Final Presentation

For Game design for our final grades our groups worked on Final Presentations.
This was to be our work as Team Awesome on our game, "Food Forecast." We worked together to make a power point presentation of all of our work this semester.

The presentation showed our progress throughout the semester, starting from brainstorming ideas, and ending with gameplay and how the game will look. Consolidating all of our work, and writing up what needed to be say was a lot of work, but I think it came out looking great.
We had a bit of a set back when one of our members was absent on the day of the final, but the other three of us worked around it and split up the parts of the presentation between us.
A representative from Globolaria was present in the lab, as well as two others via cellphone call, and they were able to electronically watch our desktop so they could view the presentation.
I think all of the presentations on the day of the final were well prepared, and presented very well.
I am proud of the work we did individually and as a class, and am looking forward to working on Food Forecast more next semester in the Flash Games class.

"Adding"

Recently I finished up working on all of the "adding" homework that was assigned.
The adding navigation, animation, sound, and interaction.
I will admit that it was harder than I expected it, and I think that it was mostly because of directions. Once I figured out what needed to be done, it did not take me very long to figure out how to do it, and then execute the task at hand.
Adding Navigation
This was the first of the "adding" home working assignments that I started, and it had me stumped.
When I began to work on the assignment, I had already had the concept and new how to create an interactive button, but when I started watching the the videos that were on the page I just became confused. In my opinion, the videos were fairly informative, but the instructions that followed did not help me realize what I was supposed to do for the assignment. It turned out to be fairly simple, to just make two of the buttons in the file work to go to a different screen, but lack of instructions made me try numerous other things first.
Adding Animation
Adding animation was pretty easy for me. I had already worked with Monica on an animation of a cow that goes by the screen, so I just uploaded that since I knew the process by which to do that.
Adding Sound
This one was pretty fun. I added a mooing sound to the cow from adding animation. It made it quite comical. The only problem I had with this video, is that the method by which they told you to import the file didn't work, so I had to google how to correctly get my "mooing" sound into the layer I wanted it in.
Adding Interaction
The Final project I worked on for the assignments wasn't too difficult, but kind of confusing.
This assignment was similar to the "Mini-Game" project we had already worked on. It was taking an object and making it be able to move with the arrow keys. The problem I had with it was that the tutorial they posted a link for wasn't very accurate to our version. The steps it says to do don't line up with our version of Flash, so I had to take time to figure out what options worked and what didn't. It allowed me to figure things out for myself, which I did enjoy.

Overall, I think that the "adding" assignments were beneficial in the fact that it allowed me to process things and figure them out for myself. It allowed me to learn more about the interface of Flash.