Intro screen: Game title and screen shot or artwork from game
Team Introduction: Give the names and roles of all team members (no last names) Faith and Lillian.
Audience: Who are you designing your game for, and why? We are designing our game for 8th Graders because we have to make it for our own game.
Gameplay: What does the player see and do? What are the rules and how do you win? What is the goal of the game? The player has to move the rocket to dodge that astroids.
Learning Goal: What will the player learn by playing this game? They will learn how to make a rocket and what to mix together.
Fun Factor: What makes your game fun for the player? It is going to look like your ust in space.
Smart Factor: What does your game teach? What can someone learn by playing it? It teaches what Homer Hickman did and ehy he done it.
Style Factor: What kind of graphic/animation style will you use? What kind of sounds? It makes the shound of the countdown and the sound of it taking off.
Originality Factor: What makes your game special and unique? Why will it sell? It will sell because it is fun and it teaches alot of stuff.
Well today is Friday and I am very happy! Tuesday is our presentation day. I get to dress up and look all fancy and junk. I have been waiting to do this and get it over with for a while now. To do your presentation for improvement you have to look at the crowd and not look at the screen. Also, you need to talk loud and don't read off the screen. This is our last blog until after Christmas Break Hopefully. We have 3 1/2 days next week then it is Christmas Break. I hope that I get what I want! I hope that I get done with my game before the dead line. To make your presentation good you have to do your best and be on your best behavior. To do a bad game demo you have to not have it done or read off the screen.
On our game demo we have most of it done. We have to put a few more actions, but besides that we have everything done. It has been a rough way through, but I finally went though all the struggles. I can't wait til we present these and get to get it over with. We added more decerations to our game to make it prettier.I added a few flowers and a background to make Mr.Addair Happy lol.We have had a lot of time to do this and most people haven't made a lot of effort to do anything. I have almost got mine done and I can't wait til we get this over. I hope that we can add more animations, but if not it will be ok.
There is multiple things that you should and shouldn't do during a game presentationg. I only have to list three so here we go. The three of few things to do during presentation is do your best, look up at the audience and be loud enough so everyone can hear you. The three things you shouldn't do during a presentation is read off the screen, turn your back to the people, and get too nervous. I tend to get nervous a lot, but I try to control my nervousness. You have to try not to turn your back to the people cause if you do and you read they won't be able to hear you. You need to make sure you can answer any questions the people ask.
Well today is the last day that I will be in Globaloria for the week becuase next week is Thanksgiving Break! I can't wait, but I'm gonna start on my blog now. Well I am thankful for God, my Family, and my Friends. I hope that they have a good Thanksgiving. I am thankful for all kinds of thngs, but I really don't want to list them all. I will miss seeing all my friends for the week, but I don't think that I will miss school any. I can't wait til Thanksgiving Break cause I get to go to North Carolina and I won;t have to come to school. I am thankful that I make straight A's and that I do good in school. I am also Thankful for my home and that I have food everyday when I get home.I am thankful that my mom and dad do all kinds of stuff for me.
Do you play games in your free time? I play iPod Games, but I do play coolmath games.
Which ones do you play and why are they your favorite? I play fun and not educational games. They are my favorite because you don't have to know how to do anything.
Does this topic give you a new perspective about playing games? It doesn't give me a new perspective.
Why or why not? It doesn't becuase I don't know what perspective means.
I didn't like the mini game cause it was very confusing. I don't understan why we have to do it. I guess it's so we remeber everything from last year. The part that was the most confusing is codeing and layering. I don't get why we have to have so many layers.
Well my partner is not helping at all. Even if she isn't helping that means I can make sure our game is the way I want it. She help make the prtotype, but other than that I have made the whole game on Flash. I have acoomplished making most of the game and putting it together. I have to add codes and I also need to have the drag and drop fixed. I have a feeling it's going to be a good year. I can't wait til we do our demo presentation.
I have had many different challenges in Globaloria is codes. The most complacted code is drag and drop and hittest. Last year the most challenging part in my game was HitTest. This year I don't like the Flash as much as last years. I have learned how to do it more than what I thought I would have.I haven't made my first playable screen so I don't know how hard it is going to be to draw it. It has took me a long time to make three screens. I am on my how to play screen I am just now making it. I hope my game is accomplishable. I can't wait to show our game. Flash is not as hard as I thought it would be at first, but I will get used to it.
The Big Idea: Describe your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn? I want my players to learn about Rockets and The Rocket Boys History.
Making Decisions as a Team: How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic? How did your team decide the topic? We first decided our topic to be about Anne Frank, but then we figured we should do something abut our own state so we done it on The Rocket Boys.
Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together. We have roles to do different scenes and different codes.
Research: What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic? We have found facts and stuff on it but not big searching.
The User Experience: Explain the game play. What actions does the player take in the game? Has this changed since you first started planning your game? Why? They have to drag and drop and hitTest.
Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources? We haven't actually started making the game yet.
Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty? I don't understand this.
My game isn't going to be a quiz game because my game is going to have animations and drag and drop. It will not be a game where you just answer questions cause if it is the kids are not going to be intersected. I have made a quiz game last year so I know what a quiz game is. I am going to improve my game if it is a quiz game I will change it so it isn't. I can't wait to actually start my game even though I may need some help. Anyone could make a quiz game cause all a quiz game is questions. If you want to make a good non quiz game is add animations and not just have questions. Let them actually play the game instead of answering it. They have been many quiz games made and they are so boring. If you take the time and do everything right like you plan then yea you can make a good game, but if not then it's hard to tell what your game will be. Some quiz games may look good, but they are not fun to play.
Lilli and I are wanting to do our game on the rocket boys.Our game is called Shoot for the Stars! We are going to let you shoot the rockets off if you get the chemicals right. You will have to add more chemicals every time you go up a level. Then as you get up to the stars you will have to not hit them and make it to the moon. If you hit a stor or moon you will have to go back to beginning of the level. Some of the game will be drag and drop and the other half will hittest. It would be good if we could do score too. It's hard to tell what we will add and take away from our game from now til the starting of the game. I can't wait to see how good our game turns out at the end of the year. I would like to win the compition, but if we don't it's cool cause I have fun just making the games. I can't wait to start our game!
In Globaloria so far it has been good. I got the partner I wanted and she is Lillian Justice. It has been the start to a good year. I remember almost everything from last year except for the looping code. It has been hard for me every since the being, but it has been a rough start cause I had to change all kinds of stuff. I need help with coding and how to short it out, but I will figure it out by the end of the year. I had alot of trouble last year, but I haven't had as much trouble this year yet. I tried my best last year, but it will be hard for me to get my game done cause I will need to get my game finished first. I will not use the Globaloria Help Desk this year cause they messed us up last year. I can't wait to start my game this year cause it is about my favorite topic which is Anne Frank. I can't wait until we have to start our paper prototype. My game and the paper prototype might not turn out as well as I hope, but I can always dream.
Join the community was about a single story.We had to watch Ted tell us about a single story. In my opoinion it had nothing to do with globaloria.
What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community? It is a opinion about a place.
Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community? Is about a county and a person in a county and how they have there own opinion.
Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community? I haven't heard about a single story somwhere else.
How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community? It could help them write there own single story.
I Havent ever heard of a single story before until today! I don't get what this has to do with Globaloria.
In this blog I'm going to tell you about our game that we hope to make this year. We are doing our game on Anne Frank. It will help kids learn a little about her and how to write a journal.
WHO are you designing your game for? (Include the player's age, abilities, and prior knowledge of your topic.) We are making this for 8th grade student's, they must be able to know how to write a good journal.
WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? (Be specific!) It will teach them how to write a jornal and how often you should write in it.
WHERE does your game happen? In the 1800s
Describe the world you will design for your game.Our game will be designed in the old days.
How will this setting add to the learning experience? It will add learning cause our game is about Anne Frank.
HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic? It will tell about the girl and about your journal and how you can compare.
What happens in the world that helps the player learn?It helps them learn cause one day they might have to write a journal.
How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game? It helps them save Anne Frank and her Diary.
WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz? Cause it doesn't act like a quiz game.
In playing to learn the game that I didn't learn anything was Saving the Animals because the only thing you did was save the animals from the oil. The lesson was not to put oil in the ocean. It is drawn alright and it works just fine, but the test hit doesn't work too great. The game I learned the most from was Andrea's Rockin Game because how to reduce fractions by being timed at the same time. It is good for students because you don't have time to put it in your caculator. It works just fine and the drag and drop works great. You only know what to do if you read the directions.
Coming back to Globaloria was fun. I knew I would get a new partner and get to make a whole new game. I was kinda sad because we don't have Mr.Lester anymore, but Mrs.Garrett is cool too. I like being back in globaloria cause I get to make a new game and having a new partner to see what they are like. My partner this year is Lillian. We are going to great this year I feel it. This year I'm going to improve by getting a little help and not make my game sloppy and bad. I'm glad i got back in globaloria becuase it is fun and kinda easy. The only thing I find hard is the codes and how they go in order. I can't wait to start on our games, but first we have to do our mini game.
This is my Final Blog til next year!!!! I'm so excited for the summer, but I'm sad to leave this year behind. I hope that next year is as great as this year. I'm gonna do globaloria next year and it might be my last year with it unless they get it at the high school. I have had a great year with globaloria. It has been a BLAST. I don't know if I want to have the same partner next year. I'm hoping we change groups kinda, but kinda not. This was a great experiance fir the first time. I can't wait to do this again next year. I can't wait til I get to make a new game and might get to meet new kids.
I think I did good on the West Test. Well I hope I did do good or great. The math and language was the easiest part of the test. The science and social studies was the hardest part out of all four parts. I think I did very good on the math even though we had 3 different math teachers. I think I might could have done better on the science and social studies part, but I don't know cause it was hard.
We did great on our presentation because they gave us good comments. I was nervous at first but I got used to it by the end. Their comments were"They said that it will be great if we added our surgery scene", but I don't know if I we can get the blood to come out of BillyJean. I hope we can, but I just don't know if we can. Our game is good, but they said that we needed to shorten our about integers scene. We need to do a lot of work to our game. They gave us great comments. I Think our game is good, But it could better.
We have made so much progress in our game from my last blog. I have learned how to do hit test and buttons. I have almost got our game done. We have to do a code to make the numbers loop back around. It is very diffcult to do this but I have tried and tried and won't quit til I succeed. We can have a good game, but one of the scenes diodn't work so we changed it. I like our game but, I don't know if everyone will like it. I can't wait til our presentation because I wanna meet all the New York people and show them our fantastic game made by Fantastic Faith's.
There is a lot of internet safety things that need to be followed.A few things for people not to find you is don't put your phone number, adress, or full name. If you did put all this stuff the people could find your house. It would be great if you didn't put these not to do things on the interent.Anything can happen if you do put these, but if you didn't put all this stuff you would be fine.People couldn't find where you live if you didn't put this stuff.They can find you even if you just put one of these things on there.So, don't put it on the internet if you don't want anyone to find you.
Our game is a key board input game. It has alot of parts where you have to use the arrow keys. It may only be that, but I want it to be a mulitiply kind of game. It's going to be hard to do a drag and drop on our game cause it has a lot of different things. I think we can make our game better, but I'm not for sure if we can do it by the time we have to turn it in.
Weused alot of ideas on our game. Math games would help motivation. I dont really play games alot, but if I had to choose one it would be the math tutor on DS. I learned alot of math during this game it actually helped me more than Mr.Cannaday my math teacher. It is really counfusing sometimes in this game but it's still fun.
I have had many promblems in Flash, but I have came over them. I have been though alot with Flash. Flash seems very easy now, but I have no idea gow to do somethings. We have finished drawing all our scenes. The only thing we are doing now is figuring all the codes and getting everything fixed to move. The best part of our game would be the part where u get to take the blood out of Billyjean.
I have played many educational games. One game I have played is brain age, from this game you can learn your colors and how to multiply. I learned alot from this game, but the most thing I remeber is how to multiply. Games can create a learning atmosphere. It can do this by adding in the real world. It would be cool if they could make some educational games for the wii and Ipod touch. What do you think?
I like my game because I wanna be a nurse when I grow up.So this is a great game for me to see how it works. I think our game could be eaiser if I could get the buttons done. Our game is pretty good, but I think it's like a quiz game. I hope our game will turn out good and it will win the competeion.
I Love Globaloria! When I go to Globaloria I get really hyper becvause I get to make my own game. It is like I'm very smart. I like this class because we get to have fun while making our game and it's alot different then all the other classes. Globaloria is a awesome class.
They said that our game presention was good, but it was like a quiz game. We presented our game demo. When we presented it they said that they couldn't see us they could see they screen we were on and they could hear us. I think we could have done better, but we was very nervous. She said that our game looked fun to play, but we needed to upload some of the scenes on there to show some examples of what the game will look like. They also said that our game was like a story that we have main characters and different scenes.
Our game is about intergers. The hardest part about the game is knowing wither to take it up to the postives or take it down to the nigtives.It is hard to explain that if you add u must go toward zero. It's a hard thing to explain. I hate explaining it. I think I got the hang of it, but I don't think we could have made our game for 5th graders because I never went over this in that grade. I feel like our game is going to be good, but I don't know if everybody eles will like it but I like it.
