Presenting My Final Game Vlog

                                                                                         My Final Game Presentation

The Big Idea: Provide an update on your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn?  The most important concept I want my players to learn is pet safety because I feel it is important for kids to understand how some things found in their own home are very dangerous to their pets.  

Making Decisions as a Team: How did your team's ideas about the game topic change over time?  I wanted to have 3 characters to choose from in my game, but I ended up only having one, the dog.

Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together.  I have the role of doing everything in my group because I am the only member.

Research: What kind of research went into your game topic? What did you learn about your topic? What message do you want the player to understand?   I looked on the internet for exponent equation solving tips and common hazards for pets. I learned different ways to solve exponent equations and different things that can be harmful to pets such as apricots, etc. I want the player to understand that it is important to keep hazards away from your pet and that it is also important that you know how to solve exponential equations correctly.

The User Experience: Explain the actions players take in your game. How do you play it? What decisions were made about features to include, and how did you decide?   The player takes the action of eliminating the hazards out of the home and answering exponent equations correctly. You play my game by dragging the hazards to the pet so it can dispose of them, answering a variety of exponent equations, and then visiting the pet's local veteranarian so the player can learn more exponent equation solving skills/tips and why the hazards the player chose are proven hazards. I made decisions about animation features. I decided only to use them on the main menu because I didn't have time to complete any other animations.

Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources?   I think that flash, itself has been most helpful in my learning so far because it has helped me to create my own game using different drawing tools and codes. Therefore, the mini-game was the most helpful flash resource because it contained most of the basic codes I needed later on in my game. I located this resource on my wiki.

Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty? What programming features are you most proud of in your game?   I think that pet safety has been the most difficult curriculum topic because it was hard to come up with hazards just concerning dogs. I overcame this difficulty by doing more research and asking other classmates about their opinion. I am most proud of my "vet" scene because I love how when you click on the "vet," the scene that comes up looks like notebook paper!

During the Summer........

School is almost out!!!! We only have 2 more days left (not including today) because school ends June, 8th. I'm so excited, but I'm also kind of sad because I won't get to see my friends for 3 whole months!!!! (Maybe I'll see them at the fair or something???)

                                         

During the summertime, I'm going to be on a traveling softball team! I'm so excited!

                                                    
                                          
I'm also going to church camp. I will be going white water rafting, horse back riding, and caving there!!!!!

                                                           
There's so many things I will be doing during the summer!!!! What about you????

                                                     

MY FINAL GAME!!!!

I turned-in my game last Tuesday! I am very proud of it! I have made a complete game!




Description of My Game:
Pet Safety 9-1-1 is about teaching children my age about things that can be hazardous to their own pet. They will also learn a few exponential equation problem solving skills by solving them on their own. The player learns all of this by going to Spot's, the dog character, house and dragging things that can be hazardous to Spot to him so he can dispose of them. The player also will answer a multiple amount of exponent equations. After the equations are answered correctly, the player may visit Spot's local veteranarian and she can tell the player why the hazards they chose are actually hazardous to Spot. After the game has ended, the player has the choice to play the game again.

Westest

Our Annual Westest starts next Monday. It ends on Thursday. We will only get to be in Globaloria class for 2 hours next week. That means I lose 1 hour because of Westest. We have to upload our games by Monday during lunch. I am very proud of the progress of my game. It is pretty much completed except for a little blinking problem on one of the scenes, but I know I can accomplish this task!!! :)

                                          

  

MY GAME IS DUE NEXT FRIDAY!!!

My final game is due next Friday, May 13, 2011. I am so nervous because I still have a lot to work on. I can get it done though if I take some more time from my lunch. I am also very excited because I am going to create a game teenagers can enjoy that also teaches them valuable skills. I hope I win the STEMS Competition. It is very hard to decide who will win though because there are so many good games this year! Good Luck, Everybody! J

Globaloria Wiki Presentations

Yesterday, I presented my wiki to the Globaloria people in New York. I was very nervous! I showed them my Wiki Home Page, my Learning Log, my Projects Page, my Team Page, my Game Demo/Game Pitch .swf file, and a .swf file of my game so far. The New York people said that they thought my game was too long and that I should combine my ideas into one. I think that if I can think of a easy way for me to do this, my game can become much better! :)

Globaloria Class

     I have been working really hard on different scenes of my game in flash! I have learned so much since the beginning of Globaloria! I remember when I was confused when we were first making Action Script but now I am connecting completed scenes of my own math game like it's nothing!!!!!! Globaloria class is so fun! I think I learn new things everyday! I'm so excited, but it's amazing how fast this year has gone by....! :)