Adding Sound

Adding sound I think is one of the easiest things to do. All you have to do is create a new keyframe and insert a second layer to it and put the sound in it. It sounds difficult but is very easy once you learn it. This has definitely taught me a lot more things about adding sound and putting it into my game!

Adding Input II: Mouse

Adding Input II: Mouse was very confusing because it had a lot of the same things as adding animation but we had to deal with seperate scenes and buttons which wasn't very easy. It took me a while to get it done becaus the code was incorrect. When it comes to coding the smallest things whether it is one letter or number or symbol can ruin the whole code. That's what made this tutorial so difficult. I used a basketball and a basketball rim in this tutorial and you had to drag the ball into the hoop. I hope to add this into my final game!

Adding input I: Keyboard

Adding Input I: keyboard was a new experience for me because I did not use it in my game last year. The keyboarding is going to be the most important thing in my game this year. In ModStory you have to fly the character around the screen to correct grammar and punctuation errors. I created a fish swimming in the ocean for this tutorial. It came out very well but struggled making it. If you hit the up arrow it would go the opposite direction but was soon fixed.

Adding Animation

Adding Animation was a little difficult because this is the stage where you start working with frames and movie clips. It also has a tiny bit of coding in it. In my opinion, adding animation is very difficult. It might just be me but I have a hard time working with frames and movie clips. This tutorial helped me out a lot because i'm hoping to add a good amount of animation to my game!

Drawing a Scene

Drawing a Scene was very easy this time because I am very used to the tools to create a drawing in a scene. I use the paint tool the most because it is works the best and automatically straightensd out the lines. I used drawing a scene tutorial to create the main menu in my game. I also used it to create a bookshelf that holds different difficulty books. This is new in my game this year is by having a  difficulty selection.

Adding a Scene

Adding a Scene was not that hard this year since I did it last year and new what I was doing. I added the main menu, about menu, and help menu. I also did the Adding Buttons tutorial while I did adding a scene. It worked ou really well. Now I can navigate through all the menus with a few simple buttons.

Game Time

     Right now in my game I am making all of the scenes and editing them. I am going to add actions and add animations later after I get all of the scenes done. I have kind of hit a detour because I cannot decide whether I want to use drag and drop or the keyboard. I am also having trouble with all of the coding. I think the most exciting thing about my game is hopefully I'll have it to where you can create your own story. Hopefully each player will have a different outcome at the end of the game. The most difficult part in my game is having it cutomizable by other players. I will need help in coding this feature in my game. So far I have not changed anything in my game from my paper prototype but I'm sure I will change some things.

Changes in Globaloria

If I could change one thing about Globaloria it would be all the extra work you have to do other than your game. I understand communicating with other schools about our game and experience in this class but I think it takes away from the game a little bit. I would rather finish the game or after each very important thing in the game then blog about it instead of having to blog about things that doesn’t really involve our game. I think the students would benefit from this by focusing more on our final game and having a better completed game.

                This class puts a lot on your shoulders and has many other responsibilities other than working on the game. I wish I could focus on the game more Instead of having to worry about stuff like blogging, learning log, and constantly updating team pages and wiki’s. I enjoy this class but there is a lot of things that get kind of annoying having to always do and update. I’m not trying to say that everything is bad in this class it’s just I think this class expects too much of you. I don’t want an easy class or easy A it’s just that I am involved in sports and trying to take care of other very important school work. I also would like to do other stuff in my life other than school, sports, and Globaloria.

Exploring other schools wiki's

     Our class explored other students wiki's across west virginia. I found a pretty interesting one at George Washington High School. A group of kids made a game called "3 ways 2 die." If my teacher caught me making a game called this or even relates to this. We would be in big trouble. As I kept looking through their team page I never really figured out the learning "goal" of the game.
      The game also contained guns in it which was also "interesting." I guess since they're in high school they are allowed to do this. I am looking forward to seeing what thier game turns out to be at hte end of the year. Maybe i'm talking to soon. Maybe it could turn out to be a really good game!

Christmas Break

I had a great Christmas and a New Year. I got sick on the very first day of the break but after that it was great after that. We had family over on Christmas Eve and exchanged gifts. Then went to bed and very excited for the morning. I could barely sleep! I finally woke up and went downstairs with my other two brothers. I got an awesome homeade soda maker and a new bow. I also got a couple games for my Playstation 3. I had basketball practice most of the week off but other than that it was good. It went by really fast though. Then on New Years Eve, my family went to the Chinese restaurant with some friends. Then went home and waited on the upcoming New Year. On New Years Day we stayed home and that night had some friends over and now back at school. Now I'm looking forward to an upcoming spring break.