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!