My Past Year's Accomplishments and My New Year's Resolutions

This blog post is a reflection on my Globaloria goals that I accomplished in 2009 and what I would like to accomplish in 2010.

My 2009 Accomplishments for Globaloria:
1. Learning how to use codes on flash-how to make objects move and dissappear.
2. Making a mini game-how to make a functional mini game with moving objects and points.
3. Getting our team game idea together-working with my team partner, Tyler, on getting our big game started.
4. Starting the team game-working with Tyler to get our game on Flash and working with codes such as buttons and scene navigation.





I feel a great sense of accomplishment from these goals and I'm looking forward to accomplishing my new goals.




My 3 Goals for 2010:
1. Learn new codes to use in our team game-learning how to make the screen move while the character is going from one place to another and how to make objects dissappear when the character hits them.
2. Learn how to use Flash faster-learn how to make codes and graphics faster in order to keep our progress on our game moving.
3. Complete our team game before we graduate-have a complete and functional game with all the features we planned to have before we graduate.

I'm excited about my new goals and am going to work very hard to try and achieve them.

Progress

The progress I have made is learning how to create new codes and learn how different features in the properties window. New codes I've learned are how to create buttons and change from scene to scene. The properties window has features such as changing text style. An example would be changing dynamic text to static text.
We were also told to find another school's wiki and find aother team's game. I found a team from Shady River Middle School. The team's name is The Super Team. Their game is based on a character going off to fight super worm men. They have discribed playing the game to where if you hit your head while trying to fight the worms, you will lose the game. Other than that, the game doesn't have a good plan or advancement. They have a cool idea and great graphics, but where is the game going and what is the true idea? They have progress to make, but they seem to have a good idea of where to go.

EHS Student's Game

Our lastest assignment was to find another's student's wiki from another school and comment on their wiki. Morgan from Elkins High School had a couple of games. She had an alien themed game about different governments. It was mainly a question game but I think she is working on progressing it more. She had another game about wind energy and it was a similar question game, but it was complete. Her ideas are great, but hopefully she'll advance her game more and make it more than a question game. Here is a link to her wiki. I'm interested in looking for other student's games in other schools to see what their games are like.

Game Level 1 Screen

Today, Tyler and I worked on getting our first level screen made and putting into our game. Tyler worked on the drawing and design while I worked on coding and organization. During the process of making the level, we collaborated with each other on what we were doing with the design and coding to make sure we both agreed with each other. This was very helpful with team work and learning how to make a compromise.


Here is our game so far:





We have enjoyed making the game this far and are looking forward to progressing it more! :)

Button Demo

Recently, we learned how to make buttons on our games. We learned how to create a button that goes to a level and a back button to the main screen. This was very helpful in coding and it was awesome to learn how those things work. I'm looking forward to making more codes for our game.

Globaloria Survey

The globaloria surveys are very well constructed. They ask questions that apply to what we have learned in the class. By asking these questions, they can learn from our responses and make improvements for future classes. Suggestions for the survey makers is to ask us specific questions about our game and how we learned about them and tell what we are going to do with them. The survey was very good overall.

Coding

I have learned different types of coding for Adobe Flash. I have learned how to make characters move up, down, across, and spin down the screen. I have also learn how to "hit" test things and make a score box. There is much more to learn though! I am going to do more research on coding and see what else I can learn. Here is a tutorial video I found on youtube for actionscript 2.0.