STEM Games pt. III

I am interested in working with computers so I might be interested in a career in computer programming, and I am interested in video game programming and design. I really want to be able to do this.

I would love to have been part of this.

I want to create something like that. That was one of my life goals. These all relate to my games through the need of computers for programming, one being a game, and all requiring mathematics and a high level of computer technological ability.

Technology Impacts

So many inventions and discoveries have changed our lives that I could not name them all or even most. The invention of cars and other motor vehicles have increased our abilities to move from one location to another, but they has also increased the amount of pollution we put into the air. This connects farming machinery and motor vehicles to our game topic of pollution. The industrial revolution saw the invention of factories. These factories also give of polluting wastes, and this relates to our game in the same way as farm and motor vehicles. Finally, the invention of computers allows us to find information more quickly than normal. This is what allows us to create our games and communicate quickly.

STEM subjects

Our game is on pollution, and I think that this is harder to understand because we have been more focused on getting our game working. Thus leaving us with less time for this subject. I have not got enough time to add to this though because I am looking for weapons coding or tutorials,and my partners don't have any time either. I hope we find time later though.

Platforms

We had trouble from this one also. The platforms were hardest until we realized the collision detection was necessary. This was when we found a tutorial that combined them both and we finally understood our mistakes. This was a great tutorial even though I still don't know how to make links.

Collision Detection

We just finished the collision detection topic. This was easy once we found the right tutorial. This was a good tutorial. We kept having our character fall through the floor. Now he can stand. Sorry, I still can't figure out how to post a link.

Scrolling Background

The scrolling background was harder than we thought. We could not get our character to stay on the screen. We finally got it done though, and the screen finally scolls. We also coded the enemy and we need to code collision detection and platforms. We are making good time though. Everything we have is on the wiki though.

Coding Enemies

I didn't get to do much but read for this one. My friend Scott did most of the work. This was a necessary one for us though. I feel the game is getting better as we go. We now have enemies, character controls, preloader, and jumping coded into the game. This one was extremely important because, without this topic, the enemies that we have wouldn't work. This would result in a boring game.

Running, Jumping, Etc.

We have finished this section. This was an easy section, but we used a different site listed below. Sorry, I couldn't figure out the way to make it a link.
www.flashgametuts.com This site has many tutorials that could be useful to anyone needing help with flash.

Preloader

We finished our preloader today. The assignment seemed to be less difficult than it looked. Our preloader is on our wiki. I found out how important having exactly the right action script is. Ours did not work until I looked over it closely.

Learning from others

This was a very educational tutorial, and I found a new way to find action script in a flash file. I learned shortcuts that I didn't even know. Below is a link to a site that I think may be useful.
http://www.entheosweb.com/Flash/motion_tween.asp

Actionscript

This was a good topic for the class. Everyone needed this topic to help understand actionscript. This was an easy assignment because it was fun and educational. Finding the link posted below was hard though. I hope others can benefit from this video.
Flash Tutorial - Basic ActionScript

Intro to Action Script

We tried to do the action scripting. The tutorial was not that hard but the final link took us to the wrong site. We also had some trouble trying to get the diver game to work right. The video also had not matched up the actions. The frog game worked and we were able to learn some of the abilities of coding.

Keyboard Interaction

We added keyboard interaction today and uploaded our assets. Working with Flash is great. I have learned all kinds of information about how to use Flash , and it is very fun. This class has taught me a lot about computers. My game topic is pollution. We will have even more enemies now because of a suggestion.

Animated

For the past three days we have been animating our scenes for our paper prototyping. The coolest thing is getting to draw. I admire how the people at bungie were able to go from this picture on the left to the one on the right. These are pictures showing the change between Master Chief in Halo: Combat Evolved an Halo 3.

Lets get the party started

My name is Anthony. I am a person from West Virginia who is really into games. Some of my favorite games are: the Halo franchise, Doom 3, and Socom. I live a very inactive life.

We have not started the game yet. We still need to upload the Flash software. We have just started our blogs, and have setup our wiki pages. I joined the Globaloria program in hopes that it might better enable me to get a career in videogames.

This class is going to be awesome. I love to play videogames so I can't wait to make my own. I hope that it is a great game that others will like to play, too. I am really into wars so I am planning on doing a game on the Iraq war. I can't wait for the actual design process to begin.