Changing the Cursor I

Changing the cursor for my game is really hard. I put the code in the right way, but it still didn't work and I can't figure out why. I am not stopping until I get it right! I will post another blog when I get it right! So stay tuned until then!

New Years

I am glad it is a new year because I just want it to be, and that means school is almost over. On the day after New Years Day I went to a party.

Christmas Break

My Christmas break was good. The best thing I got was a PS3 with the games Grand Torismo 5, NBA 2K11, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. We didn't have any family come over, but it was still a good Christmas.

Drawing a Scene

For my Drawing a Scene assignment I used my Main Menu scene because the clouds will be moving in the backround.

Questions Video

Doing the video about the questions was easy, but making the answers to the questions were kind of hard. I messed up a few times during the filming of the video.

  The Big Idea: Describe your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn? My game concept is order of operations. I want my players to learn the how to do order of operations  because sometimes it has adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing all in one. It is more advanced and it will trick you.

 

  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? I am the only person in my team so it was easy to come up with a game topic. The two reasons I chose it was because there aren’t very many games about trees so I thought it make it unique, and because I think conserving trees is important.

  Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together. I am the only person on my team so I have to do everything on my own, but with a little help from my teacher and classmates. Making the game by myself will be fun and will teach me to have more responsibility.

  Research: What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic?  Some of the things I researched are reasons for deforestation, the forest fires that were in California, tropical rainforests, and national parks. I researched these things because I will be putting facts into my game, so they will come in handy.

  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? In my game, you have to get the squirrel through a maze and to a place that has mulch place so you can answer a math problem; I have made a few changes in my game since I started planning it. The player was originally going to be a water droplet but now it’s a squirrel, and I wasn’t going to add facts into my game, but now I am.   

 

  Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources? I think the videos are a good resource because it teaches me things that I probably never would have been able to figure out on my own. My teacher has also been really helpful while I make my game and research things for my game. I don’t think it was very difficult to research information for my game because I just search for things that I wonder about.

Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty? The mini-game was really difficult because we haven’t had any experience with flash before, but I still tried best to complete it. Like I said before, my teacher is a big help throughout all our assignments, and she helped me to accomplish the mini-game.

Thanksgiving Break

     On thanksgiving break I went to New York City. We went to Dylan's Candy Store which is three stories, the NBA Store, the M&M Store, the Plaza Hotel, the Disney Store, the American Eagle Store, and Times Square. When we got back from New York we went to North Carolina. We saw an NBA game, Charlotte Bobcats vs Houston Rockets. At the game I saw Michael Jordan and Jordan Hill. Jordan Hill is from U of A, which is the college I'm going to. I had really great seats. I was onlky about 25 seats above the court! My brother and my cousin got us on the big screen by getting up dancing! It was really fun.

charlotte blimphouston rockets person

Planning My Game

    My team is called the burning ducks. There is no one else in my team besides me. I am not very far into making my game on flash. Flash is very interesting to me because doing all the coding makes me seem smarter than I really I am. I'm really looking forward to finishing and playing my game!

This is my team ppicture