Dakota's G Blog

End of Course Summary

2010-05-28T11:43:00.000-07:00

This year of globaloria was very fun and was an experience like no other.

We started out at the beginning of the year by making our own wiki and gmail. Making a wiki and customizing it was very cool.

The next thing we did for a long while was make game demos that thought us how to do different things with action script that we would need to know when me made out full game.

Starting out game started out slow because we didn't know where to start. To assist us with this problem we made paper prototypes that basically helped us model and imagine our game.

Around this time we made our game teams. My team was the QWERTY Keyboard team.

A lot of our year consisted of working on our main game. Our progress was hindered, however, by the mass amount of snow days we encountered. To make things worse the wireless router we use to access the internet in school was stolen.

In the end we had to plan out our year so we could get the most done possible. Our game did not go as far as we hoped but we still have some pretty impressive assets.

The following assets were hand made from scratch by our team:

Prepearation for Presentations

2010-05-03T06:45:00.001-07:00

Th year is coming to an end and there is much to do to prepare for presentations. Priorities must be made and work must be done. Right now may main priority is to get a working demo for the presentation. This is most important because without it we will have nothing to present.

Second priority is to get all of our flash files and information uploaded to the GEHS Wiki. Having our things on the wiki is an important part of the presentation. Not only to the World Wide Workshop team look at this but it can also assist you in your presentation.

To get our game finished we are going to have to look up certain action script functions. We have completed our game background and game character and have a scrolling background but we need to add more phisics to the game.

Plans for the rest of the year

2010-04-19T11:14:00.000-07:00

The end of the year is nearing and we still have much to do. Here is my plans for the rest of the year:

April 19th - May 1st: I plan to work mainly on game art and some of the basic coding like screen navigation. I need to upload many files to the wiki and update my learning log. I have completed the games background for all levels and I have one of sever variations of my character.

May 1st May 10th: By this point I expect to have all variations of my game character and part of the items that you will be able to pick up drawn. I will finish any game items I need and start to foucus more on coding.

May 11th to May 20th: If I have all the things I need for the basics of my game I will begin to work on the game store. I will also start employing the learning aspect of the game. Prepare for presentations.

May 21st to May 25th: Tie up any loose ends.

May 25th to End of Year: Make sure I am prepared for presentations.

My Outlook on the Year

2010-03-31T11:50:00.000-07:00

Within the next 7 weeks of school we have we will need to start working very hard on our game if we want to finish it on time.

In the next week I plan to get my scrolling background working.
The week after that I need to get my characters moving.
Next I will need to assign hit tests to objects.
After that I will need to get a score system up.
Lastly I need a store to buy items. This will probabally be the hardest task to complete.

I am going to try and work harder to complete my game. I have flash at home so I will probabally end up working on it a little bit there.

Organization of Files

2010-03-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

In order to keep our files more organized we are going to start putting a prefix on all of our files. The prefix for our school is GEHS_[Insert Team Name Here]_[Insert File Name Here]_[Insert Date Here].swf

This prefix will keep our files more organized so that the globaloria administrators will be able to go through files more easily.

What I did today

2010-03-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

Today I worked just a little bit on my game and uploaded a couple of files. I didnt make enough progress on my game to show. I need to start working a but harder on my game.

I uploaded a file to the wiki. It is a tutorial that teaches you how to convert onClipEvent functions to onEnterFrame functions.

This is useful because a lot of tutorials on the internet for action script are in onclipEvent coding and we use onEnterFrame coding.

Uploading Files

2010-03-19T11:52:00.000-07:00

Uploading files is one of the most importan parts of gloaloria. We need to upload files so that we can share with others our accomplishments. I have uploaded almost all of my flash assets and am in a good standing with just generaly uploading files. One ting I lack though is display. I have all of my files uploaded but I dont have everything shown on our team page and blog. I will work more to get these things uploaded so that you all can see my progression more easily.

Not only is uploading your files important so people can see our files; it is also important so that you will not loose your files. Ir is possible you could accidently loose your flsh file on your computer and having a backup online makes it that much safer for your files.

Game Progress

2010-03-11T11:41:00.000-08:00

My game is going decent. I have this tittle screen working. I still need to make a few changes to it but this is what I have so far:

I am going to start woring on the game itself soon.

Snow Days

2010-03-09T11:52:00.000-08:00

This winter we have had 21 snow days!

This has slowed down our progress in this class drasticly and we have a lot to catch up to. I think if we work hard we can make up our lost time. Hopefully we will have a working project by the end of the year.

Although we wernt at school I worked on a few flash files at home over the break.

Flash tutorial

2010-03-09T11:31:00.000-08:00

I found this tutorial from freeactionscript.com and I thought I could use it in my game so I will share it here.

here is the link to the tutorial:click

Game Development Plan

2010-01-27T12:05:00.001-08:00

As we near the start of our game there is much planning to be made. Some of our steps we will take durring our game is increasing our knowledge of Action Script, learning to ceate good looking flash assets, and looking up specifics on how to code specific things like colisions and jumping.

We are going to look into how to incorporte all theese things together so that we can make an awesome game.

Globaloria 2010 News Years Resolution

2010-01-21T09:02:00.000-08:00

2009 is over and with a new year comes new promises.

This year I would like to make an effort to learn more in globaloria. Action script is my maon concern. I would like to improov e my knowledge of action script and know how to apply it.

Annother thing I would like to do is work on my projects more at home. I have admobe photoshop CS3 at home and it is very good for the artistic side of flash. It is very easy to improt my creations into Flash with photoshop.

Lastly I think I need to work more on my blog to make it look more appealing to your eyes.

I will do my best to do the things listed above. I am looking forward to the day where I get to present my finished game

Happy New Year!

Mid Term Survey

2009-12-15T12:10:00.000-08:00

When I took the mid term survey from globaloria I was suprised by how close the questions related to me. The questions were very easy to answer because they were very closely related to the things we have already done this year.

Action Script

2009-11-16T11:46:00.000-08:00

As the year moves on we are preparing to start out game project. We will need to know many action script coding strings.

I think the minigame has helped prepare us for coding. Already I have memorised some lines of code that can be used in games. We will have to look up how to do certain things in our games on the internet.

I have found that the Adobe Comunity is a great place to ask questions about coding.

I look forward to completing our game.

Games for this year

2009-11-09T11:37:00.000-08:00

I have recently read a game idea of another student. The game was about the enviroment and global warming. Durring the game the student will be taught about the effects of global warming and how to respond to it. I think the ame seems pretty cool and will efectivly teach the student how to make the right choices to help the enviroment.

I look forward to seeing the game in comletion.

First Nine Weeks

2009-11-03T11:52:00.000-08:00

The first nine weeks are over and we are off to a great start!

We have learned some basic flash and have made a minigame. We have started work on our full game project. I cant wait to see our game in action

Cheers to a great year!

Teams In Globaloria

2009-10-22T12:12:00.000-07:00

Today I we picked teams in class to work on our main game with. My team name is the QWERTY Keyboards. My team partner is Forest. Hopefully we will be able to come up with a pretty cool game by the end of the year.

2009-10-09T12:06:00.000-07:00

This is my first completed flash game. For now the name of it is Metero Showers. The object is to stop the meteors from hitting Earth. If a meteor get past you you will loose 5 points. I think I am going to change it t three later. The only major promlem right now is that the game starts before you are ready which I will be fixing soon. All you need to do to play is use the arrow keys.

I think making this game has readied me for future games we will be making. I now understand the basics of action script and think I could make this game agian without any tutorial help.

2009-09-25T11:31:00.000-07:00

My Game Review

2009-09-20T13:59:00.000-07:00

'''Game 1: Bullseye (point is to shoot arrows into a target)'''

'''Game Concept: 2'''

The game has no true educational value or moral to the game. The game play experience is decent but it has been done before. The visual design is actually pretty good for the game. These observations led me to give game concept a two.

'''Creativity: 3'''

The games creativity was surprisingly good. The cartoonish scenery went well with the game. It looks like they spent a while in flash with the drawing.

'''User Interface Design: 4'''

The UI was incredible for a student made game. There were many tools such as adjusting the wind speed and moving the target. There were also tools that showed you the angle of your shot ect.

'''Graphic Design: 3'''

no comments

'''Interactivity and game play: 3'''

The game has no instructions and you are left to figure it out yourself but it is still easy to catch on to.

'''Functionality: 4'''

Coding seemed flawless.

'''Educational Value: 1'''

The game presents no obvious source of education

technology in school helping in real life.

2009-09-11T11:36:00.000-07:00

The things we learn in school sometimes help us directly in our everyday activities. I like to do the things we do in globaloria at home too so I think it is great that I get to do something fun at school for once. Learning how to do things in school will help me to do the things I like at home too and I am really looking forward to a great year!

My first Blog!

2009-09-04T11:50:00.000-07:00

Just set up my first blog for my globaloria class. I am looking forward to updating everyone with future blog posts!