Making the demo

We didn't really make the greatest demo, but it'll do. We made the scenes that we were going to put in the game to show what was going to be in it. Cody had made a slide of what they would see when hey clicked start, but someone got onto his computer and deleted it. We showed what the symbols on the screen mean, and we also showed what the audience would be learning about and who the targeted audience were.

If I could change anything about the demo, I would change pretty much everything. We were having a problems with flash and couldn't bring our scenes over from photoshop. So they are all just seperate pictures, and not really together in any way. Plus the fact that we know we aren't going to be able to even get started on the actual game. Senioritis is also a very crippling disease.

Paper Prototype

Our paper prototype hasn't really made me think more about the game, we already knew what we were going to do.  The only thing it really helped us with was what our scenes are going to look like, but they are goinglook completely different on the computer than they are on paper.  It did help us make our title screen thoguh.

We don't really have to modify anything since we started our prototype.  The only thing in the future that might have to change is how the surgery works. It might be a little too complicated for us to do at our level.  But if we have to change a few things that's not a big deal.                          

Impending Storm

There is a really bir/ really small storm coming. You really can't tell what is coming. Everyone has heard a different forecast, some say we are only getting an inch or 2, some are saying 6-8 inches. It's pretty annoying hearing all these different things. I really don't care how much we get as long we don't have school tomorrow and thursday. Tomorrow isn't so bad, because we get to sleep in an hour and only have 3 classes anyway. Thursday is a nightmare though. It's when I have all my horrible classes (except this one) for double periods. Math is especially unbearable. Senioritis is really starting to kick in as well.

Response blog

"Do you think your game is to advanced or is it on the right track," I think our game may be a little bit too advanced for 2 new users. I think it is a simple concept, but when put into action it might be a bit too complicated. The normal walk around levels will probably be pretty easy to do, but the surgery levels, where the learning part it, will probably be pretty hard to make. We will try to do it the best we can, but I'm sure we won't be winning any award for it any time soon.

5 ideas for STEM

Water purification is a big need in many countries.  You hear all the time about organizations asking for donations so they can buy 3rd world country water purification devices.  Someone could make a game using the idea for the base of it.

Some countries hospitals are in need of better technology.  Hospitals in 3rd world countries aren't equiped to handle some of the diseases and injuries that are common in the area they are located.  You could make a game where an organization has to manage the shipment of technology to the areas based on need, costs, number of population, and how many needs shipped.

Areas hit with natural disasters are always in need of help immeadately following the disaster.  Someone could a game managing different groups of different types of people to various areas.  As you get further through the game more people, and groups can be added to your organization.  An example of the game would be like starting with 3 medical teams, a group of people handing out food, and a group of people handing out supplies.  You could send your group to the area most needed and rotate them depending on the needs of other areas.

The government has been setting standards on pollution and advocating green technology.  A game could be made where government funds are used to equip different government buildings with alternate sources of energy, like solar.

Paper prototype

For the past week or so we have been doing our paper prototype.  It didn't take us very long to do ours, because most of it can't really be translated very well from paper to computer.  We are completely done with ours now, we just have to do all the catching up with our learning logs and blog.  It's probably going to take awhile.

The Guest

Yesterday we had a guest come to class. He taught us about Adobe flash and tricks in it.   we were in class for a double period, so we had lots of time to do all the stuff that we needed.  He showed us some of his things has done.  We started making a few things in flash and photoshop for our real game.  It was very helpful.