Week 12

This week we were working on our game, it was a little frustrating as the second stage is so hard to get working without effecting the first stage. i feel as though i am on track all i have to do is to get some music for my background and write up my conclusion and introduction. i just hope that i will be able to get my second stage to work. Throughout the next week i will be doing the finishing touches and hopefully have it running.

Week 11- 2 weeks to go

Overall i feel as though i am on track. i have my background done for level one and all my characters and everything that is needing within in the game done. Now all i need to do is my background for the second stage. What i am having difficulties with is making my background for the second stage. How do i put in my background with out my background changing in stage one? Every time i change something in level two it changes the positioning of my objects in my first stage.

Week 10

This week we have been shown how to get the bad guys working in the game. it was really difficult to get them working. Due to some a tragic lose in our family in the past week i was a little bit behind with my drawings for my background but now im up to scratch. My badguys are in and working and my background for stage one is done.

Week 9

As we have missed a whole week due to our school placements, we have all fallen a week behind. We have now started to put our games together. i feel that this will be a very hard process. Hopefully in the weeks to come i will understand more of what is really required.

Week 7- eToy and Game

This week has been so busy for me... I'm trying to finish off my eToy but we weren't able to do so in class, and now we have started out Games.
With the eToy I struggled with putting in the actions for each frame, but I successfully did it with Luke's videos.
The other thing that I struggled with was putting music throughout the whole eToy. I knew how to do it on a button but was confused on how to do it on the whole time line.
With the game, I think that this will be a little bit of a challenge for me but i will enjoy it as I will have a little more time to have to do it.

Week 6 - Started Games

This week we have started on working on our games. Figuring out what our main characters are going to be and what atmosphere there going to be in. I think that the coding is the hardest thing in this subject. I don’t understand how to do it all... it confuses me a lot. Why cant we just write it in any way and it understands it?!?!
As much as I am struggling with the codes I think that I will be ok... I just wished some times that I understood the codes.

Week 4 - First week back

As last week was my first week back at uni, I felt as though I had missed a lot on this class. The lecture and the advice that was given by Luke were great. It helped me understand what the criteria are for the Etoy.
I think that I will be fine, but will I finish it on time?

Week 5

As you already know I have missed 3 weeks of uni due to some family commitments, but today I felt as though I was learning a lot. Sophia taught me a lot! I now understand how to make my Etoy, I feel confident in making it but I also feel that I will struggle with the actions. I understand everything to do with making and naming the objects but I have no idea with what you are meant to write on the actions box.
Even though I am struggling with the actions I think that the outcome with be o.k. The readings that have been put on the internet are great.

Week 3 - Net Neutrality

I am so shocked that we are actually having problems with keeping our net neutrality. Having to have petitions to keep our internet safe is just unthinkable. Everyone should have the same speed and quality as everyone else. No-one should be aloud to go into the "pipes" and change them to the way they want to.

If they were to change this, there would be a lot of problems with the community. Not everyone would be able to have the internet as it would probably be too expensive.
I never knew what net neutrality was until now, and by reading these problems it makes me wonder what the future holds.

Week 1 - The GigOm Show

This was very interesting to watch. I was so amazed how many video and compter games were sold last year and how it was 28% more than 2006.
Joshua Hong has also got a great point about how people would rather play free games than having to pay to play. I was also shocked that he only uses 1% of the gross on Advertising.
The main thing that i learnt in this show was that there are also a lot of females who play video games, 58% are males and 42% are female. Huge surprise!!

week two - character design

From watching the character design it has helped me a lot on understanding the reasoning’s behind why characters are drawn the way they are.
The process was a great explanation on how to get your characters, and depending when your story is set it will depend on what the character will look like. By sketching an image, it will then help you to see what the character is missing and what they are trying to represent, an image says 1000 words.
I think that the modeling sheet is very useful. When you are trying to draw a character flipped it helps you a lot, being able to draw all the details in without forgetting anything.