Erica W's Blog

Getting close

2010-04-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

Spring is finally here! That means warm weather and the beginning of softball season. That also means the end of year. And with the little time we have left to finish our game, i'm getting a little nervous. But i think we are making really good progress and getting close to having our game completed. Jessica found code for drag and drop so thats really awesome, as soon as we figure out how to make it work right =P But overall, the pieces are really start to fall into place and i definitely think we will make our deadline. thats it for now. Later!

Tutorial Project

2010-03-29T11:18:00.000-07:00

So last class we were assigned to go to this website called flashfrige.com and find a tutorial we liked and create it. Well...this turned from a simple 15 min task into a hour and a half frustration! The website looked really cool at first. There were so cool things you could make and i decided to try one. But unfortunately it didnt work. Neither did the next one, or the next one, and well, you get the point. So after going through 5 that didnt work, i finally found a fairly simple one that i liked. It was an advertisement for the New Moon movie and today i finally finished it! It actually looks pretty cool. You can go check it out on my wiki, click here for link. Later peeps!

What I'm working on.

2010-03-11T11:52:00.000-08:00

Right now I'm working on our mountain explosion screen. I'm trying to figure out how to make our dynamite appear on the mountain when you click on it. I'm also still trying to figure out why I can't get our title screens buttons to work right. No success yet =/ hopefully i can figure out on monday. We are also working on a few more screens in the game, really starting to make the game come together now. I don't know really have much else to say, I'm really super out of it today. Thats all for now.

Buttons that actually work!

2010-03-05T11:01:00.000-08:00

So... i haven't blogged in a little while, whoops =P but I have made a lot of progress in the last few days! i have almost mastered buttons! Note the almost. So far i have created a detonate button that when pushed will go to our evil ceo pushing the detonate controller, drawn by Andrew and i must say it looks freaking awesome, and then the mountain exploding. Check it out on our wiki. This is an improvement over my previous screens when the mountain would just explode over and over again and the other one when you hit the detonate button the mountain just exploded. I am really excited about all the progress we have made in the last few days, though our title screen is upsetting me. I made the help button work to where it will go to the help screen but when i tried to do the same for the control screen, when i hit the control button it would go to the help screen, then the control screen and the same thing would happen when i hit the help screen. But other then that, everything is going awesome! I can't wait to start putting all of our scenes together!

Boom!

2010-01-29T12:12:00.000-08:00

Boom! that was my project for today! I drew the boom screen to our game! Yes, i know, this is a very easy task but i still did it so i dont care! Jessica worked on our title screen and Andrew, who is REALLY good at drawing on the computer was working on one of our characters. I think that our game is going to look really awesome when its all put together. Now for a change of subject! I keep forgetting to do my learning log! gosh! I hate doing that thing, and i ALWAYS forget about it! oh well, just gotta in in practice i guess. Well, i really dont have much more to blog about so, I'm just cut it here before i talk about more random nonsense. Later

Flash vs Console

2010-01-20T11:13:00.000-08:00

Well the topic for todays blog is to compare my favorite flash game to my favorite console game. Picking of the two which one would be my favorite (console game) is really a no brainer. But deciding what my favorite of each is a bit more difficult. For flash, I'm going to have to go with The Cost of Life game which was on the wiki. I really liked playing this game, even though I could never master it. And for console i would have to say my favorite game is Madden 08 for my ps2, though this is a very hard choice.

Well these games are very different in many ways. For one, they are totally different genres. The cost of life is a life simulation game, which really reminds me of the sims, except, a lot harder, and the other is a sports game. They also have very different animation. The Cost of Life is just a 2-D game with cartoon like characters where as Madden is 3-D and tries to make the players as real looking as possible. Something alike though is that in The Cost of Life you have to follow a certain story line as you have to do in the Superstar mode of Madden.

These two games are very different in many ways but have a little bit of simularity, and of course them both being fun games that I like is one of them. But Madden definitely beats out any flash game I will probably ever find. Sorry flash!

Reseach!

2010-01-13T11:46:00.000-08:00

Web pages I found about Mountaintop removal

Info pages:
Wikipedia Page
National Geographic

Pages against MTR:
www.itsgood4.us/mountains.htm
www.mountainjusticesummer.org/facts/steps.php
www.webecoist.com/2009/04/17/the-destructive-process-of-mountaintop-removal/

Pages for MTR:
www.mountaintopmining.com

21 days of Christmas =P

2010-01-13T11:06:00.000-08:00

Well I'm finally back to school after being out of school for 21 days because of Christmas break and never ending snow days =P And let me tell you, I'm have definitely not settled back in to my schedule yet. Getting up in the morning is not very easy after sleeping in till 11 for 21 days. And as for remembering school work from before break, yeah right! So today is like my, getting back into the flow of things day, aka, I'm probably not going to get much done. But even though I am extremely tired and ready to go home and just be lazy, I'm going to try to focus on looking up info on MTR removal and working on my teams game design. Wish me luck! Later

Snow Day!!! =D

2009-12-21T10:48:00.000-08:00

Well I was suppose to be doing this in class today but because of the 16 or more inches of snow outside, there was no school today. But I like blogging form home better anyway. I can listen to my iPod full blast while i do it =P Anyway, so last class we had a type of meeting in a sense with the leaders from the World Wide Workshop Foundation. We talked with them over the phone and explained to them our paper prototype and told then about our games ideas. They gave us some really good suggestions back and some info about things we might want to research on. The info they gave us i think will definitely come in handy. Overall I think that our game idea is really starting to take shape, if we could only figure out what to do about the against side. Hopefully that will start to become a little more clear soon. Till next time, later!

Finally!

2009-12-15T11:18:00.000-08:00

So guess what! Our paper prototype is now up on our wiki! whoo! It is pretty much completed, we just didnt have our control or help screen up yet but who needs those anyway right? Anywho, i think our game is going to be really awesome. I like the ideas we are coming up with and I think they are all going to come together very nicely. For today we are going to work on our teams wiki and start assigning roles for who to do what in the building process of the game. After we get this done I think we will be well on our way to creating a pretty awesome game =]

Paper Prototyping

2009-12-07T11:03:00.000-08:00

So my team has started working on our paper prototyping of our game. We have drawn our title screen, our three loading screen, and two of our game play screen. Plus a small explosion scene! I think it looks really awesome so far! I'm really excited about my teams game. All of our ideas seem to be coming along very well. I can't wait till we get to start putting our actual game together! =]

Uh oh

2009-11-20T11:17:00.000-08:00

So it seems like we are falling behind a little. I have to say I think I've done a decent job with blogging, I just need to get up to date with the wiki. Like the learning log for one. I always forget to do that thing!! Plus I'm sure theres some other stuff on there somewhere I've missed doing. I plan on going through today and fixing all that stuff. Maybe do some more personalizing of my wiki too cuz right now its a little dull. I plan to start blogging more as well. Another thing I really haven't done is check out other peoples blogs and wikis. Thats also the plan for today. Maybe I can find a cool blog or wiki out there and send them a comment or something, get in on the blogosphere, whoo! Till next time, later gator

Is there such a thing?

2009-11-16T11:22:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know if there is such a thing as like an online code list? Somewhere you can go to find a code for just about anything? I liked to mess around some more with my bunny mini game just for fun but I dont know any codes and I know theres no way i could make one up myself. If anyone knows of such a website or list, please leave a comment with a link or some info. Thanks in advance!

Game Idea

2009-11-09T12:16:00.000-08:00

Well my team has come up with the idea of doing a game about mountaintop removal, aka MTR. I really didnt know much about this subject until we decided to use it for our game but i have found out a lot of interesting info. If you would like to check it out, I found a pretty good site with some good info. Click on "good site" for link. Our game is going to teach players how much damage is caused by MTR and what kind of effect it has on nature and also people.

Teams!

2009-10-30T11:35:00.000-07:00

We now officially have teams now! Whoo! My team is The Ultimate Avengers. Oh yeah, awesome team name! Anyway, were just getting started with our team stuff now, like deciding on a topic to build our game around. Right now I'm a little short on ideas in that department, but I'll try to come up with a few. Today we worked on a team logo. I have to say ours looks pretty awesome. Soon it will be up on the wiki, along with our other super hero "collage". I cant wait for us to start making our game soon! Well thats all for now, back to waiting till the next B day. Till then, later gator! =P

Whoo!!

2009-10-22T11:44:00.000-07:00

Yes! Finally! I have my bunny game up on wiki! Complete with score! And that I did all by myself! and the help of the wiki =P But today I am very happy with myself. This is something I've been working on for a little while now in addition with my own mini game. Still no luck with that, Warfield wasn't here today. Instead we got sub who didn't realize our work was making a game and not some worksheet or blah blah blah. Oh well, today was a success and that's all that matters! Hopefully next class I can get my other game up and running. Note I said hopefully =P Till then, later gator!

Grrr...

2009-10-20T12:01:00.000-07:00

Sigh...flash is becoming very annoying...I did my drawing in flash and was all excited about getting it moving when...the code didnt work.. Thing is, I can't figure out why! I have everything put in right, everything named and where it should be, but it still wont work! I tried starting over again just to make sure I didnt miss a step and still nothing! Its really quite frustrating...I do not like flash... >=[

Awesomeness!

2009-10-09T12:09:00.000-07:00

Whoo! I have mastered bunny movement! Well, kinda =P My bunny moves now, thanks to the help of my class mate Jessica and her code. Appearently the wiki code doesnt work. Thank you wiki for trying to confuse the snot out of me, mission accomplished! Well now my bunny moves and also the carrot restarts on the other side when it hits the bunny. I still have some work to do, like with the wolf, pizza, and mushrooms but I feel like today has been a success. Again, thanks Jessica for all your help. Until next time, later gator

Mini Game

2009-10-08T20:12:00.000-07:00

Well I missed a couple days of class due to illness. No not swine flu, promise! Anyway, so needless to say, I'm a little behind. But last class I worked on starting my game using the wiki tutorial, and some help from teacher. I wanted to do as much by myself though as I could. You know, learn though trial and error. So far so....ok =P I have been able to get the carrot to move across my screen but having problems with my bunny. He just doesn't seem to want to move! I've used the code on the wiki, as well as the one my teacher gave me and still no luck. If anyone has any tips they would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully by the next time I blog I will be able to say that I have mastered the art of bunny movement =P Until then, later gator!

"The Cost of Life"

2009-09-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

Ok this is my second blog and I'm going to talk about one of the games I found one our wiki's "playing to learn" section. As you might have guessed from the title, probably not, but anyway, the game I'm talking about is "The Cost of Life" The game is under the "Life Simulation" if you want to check it out. And if you do and you some how manage to win, or pass the game without most of your people dying, then please leave a comment on my blog telling me so! I got so annoyed with this game! I could not get through a couple years on the game without one or more of my people dying or all of them being sick! But because of this, it really made me think how hard life must be for these people. I encourage people to go check this game out, I found it pretty addicting, but maybe thats because I kept losing and wanted to prove I could do better, but whatever the reason, I was definitely playing the game a lot. So leave a comment on what you thought and tell me if you think its impossibly hard as I did.

About Me

2009-09-04T11:48:00.000-07:00

Hi I'm Erica and this is my blog for Globaloria. Well I guess I'm suppose to talk about myself and this first one, as much as the school allows, so here I go. I'm...a teenager and this is my first year in Globaloria. My interest in video games was my reason for entering this class. I'm no computer genius so I'd love to learn a lot more from this class. My interest normally though are more on the artistic side. I'm in choir, art, and theatre class at my school. I also love sports and I love to draw. I one day hope to become an artist and I hope that my art skills will help in the designing of my teams video game. Some other things about me are I love animals and 90's music. Well..thats all I've got, I'm just so interesting! NOT! Anyway, thats all for now, bye.