Pseudocode

My game idea is called Math Racer.
Math problems move automatically from the right side of the stage to the left.
The user controls a car's up and down movements with the arrow keys.
When the car drives through the correct answer, the points go up.

Math problems appear on the right side of the stage and move to the left.
When you press the up button, the car moves up.
When you press the down button, the car moves down.
If the car hits the correct answer, the score goes up.

Difficulties

What is the most difficult concept to teach for your topic? How are you finding tutorials and thinking about design to teach others this concept?


Personally, I think the hardest concept of our game is trying to get kids to actually learn instead of just playing with the car. I hope kids learn from our game and like to play our game.

My Thanksgiving Break

What did you do during the Thanksgiving break? Did you make any time to work on ideas for your game or updating your team wiki page?


During Thanksgiving break I went to Charleston, WV to just relax and get out of town for a little while. The rest of the week i just sat around and waited for school to start back up again. Thanksgiving day was extremely hectic I had to go to three different houses for dinner. During the week the last thing I wanted to do was anything involving school, so no I did not make time to work on ideas or update the team wiki page. I usually do think of how as the designer I can make the game more fun and enjoyable.

Consumer gone Producer

I'm a pretty big gamer so, I wanted to take this class ever since I first heard about it. I have way more respect than I had before for the people that make real video games, I cannot even begin to imagine how tough that is. Since I have taken this class I have been more interested in pursuing game design after college, of course I'm more involved in design and such but I would still like to do that for a famous gaming company. If I pursue Game Design for a job when I get out of college then I hope I end up like the CEO of Playstation, Kevin Butler.

Drawing a Scene

This lesson was pretty easy, if you know what you are doing.  I just scanned the paper prototyping and put it on flash so I could trace it on the computer to make my first scene. The reason I traced was because I didn't want anything to look crappy, if I just hand drew it on Flash it would've looked terrible, so I think it was wise to trace instead of free hand it. It didn't take long at all to trace it, maybe half-an hour at the most. It looks pretty good right now.

Teamwork

                                   We're the Hupiteers. Hupiteers is another word used for teamwork. We've made some progress deciding of our roles in the team.

Casey McKay:
  -Content Expert/Client
  -Information Architect
  -Graphic (Visual Designer)
  -End User

Travis Norwood:
  -Producer
  -Project Manager
  -Programmer
  -Content Developer/Writer

What game genre are you most interested in?

The game genre I'm most interested in is probably action adventure games where you can do just about anything you want to, but that's gonna be tough turning that into an educational game.  I also like strategy games, because I like to try and figure stuff out, kind of like a puzzle, that probably sounds stupid, but I  like to play those types of games. It'd be east to make and educational strategy game, so I'll probably do that.

Privacy Importance

Why privacy is important.

Privacy is important because most people don't like people all over the world to see you information. Privacy settings on facebook are very important to my family, they freakout when they get on facebook. All the fake surveys on the side of the website's want your information.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article6716762.ece

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What kind of game will you make? What are you most excited or scared about?

 I have no clue what kind of games I'm going to make because I wasn't really good with the Flash software we used in Digital Imaging. I play games all the time so I think I could be good at it, I hope so at least. Nervous or scared wise I'm not too bad, I just want to have fun when I'm making them, and i hope i pass