Presentation

Today I presented my final game infront the people from Globaloria along with my classmates and we all did very well and the Globaloria representatives congratulated us on our efforts.

Presentation

Next week I will present the demo of my game, hopefully it will be good enough to give me a good grade. We'll find out next week.

Uploading

Today I finished most of my game pages and I need to get the buttons to go where I need them to and that should be done next week. I uploaded progress on my team page today.

Progress

Hopefully this week I will be able to make the first few pages of my game function by using buttons.

Flash

Currently I am producing the first few pages of my game and so far I'm doing well but the hardest concept for me to grasp is knowing what code to put in to make my buttons and other variables work.

Navigation

After watching the navigation tutorials on my wiki page I'm really worried because I'm not completely sure I'll understand what todo for most of my game but hopefully something will spark and I'll catch on.

Tutorials

Today I watched more tutorials for flash and tested some of my drawing skills by next week I should be ready to put my ideas togather in the form of a game.

Trip

This friday after game design class I will be leaving for the Hatfield McCoy Trail on the border of WV and Kentucky to ride Fourwheellers for the weekend.

Final four disappointment

West Virginia lost to Duke in the semi-finals of the NCAA tournament and I'm very depressed.

Video

Last week I posted my prototype video on my blog, wiki, team wiki, and projects page. Above is the video I recorded in class for my prototype.

Elite 8

West Virinia's stout defense has done it again, holding yet another strong offensive team in the Washington Huskies to only 56 points. With this victory the Mountaineers will take on the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday for a chance a the final four.

Finished

Last friday I recorded my paper prototype, now all I have to do is put my ideas into a game.

Sweet 16

Thanks to WV's relentless defense the mounties held on to lead and captured the win over Mizzou.

Fourwheeler

Monday March 15th I bought a Polaris Explorer 400 4x4 and so far it runs great. Its old and will need some work down the road but nothing major.

Where I stand

Right now I believe I have a finished or close to finished product of my paper prototype.

Clutch Performance

Clutch is the only word a person can use to describe WV basketball player Da' Sean Butler. He has bailed the Mounties out of three or four games this year with buzzer beaters and tonite in the quarter finals of the Big East tournament he did it again by making a 3 pointer with no time to spare sending the mountaineers to the semifinals against the Notre Dame fighting irish.

Paper Prototype

Today I began the process of paper prototyping and so far I have made a story board. I'm hoping to have the rest of my prototype produced by next week before we video our ideas.

Tournament

Hopefully, WV's two round bye in the Big East tourney will spring the mountaineers to make a run and recieve a high seed for the NCAA tourney.

Fishing

The weather is starting to warm up, Conway lake has just been stocked and I bought myself a new fishing pole, so bring on the fish!

Texting

Today we practiced with the text from flash and I'm not very good at it so hopefully I will improve before the semester is over.

Disappointed

When I looked at the wiki's and blog pages of some of the students in Marshall Tech I was disappointed b/c I thought they would have more creative pages b/c there are a few more people and I figured I could get some ideas of what to do with my page.

Finished!

Yesterday after math class Howard helped me finish my mini-game and now its running perfectly!

Truck

Today, I bought a 2006 Chevy Colorado 4x4 and I'm really happy that I got a good deal or else I would be paying for it for a long time.

Progress

Today Mr. Tackett reviewed our classes blog and wiki pages. Mine is alright but I need to blog more so thats what I'm doing now.

Chossing a topic for a game.

Today in class we were asked to choose a topic foor a game we are expected to produce, heres how I narrowed down my choices. First I chose three local issues that matter to me because this needs to be a learning experience for whoever plays my game. The three I chose are education, environment, and health. I picked these three because they are critical parts of our society, without education in todays fast paced world it doesnt take much to get left behind. The environment needs more people to go green because once thriving species are now closing in on being endangered species, and health, the U.S. is one if not the most obese countries and people need to take better measures to keep healthy and you only get one life so dont shoerten it.
Card games and word games are two genres I decided to focus on because both of them, if given the right attitude and time can be both fun and educational. I have no idea about finding the resources for a game and I'm going to wait for class to try this part because I dont want to find something and not give the correct credit to whoever created it.

Game Review 2

Also in class I analyzed another game named Food Face which is under Picture Builder in Globalaria. The purpose of Food Face is to make faces out of food. From a developers point of view I think this would be a great game for small children who maybe need help being more creative. I think this game would look very appealing to children because they would have no trouble learning how to play it quickly. It is clearly stated how your suppose to perform this game. My only suggestions for improvment are more food options.For this game I would like to learn how they made the noises as well as how to scroll through the different types of food.

Game Review 1

Today in class I analyzed a game from Globalaria called Kute Little Aliens. The purpose of this game is to answer the questions presented to you and the result shows you the fate of the aliens because of your choices. From a learners point of view this is a game that I think is well put together. One feature I enjoyed in this game was how many different scenarios were presented for the aliens. From a developers point of view I would spend more time on the features of the aliens and their villages. I liked how this game is made considering how much time and the equipment that was used to create it. The game is very easy to play it explains exactly what your suppose to do and I dont believe any age group would have trouble playing this game. If I could change one thing in this game it would be at the part when you can go to the forest, the game freezes if you pick up the apples and thats what I would fix. I would like to learn how to make objects move, how to create backgrounds, and how to create boxes for text.

What I learned in class today.

Today in game design class I learned how to create a blog as well as how to update my blog. Also today my instructor infromed the class of the objectives we intend to accomplish, one of these objectives consists of us being put in to small groups to create a game. Overall I am excited about the new things I will discover about wikiing and blogging as well as how to create a game.
Lastly, I am looking forward to improving my communication skills by blogging and wikiing.