Good bye :)

   Well, this is the last blog for us and I want to say that I have had a complicated year, but underneath all of my struggles it has been fun. It is sad to say that this year is over and there is nothing else to do. This year went by so slow, and during all this time I have went through a lot of games. Keeping up with my games and making sure they don’t get corrupted was a fail, but we kind of made it through at the end. Our game was nothing like it was planned, and nothing how I wanted it to be. It was embarrassing not having our game finished, but we pulled it off and my partners presented it good. Struggles were hard to overcome with all the coding, and it was hard to understand how to do everything that codes were involved in, but we worked together to get it all finished. During global this year, I have come close to a lot of my friends, and that is one of the best things about it. I just hope to say in the future looking back that global helped me out in so many different ways. I am going to miss been in this class and walking the halls as an eighth grader, now we are going to walk the halls at River View as freshmen’s. It is very sad to say that this year is over now, and we have to move on, I hope that we have as much fun at high school as what we did here. I will always look back at this school, and say that right there made a difference in me.

Presentation.!

     Our presentation didn’t go so well, I kind of got embarrassed like I thought I would and ran out the room. The game we had at the beginning of the year was nothing like what we ended up with. Seeing all the games that was presented compared to ours was so great, and knowing that my game could be like that bothered me. If I ever was to go back to that day, I would make sure that my game was as good as possible. My presentation wasn’t the best and I will admit that. It was embarrassing, and that is about all I can say.!

YOLO.!

   If my partners and I had more time to work on our game I would be sure to add more game play to it and a lot better design. I don’t want to make a show out of our game and be embarrassed, so I really wish that we had better time, or I wished that we would have worked on all the days that we wasn’t focused. We will have better design though before we present, because I can assure you that. I believe that if we did work on this game like we should have, that we would have had a better game than most people. I really would have stepped up if we had more time, and I would have made my game better, or at least our game play better. I also think that my partners and I could have made it a better game, if we really wanted to, and now I believe if I get another class in global that I will step up and do what I am suppose to.

West test.!

     Okay, well this week of course we are blogging about something that isn’t about Globaloria. West-test is coming up and all the teachers are preparing the students for it, I think that I will do well on all the subjects, but I have to try and really stay focused. I sort of can’t wait for it to be over with because my results will come in after summer, and I always get a little excited time when that time comes. West-test needs to be taken seriously because it is serious. The subject that I do the best on is language, and the one that I have a few struggles with is science. This is about all that I can say on the west-test, to give you information. I just hope that I do my best.

       I also have something else to say, my teacher for Globaloria doesn’t really help us when we need it, and he doesn’t know much of anything about what to do.  Therefore that is why our blog isn’t about Globaloria, and we get the same topic for five weeks in a row. I hope I don’t bother anyone saying this. But the truth has been spoken.

Spring break.!

     We have worked on our game this week really hard, because we had to start over. To me I have stressed out and I am more than ready for Spring break. During my Spring break I plan on forgetting about school and just to have fun without been stressed out. Riding the four-wheeler is one of my most favorite things to do, so I plan on riding with my best-friend and going mudding back in the woods were I love to be. I want to make this Spring break one of my best, so I am going to do one of my other favorite things to do, which is shopping. Getting new clothes is just great to me, because I enjoy them so much. Although I plan on having fun, I also can’t wait to spend time with my family on Sunday for Easter. Spring break is going to be awesome and I really can’t wait for it to come. I hope all of my other friends has as much as fun as me. J

Non-quiz

    Quiz games are very easy to make, and you can be making one without even knowing. At the begging of the year we were told not to make our game a quiz game, and we have tried to avoid quiz type games ever since.  In a quiz game you ask questions and if you get them right you play the game, well we have to get around that, and reach our expectations of getting our game finished without a quiz. It is a challenge to reach, and I hope at the end of the year we can accomplish it. I know that if we work hard and try to focus then we can make a game that isn’t quiz type, and that is the goal that I’m going to reach.

Pre-presentation

  Our game isn’t the best, only because we had to start over three times. So we plan on making it better and ready by presentation. Therefore we have been working a little better and staying more focused than what we did before. You really can’t say that our game will be great before it needs to be finished, but we will hardly work on getting at least one play scene working. Presentation is going to be hard for me this year, because to me we haven’t gave it our fullest attention and I know that my partners and I could work better and work together to have had a great game. So I plan on giving a great explanation on why our game isn’t finished, and why it could have been better. Although I hope that the audience that watch the presentation can realize what is the problem with our game. I just hope it comes out good.

Game so far.!

          Well to get this started first of all, I want to say that our game isn’t as far as we would like it to be. Do to our file getting corrupted we had to start our game over again. So we plan on working super hard to get our game finished by presentation day and ready to be played. The game that we had almost finished, we were off to a great start, and it is sad that we had to start over. Although starting over has made us want to work harder and do better in Globaloria, so in a way it was good to start over. Therefore I think that my partners and I believe that if we work together and work hard that we can have our game finished by due date. I hope that everyone wishes to play it also, and have a great time made out of our game.  

Design.!

     Designing our game has taken a lot of thought, but putting a lot of effort in to it is good. Therefore the design had to be good and it had to be about an adventure, so we decided to do the whole Allegheny Plateau. Designing is important to us, so we thought drawing it out first would be the best thing to start out with. Drawing the different adventures that you can take in the Allegheny Plateau is what we did, and we planned them out into Flash to make a game. Drawing them on flash isn’t as easy as it is on paper, but if you have faith to do it than you can get it finished. Although our game design isn’t anywhere near finished neither is our game, we all have high hopes and good believe that it can get done. We just plan on working very hard and concentrating more to get it done. Our game is big to me, and I think it will be big to you too, if you take a chance to play it. I hope that it ends up been a great game and you enjoy it as much as I do.

My partners.!

      My partners are very helpful to me, we struggle a lot to try and get through our game. We have many problems to achieve but we overcome them. Now that our teachers don’t help us that often or hardly ever, we have to learn how to get through our game ourselves. Making the buttons isn’t that hard, I can do them myself, but I can’t get them to work so my partner/best friend/sister Tori is the one that gets them to work correctly. Therefore since we do that our other partner/best friend/sister gets most of the design finished. What our partners can’t do at the moment, we work together to figure it out. My partners are so great and I am thankful to have them, we started out as a team and we shall finish as a team. Although we can’t wait for our game to get finish and to give others the opportunity to play it.

Struggles.!

Globaloria is most of the time fun, although I think everyone has times that they struggle with things and sometimes they carry on things that are very easy. Therefore I have struggles also, one of my main things that I struggle with is adding keyboard and getting all the codes right. Most of the time I have to get my partners to help me, and if they struggle with it too, we work together to get through it. Success is accomplished in my game also; I am very good at adding buttons, and some design. It isn’t really that hard to show or help another student too. I think these are really all my struggles and success’, there isn’t much more to tell.

Platform game.!

Our Allegheny Plateau game is going great I think, although there are classmates that have finished their game, and in my opinion they could use more design. My group and I are trying our best to get our game almost perfect, we have already added an enormous amount of scenes, and also animations, and buttons. Buttons are really easy to accomplish, therefore there is many in our game. Animations aren’t the best thing to work on, although there are still enough in our game. We have a lot more to do on our game to get it finished, and we work every day to improve that. At the end I think that we will have a good game, but it will be very hard. Codes holds us back a lot, and we try to work on getting to know how to do that well. Therefore we have to take extra time on the coding. Animations, codes, and buttons still can be improved in our game, but I think that we will overcome that before the end of the year. Our game will be good, and fun to play after we finish it.

Game Progression.!

Our Allegheny Plateau game is going great I think, although there are classmates that have finished their game, and in my opinion they could use more design. My group and I are trying our best to get our game almost perfect, we have already added an enormous amount of scenes, and also animations, and buttons. Buttons are really easy to accomplish, therefore there is many in our game. Animations aren’t the best thing to work on, although there are still enough in our game. We have a lot more to do on our game to get it finished, and we work every day to improve that. At the end I think that we will have a good game, but it will be very hard. Codes holds us back a lot, and we try to work on getting to know how to do that well. Therefore we have to take extra time on the coding. Animations, codes, and buttons still can be improved in our game, but I think that we will overcome that before the end of the year. Our game will be good, and fun to play after we finish it.

Globaloria.!

Globaloria isn’t just for anyone who wants to do it; it takes a lot of work and knowledge to follow in it. To get your game finished you have to understand how everything works. Our teachers aren’t very helpful to us, so if we need help our classmates or partners help us to get through it. We all work together to get something finished. Getting use to the new flash wasn’t really that hard, but some things on it were complicated to understand. Although we have accomplished how to do the coding, animations, and the buttons, but sometimes it can still get frustrated. Flash 5.5, in my opinion has helped us keep our game more organized and designed neater. We have overcome a lot and through each other’s help we will get our game finished.

Presentation

In our presentation that we are going to accomplish in a couple of days, we have planned to give it our best. The audience will be more important to me, because we have to make sure to give them eye contact, which won’t be very hard but frustrating. Explaining our game will be extra easy because of course we made it. We plan on explaining every step that we have overcome and making it very clear to the audience. We want everyone to feel in a mood that they want to hear us talking about our game, instead of wishing that it would hurry and end. I believe that we will do great on a presentation, by taking turns explaining each thing. After the presentation, the students and audience will be thrilled and surprised by our hard work. We will do great, and I can’t wait for this day to come.

Presentation!! : )

              Our game presentation is very important and is a big thing to my team. We want everyone to like us and be interested in our presenting, instead of been bored and wishing ours wouldn't last a long time. My team has been practicing to have a great presentation, by speaking loudly also have a clear voice. Although our clear voices will be important in presenting we will be giving body features to interact with the audience, and take turns reading and presenting, so each team member will have their time to make it fine. Our team will also try to make as much eye contact as possible and give the audience our full attention. We want our audience to enjoy our presentation as well as our game, so my team will define everything about our game and we expect good question from our classmates and audience to help them understand parts of the game that we didn't clearly go over. We wish to ourselfs a great presentation day and to our classmates. We all have faith in you, and can't wait for that big day to come so we can show off how much hard work that we have put in these games. We hope to see you there with your shiny eyes open and your cleaned ears ready to listen.

Game Demo!! ( :

       In Globaloria we have been working on our game demo's. Game Demo's is sorta like a short powerpoint, except you work on flash and a game demo tells you what the game is going to be like. In our game demo we will be explaining our gameplay, who our audience will be, who the characters will be, and many other things. To get the audience more interested in the game we will have to use design and animations, although we have worked very hard on getting these things finshed, we can still make changes to it and make it a better game. Text is a thing that every game should have, and my text in our game is yellow and blue to match West Virginia. Most or every game has screen shots, well our's does to, we have already taken the shot's and inserted them in our game. The screen shot's gives the viewer a little bit more about the game and how it will be played. Our game design is also finished, and to match the West Virginia theme, we have inserted a sign of WV on it. Even though our game sounds like it is almost finished we still have plenty more to finish on it, that will take hard work and a interested person to do it. We want to make designs move around and create an effect to our game design. We also need to put a playable scene in our game so that the audience can interact with our game in a better way. Our WV sign is pretty and it will catch your eye, but we still want to atleast put little icons of WV on it so that it will make our theme look better and more prettier. If my team can acomplish all of this hard work I think that we will have a great game, and a super amount of players who like to interact with it. We all can't wait for this game demo to be over with so we can see what a great job that we have done on it.