Captains Blog Stardate 9292011 (Playing To Learn)

I learened that while strategy games are harder to play, they help learn more. Adventure games are more fun, but less educational. Ayiti's features were all very good. I liked how the characters each had 3 levels, health, education, and happyness. I'd like to know if Ayiti was written in flash, and if so, what the code looked like, It was unlike any flash game I've seen before.

I commented on Caitlin's Blog

Captains Blog, Stardate 9222011

Make a Mini Game

This week we have been working on 2 minigames, one about a wolf, bunny, and carrot, and one about anything we want. I chose alien invasion (surprise surprise, the Trekkie made a SciFi gam)

I dont normally play games in my spare time, but occasionally I will if I find one I enjoy. I honestly dont have any favorites, because I dont remember many. If I had to choose one I'd say Raft Wars. It's a fun game about fighting ninjas pirates and the like, on an inflatable beach raft. It's simple and light hearted.

This assignment definitely gave me a new appreciation for games. Making such simple games is such a challenge. I look forward to writing more complex ones in the weeks and months ahead!

Captains Blog Supplemental Stardate 9252011
I commented on Caitlin's blog!

Captains Blog Supplemental Stardate 9282012
A year later and I'm back to the carrot game! It was a good refresher of how flash works!

Captains Blog Stardate 9162011 (Meet Flash)

I was absent the day we covered Meet Flash, and was unable to do the lesson. I watched the videos from home, but my home computer does not have flash. When I returned to school I began working on the minigame lesson. Flash is very intimidating, but the possibilities are exiciting. It will be alot of memorization and alot of math, but unlike math class, this will have a tangible end product, the game! Ever since I was young I wanted to learn how to make computer games, and now I'm learning!

On another note, one of the gadgets on my blog is a Star Trek trivia question. Check it out and pick the answer you think is right! I'll be posting new questions every few weeks, and the correct answer to the last question will be posted on the blog!!!

Captains Blog, Supplemental (stardate 9162011)

I commented on Garret's Blog

Captain's Blog Stardate 9052011-Single Story Questions

(The comments on my blog/names of blogs I commented on are in my previous post which can be found here.) I just finished watching the Single Story video. Here are my answers to the questions

1) To have a single story, means to have an idea about a place or people that is very 1 sided.
2)I have heard people say that WV is a very uneducated and uncultured place. We have a very good arts community that is very rarely talked about outside of our state.
3)People say that France is a weak country that doesn't do well in military action. They had a large part in fighting the oppressive government in Libya.
4)A game could give players a very in depth view of a place or community that looked at the issue from all sides.

Captains Blog Supplemental (Stardate 9212011)

I read Gary's Single Story Blog!