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!
Correct Formula-Cylinder

Teams

Yesterday we picked roles for our teams and did our team page. I got the role of artist/visual/sound person. Sammie is the coder/action script person and Branden is the Project manager. We all got along great when we decided who would do what and never argued. It was a very simple process. I'm looking forward to drawing the pictures for the game and just putting the whole game together. I think it will be a very fun experience. The inspiration for our game was our classmates. Some of them struggled with finding volume and we wanted to help them. I think our game will help our classmates a lot and I hope they like it!

Paper Prototype Reflection

Yesterday we did our paper prototyping video. Branden recorded while Sammie and I went through the steps. It took a good amount of tries to get the video like we wanted. When we did it the first couple times, I recorded while Sammie went through the steps. It was difficult in the beginning because when we would get to a certain step and mess up. So we decided to switch and I went through the steps while Sammie recorded. When I got to the same step Sammie was on when she messed up I totally forgot what I was going to say. This happened a few more times until we decided that both me and Sammie would talk and go through the steps while Branden recorded. This helped a lot. We did mess up a couple more times but the last one we did we felt pretty confident with. I liked that we all worked together to make our video because we felt like a team. I thought the video we made was very good and I hope everyone agrees!

Team Expectations

Yesterday we got our teams to make our games. The team I'm in consists of three people, Sammie, Branden, and myself. We call our team The Dream Team! The game idea we're going to focus on is volume. All of us felt this was a good math subject to focus on for our game. We assigned parts for each other to make it easier but also make sure everyone has an equal share in the game. I will be the artist, Sammie will be working with the codes in flash, and Branden will be the dealing with finding the resources. I think if we all work together on this and work hard we will have a great game. I think the team I'm in is going to work because we all get along. We have some idea of how we're going to make our game and I think that will become clearer as we begin the game making process. I'm very excited to start our game!

Game Idea Reflection

I learned a lot by writing and practicing in flash. I learned how to change the color, and the size of text. I also learned how to change the style of the text. This has made me learn a lot because when we start our games I'll know a few things and it will be easier to get started. You can also change the backround color of your text to make it pop out more. I also learned what some of the symbols meant and how to use them. I liked knowing what the symbols were and how to use them because now I'll be able to use what I learned in my game. I also learned how to publish what I type on flash to my wiki and I thought that was pretty easy. I'm really excited to learn how to add the sounds to our games when we make them. I think it will make our games more fun and interesting! Making our games will be a fun experience and I'm excited to learn a lot more about flash as we begin making our games! Game Idea