Presenting Your Demo

The Big Idea: Provide an update on your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn?
My game is on dividing fractions and litter. I want them to learn how litter affects our world.

Making Decisions as a Team: How did your team's ideas about the game topic change over time?
I originally had it to where there were many characters and a totally different concept.

Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together.
We worked by ourselves.

Research: What kind of research went into your game topic? What did you learn about your topic? What message do you want the player to understand?
I looked into many different websites and learned to so much more than I did before on the topic of litter. I want my player to understand the effects litter has on the world.

The User Experience: Explain the actions players take in your game. How do you play it? What decisions were made about features to include, and how did you decide?
The player uses many things such as mouse and keyboard. You will also control the player.  Many descions on math concepts.

Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources?
Adobe flash itself was ver helpful along with the many tools that came with it such as brush and eraser.

Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty? What programming features are you most proud of in your game?
The game itself was difficult but I did alot of work on it and I am proud of my buttons.

Almost done....


the year is almost done.

Week After Week

      Every week I write a blog for Globaloria. Sometimes the idea for it just pops in my head. Other times, I have trouble coming up with creative topics. So, this time I decided to blog about my Blogging ideas. As you can read below my blogs vary from litter to working as a class. I try very very hard to come up with a variety of blogging topics and media. I yam what I yam. It is our weekly assignment to publisha blog, so I really try to keep things fresh. I hope this blog is just as good as my others! Au Revoir!

!ALERT! FINAL GAME DUE VERY SOON!!! !ALERT!

 

GAMES ARE ALMOST DUE!!!!!! I HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO AND I HAVE MISSED SO MANY DAYS AND I AM TERRIBLY WORRIED.......!!!! HOPEFULLY THINGS WILL TURN OUT GOOD..... *SIGH*

Absent -

The past few days I have been absent. This has really put me behind, and I have work to get caught up with. It really stinks being absent, because when the others are ahead, you are still behind. But I guess being excused from school has its perks. All I did on Thursday and Friday was sit on a couch and watch TV.

Right now I am reading a book called Paul McCartney - Many Years From Now. The author is Barry Miles, who is a great friend of McCartney. The book is Paul McCartney's official biography. So far I am halfway through. Since I am a huge Beatles fan this book is fascinating. A fabulous book on Paul's life, this a must-read!

Game Demo

Check out my new Game Demo...
 I took me awhile, but it is good as far as I am concerned. I still need to put gameplay, but this is most of it.

My Fellow Students

Being in Globaloria is like being on a team. We all work together. I have really gotten to know some of my class mates. Everyday when I go to class I know that good friends will be there to help me along the way. Although sometimes we are annoying and bicker each other, we also produce the best work we can. That is why I want to thank all my friends.

What I've Learned in Globaloria

So far I have learnedpotatoesALOT! When I first decided to make my game, I knew very little about litter. In my research I learned tons of stuff. Here's a link to a page I liked:
Litter Article
When we started the Mini-Game, I knew almost nothing about Adobe Flash. In a short time I learned almost everything there is to know. I have also learnedabout my math concept, fractional division. Here is a link to that:
Division Article.

Preparing Game Demos

 This is the time of year when we have to begin our game demo. I especially have to try harder because I have misplaced my Flash drive. Our game demo will include introductions to our game along with the actual game file.

Adding Buttons Blog

Noah's Blog

This is a link to Noah's (a classmate) blog. I picked his because I found his ideas to be very interesting. If you visit the link you'll see why. His game demos really helped and I fond his use of codes to be very helpful.

Adding Animations Blog

Irish Cleanup Website

This is a link to a awesome website about cleaning up! If you go to this site, you'll see how some people are taking actions against litter. Please visit this informative and cool website.

How to Add Sound

Although it may sound like a difficult thing to do, adding sound to your game is not that hard. In fact, it was one of the easiest things I've ever done. If you want to add sound to your game, here's how!

First, open up your game scene that you want to add sound to. Next, go to http://www.findsounds.com/ and click the desired sound.
Send the link of the sound to your Gmail and save the link to your computer. Import the sound into your game and try it out!

Adding Input 2

This file is the handiwork of Ethan at student at EGMS. I admire his work and that is why I prsent it to you. Feel free to play the game. It also has some really awesome links. Thanks a lot Ethan. Your work is some of the best of our class.

Globaloria...So Far 2

Well my 8th period class Globaloria is going great so far! For the most part I'm all caught up! I still have a little cleaning up to do though. Globaloria has to be my favorite class by any stretch of the imagination. My class mates and I have been getting along weel and we are now working on our final game. Although we have had our rough patches Globaloria is going great so far!!!  

This is the program we use to create our games:

Christmas Break

                This Christmas was fabulous. Our whole family from NC came in to visit. On Christmas Day I got all kinds of gifts including books and a new iPod. I love all of my new gifts.

         Later on the 26th I got a new Kindle. I have already baught a lot of ebooks.

      The days went by very fast and soon it was time for my Grandmother's Christmas Party. I got all kinds of neat things. 

On New Year's I satyed up to watch the ball drop as I do every year. The whole family was there to welcome 2011. 

Christmas Break was a blast!!!

Adding A Scene

Visual storytelling telling is something that has been around for ages. I think in today's 21st -Century world visual learning is a great way for my generation to learn certain things.

The game Zeitgeist was a great story based game. You followed a soldier through the streets of history as you answer hard trivia questions based on where you are at. Yes indeed, Zeitgeist is a game that is a good way for us to learn about many interesting subject.

Video Blog Questions

These are questions that I answered in a Paper Prototype  Vlog 

 

  The Big Idea: Describe your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn?

  My big idea is littering in the world. It is a serious issue. I want players to know about litter and dividing fractions. I want them to divide fractions as another way to learn something educational. By combining these two elements players can learn 2 important lessons.

 

  Making Decisions as a Team: How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic? How did your team decide the topic?

  With the info I gained in Imagining Your Game I learned about litter and my math concept. This helped pick my topic and imagine my game. 

  Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together.

  Well, since I am on my own team I do all the work myself. All the paper prototyping, projects, and everything in-between is done by me!

 

 

 

  

 

Research: What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic?

  I researched many articles and sites. It took me a while, but now I have a full understanding of what my game is about. So, since I know what needs to be known, I am prepared to begin the concept for my game. My best site was litterbutt.com.

  The User Experience: Explain the game play. What actions does the player take in the game? Has this changed since you first started planning your game? Why?

  Playing this game is fun and enjoyable experience. Players will first learn about the game and what it’s about. They will then pick a place in the world and clean that litter. After cleaning up, they must divide a certain amount of the litter they collected. You do this 3 more times until beat the game.

The player will have to avoid different obstacles such as skateboards and giant                       rocks to achieve the goal.

  Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources?

  The flash code library and game design topics were the most helpful to me.

  These are all available on the EGMS Wiki.

  Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty?

  The Mini-Game was difficult for me because I got lost in the making.

  But, in the end I completed it.

Drawing a Scene

        This blog is about something I learned in my research.
I learned of different groups of people against litter.

There were many groups including Citizens Against Litter, People Against Litter (a Facebook campaign), and many many more. These groups fight to keep the world clean. Although some are all thay are making a difference in today's litter-infested world!

                                                                                   

Thanksgiving Break!!!

Boy, Thanksgiving break was fabulous!!!!!


Thanksgiving started with the parade! I have always loved to watch Macy's day parade!
Big floats and performances of all kinds! Then there was Snoopy dominating the skies!

Now it was time for preparations for the guests! Cleaning, sweeping, and cooking!
First came Uncle Jamie, then Mama, finally everyone was here! It was great time, having everyone in the house! Desserts galore, trifle, cookies, ice cream, and other tasty treats!
After food we chatted and then it was time for me and my siblings to go to my other grandmother's. After the brief visit we leave and go home.