mini game debrief

Because I have been skipping over the blog prompts I have to go back and answer them. The mini game had a few complications but was not that hard. A few of the complications where mostly little errors in the code that messed everything up. The thing I liked most about the mini game was the collision detection watching the carrot slowly go toward the buneh and then disappear was very satisfying. The part I liked the least was adding a score counter, the coding was a pain.

star date 12/9/10

Last one of the back up blogs I promise. We haven’t been able to get on Blogger for the last couple of days so we have to put a bunch of blogs on at once after we can get back on. Until then we will finish the paper prototypes and update the wiki. (yes I made a Star Trek reference)

12/3/10 report

Our Bloggers are still having trouble. We almost got our paper prototype finished in one class which is pretty good. I’m going to try to put all the animating I lost the other day back as soon as I can but I don’t know when that will be. After we finish with our paper prototypes we will be free to do what we need to get our game demo done.

summary of 12/1/10

Our Bloggers haven't been working, this is what happened. Well I did do a lot of work today but didn’t save it so it’s all gone now. At least I know about how to do it, so it shouldn’t take too long to redo but still it sucks. At least I’ll get a little more experience that I can use later that’s the only good news. Other than that I edited some of my pictures that are gone now.

Research

While researching my game topic I couldn't help but think of all the apocalyptic games and movies. Mad Max was the first thing that I thought of and then I thought, what if that really happened when the fuel ran out. I'll admit it would be kinda cool at first but then you think about if the world did plunge into a wasteland how would you survive almost every human on the planet is used to just going to the store and buying what they need but what if that was no longer an option. Most people don't know how to grow there own food or build a shelter. And that's what my game is trying to stop if we can eliminate the need for fuel then we could have enough energy for everyone. After all do we want the whole world to look like this? 





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who, what, why, and all that other stuff

We have completed the who, what, why, and how of our game. Its a lot of stuff I don't honestly feel like typing but oh well your getting a summery. Our game is more focused on middle school to high school kids. It teaches the players what they can do to help the planet and each other. Players will like the strategy and urgency of the game. That's the really short version, to see more your gonna have to go to lgeorge's blog.

FRUSTRATED

It has started again, flash tricked me It was acting all nice doing every thing I told it to do then It started to make things hard again. I can't believe this after all this saying that it was behaving and working it pulls a stunt like that. Thursday I'll be back in this class and I will make sure it obeys me again, or I will kill it as much as someone can kill a program. maybe I'll make it load up a bunch of animation at the same time or something.

What I did in class today was

We are starting to get heavily into the illustration of our game and it's going quite well. http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/Solar-Good,%20bad,%20ugly.html This is the sight I was using to draw a solar power plant, It realy made it easy.The game I think is going to be a sucsess if every thing gose as good as it is now. I think the concentration tower is the most interesting of all of them, the other one I like is the linear concentrated witch covers large area of desert.

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Apparently we were supposed to answer blog posts on the page, I have not so now I'm behind. Yes I play video games in my spare time. I like to play action role playing games like fallout. I like to play them because they require strategy and are fun. These games make me think that this is a very popular type of game and I enjoy them very much. OK I beat fallout New Vegas and killed both the NCR and legion because they both sent assassins after me, so I activated a big robot army under the fort and ruined every bodies life except my allies. I'm gonna play again to see what happens if I chose a different path.

It's art, kind of

I have started to draw the graphics for our game and so far only finished the title and one of the instruction  pages. So far I believe that this game will probably do fairly well, if everything works right. I do hope this game dose turn out good becouse it realy sounds good so far. Well we will have to see if it dose later.

We have a plan

Me and my ally have got our game idea down and next step is the paper prototype. Our game will be about a special interest group who have to raise awareness about the upcoming ENERGY APOCALYPSE (my way of working in the title) and save the world from it's self. Don't forget to vote.

Time to vote.

Today was pretty uneventful in class. However I want to take a tally of what you think one fallout new Vegas I am about to battle ether the NCR or Cesar's legion and need your help to decide who's side to chose. The NCR (New California Republic) came to Vegas to expand their power and force people to follow them. Cesar's legion is here to enslave and control the city but if I help them they will make my a general in their army. leave you votes in the comment section and I will edit this blog to see who is winning thank you.

New California Republic                \ 0

Cesar's legion                                / 1

   

AWSUM!!!1!1!

Things are going smoothly with flash it seems really obedient... a little to obedient. No it's not waiting for me to lower my guard... or is it? No, no it's not it doesn't have conscious thought... but what if it did? My PlayStation is updated and now plays New Vegas which means I've been playing New Vegas, a lot. I stayed up to 12:30 last night and woke up at 5:00 to play again its just as addicting as three was if not more. They didn't change much but one of them I love are the iron sights (the actual sights on the gun) so you can see what looking down a real one looks like, but I thing I don't like well two the super mutants are a lot harder to kill and the nightkin. The nightkin are super mutants that can turn invisible, which is the last thing I need when it's night and I can't see where I'm going. This is a nightkin

Mini game done!

My mini game is finished and in working order and every thing should be going well, but. On Sunday afternoon I went to my local game stop to ask if they could change my New Vegas reserve from the PC to the ps3. He said no problem then looked up my reserve to change it and I happily waited. Then he just said " oh, you got the collectors edition then I can't change it". I wanted to snap his neck but the air between us saved him, so now I have to pay more money to get it for the PlayStation version instead. I think flash and game stop are working together to stop me I let you know if I find out. But getting back on topic yes my mini game is done, yes it dose work, and yes it is uploaded on the wiki.

I is winning

I've done it, I'm beating flash at it's own game. Well not really it sill won't listen most of the time, but I did make good progress today. I don't know what else to type so the rest of the blog will be filler. I found out that the preordered fallout New Vegas will not work on my computer, this angers me greatly and I hope GameStop will let me switch to the PlayStation 3. The only reason I reserved it for the computer was to mod it but I can live with out that. Fallout New Vegas comes out the 19th I command you all to get it, please, that is all.

Curse you flash

One day, one day I want flash to not be such a pain. I flew throw the first three steps of the mini game but step four (adding keyboard movement) is when it decided to fight me. I've looked at the code for ever, I even compared it with the final code on the wiki but nothing worked. Maybe it will be more cooperative Friday if not I'm gonna go crazy I will. I don't know why I'm complaining, I knew it was going to do this so why am I so surprise?

start the flash

We are about to start working with flash and already it's starting to show it's self. After being gone for so long you think it would be happy to see me, but no as soon as I get back in it slaps me in the face. But this year I'm not going to let it be as big of a pain as last year. Also I turned 18 on the second and forgot to tell you so yea see yea.

cleaning up.

We spent all class editing our wiki pages and filling in this very long list of requirements that they want us to do. All I really did was add a pic from fallout three and three pics for fallout new veges. also I put a link from my wiki to the poodwadle site if you need to get there. Hopefully soon we will actually be making our games. Until then, and I know I say until then a lot but until then I will do as I am told. After all you live longer if you obey your superiors.

game idea found

We've decided on making our game about the energy crisis. We found this site that has all these numbers about every thing including the amount of animals we slaughter every day. Also it's estimated that there will be no more oil left to pump in about 40 years, that my seem like a long time but to the next generation it could mean no more gas or fifty bucks a gallon. Here's a link to the site cheak it out your selfit's on my team members blog (Lgeorge) becouse my blog woun't post links for some reason.

We finally thought of a name for our team, it's geburtstag which is German for birthday. We really needed a name and it was the first random German word that popped in his head. Oh i don't think I told you my partner is George and we are doing a game about... something. OK so we don't know our game yet but we'll get there. Now look at the German birthday cake.

PAPER PROTOTYPE... NOOOOO

I looked on Mme. Daigle's timeline for globaloria and saw that the paper prototypes are coming. Last year I really despised those things I don't want to do it again. Even If where not doing them this month their still going to have to be done and I can't stand them. But first we have to finish choosing a topic and the mini game project. Until then I will still be dreading doing those things.

Decisions, decisions

The time to start making the games is approaching and I only have a small idea of what my game is going to be. All I know is it will be something about a world event, only problem is I don't know what event to do. I'm hoping that some amazing or big event happens some so that we have something good to make a game out of. Until them We'll have to keep researching the topic until we find something good.

I like games

We played several game genres and I believe that i want to make a platforming/ adventure game. I like platforms because of the timing and quick thinking needed to proceed through the levels. I also like adventure games because of the depth you can feel while playing. I still don't know what my game will be about but i have some ideas to and when we finally get to flash I'll start working on them. Until then I'll keep doing what I have to do.

Internet Safety and You.

(This blog is to be read in the style of 1950's safety ads. And please read as such) The Internet can be a great source of both entertainment and information. However if you are not careful you may accidentally GIVE AWAY PERSONAL INFORMATION. You may be asking why do I want to be safe on the Internet. That's not cool. Well, let me tell you something daddy-o. Every ten seconds someone's identity is stolen, that means that someone else can use their name to do anything like buy a car or house. You may think that's not a big deal but what if it was your parent's identity that was stolen. Your family could be in dept for the rest of their natural born life and that's not good, isn't it? So be smart, protect yourself on the Internet and you won't be sharing a box with some big rats, really big rats like the one above so keep your family safe.

It's all coming back to me

I'm starting to remember how slow this class starts and the constant blogging and playing to learn. I wish we could get started with our games already even though I have no idea of what I'm going to do for a game. I'm thinking about a side scroller, like the castlevania games. I can't wait to get started with the assignment and make another game.

Here we go again

Here we are back were it all began, another year of globaloria and another year of being rushed to finish all the projects while fighting flash every step of the way. But I would like to say bring it on now that I know more tricks to get things done faster this year should be a breeze. Yes I have a very positive attitude and I don't know why, but this is my first blog so might as well start the year off right.

GAME OVER

well it's been fun but this is the last blog I'll make this year. in fact I'm not going to type 4 sentences, it's going to be a small blog. So all of you out there I will see you later until then have fun stay safe and for the love of god take a shower.

editing

The elements that we did not have time to put in were sound and the animals moving randomly around. We mostly focused on the most important part of the game like the animal chasing and the ship crashing. I'm glad we focused on those parts but if I could do it again we could of focused on the animation more. Never the less i am proud of the work we accomplished.

almost there

This is it, for real this time all that remains is the presentation after that were in the clear. Part of me is glad the deadlines will stop but part of me is sad that the class is almost over. Our presentation looks good all we need is to practice and memorize our lines. After that all the hustling to finish projects will be over.

Public Speaking

I have never been good at public speaking, and the last trail in the globaloria challenge is of course a presentation that any one can watch. Over 6 billion people can see this presentation, that means one mess up and the world will laugh at you. The stress is killing me, I have to do the power point while rae finishes the coding.

beat into their heads

The hardest concept to get to people is that one person can make a huge difference. They just don't seem to see that they are just as powerful as the two super hero's in our game. Even if we us super hero's to clean the oil instead of real people, it's to show that if two people can clean it by their selves's then hundreds of people working together could easily do it.

We gotta be sneaky

I think using flash as a way of giving information can be both a good and bad thing. On the good side it could be used to make actual news interesting. On the bad side it could be used to scare people on something that's not that big of a deal. If used for good if can be a great tool, but if used for evil it would be a terrible weapon.

back to tutorials

I thought we were past tutorials, but i guess not they are still very helpful. I also noticed that the citizenship community got a massive population increase and even if it sounds tacky, welcome. Our dead line creeps closer everyday and flash isn't making it easy but we have come to far to be stopped now. I found a tutorial on the wiki that shows how to make the other symbols you don't control react according to how you move giving it a low level AI.

I can't decide

I looked over the other games and so far I can't make a decision on which best conveys the importance of citizenship. But I'm sure that all the games will be great by time they're done. The citizenship community is full of very skilled individuals and I'm proud to be apart of them. Well I avoided answering the blog prompt, but I meant every word that I said.

In my Opinion...

I believe than the Peacekeepers game made by Breonna best brings to civic aspect to the front. Breonna's game "Peace Street" seems to be well put together especially considering that she has lost partners twice. She defiantly put a lot of thought and time into it. I believe her game will be very good when it is done.Opinion

Co-operation

Cooperation is an important part of our team, We work together because we both have our strengths and weaknesses. Rea is great at coding and I've gotten good at drawing in flash. Together we can get a considerable amount of work done in a short period of time. Like our loading screen, I drew the boat and she made it sink. If we can continue to work this well we will be done in no time.

Can't work without Flash!

The computer lab that has the flash computers is closed during the writing assessment. We've had to split up into different rooms just to post blogs and get to the wikis. Hopefully tomorrow they will be opened again, if not it will be difficult to finish our games in time. We haven't got any more work done since we posted the demos, we need flash back.

. . . What?

I'm not entirerly sure what the blog promt is asking. A wiki artifact, I have no idea what that is. If any one dose know please tell me. Thanks.

HAZZA!!!!1!!

Our game demo is finally finished, get the sodas and candyz. After lots of annoying set backs the game demo is completed. All we have left is to make the real thing and we made a game. I couldn't have done it without Rachel, because putting code in flash is still alien to me. We have made it this far finishing the game should be easy... I hope.

thats easy.

The government needs volunteers to both cut down on the cost of hiring people, and to have more people too help with the problem. With out volunteers the government would have a hard time dealing with most of the problems that affect both here and around the world.

Hello other humans

My name is Ethan and I am coauthor and co creator of the supper oil disaster squad. My team all your base are belong to us have been working moderately on this game for a few months now. The way our game ties in with the citizenship community is it shows the power of what people can do if they work together as one person and try to make a difference. Our game shows the power of the human spirit in a way that was never been used before. We are honored to be in the citizenship community with all of you and wish you the best of luck on your individual products.

One down.... a lot more to go.

Today I started on the next slide of our game. So far nothing major has happened that caused any problems hopefully nothing bad will happen. Provided that the rest of the game will be as cooperative as this slide is so far. Even with my confidence I just know something will happen to stop progress.

finaly

Today Rachel my team partner thanks to some help from Mr. Alder got the boat on our loading screen to sink. The next thing we have to do is make the buttons appear hopefully it will be easier than making it sink. After that I'm not sure what is next, right now I hope we get the demo done in time.

flash hates me

I was always told that objects can't have emotions, but flash dose It will not listen to me and messes all my work up making me have to start over. all i wanted to do was make a ship sink in the water slowly, instead it either didn't move of shifted positions instantly. i didn't get anything done because flash is fighting me every step of the way and I can't get it to obey. Next time I'll just save after I get some thing to work and just work slowly and carefully.

I hope everybody had a good holiday season even if you had to see all your annoying relatives. I had a pretty good Christmas I got a PlayStation 3 and four games for it. Fallout 3 is defiantly my favorite I can't stop playing it at all. Its incredibly addictive and fun I'll try not to spoil any of it if you haven't played it. I definitely recommend it if you like rpg's or shooters. I also got infamous, Resident Evil 5, and Grand theft auto 4.