frustrating when you want a text in the middle of something and you can't get it. The game is very colorful, and I really don't want to move on to the actions part, because I just no that I will want to throw my computer across the room! I really haven't looked anything up about area I'm just using my common knowledge about it. I do need to get on that though. No one from other school have posted anything on my blog, but they might? I'm being a little bit inspired by bright colors. To make my game stand out so it will drag there attention to my game!

Our Team Page

Our team page is really good! We actually finished it, and now we just have to change the color of the font though. My job is artist and sound. All of us are getting along just fine, but sometimes I get frustrated with one of them, because the aren't helping much. I look forward to the look of the game, and how pretty it is and if we don't have that much trouble. Our inspiration of the game is a pie, because area involves pi. If you get the answer right the pie stays full, but if you get it wrong the pie is on third gone and every time you get it wrong more goes away. Once its all gone you lose! We are making good progress.

Spider Monkeys Team Page

Paper Prototyping Reflection

The last couple of days I worked with my group on making a prototyping activity. We worked really hard on it I was the artist and thought of the questions. Sarah flipped the pages and pointed to things when I was video typing and saying the questions. Colton help with getting everything together and coloring. When it came time to video type Sarah and I could not stop laughing, and I don't know why it was just funny. I really liked making a paper prototype, it was fun and helped us prepare better for when it come down to the time when we make the game. We focused on area but we out some other questions in there like circumference. i didn't really like the videoing part, because i kept messing up. Besides that I love making it is a hands on activity and it gives us more time to work on the subject and are teammates.

Team Expectations

Yesterday, I got my teammates for the game! Sarah is one of my teammates and we are good friends actually this class brought us closer. Also Colton is in are group. We picked the positions that we wanted to fill in our game. I am artist and codes director, Sarah is Manager and designer, and Colton is sounds. We are called Spider Monkeys...OH yeah!! Our game idea is Area, because Sarah had a pretty good idea and it is one of the easiest. We were all in agreement to that subject so we picked it. To find resources we are all going to work together, because you will find more and three heads will be filled with the knowledge. Sarah and I are the most confident with flash. Colton still has a little bit of trouble with it. These are going to be a very interesting couple of weeks. We might get all along or we might not, but no matter what are game will come together!

Game Idea Reflection

For the last couple of days we worked in flash and talked about what we wanted to accomplish with are games. I learned so much by writing in flash! You can do so many things when your typing it is just like word, and you can change font size, font color, and font style. The most exciting part for me to start my mini game is the art work towards the game and color work. I had to type my game idea's and put it on my wiki, and it was so confusing my teacher had to help me figure it out. It only showed one sentence instead of the whole paragraph. It took awhile to figure out, but we finally got it. I'm just learning so much and gaining so much knowledge in this experience. I just got lucky i guess! My Game Idea!

Games we Play

I really don't play games on the internet, because I rather be outside. The only time I am on the computer it's, because I'm on facebook. Anyways when I was littler I did play dress up games or house decorater. These were interesting to me because you could create anything you wanted. You could have your own since of style in clothes or in a room. My mini game sort of compares to the games that I use to play, because you get to put your creative twist to the game. MiniGameSARAH

Mini-Game Project

The past couple of day we were working with flash. Oh my it was so hard and confusing when we started. I was lost a few times, but i finally got the hang of it yesterday. We made a layer for the carrot then a layer for the bunny and a layer for the actions. The action layer is were you had to put all these codes to make everything move and do things. One time I wasn't in the actions layer and I was in the bunny layer, and I put a code in that layer and got a bunch of errors when I tested my video. I was so confused and get frustrated and just wanted to give up and leave, but then after everything was going right I really enjoyed it. I cant wait to start up another one and maybe I wont be so confused and frustrated!

Flash Intoduction

I read the into to flash, and it seemed very fun. It was kind of like paint but you had layers to when your done you can combine all the layers to make a picture. By the way the comments were going it seemed like it was going to be very difficult. They explained the things that are on the timeline. I think the hard part will be the the drawing, because its really hard to draw with a mouse instead of a pencil. The neat thing was that there was a picture with a man and a wall, and the first picture he was in front of the wall and the next one he was behind it. I think that would be interesting to play around with. I can't wait to start the flash, and building my game one layer at a time!

Blogs I Follow

I choose three blogs that I want to keep in touch with, because I think they will help me with my concept. The are called Lets Play Math, Mathrecreation, and Home of speed math and Smart math. These sites will help me think critically, because they will give me math ideas. Also, they have important math concepts on there. These are better then others, because they are rated high and they are easy to understand. I think these will make it easier for me and I get other opinions on my game. I haven't had much conversation about my game idea's, but i will soon. I'll ask around what they think.

Social Issue Review

Yesterday, in Globaloria we were choosing a topic for are game. I answered questions about are community. We focused on subjects like environment, health, poverty, education, and civic participation. They asked us questions on how some of this stuff effects are community and earth. I played a game called Dafur is Dying the genre was life simulation. This city's well was empty and you had to get them water but you couldn't be caught or else the city would die and you would be sent away to a camp. I think it is talking about environment, poverty, and health. Answering questions about my community wanted me to focus on some pacific subjects like education and environment. We have a good education in are state but not out of the whole country and we are trying to change, especially with taking this class. Also are environment looks clean, but we don't see the parts like landfills and things that are ruining are environment!

Game Review

I really enjoyed playing the games. Some where hard to understand but the ones that I played were easy to understand. I played Consumer Consequence and it was cool, you had to answer questions truthfully about the environment around your home. I didn't really like the way the people looked or how hard it was to answer some of the questions. Some of the questions were like how much your electricity cost a month or what is in my trash. I also played Slider Puzzles and it was a little hard, because you really had to think and use your brain. I didn't really like how it only had three puzzles to choose from. I still had a good time doing this and I can't wait to start my own game. I want to make it fun, but challenging. grrr...! This was one of the more enjoyable days.

Week Two

Globaloria is one of my easy classes, when I come everyday I'm not worried that im going to fail something. It makes my stress go away, and I cant wait for some difficulties too. This week we learned how to upload videos, pictures, and how to make a backround on my wiki. When I customized my wiki it is much harder then customizing my blog, because it has all these codes and it just confuses me. On are blogs we added are friend's blogs and are class site. I had a very fun time this week and can't wait for the weeks to come!

Blog Review

Today I looked at other kid's blogs, and they were so cool. The blog that I was focused on was a girl from Sandy River Middle. She has been doing this Globaloria project for awhile, and I just started. She made it seem very interesting and I'm excited to start. I thought her blog was cool and colorful. She talked about how math is fun. She is not a fan of math and im not a fan either. She talked about her team, and how she was really upset with her partners, but she came around and really liked her partners. it seemed that she had alot of fun being in the Globaloria!