Preparing for the Presentation

I am now done with the demo and am preparing for the presentation next class. I think I'm slightly nervous about it. The main thing I'm working on is trying to avoid any "Uuhmmm..." moments.

Semester 2

Today we started the second semester of globaloria. I didn't do much other than complete the mid-year survey. Hopefully I will get to continue working on my game.

Tutorials

Today, I have been working on the tutorials that I had put off. I don't like the fact that that I can't just use the game file that I've been working on to fill out the tutorials' requirements. I've actually already done most of the things in the tutorials in my gamefile.

Vlog Time!

Been a While.

I haven't really updated my blog in a while, so I'm a bit behind on posting blogs for the various assignments. I'm going to attempt to cover some of the things I missed in this post.

PLAYING TO LEARN
I played Elemental Elegance and A-maze-ing Math

• What did you learn from your choice of games and genres to review?
• I learned about what happens when various elements are combined.
• Name any game features that stood out to you, either because they were interesting or because they could be improved.
• What stood out to me was that in A-maze-ing Math the goal was to add up numbers to get to 100, but sometimes the door would unlock when you don't even have 100 yet.
• Write down any questions you have about the game or genre you chose. You might answer them yourself later!
• I don't have any questions actually.

PLANNING YOUR GAME

• How did your team work together to come up with the idea and all the details of the game? What excites you most about your game idea?
• I'm actually the only one on my team, and what excites me is that I might actually be able to do a decent game this year.

CHOOSING A TOPIC

• Write a blog post explaining why you chose this topic. Include links to your three sources.
• I don't have any real reason for choosing my topic, other than that I found it a slightly interesting.
• Site #1
• Site #2
• Site #3

Getting Closer To a Game

Today I developed a money system for the game. It costs money to move the various units to where the player wants them, and they can gain money by defeating opponents. I also learned that when I try to put font in a text box, the system of scoring won't work. The font causes the scores to disappear.

Testing Some Coding...

I spent most of this class and last class working on action script. I did pretty well last class. I was able to get the coding to work so that whenever an object's health dropped to zero the clip would disappear. Then I managed to get the health text to follow the object when it is dragged around the scene. Today, I've been working on a money system so that when a "tower" is placed on the field, the price of the "tower" is subtracted from the total amount of money. But it seems that I've run into a problem, the text won't load. I even deleted the cash system and made everything like it was in the previous action script, the one where the text follows the object, and it still wouldn't work.