Teams

We have been working with our team, on our team pages. We discussed things like, what roles best fit you, our game design, and our timeline. I got the role as project manager, meaning I will have to update our team page, and make sure everyone follows the timeline. I think that I will be good at this role because I am responsible, and willing to make sure everyone follows the timeline. Our team worked really well, and we didn't have any disagreements on anything. I most look forward to seeing the final product of our game, because I think it is going to be good. The inspiration for our game is that we wanted to incorporate a real-world problem into our game.

Paper Prototype Reflection

This past few days I have been working with my team on our paper prototype. We did ours on area, and are game is called "Paint Your Own Room." In this game you will need to find the square footage of a room, how many gallons of paint you will need, and how much it will cost to paint your room. One of the things that I liked about making our paper prototype is that we got to apply a real-world application. One of the things that I didn't like was that we had to draw everything and then videoing taping it. Even though I didn't necessarily like doing those things I did enjoy working with my teams. I think that once we actually make the game, people will better understand our concept.

Team Expectations

Yesterday, we were introduced to our team members. My team consists of myself, Meredith, and Triston. I am really excited to get to work with them. We named our team, Team Blue. It's not the best team name in the world, but we can work with it. We decided that our math concept was going to area, because Meredith and Triston both had that as their math concept. I think that Triston will be best at doing the sound for our game, because he like to listen to music and will know what sounds, sound good. I think that Meredith will be good at the artist and team manager. She is very responsible, so I think she will be a great team manager. Also, I think that I will be good at game design and code expert. Even though sometimes I have trouble with my codes, I want to be code expert so I can learn to do them better. Meredith and I both feel confident using flash, so we plan to help Triston get a better understanding of using Flash. I am really excited to start our game because I think that I will learn a lot, and also be having fun at the same time.

Game Idea Reflection

Yesterday in class I uploaded text into flash. I wrote about my game idea and the concept, which is surface area. I explained how my game might work, and the things that I want to inquire in my game. I want people to be able to learn how to do surface area, but also make it fun for them to learn. Also, I explained exactly how I would like my game to work. Yesterday I also learned how to upload text into flash. When I finished it I had to upload the text on to my projects page. I am excited to be finally starting our game, and hope to learn more about it.

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Games We Play

I do enjoy playing games in my free time. I think that if you have nothing to do or you just want to relax, playing games is a fun thing to do. I like playing games that are fun and colorful that way it can cheer me up. I don't think I would really enjoy playing shooting games or anything like that! My mini game that I made is similar to the games that I like to play because it is easy and contains some colors. One game that I like to play is called Waterslide Slalom. It's a very easy game, but I really like playing it and it has many colors. I hope that I will be able to make a game that has many colors, and is harder than my mini game!


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Mini-Game Project

The last two days of class we have been working on our mini-game project. I think that it is really fun and interesting, but somethings are a little confusing. I also think that it is cool that all you have to do is copy and paste things to make the game work. Some of the things that we did include keyboard control, control loop, collision detector, score and some other things. Another thing that we did was add layers and changed the instance name under properties. In order for the movie to work we had to make sure we were in the actions layer and paste the things in the actions window. After we did everything that needed to be copied we had to test our movie and see if it would work. A few of the times when I tested my movie I got an error. In order to fix the error we had to delete everything that was in the action window and copy everything again. I really have liked using Flash and doing my mini-game project.

Intro to Flash

Intro to flash tells you about how to use flash. One of the things that I thought was important was the layers. It said that if you have higher layers that it will cover what you have in you lower layers. Also, it is a good idea to lock you layers because then if you are working on a layer and you do not want it get messed up you lock it. I think that locking the layers would be easy and useful so you don't mess the layer up. One of the things that I think would be a little hard to do is adding motion to a layer, but we might not have to do that. I am really looking forward to making this mini game project, and think it will be a lot of fun.

Choosing Blogs to Follow

Today I found some blogs that I would like to follow. One of the blogs that I chose I think will help me a lot because not only did it just talk about math, but it also had other things on it that made it interesting. I think these blogs are better than normal blogs because they have math included, they just don't talk about a certain topic. Some of the things they talk about on the blog is that they had to do a probability project. On the blog they had to write a summary of what they did. Other things that they talked about included, area of a triangle, linear patterns, and solving one-step equations. Also, a few of the blogs had pictures that could help people better understand the topic

Social Issue Review

Yesterday in class I reviewed social issues. Some of the social issues were poverty, environment, economy, and social networking. The issue that got my attention the most was poverty, because of the health care and all of the teens doing drugs. I think that that's a huge social issue because it happens a lot to teens. Another social issue is environment. Even though people say the don't pollute they really due in some way. For example, smoking, throwing things outside, car engines, and many other things cause pollution. It's very important that we help our community so we do not have as many social issues.