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.

My Topic

This class I finished working on the game facts in Flash. The topic is now officially invasive species. Why I was so persistent on doing this, I really can't remember. I guess its because I feel some interest in it for some odd reason. I also managed to find some really helpful websites when I was researching.
Invasive Species
Wikipedia-Invasive Species
Tread Lightly

Still choosing a topic

Today I did some more research on my project, and found out a few things. One thing I learned is how to identify a species that could potentially become invasive. Some of the indicators include a fast rate of growth and reproduction, the ability to survive in a wide range of environments, and the ability to survive on a wide variety of food sources.

Choosing a topic

Today I decided to choose to make a social issues game, with a focus on environmental issues. The game will be about invasive species and such. I found out quite a few interesting things when I was researching. For instance, certain species of invasive plants can actually increase the frequency and severity of wildfires.

Helping out

Today has been a tiring day, although that might be because I had absolutely no sleep. One thing I have to say to everyone is try to find an answer on the wiki BEFORE asking me. Sorry, but I just had so little time to actually do some of my own work.

Choosing a Topic

Today we explored the possible game topics we can choose. I'm really wanting to make the game about invasive species. I was thinking about calling it "The Great Invasion". The game would involve stuff like swimming through a maze to remove lamprey from fish, sorting through a group of beetles (Removing the invasive ones), catching asian carp as they fall from the sky (Asian carp are the fish that get scared and jump out of the water when a boat is around), etc.

Meet flash and the minigame

Today I finished off the minigame and uploaded it along with Meet Flash. For the Meet Flash question, I found it quite easy working with flash because this is my third year in the class. And for The Minigame's post, I play alot of games in my free time. I like RPG games with openworld/sandbox elements like Fallout. Completing this project originally gave me a new out look on how video game are actually made. I leave you the sad truth of being a Bidoof...

Another year..

Hey everyone, it's the start of yet another long and dreary school year. But I'm glad to be back in Globaloria this year. If everything goes according to plan, my game this year should be a whole lot better than what I made last year. Although, I'm still thinking about what to make the game about.

Vlog on the Game Presentation

Finishing up

Ah, the end of the school year is great, but a little bit too nerve-wracking. One good thing is that my game is DONE. Although I might go back and make minor adjustments to various things, the game itself is finally complete.

Cut backs...

I have decided to scrap the second mini-game, and will be focusing my scripting powers on improving the first mini-game. I also added a mute button for those who don't want to hear all the sounds, although I am having trouble finding a way to un-mute the sound. I also have redone the title screen and changed the "Choose a Game" scene into a scene that adds a little bit of a story to the game.

Browsing

Today I looked through the wiki pages and games of other gloabalorians, and I can definitely see why globaloria is telling us not to make quiz-based games. When I played those types of games I could see how it might be easy to make, but I saw how it really didn't teach the player anything. The player has to already have recieved information beforehand in order to play a quiz game.

Music Time!!!

Sooooo..... I finally got a sound file into my game, yay! Its a bass drum (I think) that plays during the title scene and the choose a game scene. I'm thinking of something a little bit lighter, like a violin or something, for the instructions scene, and then a light symbol clash to start the game, followed by some sort of guitar melody. So many ideas on how to place the sounds, but so little room to place them.

GIANT MAIL INCOMING!!!

Today I went back and improved the first mini-game, adding a... (pause for effect)  ... BOSS WAVE!!! In the aforementioned and over-capped boss wave you must try to block two GIANT tainted pieces of mail, but heres the catch, there is a GIANT letter that is in between them and you must keep from hitting hit. Mwuhahaha!!!

Boom...

Today I continued the work on the second mini-games. I have some of the stuff working, but I still need to be able to get the cases behind the divider. I think I'm going to just have to make the divider a movie clip too.

Flash Mixup

What have I done today? I spent most of the class helping someone else find the answer to a problem that what so simple that it was impossible to answer. I searched and searched through the coding, but to no avail. I finally noticed the problem when I glanced at the code library in flash, only to discover that the file was actually in flash 3.0, meaning that all the coding was actually right, but flash was wrong.

Projectile Projects of Projection

Today I worked on my project page. I have added a flash file to Keyboard Interaction and Animation ( or Motion or something ). I am now working on a Drawing in Flash file. In that file I have created a friend for Terry, he is the Ninjasaurus, Warrior of Epicness.

Better than a litterbox

THE SANDBOX. This is where I will be putting some of the things I know in flash and will be experimenting with the actions. I currently have a page for tweening and buttons. I had some trouble with Terry on the tweening page, he had some trouble making his way across the page without flopping around every where. I did find the problem though, the little circle that shows where the program reads the center of the file is was in the corner, resulting in a very "jumpy" Terry.

Reversification

Today we are making our blogs near the beginning of the class, so I really haven't got much done today so here is what I WILL do. I WILL try to learn about motion and "tweening". I WILL try to get a flash file done and uploaded to the wiki. And I also WILL try to stop putting the word "WILL" in caps and italics, but I really don't I WILL be able to do that.

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG

I had trouble logging into to my computer, and had to run around the school a little bit trying to figure out how to log in. But I guess you can tell I got it fixed now. I've started working on making the people in our second game, which is actually pretty easy. I do think I'm going to have some trouble with making the character change direction when I press the arrow keys, though.

Team Page OF CONFUSION?!?!?

Today we started working on the team page wiki format, so I guess I'll have to learn some more wiki markup-codes. I wonder when the day will come when stuff like markup-language will be considered an actual language. ^Sooo_oo, we added a backround color to the team page and I guess I'll and something else later. _BY^EE

Bloggity vlog vlog vlog...

Wow, I didn't realize how long it's been since I've updated the blog, it's been at least a month. Oh well, the time machine hasn't been invented so I can't do anything about it. Here's the vlog I made.