Teaching

This week I have been showing the class on the smartboard how to do basic things in flash. I am explaining what everything is in your basic view of CS3 like your tools, timeline, frames, library, that kind of thing. So far I have showed them motion tween and how you can use that to make basic animations and I have shown them bitmapping. I have also been telling them how this can be useful in the future of their games. I plan to tell them how make buttons tomorrow.

So Far This Week

So far this week my group and I have been working on our project pages while trying to keep up with our blogging and documenting our time in our learning logs. During this process I have been showing the class different things that I have learned in flash such as making sound boards (adding sound buttons) and scrolling backgrounds ( a good think to know how to do if you are doing a 2-D adventure, Mario like game). We also began filming our brain storming. We are still trying to figure out what our game could be about. We know it has to be chemistry oriented but we haven't fully decided on what aspect of chemistry we are going to use in our game. Chemical reactions like explosions sounds like it would be pretty fun.

My Group's Bunny Game

We finally finished our bunny game! Throughout the process I helped Andrew and Aaron understand why we were typing what we were typing and showed them what it did. I also showed them what each number did and we changed most of them from the instructed numbers to more interesting ones like making the scoring different and items moving at different speeds. I also came up with a new idea to make our game different from all of the other bunny games in Globaloria for our further studies section of the mini game mission. I thought it would be funny to have a little cartoon redneck with a gun in our game shooting at the rabbit. We ended up getting Elmer Fudd in our game. Get it? He is constantly shooting and if his bullets (which are pretty fast) collide with our rabbit you lose a huge twenty points.

New Laptops!

So far this year we have been using laptops that aren't the best for this class. They do well enough to update the wikis and blogs but they would probably not run flash as well as we would need. Now we have new laptops. These new computers are highly capable of doing everything we need! Now this class should work pretty smoothly.