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Assembling Your Demo

I don't think I have learned more about my game topic in the process of making this demo.  My topic was about magic and wizards and sorcery, and it's all fictional, so there is nothing to learn about the general idea of our game, but what makes our game especially unique is that they learn about the opposite of this fantasy. Sure magic's not real, scientific facts say so. But, science itsself is magic. Our game is called "The Science Behind Magic." It warps the player around in a what they think is about fiction and magic, but its all about the facts of science!

If I could talk to the journalists, website content-writers, Wikipedia authors or other "knowledge producers," I would suggest they improve their wording with their resources.  Some wiki pages  are written by professionals who know a great deal about the particular subject, but to someone who doesn't understand the subject at all, it makes no sense. For example, when I first started Flash Programming, the tutorials on the wikipedia seemed far too advanced. I had to use other sites as a reference for what they were talking about. I think if resources would word their information differently, it wouldn't put some people in such awkward positions.

I think I have taken the proccess of learning into my own hands. I know how to use a great deal of online resources for reference when I am confused. I can improve my self-learning skills in the future by trying new things on my own and trying to find my own solutions. Also, by making mistakes, I learn about what to do in the future if I run into the same problem or am in the same situation.

Adding Sound

I plan to use lots of sound effects in my game. There will be all kinds of zaps, bangs, booms, zooms, zips, oh I could go on forever with the possibilities! It can really effect gameplay. It can also effect impression. It will make it seem like the player is really in the game!

Adding Input II: Mouse

This is a flash game that shows drag and drop, collision detection, and sound. It relates to my topic is the fact that my game will have drag & drop, collision detection, and sound too.

Adding Animation

The moving animation of my game title is not just an ordinary gif, it is personalized just for my game title. Go to flamingtext or cooltext to find out more about personalized gif generators.

Adding Buttons

A very helpful resource is wikipedia.  It is like a convienient encycopedia, and it has tons of information because ANYONE can add what they know to this amazing, giant encyclopedia! What more information can you ask for? Anything, from the presidents of the U.S. to Jason Derulo to Armadillos to global warming- its all there! Here is a link to learning!

Adding Scenes

Our game has a LOT of dialogue and conversation between the characters. Me and Bryce designed a storyline which will be used in the game through text boxes. Lots of adventure games seem to have a storyline or something. But of course, if you're going to do this 'great adventure' you gotta know why, right? It only makes sense that a game has a storyline to make it clear what your mission is. Are you just gonna race cars in a game? Or are you gonna take on the life of a fictional hero and compete in the race-a-rama 5000? Which one makes more sense? Exactly. Creating a sense of 'why' helps players really jump into the game!

Drawing a Scene

A new idea that we learned about is movie clips. It is possible to simply upload a seperate animation onto flash without consuming a bunch of frames. This is especially useful with GIF's. I figured this out during the proccess of making a loading screen. I thought our game might look cooler with an animated loading bar before going on to te title screen. That's when I learned that I could simply upload a gif loading bar, and tell flash to stop after the first few loops of the loading bar. How simple! And it only took 1 frame! In fact, a specially made graphics generator provided me with info on GIF's on their home page! Thanks, cooltext.com and flamingtext.com! This is especially informative and trustworthy because they are simple, fast, easy, free, and devoted websites. 

My Paper Prototype

Hey guys here is my paper prototpe... as soon as I can get it up... my computer is slow!!!

Planning My Game

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is our team!!!

Right-Me-Programmer

Left-Bryce-Graphics Designer

Middle-Wes-Info Designer

I will be good as a programmer because I can read code! sorta.... :-(

But it will be fun and I will do my part!!!

The greatest challeng to working in a team is that I have to trust my team with graphics and info.. But i trust them and i know they will do great!!!

Fighting Gravity

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Michael Grimm won AGT but Fighting gravity still ROCKS!!!

Research Topic

Ask Big Questions
Fill in the blanks: Our class is in the STEM knowledge community with a focus on science.
List 3 questions people generally have about this topic:

• Question 1: How does chemistry affect MY life?
• Question 2: How do physics affect me?
• Question 3: What do rocks and minerals have to do with the daily tasks of everyday life?

Of these three, choose one question you want to explore:

• Question: How does chemistry affect MY life?

[edit] Narrow Your Scope

Go to Wikipedia. Use key words or copy and paste your selected question into Wikipedia's search box. Browse your search results and explore internal links (links that keep you within Wikipedia) to find 3 different Wikipedia pages you think will help answer the question:

• 1. PHYSICS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics
• 2. CHEMISTRY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry
• 3. ROCKS AND MINERALS http://en.wikipedia.org/Rocksandminerals

Of these pages, select one to read all the way through:

• Selected page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry

Now that you understand this broad knowledge area a little better, choose one subtopic from this Wikipedia page that interests you the most:

• Name of subtopic: chemicals

Look at the external references for this topic (external references send out outside of Wikipedia. Find a long list of these links at the bottom of the page). What was the most interesting website you found this way? If there aren’t references, or you don’t like the ones listed, list a source you would add and explain why you chose this site:

• Link: CHEMISTRY
• Explanation: This website has a search engine for all chemicals and helps you understand amazing things about them. It also has data on the periodic table.

From either the Wikipedia subtopic OR a reference link you found, find a short quote that explains a concept or states a fact that you would like other people to know. Paste it along with a link to its source here:

• Quote: Everything you see and touch is made up of elements and combinations of elements. Elements are the building blocks of matter, so if you are studying chemistry, you should become familiar with them.
• Link: CHEMISTRY

Elements and chemicals are what everything is made of so I need to learn about them.

My Topic is: chemistry

[edit] Choose 3 Flash games that relate to your topic.

What genre are these games? How do they inspire your thinking about making a game about your own topic? What did they do well, how can they be improved? NO QUIZZES!

• Game 1: Stinks and Bangs
  • Genre: Puzzle
  • Reflection: This game was educational but boring

• Game 2: Biology vs Chemistry
  • Genre: I have no idea.
  • Reflection: This game was violent and NOT educational.

• Game 3: Kitchen Chemistry
  • Genre: Strategy
  • Reflection: This game was educational but a little frustrating and confusing.

[edit] For researching your topic identify the following:

• Wiki Pages that will help my research:
  • 1.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry
  • 2.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_game

• Other Websites/Informational resources:
  • 1.chemistry.about.com/
  • 2.www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/Games/1

• News resources that will help my research
• 1.Chemistry: Matter and Change
• 2. International Weekly Science Journal

Mini Game

Hey we had to do a mini game about a bunny and a rabbit. IT WAS NOT EASY! very frustrating...
Click here to see it.

My Game Idea

My game idea is having a school of magic that trains kids to be magicians and 

wizards. There will be a different section to deal with each of the topics listed above, for example, there will be a section where you have to mix potions. Getting the right answer will allow you to mix the potion into the pot. The wrong answer will cause the potion to blow up. There will be several sections about other stuff like casting spells which will ask questions about physics. I suppose I will improvise as I go along. My group has some pretty good ideas. We'll see how our game turns out!!!

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT!!!

Hey for all of ya who have been watching AGT, they are down to the final 4:Prince Poppycock, Michael Grimm, Jackie Evancho, and Fighting Gravity.

AGT (America's got talent) is the world's largest and greatest talent show.
Every summer they show it, and like a thousand people audition.  The judges (Piers Morgan, Sharon Osborne, Howie Mandel) eliminate the talentless ones and narrow it down to about 200, which they further break down into 40. Then the judges no longer have the choice, the watchers at home can get on and vote, and they have it down to the top 4. Oh yeah and the winner gets 1 million dollars and a headlined show in Las Vegas.

Prince Poppycock: A talented opera singer.  He dresses up with a lot of make-up and wears a big powdered wig.  He's pretty good but not my favorite.

Michael Grimm: Another singer, he has a good voice too.

Jackie Evancho: Only 10 years old and can sing AMAZING! She sings opera but it is amazing check her out on youtube.

Fighting Gravity:  My Favorite!  They are like a dance group, sorta.  They wear these glow in the dark suits, then the lights go out and they dance and it looks like they're floating or something it's just SOOOO coooool!!!

MiniGame

Over to the right is the links to the sites I need to research for Game Design. I already introduced myself. I think they will help me because they relate to my topic.

SONIC OR MARIO?

Hey check out my poll about mario and sonic.  I dunno bout you bur I think sonic is way better.  I mean, Mario is just an Italian dude with a moustache but Sonic is a super speedy hedgehog of ACTION!!!

Well, what do you think?  Yeah mario is not my fave.  If only that sonic gadget would work!!!! ERGH!  Anyway, the blue guy is sonic, the orange fox is tails (tails is my FAVE)  the red one is knuckles, the pink one is amy, and the rest don't matter much.  Purple=Espio Green croc=Vector and the last one is a bad guy, shadow.

I do not own sonic, mario, or any of those characters.

I'm a Game Critic!!!

I've been sick lately, but thanks to Internet I know exactly what my assignment is.  I had to play a bunch of games and figure out which is best and which is worst.  Here is some info on the games I tested, all under different genres:

Action:
Temple in Crescent City
Zeitgeist

Adventure:
MedMyst
What Would You Do?
WV Animal Rescue Squad

Puzzle:
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
A-Maze-Ing Math
Learn the Bones

Strategy:
Aiyiti: The Cost of Life
3rd World Farmer
Climate Challenge

Sports:
Gravitee
Nothing But Net
Bullseye

Racing:
The Race for Justice
Drift Runners

Of all the games, there was only one that had amazing graphics, a catchy name, and was actually educational was MedMyst.  The graphics were amazing and it was divided into several different mini-games.  This game is eye-catching because it is science fiction but teaches all about the fields of healthcare.  This was my favorite game.

Now for the worst.  All the games were educational in SOME sort of way, except for Zeitgeist.  I think it has too much action and not enough education.  The rest were not bad except for the WV Animal Rescue Squad.  I think they used the same question over a few times, yet even though it taught about animal safety, I didn't like the graphics and encountered a few errors.  But since Zeitgeist is eye-catching, I'd have to say the worst is the WV rescue squad.  (I just hope my game doesn't turn out like that)  There is a link to MedMyst above as well as the others, so try them out for yourself and see.

WEB SAFETY

Hey listen, on my last post I told you a little about me.  But you must remember to never give away your PERSONAL info, like your last name.  No email adresses or your real address of phone #.  It is also important that if you post a pic, give credit to whoever owns it like I did.  Hey, don't worry you can still tell your FIRST NAME and what your hobbies are and stuff!

About Me

Name: Ethan
Gender: Boy
Birthday: May 27
State: West Virginia
Hobbies: Drawing, playing piano, riding bike, fiddlin around on computers. :-)
Favorite Food: Ham + Dumplings! :-9
Least Favorite Foods: Broccoli, spinach, pretty much every vegetable except tomatoes. :-6
Favorite TV show: Naruto!!!!!!!! 8-)
There are plenty more things about me, but I'm not tellin.

Anyway like I said my fave show is Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. As you can see, I posted a pic of Sasori and Deidara from Naruto.  You probably have no idea what I'm talking about.  Well I might post a video of Naruto or something to but I really should focus on ny Globaloria class.  I will add pics of my game as it progresses but for now I'm just doin random stuff on my blog... If ya wanna know more about Naruto click here.  P.S.   I do not own Naruto or Naruto Shippuden, or leafninja.com. :-) Oh and in the pic above from left to right are: Sai, Naruto, Sakura

Globaloria 8-)

Hey congratulations on clicking on my blog!  If you meant to, good job, and thanks.  If t was and accident, then who cares.  Just read this one post.....

Well this blog is for Globaloria class only, so I might as well tell you what it is, cuz chances are you have no idea what I'm talking about.  GLOBALORIA is a fancy word for computer game design class, a special elective class that I'm takin.  I go to school at KMS (Kasson Middle School) of Barbour County, WV.  You can visit  the Kasson Middle School blog by clicking here.

In the past week, all the students in my class have each made their own wiki page.  You can go to mine by clicking here.  Also, you should visit Bryce's blog. He rocks the internet. So click here