Weekly Blog 2-22 to 2-25-11

Write a Blog post about the Jumping and Platform topic, share your learning experience! Were the instructions clear? Were their any instructions you felt were missing. Were you able to finish the tutorial? Will you use this tutorial in your game? If you will use Jumping and Platforms, please describe how you will use it.

I found that doing this tutorial has been a very good learning experience for me and that it could be very useful for me in the future if I ever want to create a flash game on my own time. I did not finish the project completely,  but I have gotten most of it done. I don't think that we will be able to include the lesson in our game however.

Weekly Blog 2-14 to 2-18

Write a blog about the timer category that we went over on the Globaloria curriculum. Tell me how you would use this in your team game. How could you make the timer go faster? How would you rate this tutorial using a number from 1 to 10; 10 being the best and 1 being the lowest rating. Tell me why you gave it the rate you used.

We have found that we can use the timer during the mini-game that we are implementing in our normal game. To make the timer faster, you would simply need to change a the numbers in the coding to speed it up, slow it down, lengthen or shorten it. I would rate the overall tutorial a 10 because everything was very thorough and easy to understand.

Weekly Blog 2-7 to 2-11-11

In the Custom Cursor category, I completed the extra tricks to make the custom cursor be hidden when you start the game, but is revealed when you hover the cursor over a button. As soon as you roll the cursor off the button, the custom cursor will stat on top of the button and the original white cursor appears again. I made my custom cursor to look like a wrentch to symbolize a tool that Joe the Plumber would use in the game. I enjoyed the lesson very much, I have learned alot from this and it will be helpful for finalizing our game in the end.

Weekly Blog 1-31 to 2-4-11

With my personal experiences when trying to create the preloader and status bar, I have found it to be incredibly frustrating and difficult. After about two days of trying to fix everything that has gone wrong, I'm starting to finally get it worked out to the point that I can upload it to the wiki.