Goodbye Globaloria :'(

     This year of Globaloria has been a great experience, but has also been overwhelming.  There has been times when I have absolutely felt like giving up and there has also been times when I had high hopes and expectations for our team.  We have encountered so many problems this year but with a little bit of hope and team work we somehow managed to pull through.  There were many times that our game corrupted and we had to start over which put us behind and frusrtated us to the point of losing hope.  We somehow got motivated to restart every time this happened.  I'm not wanting anyone to feel sorry for us because it was mainly our fault because we didn' t think to upload after every bit of progress.  After everything had went wrong for so long we had about two or three weeks to start and finish our final game.  With hard work, motivation, and team work we did have something presentable for the final presentations.  Although it was nothing like we had planned we did the best we could.  I wouldn't say that our game was the prettiest, neatest, or even had the best learning concept but, I will say that it was pretty good with the limited time we had to do it in.  Even though this year has been super hard and frustrating it has taught me to think ahead and do the best I can possibly do and never give up.  I really think that if we would have had more time to complete our game everyone would love it.  Hopefully everyone enjoyed what little we did get done.  I didn't think I would ever say this but I am going to miss this class and Good Luck to all you new comers.

More time (:

     If I was to have more time to work on the game I would most definately add more levels and try to better our game idea.  I would have prettier more advanced design and make sure to do everything perfectly.  I would think of a way to add more learning than what my game has.  Extra time would be a definate plus but we are just going to have to work with what time we was given.  Today we had final game presentations  and of coarse we didn't finish our game, but there was  very little we had to do.  We needed to get our last button working, but right when we was about to finish our game quit working.  Hopefully, we will be able to continue to work on our game but I don't think that will be possible with the time we have left.  With more time things would go much more swiftly.  Even though my experience in Globaloria was great I hope to never have to take this class again due to the frustration and limited amout of time to do so much. 

West Test :/

     Well since we have Westest next week I guess i'll take some time to talk about it.  I personally believe that I will do great on just about every subject.  I will probably do a bit better on math and reading rather than science and social studies.  I feel that the teachers have done the best that they could possibly do to get us prepared for this end-of-the-year exam.  We have covered so many topics and thanks to the way the staff teaches I understand how to do just about anything.  Overall I think I will make mastery, above mastery, or distinguised on all of the different subjects.  Wish me luck!

Quiz game? I think not.

    This year we have done a fairly well job at keeping our game a nonquiz game.  We knew at the beginning of the year that a quiz game would not be acceptable so therfore we came up with a strategy to avoid a quiz game.  In our game we will not just be asking different questions for the player to answer but we will instead have you play the game to find the right answer.  We think that that will be more thrilling and exciting for the player and will allow our game to help students without them being bored.  Hopefully our game will meet everyones' expectations.  We can't wait to show you!

What's left to do?

     Well we all know that the final presentations is right around the corner, and your probably wondering, are they done?  Well here's your answer, no we are not.  We have very minimum things to add to our game.  We have all the buttons and design finished now we just need to add our game play.  We have tried our best to work with the codes and figure things out but it's just not in the cards for us to have good luck.  I can promise you that our game is very pretty design wise but I can't gurantee that the game will be completely finished, but we will definately try our best to get this game finished for all of our fellow students and teachers.  Hopefully with our knowledge we will overcome this obstacle and be able to please each and every one of you all.

     Well, I figured I would take my free blog to write about the people and things I love and to help y'all get to know me a little bit better.  First of all my name is Kaitlin Monique Cline and I am 13 years young but that will change on June 24th.  My bestfriends are Amber LaShae McClanahan, Tori Nadine Conyers, and Lakyen Danielle Rash.  I always have my funnest most craziest moments with them.  I absolutely love spending time with my family.  My sister Savannah is always there for me to give me helpful advice and my Grandma is always there to protect me.  I would also like to say thanks to my grandma's boyfriend Ronnie he is always there to help me out in hard times and provides for all of us so well.  I can't forget about my wonderful boyfriend Nick,  who is always so sweet and has such a great personality.  Some of my favorite things to do is go four-wheeler riding, hanging out with all my friends, or going out with my family.  I am the type of girl who isn't afraid to try anything at least once and never be afraid, because you only live once.  Some of the things I can not stand is liars, cheaters, immature brats, hoes, and people who think they are everything, straight up.  I am not afraid to stand up for myself and what I believe in, and honestly I will do anything to get the last word.  I am badly addicted to Starbucks and Energy Drinks, I honestly don't know what I would do without them.  I ain't going to lie, I'm about as country as it gets, and I love getting dirty.  I was born and raised in McDowell County in West Virginia and I'm dang proud of it.  I get very offended when people talk about my home in a negative way because in my eyes this place is the place to be.  Alot of people don't like me because of my attitude but really I just have a personality they can't stand.  I hope you enjoyed learning some things about me and hopefully you can understand me better, but until next time take care. :p
-K.M.C  4-20-12

If presentations were today!

     Well we have been trying our best to better our game and finish it but as of right now there is still a lot of work to be done.  We have all of our button working up to this point but as of the playable scene it isn't playable yet.  If we was to do our final presentations today the teachers would probably say that it is great so far but we need way more improvement.  We intend to have a final game for sure by the time of the presentations.  We are going to devot all of our time to the completion of our game.  Hopefully we will be finished by then and you all will enjoy our presentation.

Oh yeah, Spring Break, Yeah:)!

     Well where do I even begin?  It's Spring Break, it's the week of all weeks, and I can assure you I will make the best of it.  I can't really mention everything because well I just can't.  I plan to party hardy.  Some of the things I plan to do is hang out with my friends and be completely irresponisible.  Also, I intend to spend half the time with my amazing, cute, funny, sweet boyfriend; Nicholas Aaron Icenhour.  One of the things I most look forward to is hanging out in the back of my cousins hippie van with Tori, Lakyen, Dustin, and Nick.  It is most definately going to be great.  Also, I plan on going to the mall to get my prom dress and I can gurantee you it's gonna be fly.  I am really looking forward to drinking Monsters until I can't drink anymore.  I am so excited that I can't sit still!

Our Game So Far!

     Well our game so far isn't as good as we would like it to be.  We was off to a really good start but sadly our file got corrupted and we had to start over recently.  In a way this whole situation actually gave us more reason to want to try and do better and work faster.  Our group has a whole new perspective on Globaloria.  Now we really realize how extremely hard and frustrating things can be.  To have started over we are doing really well.  We have finished about five or six scenes and got multiple buttons working.  I have high hopes that we will get through all of our obstacles before presentations if we keep up the good work.  I hope that all of you guys will enjoy our final game.  It's gonna be great.

Game Topic!

     We have really have put a lot of thought into designing our game in Flash.  Since our game topic is Adventure we decided to do our game about the whole section of West Virginia called the Allegheny Plateau.  The first thing that we did in designing our game was to draw it out.  We drew different areas and activities that you can attend in the Allegheny Plateau.  The second thing we did was to take our drawings and draw them on Flash.  If I must say our game design is absolutely amazing and I have high hopes for our finished game.  Like I have said a million times before there is still a lot of work to be done, but I know we can do it.  I can't wait for you guys to see our game!

Game Demo Presentation!!

     In our game presentation we are going to give it our best and make sure to involve the audience in some way.  We are going to double check our game demo and we will definately not have any mistakes in it.  We plan to dress our best and put on our best attitide, and we are going to practice speaking loud and clear so that everyone will hear us.  One thing we are going to do is make direct eye contact to the audience.  We think that we will be more appreciated from everyone if we involve them in some way.  We are going to answer questions from anyone who is curious about anything.  I can almost gurantee we will have everything down pat when it comes time to present out game demo.  I really and truly have a great feeling about this.

Flash!

       This week in Globaloria we have been working on Flash a lot more that usual.  We have been making a platform game and experimenting with the different things we are capable of doing with flash.  We started on Monday and here it is Friday and we are still working every minute in Flash.  I have really enjoyed this week and I really think this furthered my knowledge in technology.
     Not only was working in Flash exeptionally fun and exciting but it was also very educational.  I have really became more and more familar to Flash especially this week.  I am going to continue to work in Flash for the good of our game and the effect that it has on my education.  Since Globaloria is based on technology and game making you will definately need to use Flash on a daily basis.  I've never really felt so good about something but I know for a fact if I continue to work on Flash I will have such and amazing, wonderful, breath taking game.  I can't wait for you guys to play it.

My partners! (:

     My partners are Amber McClanahan and Tori Conyers.  They are my bestfriends in the whole world and that makes Globaloria so much better and easier for me.  Not only do I love being with them but I also am glad that I can count on them to help me when I don't know what to do.  Since we are so close it is easy for us to communicate and help each other out.  We sort-of balance each other out, what one don't know the other one does.
     Amber is good at making buttons,  Tori is good at getting the buttons working correctly, and I am good at the design.  One thing we all struggle with is getting the actual game to work.  We all think coding is so confusing!  Hopefully one day at least one of us will overcome that problem and then help each other out with it.  Until then we will have to rely on our classmates to help us out.
     My Globaloria experience this year is so much funner than last year because I have my bestfriends with me right by my side.  I'm not going to lie I am quite worried that we will have major trounle getting our game to actually work due to our not being able to deal with codes, but I know we will keep hope and have faith in each other to overcome that challenge.

Struggles and Success:)!

Through my Globaloria experience, 6^th and 7^th grade I have had different struggles and different times of success.  Some of the things I struggle with the most would have to be adding keyboard, drag and drop, and dealing with the codes.  Some things that I have success with are drawing with details, adding buttons, and adding key frames.  Hopefully one day I will be successful with all things in Globaloria but for now I’m just going to take it day by day and learn little by little.

     I have really never been good at coding and I have honestly tried by best.  I think that if I keep up the good work I will eventually get the hang of it.  I understand that coding is a major part of Globaloria and I can guarantee that I will do my best to better myself in that category.

     There were also some things that came naturally to me in Globaloria such as making buttons.  At first when I just had begun Globaloria I had to had to have someone show me once how to create a button and get it working.  After that one time I was absolutely great at making buttons.  It is very important that you know how to work with buttons because you will need them to get from scene to scene in your game.

     Although there are some things I desperately need to work on there are also some things that I am great at.  I just have to stay motivated to do my best and I will pass this with flying colors.  Hopefully, I will be able to do everything that I cant do before the end of this school year.

Playing Platform Games

      In globaloria we have been working on platform games.  We all got together as a class and watched a video that helped us step-by-step with what to do.  The video was well made and easy to follow but still yet most people had trouble with the codes.  It required us to go back and check all of our codes and most of the time that was the reason it wasn’t working.

     Although, most of our games didn’t work with a little more work and concentration we all got our codes fixed.  I think now that everyone’s game is working.  Today we got the chance to go around the room and play different peoples games.  While playing their game I examined what I thought was wrong with them and what was done correctly. 

     While playing my classmates games I didn’t really notice anything wrong with them besides the fact that they could have added more design.  All the games I played were great, colorful, and fun to play.

     Through the whole platform game experience I have learned a lot about codes and flash that is going to help me a great deal with our final game.  Hopefully this experience has helped everyone as it did me.  Now that I am more experienced with flash I am excited to start my final game so that I can see what things I can accomplish.

The progress with our game and difficulties!

     Since we have been working on our game we have inserted numerous scenes and drew buttons out in those scenes.  We have put a lot of thought in our game and the work we do in Globaloria.  On the game scenes that we do have complete we also have all the design finished on them to.  We still have a lot more to do to finish our game completely but I think if we keep our head in the game we can accomplish many things before the end of this school year.
     The most difficult thing this year with globaloria would most definately have to be working with the codes.  I am not good at codes what so ever unless it is uploading pictures.  My partners are also not that good at codes.  We really need to start adding codes to our game to get familiar with them.  Hopefully with a little luck we will get all of our codes working and have a very great game.
     We still have a lot of stuff to do to our game.  We need to add animation, more design, codes and other important things.  This may sound really hard and I'm not going to lie it is going to be but it has to be done and I have my mind set on it an it will get done.

Three thing that making the Platform game helped with.!!.

     This past week we have been working on a platform game.  Our teacher pulled up an online tutorial that helped us make our platform game.  The teacher on the tutorial was very swift with helping us and did us all a favor.  Even though he was great help almost everyone had problems with the coding.

   However the platform game did help me a lot with understanding coding and the difficulty of getting all things exactly right.  We all listened carefully and typed the coding that was being presented and if you listened it gave you a better view on coding.

     Another thing that the platform game helped with is ideas for our game.  The whole platform animation seems like a great thing that could be inserted in our game.  We have a four level game and it would be really neat to have at least one of our levels with the platform theme.  I think that it would really help our game out in many ways.

     Also, this gave me a few ideas as to what to do with the design of our game.  With making enemies, people, and dead zones I got to experiment with game design.  With a little work you can make amazing designs with Flash.

     Altogether, this whole assignment really furthered my education in Flash and gave me a better understanding of a lot of things.  This is really going to help us with our game.  I am actually excited to be able to use this in our game!

     First of all I would like to say that Globaloria is a very complicated class and takes a lot of knowledge to master using Flash.  I knew that it was going to be a challenge even before I started it.  I wanted to further my education in technology and with Globaloria I can do just that.  There are many complications with making a game and you have to be patient one of the most frustrating things is working with codes but I have faith that we will finish our game with flying colors.

      One thing for us that was accomplished was becoming familiar with the new version of Flash.  We was so used to using the one we used last year which made it very complicated to use.  With a little work and experimenting we became more familiar with it and are now able to use it to build a game.  Now that I am able to work with Flash 5.5 my game will be so advanced and neat.

     Another thing that we have accomplished was to draw the scenes.  We have almost every scene designed and finished.  We still have a few more to complete but that isn’t anything major because, with a little time and effort we will have them all done.  Hopefully if we have some extra time we can go back and add more to every scene.

     The last thing that we have accomplished was to have a lot of animations and buttons inserted in our game.  We have our mind set on having four levels in which every one of them has some sort of animation. 

     It is going to be very complicated to finish our game to where it will be everything we ever imagined but with my wonderful group anything is possible.  We are going to work very hard and give It our all and hopefully we will finish our game before the end of the year.

 

Globaloria Progression:)

     We have finally finished our game demo and are ready to move on to the real game.  We have already started on our game and so far so good.  We have three pages of the game done and decorated but we still yet have to add buttons and animations and things like that.  With the help of all three of us partners we will most definately get it done.  Our secret weapon is team work.  What one doesn't have skill in the other does and that is absolutely great.  We are going to be working everyday from now on adding buttons, designs, actions, and so on.