Goals

This week I would like to get more layers put into our game demo. It will make the game demo a lot better than it is now when we get new layers and scenes in. As of yesterday we finished the scenes we already had and are now in the works of adding new ones. If we keep working hard like we are now then our demo will be finished by the deadline. It's a lot of work but it's coming along. Everyone in my team works well together which makes assembling this game a lot easier on all of us. As a team member I think I could try to figure out how to do something by myself so that we save time by not having to stop every couple of minutes to figure something out. The first major thing we need to get done is adding all the layers in to insert the drawings from our game. Second, adding all the key frames, and third is getting all the buttons on and working. Once we get all those things together it won't take us long to get this game together.

Game Demo Presentation

We've been working on our game demo presentation for the last couple of days. My team and I are working hard and are accomplishing a little bit every day. Personally I've accomplished a better understanding of how much time it takes to make a game or game demo, that it doesn't just happen over night. I also realized that we have to use our time wisely in order to get everything done in two weeks because that's not as long as it sounds. The easiest thing we've done is probably drawing everything out on our paper layouts. The hardest thing, i think, is knowing what frame to start on and where to put everything and how to get it on the slide. All my team members are helping equally and it helps a lot when there are 3 people working on something. What my team and I are going to do now is just work on getting all our drawings we did in flash onto our game demo and adding more slides.

Working in Flash

We've been working in flash for a few weeks now and it's been a lot of work! We've learned how to insert frames and key frames,add font,color,sound,and buttons. There's a lot in flash I can do on my own like putting a background color on, typing, and drawing. The stuff that confuses me is the frames and key frames and action script. I'm always confused about where to insert a frame, when to put the action script in and how to make scenes stop at certain places. My game demo skeleton is making some progress, but not as much as I would've liked. My buttons don't work because I click them and they disappear. I'm trying to fix them by making sure every scene has the right action script in it and I'm putting everything in the right layer. I haven't fixed it yet but I'm trying.

Sound

Yesterday I learned how to add sound to my game. I thought it was just a little confusing at first. I learned how to make the sound you want to work and what procedures you have to take to do that. I would like to add some fun sounds for getting the correct answer and some sounds that are not so cheerful if they get the wrong answer.I think the most important reason to have sound in a game is to make the game fun for the player! If it had no sound for me, it would be really boring and I would want to quit the game. Even if it's a learning game like we're doing I still think it should have sound. Every game I have played has had sound. Some games had better sound and music than others but they all had it. The sounds I like the best are the ones that are in Nintendo games like Mario Brothers. These sounds are the most appealing to me and I enjoy the game more when I hear cool music and sounds.

Game Skeletons

I thought the live session with Meredith went really good! It was a little confusing at first but because the connection kept dropping but once everything got situated I started understanding what she was talking about. She showed us a lot in 45 minutes and it was a lot to take in. We learned about how to insert and remove frames and key frames in flash. We also got to learn how to make the scenes start and stop on different frames. I think its interesting how it takes so much stuff to make a computer game! Making our game skeletons wasn't that bad. After putting in the frames and key frames I was more comfortable with what we were doing. I made a few mistakes with my game skeleton but once Mrs. Forinash and Mrs. Frenzel helped me I accomplished what I needed to. We published our game skeleton to our projects page on our wikis and began to make buttons for our game skeletons. I learned a lot and I think this will help me a lot when making my game!

Working in flash

Yesterday we worked in flash and it was a lot of fun! I learned a lot while we worked in flash. I learned how to change the background color and how to save things as symbols. At first I was a little confused because I didn't know how to work anything but then I began to understand how everything worked. The inspiration for our game were the kids in our math class. Some of them had trouble with volume and we wanted to help them understand it better with this game. It's going to take a while to make the whole thing because we have to make several scenes and make things move and pop up. I enjoy working in flash though, because you can be really creative. The game we're making is exactly how we had planned to make it, and I hope everyone will enjoy it when we finish it!
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