Team Page

Your Game Demo should explain your game idea and show how the final game will look and be played. It should contain two parts:

1. Game Pitch (Answer questions and make notes below, then add to your Flash file)

• Intro screen: All We know is mining Coal: West Virginia
• Team Introduction: Alyssa: Game Demo/Title Scene Kaitlyn: Some Drawing Emily: Game Demo
• Audience: We are designing our game for other eighth grader, because we had to make our game based on our grade.
• Gameplay: The player mines coal and answers questions and find facts. You have to mine coal and answer questions correctly. The goal is to get through all of the levels.
• Learning Goal: They will learn more about Coal in West Virginia
• Fun Factor: Our game is fun to play, because you get to mine coal.
• Smart Factor: You can learn about Coal in WV, by playing our game!
• Style Factor: You will get to mine through the coal.
• Originality Factor: Our game will be special, because you barley ever see coal mining games.

This is all the questions my partners and I have anwered about my game. I thinks our game demo was a success and went really good. I did notice some spelling errors but we will be fixing them soon. Well thats all for this week I hope everyone have a very Merry Christmas! :D

Presentation

Next week we are having a presentation on our game demo, I'm ready for it. Me and my partners will be telling about our games and explaining what you will be learning about the game and doing in the game. We also have a few animation in our game demo like using keys moving up and down and side to side. We have working very hard with our game demo we have decrated it and put lots of detals in it to show what to exspect in our game. Well thats all for this week thanks for reading!(:

Game Demo

We have been working on our game demo for the last few weeks and in that time it has been a success! My partner Alyssa & I have added many things to our game demo like animation and explaining our game better. We have been working really hard on this we also have accomplished many things in it but we did have a little bit of a problem adding animation but we had a friend to help uo us figure it out. Well thats all for this week, thanks for reading!(:

What you should do and not to do during a presentation

There are many things you should do during a presentation such as holding the paper down and not infront of your face, be serous and speek plainly. There are also many things you shouldn't do as well like goof off, mumble, or laugh. I think all theses things can inprove your presentation and make people be more interested in your game. Also a good note is to have feeling in your presentation and not just read from your paper if you do you still need to have emotions and excitement into it. Everyone have a great Friday!(:

I'm Thankful

There are many things I am thankful for...I am thankful for my family, friends and most of all Jesus. My family is the best they always know what to say to make me feel better. My friends are amazing I couldn't ask for better friends, there always making me laugh and smile. Jesus now where do I start, he is the BEST friend that I could ever have he's always there to listen and help me when I am down & can't go on anymore. He's did so much for me, he first of all died for me, he gave me a great Mawmaw & Pawpaw to take care of me, he gave me a nice house, and good family & friends around me. I couldn't imagine him not being in my life, I couldn't make it without him, he always makes everything better in my life. I thank Jesus everyday for letting me wake up in the morning and dying for me.<3

                       I hope each an every one of ya'll have a Blessed ThanksGiving!<3(:

                                                         Happy ThanksGiving!(:

Mini Game

Today is blog day, we are blogging about mini games. I thought mini games was pretty easy but what I didn't like about them was all the codding you had to do. I think it was a very good idea to do a mini game so we could learn how to do all the codding and stuff before we actually start working on our game. The thing you was suppose to do with the mini game was make the carrot move across the sceen. They have changed flash so now you can do much more animation to your game, like the old flash you could do animation but nothing like you can now. Well we will be starting our game soon and I'm pretty excited to see how my partners and I do on it, hopefully it will teach 8th graders more about coal mining in WV! That's all for this week thanks for reading!(:

My Partners

My Partners and I get along very well, because we are all best friends! We all usually agree on the same ideas, like were working on our game about coal mining and we all came up with something in each scene. I think it is a lot easier having your best friends as your partners cause we can agree on things easier. Well thats all for this week thanks for reading!

Challenges in Flash

Todays Friday, blog day! today the teacher has asked us what our challenges are in flash. We really haven't started wokring in flash a lot yet, but when we did last year, there were many challengeing things for me. I had a lot of problems with looping, animation, and sometimes buttons. I think flash is a good game making system but it is very challengeing because I get tired after awhile trying to get one little thing to work. Flash is mostly all about coding, and you always have to have the exact coding to get something to work, it you don't have the right coding then is won't work at all or make a little part of it will. You have to really know what your doing when your in flash, but after awhile you get use to it. Well thats all for this week, thanks for reading!(:

Paper Prototype

All this week we have been working on our paper prototype. Just yesterday we completed and recorded our paper protoype. Our game is going to be about coal mining cause this is what most WV citizens do. We are trying our very hardest to figure out how our game will be set up. I think when we really start making our game it be much easier to decide how the game will be set up. Our main goal in this game is to learn students and teachers about the history of coal mining in WV. We have been researching on the topic of our game and have found out many new things we didn't know before. I guess thats all for this week!(:

• The Big Idea: Describe your team's game topic. What is the most important concept you want your players to learn? Our game topic is coal  mining and players will learn the history of coal in WV.

• Making Decisions as a Team: How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic? How did your team decide the topic?
  We just agreed on our game having the same idea in differnt ways.

• Roles & Responsibilities: Tell us more about your team process. Please each talk about your specific roles, and how you work together. We work together putting all our ideas together and agreeing as a team.

• Research: What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic?
  We mosly searched on the internet, "the history of coal mining in WV".

• The User Experience: Explain the game play. What actions does the player take in the game? Has this changed since you first started planning your game? Why? The action in our game will be going in the coal mines crushing up coal. And yes our game has changed it was gonna be about the titanic.

• Mastering Flash: What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far, and why? How did you locate these resources? We searched everything on the internet

• Overcoming Challenges: What curriculum topic has been most difficult for you so far? How did you overcome this difficulty? Probably deciding whats going to happen next in the game.

non-Quiz Game

Today is Friday! that means it's blog day. Most of the week we have been working on our paper prototypes. The mean goal I hav for this game is for it NOT to be a quiz game. There was many reasons why my partners and my game won't be a quiz game. Our idea for our game is to be able to be moving a coal buggy under the mines and a long the way to finding all the coal you will have a question and you will have to go through the right tunnel that has the correct answer. I am pretty excited about getting started with our game, I think it will be a success as long as we keep focued. Our game topic is WV history, and so where we live is all about coal we have decided to make a game about coal, I think its something knew and I think many students could learn from this awesome game we're making for them. I think this game will let students all around WV know that coal mining isn't all about being underground it's helping coal miners take care of there family's. Maybe even this game will make students want to be a coal miners when there older. Well thats call for this week! Thanks for reading! :D

Game Ideas

It's Friday so that means it times to blog! Todays topic is going to be about our project ideas. Me and my partners are planing on do our game about the history of the titanic. We have been practicing paperprototyping and it has helped me understand how our game will be set up. We was planning on making it where you can drive the titanic with your arrow keys while trying to miss the iceburgs. If you hit a iceburg a differnt screen will pop up and it will tell you a statement about the titanic. I'm actually pretty excited to see how our game is gonna turn out, we will just be working our harded trying to make the best titanic game ever! I guess thats it for this week, see you next week!(:

Globaloria So Far

It's Friday, that means it's time to blog! Today we are blogging on what we have done in globaloria so far. We have actually did many things already, such as doing mini games, finding out what our game topic will be, and have made our team page, and many more different things. I think this year is starting out to be a great year for globaloria and I think this is gonna be a success for my partners and I. Our game is gonna be about the titanic I'm not sure how we're gonna set it up yet but I'm sure it will be a great game! The hardest thing I think we have done so far was the mini game because it's confusing with adding the codes to make the carrot move. I guess that's all for this week!

                                                          -kaitlyn(:

Participation Guidelines

1) What does it mean to have a 'single story' about a place or community? 
It means that people that has met someone from your community they think that everyone is like that.


2) Describe a single story you have heard told about your community. What is missing from that story? How could people learn more about that community?
I haven't really heard a sing story about my community but most of everyone that comes down here thinks that were just hill billys but actrually were hard workers and nice, kind hearted people.


 3) Describe a single story you have heard about another community. How did you learn that story? How could you find out more about that community?
I have heard that in New York most everyone is proper and I would only find out for sure by going there and talking to some people and find out what there actscent is.


4) How could a game let players experience many stories about a place or community?
If there was a game about experienceing many stories about a place or community it would give a better understanding about the place or community

Imagining your game

• WHO are you designing your game for? (Include the player's age, abilities, and prior knowledge of your topic.)  I am designing the game for my class mates and other 8th grade students, ages 12, 13, 14
• WHAT will your game teach the player about your topic? (Be specific!) My game will teach about world history. 
• WHERE does your game happen?  Ocean on the titanic
  • Describe the world you will design for your game. I really havent thought much about the place of  the game but I was thinking maybe the titanic be a setting.
  
  
  • How will this setting add to the learning experience? I think this setting can add the learning exsperience because this in my opinon is such an interesting historal story that was real.
• HOW does your game world teach the player about your topic? Becuase in the ocean was where the titanic sank at.
  • What happens in the world that helps the player learn? My partners and I really havn't thought to much about our game but we have thought about making the titanic and making to where you can move it around the ocean.
  • How does the player use what they learned to make something happen in the game? They will have to move the titanic and make sure they don't hit the iceburg while traveling to there destination.
• WHY is a game a better way of understanding your topic than a quiz? It makes the topic more fun instead of learning it just by studying.

Playing to Learn

We have been doing Playing to Learn almost all week. I've played many differnt genres in playing to learn but the one genre I like most was adventure games. I like this genre because it has many fun games with this genre, and I do believe that my partners and I will make a good game with Adventures. Sally's Energy Ride was the one game that stood out the most to me in adventures because it was a very good game that teaches students how to take better care of the earth, it also has excellant graphics. Well I guess thats all for this week, thanks for reading!(:

Another Year in Globabloria!

It's a new year and a new globaloria class! I was kinda excited about going back to globaloria, I'm still trying to get back on track where I last left off at. I also have a new partner this year it is Alyssa and I think we are going to make a great game! Our topic is for sure going to be a history game but were still working on what our game with be about. I'm sure my globaloria class & I will have an seccessful year!

My Final Blog

This is my final blog I am happy to say that school is almost over! I'm gonna miss globaloria class because I've learned so much in this class. I hope next year I will be able to be in globaloria next year with all my friends. In my opinon of this class I enjoyed it a lot it was fun but kinda hard at times but with my friends and my teacher Mr.Lester they always figured out my problem of my game. I will miss this class very much but hopefully next year I will know better what I'm doing and how to do stuff on my game better.

Westest

Well westest is finally over! I was so glad to see it end I thought some parts was hard but other parts was pretty easy. I think all the teachers did a good job teaching us what we needed to know for the westest. I hope I do good and all my friends and students do good as well. I hope everyone enjoyed my blog, what do you think about Westest?

Game comments

     Our game presentation went pretty good. Me and my partner got a lot of good comments but not many suggestions to do to our game. I am very proud of our game and I think we have worked very hard to get our game complete. I hope everyone enjoys our game and gets a educational meaning to it.

Our Game is almost finished

We have been working very hard on our game we are almost complete. We still have to do the hit test. We have about three more scenes to do. The one scene we do have complete is the drink scene you can use the aero keys to  move the waitress to the correct answer, then it will go to the "congrats scene". Our game is to teach students how to do input output tables. I can't wait to complete our game, I hope everyone enjoys it!

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Kaitlyn

Internet Saftey

Internet saftey for youth today could save someone people lives, if you put to much information on the internet it could be a bad thing. You should never put your last name or where you live or where you go to school at or your phone number on the internet because someone may be able to track it, and it may get you in trouble. For people to know all your information it could lead you to getting kidnapped. There are many bad people out in the world and if you give out to much of your information you could be leading someone to your back door. This also goes for who you communicate will over yahoo messanger, Facebook, or Myspace if you don't know them you shouldn't add them. Be safe and be careful on the internet!

What kind of Game ours is

The kind of game me and my partner are designing is drag and drop, and arrow keys. We are using drag and drop in our game by the food falling. Were using the arrow keys by making the waitress move to the food with the correct answer on it. The way the game is going to be set up is the waitress "Sally" will be able to move with the help of you using the arrow keys. Then there will be food falling and you will have to move the waitress to the food in time to give it to the costumer in time. Well thats all for this week thanks for reading!

Math Games

This weeks blog is about how we can make math more fun. In my opinion I dislike math because theres no fun in it, but a math game can be more interesting because it's funner then just sitting around listening to a teacher talk, when you can be learning that same thing in a game. I enjoy playing games I mean who doesn't? Even educational games can be kinda fun, as long as I'm staying innertanded and learning I think its a great game, but if it's boring and you ain't learing nothing in it then there ain't no point in playing it. The only website I've played math games on coolmath. All of them wasn't educational but some of them was. Well thats all for ths week, thanks for reading!

My Experiences on Flash

I have had many experiences in flash such as adding buttons, and adding effects. I enjoy doing both of them thing on flash but they are also challenging to do. After you do something over and over again it becomes easy to do. There are many special effects in my game. We are plaining to make food fall from the sky then the waitress will go the the correct answer. That all for this week thanks!

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User:Kaitlyn

Educational Games

       There are many educational games, but the one educational game I've enjoyed the most would be Brain Age. This game helps you learn new things each day, you also have tests to test your knowledge. If you complete your level it will put a stamp on the date you learned it. My me and my partners game is going to be educational, we are trying to teach students how to do input output tables. At first our game was a quiz game, but now it is not, we are going to make food fall from the sky with numbers on it, and you will slide the waitress over to get the food for the people. That's all for this week thanks for reading!

What I like and dislike about my game

There are many things I like about my game, but the main three would probably be my art work, the game theme, and all of the animation we are plaining to have in our game. The one thing I dislike about our game is that it still has concelts of a quiz game. I like the art work of our game because it looks very realistic we have hot dogs, hamburgers, fries, and pop drawings on our game. I like our game theme because it is a restraunt and you have to get the food to the people in time. Also we I am excited about going to have animation in our game, we are thinking about making the food call from the sky, and move from side to side. The one thing I dislike about our game is that it still has concelts of a quiz game, we are thinking about making the waitress Sally having to go back and forth to get the food that is falling from the sky. Now that you know the three things I like and the one thing I dislike about our game, what are the three things you like and the one thing you dislike about your game?

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/srmswiki/index.php/User_profile:Kaitlyn

What We Accomplished in Flash

The first things we accomplished in flash was adding a button, adding sound and other things of that sort. When we first started working on our game we added scenes buttons and drawed out how we wanted our game to look. We didn't really understand how to use flash at first, but then when our teacher Mr.Lester taught us how it got easer and easer along the way. I actuallky enjoy working with flash now, I really don't think of it as work I think of it as fun. What is hard for me to do on flash would probably be adding a button, I never can get it the way I want it, but I am getting better each time. There are many things to do on flash, my favorite thing to do would probably be adding animation because you can make a shape move or a word move its really about anything you want you can get it to move. I guess thats all for today, what have you accomplished in flash?

Art work for our game

When we first started adding art work to our game it was pretty easy. I think it is one of the easiest things to do on working on our game. The art work on our game is a waitress and foods such as hambuger, fries, soda and hotdogs. As you can see I have a lot of art work in my partner and I game. We still have a lot to accomplish in our game but as long as me and my partner work hard and work together we will be able to succeed.

Game Presentation

     Our game presentation went pretty good, the people from New York thought our game idea was a good ides but she really didn't understand the concept of input output tables though.  We tried explaining it to her in the best way we would, then she kinda understood it better.  There were many things I would of liked to change about my game presentaion such as my shyness, I was to nervous to talk, but I did any way.  I enjoyed doing the game presentation, it helped me to understand how I can improve and change me game ideas.  Hopefully my game "Input and Output diner" will be a success!

Development Plan

Well its Friday, that means its blog day.  My topic is development plan.  The most difficult concept in my game was input and output.  Some students think that uit is pretty easy, but some think different.  The hardest thing in input and output for me, would be finding the rule of it. How I am finding tutorials and thinking about design to teach others this concept is explaining each steps to them til they understand each of the steps.  That is what my blog topic was about this week.