Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Plans for the Rest of the Year

Tyler and I's plans for the rest of the year are to finish Level 1. We are so close to finishing that we might have time to get Level 2 started! That would be great! What we have left to do is fix the boundry code, add the trash and code it, make a score box, and a mini-game finish screen. We have 7 weeks to accomplish this and I believe that we can! If we start on Level 2, we will make the opening level screen and options. Then we may have the option windows finish, but probably not anymore than that. I believe that we can get to this point if we keep being consistant with our game updates. Tyler and I really hope that we can get our game to that point and make it the best it can be! We are excited to see our finished product.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Couldn't Find Our Game

Today Tyler and I searched and search the 7 seas of laptops and files to find our game and no luck. With the new laptops, we have to get the same laptop with our same file on it to open the game. Even though we upload most updates to the wiki, we didn't the last time because our new code was wrong and we felt that we shouldn't upload it. We now are going to put numbers on the new computers so we make sure to get the same laptop everytime. There is one more new laptop in the case and we plan on checking it for our game. Tyler and I had a plan on what we were going to do to our game today, but alas, we could not find it. We have learned a lesson and will now upload everything to wiki whether it is correct or needs work.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Uploading Files

Our latest blog assignment is to post about our experiences and skills with uploading files to the wiki. As Tyler and I have been very consistant with keeping our updated game on the wiki and putting the files on our team page. When we make a great deal of progress, even if it's just drawing a screen, we upload it to the wiki. Tyler and I have also been involved with uploading personal photos that we took to enhance our wiki profile. One thing I can improve on is putting each wiki file on my personal projects page. I have only recently been keeping up with that and I still slack on that sometimes. I'm determined to be more consistant with this.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Game Progression - 3/11/10

After all of the snow days and the theft of our wireless router, we can finally get back to our game! Before the extended 'break', I had been working on the bus screen to Level 1. I did the drawing, which is not of my expertise, but didn't do half bad. After I finished the main part of the bus drawing, I worked with the code to make the buttons and when you click the buttons, they go to a different screen. After the break, Tyler made the bike screen and I did the coding for that as well.
Even though we have have some minor adjustments to make to our game, I believe Tyler and I will make great progression in the next two months. One thing I have realized as we are making our games is that I am becoming more familiar with code and memorizing codes. I have started to edit codes not only on the wiki, but other things such as my blog and MySpace as well. I'm looking forward to finishing our game and seeing what new skills I can learn!



Title Screen





Options Screen





Bus Screen



Friday, March 5, 2010

Too Much Snow and Not Enough Wifi!

Recently, our wireless internet router was stolen in the band hallway. Someone came into the school, in the middle of the night, on a snow day, and stole our router! How dare them! We need that router! We are so far behind with the all of the snow we have had and now with the router gone, we either don't have wifi for a class or we have to go up to the cafeteria. That puts us even more behind. Even with working as hard as we can everyday, with having 20 snow days and the possibility of more coming, it will be difficult to finish our games by the end of the year. Hopefully we will have the determination and motivation to get them done, but if the time lost has prevented that, maybe we will get them close to finished. With the time lost and the snow getting on everyone's nerves because it seems to never end, deveoloping our games will be a hard task.
I'm hoping within the next couple of weeks, Tyler and I can make progress on our game and get level 1 and level 1 mini game finished!