Planning your Game

When me and my team member charles got together to start making and creating a game we quickly decided that we would do his game/ He handled the drawing aspect of making the background the title screen I was more on the idea input and just throwing different things out there to see what would and would not work. We both are fairly new at the gaming experience we complimented each other on ideas and just strived to keep moving foward with production of the game.

Creating scenes

As we conitnue working on our game demos the storytelling aspect of the game is still coming together. Since our  game topic is about killing mosquitoes i believe the storytelling part of it is pretty self explanatory. I didn't recall any storytelling in the games that i played it was pretty self explanatory like i said before like racing and playing golf. Our game is more inforamtional than storytelling just written out and explained. I believe the them and points will stil get across

Concept of gaming

I found valuable information on the internet about educational gaming and gaminig in general. It made me think a little more in depth about my game topic and anything i could do to make it better and interesting. Seeing other aspects of  how games were put together and all just made me churn a llittle more on how to approach my game. The sources that i came across were pretty trustworthy as they were from different gaming communities and different people.

Topic introduction and self intro

Im calyspo1 that is my wiki name my topic was a educational game i was gonna do called the dictionary saga I explored some links on wikpedia that delved inot the toic of educational games. A lot of valuable information was there and sparked my mind about my game being educational.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game#Educational_games

• 1. Video Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game#Educational_games
• 2. Video Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game#Serious_games
• 3. Video Game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game#Core_games

the video i found was a simple one on creating interactive buttons in flash i believe it will be helpful since my team will be using them in our game demo. I walks you through ther basic setup for how to do the buttons

Create Simple Flash Button

Team CL

Team CL consists of myself and Charles we are working together on a game call the mosquito slayer saga. it consists of fighting through levels where mosquitoes are trying to kill you basically. The education comes in cause you learn about the different dieases that the mosquito can carry and pass on to humans. Trying to to kill as many mosquitoes as possible while not contracting any dieases from them. The passing of viruses to humans and how to prevent them.

Paper Prototype experience

Making the paper prototype was a good way to bring my idea a little more to life. It made me have to be more specific on what iw as doing and opened the door for a couple of new ideas as well. I believe my game was the same it just gained some more substance when it came to paper prototyping it. paper prototyping made me think more deeply bout the game and how i wanted things to be and setup. it got my brain juices flowing bout how i wanted the story to be the setting and how certain things were gonna happen. It was definetly a huge help in me seeing the vision for my game and knowing how i wanted things to be.

Paper prototyping

Paper prototyping made me think a little more deeper bout my game what i wanted to have going on and what i wanted my character's mission to be. My approach just came more to life when i started working on my paper prototype cause i had to lightly sketch out some things and know how i wanted it set up and all.
It did help me to envision my idea a lot better and bring a little more structure to it.

game concept

My game is gonna be called the dictionary saga. There will be one guy who has the last dictionary known to man and he is trying to get it to a place where it can be duplicated but he faces many obstacles getting it there including people. He will make his way west trying to get to a printing company to duplicate the dictionary so it can be redistributed to society. Along the way he runs into people who trying to intercept the dictionary for their own personal motives not wanting all society to have it for use. He must defend himself from thoseseeking to take it from him. It will be a desert background as he travels west hot environment and players will learn what different words mean as they travel with him across the desert

gravitee

Now the concept of playing golf in space i thought was very cool to begin with even gefore i played the game. It was a very cool game it was educational in the fact that it made you have to think about gravitational pull of planets in taking your shot. the graphics to it were pretty good as well showing the mass and size of the planets that you were shooting around. Anybody who was a science major or just interested in space and gravitational pull would like this game it's fun to play and it 's challenging playing in space.

Driftrunners

I played a game called driftrunners it was a racing game that had to do with the drift of the car and destroying objects for points. It was a pretty cool game using the keyboard fro steering and acceleration was different since im used to playing on a console. The objectives and the way you earned points and that was pretty cool you actually got some points for hitting something cause the drift was pretty steep. Al in all it was not a bad game would take a little more getting use to but i think its a good game though. It looked pretty good for what was used to create it being a racing game im not sure what you can learn from it besides how to steer a car lol. It  Your objectives in the game are made clear and it's easy to pick up on and once you get the hang of it. The drift could not be as heavy as it was cause it can make you crash at times. I enjoyed the game though for a computer game that uses keyboard controls and it was fun.

my first day of class

intro to gaming my first day of class didn't know what i was getting into. Came into to class made a profile and created a blog other classmates were playing games that would be rated later. I was playing catch-up it was not too hard watched a video that showcased games from past to present it was cool. getting things situated now so i can be fully caught up and ready to go wednesday with the new things the tteacher is looking to show us.