Puzzling Math

Well, its near the end of the semester.  Sorry I haven't posted anything sooner.  This semester has been extremely hard!  Chemistry, Statistics, Linux, Biology, and Flash.  So I haven't kept up on alot of blogging or logging. But I will add some posts now.  I got my game pretty much finished except for an ending scene and some sound.  I will work on Friday most likely.  Looking forward to seeing what everybody has done.  I think my game is rather simple in programming design, but I think it introduces some good concepts.

Two week update.

I am still in the process of familiarizing myself with some of the flash tutorials, still trying to generate ideas to incorporate into my game.  I would like to include some of my ideas of video but I have such a big load course load for the fall semester.  Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Linux, and this class. It will be a challenge but I know I will pull it off and have a very successful game.   If time permits, A BIG IF, I will try and incorporate better looking characters for my math game.

First Day of Class - Wikipedia II

Well, I refreshed my memory on the globaloria project and the social wiki site.  Updated my timeline and will continue to still work on it, most likely on a weekly basis.  I would like to have all my characters and scenes drawn by the end of september.  Have all my programming done by October, November will be used for debugging of hardware.

Last Day of Class

Wasn't instructed to blog, but I am anyways.  I enjoyed everyone's presentation.   I enjoy seeing how everybody's mind works and what makes them tick.  Everyone, had a great concept, I think some were more programmed than others.  That is to be expected, its hard to learn flash in 8 days.  I think the class should begin by using the "skeleton" design and adding functionality from there, it would be better for the students this way.  Everyone, have a safe and happy summer.  I'll be my cheery self, of course, in the fall.

Second to last Day of Class.

I am going to change the screen size for the fall semester.  I am also going to make sure my library materials are better organized.  They tend to get out of organization very quickly.  My layer organization went very well.  Unfortunately, I am having no luck of uploading my final project to the Globaloria Wikipedia page.   Well, Torie knows I did the work and I can always present the game off of my flash drive.

I will incorporate more ideas to the game this fall, I am planning on having video presentations of math concepts, trivia, and tricks and tips from a math instructor that would be great for educational instruction.  I will be working on this throughout the summer to hopefully have an head start for the fall semester.

Towards the End of the Class

Well, I pretty much got my flash project done for a game demo.  At least all that I am going to do for right now.  Having a year of flash experience helped alot in this class.  Making the game demo went very well.  However, I think it would be beneficial to start the class making the game intro screen and continue with rest of project.  I think for students this doing flash in four weeks is a little too much too quickly.  I do need to finish timer event and I do have a problem making my enemy characters stop inside the button function.  I will probably work on this over the summer and obviously into the fall semester.  I think I have the hit test movement down and I will make my game play screen bigger in the fall semester to make the game more playable.  550 by 400 is not a big enough screen to use.  I will work on making pendulum move and my clock hand to move within the timer function.  In another note, final exam for math 100 on thursday.  Wish me luck.  Then off to Math 126 June 13th.  No rest for the wicked this summer.

Learned facts from designing game.

One item that I have learned about this project is how challenging math is for the students.  I've come to learn this through various news articles stating how deficient math is in America.  I gained most of this information through internet access of various stories.  I used various informational sources such as Wikipedia, USA Today, Math websites, library research such as the NexusLuxus and other online research sites. and student journals.  These websites are sources are trustworthy and informative because they are peer reviewed by "experts" in their related field.   I really enjoyed drawing the primary scene of my main scene.  It was a lot of fun, hope you look at my page and enjoy what you have seen.