Scratch Level 3-Pong

1. I had troubles with the movement on the green stick going up and down. I fixed this by re-adjusting the x and y position. 

2. I used a different ball, made the stick much smaller and faster, and I also created a two player game. I did not like how the movement from the youtube video made the green sticks so slow and big, it was just too easy. I added a underwater background to make the game look less boring. 


https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/190292000/#editor

Scratch Level 4- Create Your Own Game

1. I had difficulty trying to make the game end, but I got a little help from Connor and I figured it out. I wanted to make the game freeze and show Game Over when you lose all your lives.

2. The differences I made were the character, lives, and end game animations. 

3. Game was too easy, so I had to increase the score to win and decrease bullet speed. 

4. I would probably add more guns like a upgrade as you get a higher score.  

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/192745342/#editor Game Link.

Project proposal

Project Proposal

1. The game I am creating has to do with guns and zombies, there is a brown guy that you play as. I looked at the video and copied as the tutorial went on. I want to start on the movement of the zombies and the guns shooting bullets. 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ibBCoraSU 

Scratch Intro

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/189099575/

Photoshop Intro

Photoshop Intro 

I Cut out the white areas of the fidget spinner and I also edit the black guys background. I changed the size of the devil horns, my face which I couldn't upload because it did not allow me to.  I also had to duplicate the devil horns. 

Kodu Pacman questions

1.  My game is is similar by the basics, but I put 4 enemies and my map is much easier and smaller.

2. I made the map much smaller and added 4 bots to make the game much easier because I felt like the original Pacman was too difficult for me. 

3. I had trouble programming the kodu to go faster, but I got Connor to help me. 

4. Hunter played my game and he said, "Too easy." 

5. I would probably add more bots to make my game more difficult and almost impossible.   

Animated Pixel Art

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9HGukM2ZChVTVdISVZNMjZuOTA/view?usp=sharing

Video Games:The Movie

Video Game:The Movie

1. Some of the reasons I believe why games are successful is because it is a game that you can play on a screen and not on a board. The difference between a board game and a video game is that a board game may require 2 or more players, while a video game can be solo or multiplayer. Another difference is that board games requires a game board piece while a video game needs a controller, keyboard, or mouse. One reason a game may get popular is because the game may be based off a movie or book. Another reason could be that the company that made previous games that went viral.

2. I think some of the reason that the games in the 1980s would crash is because programmers would try to make the graphics better, but there wouldn't be enough memory space to allow these graphics. 

3. I do think games are a form of art because both take a lot of time to create. Games and art may try to explain a story. Games are also used to create characters or nice views for levels. 

4. The next evolution of games are VR for virtual reality, but on a different level, like a gun controller to shoot people. It is going to be difficult because it's hard to connect a gun controller to the game or even make the gun controller itself. The aiming of the gun is also going to be difficult because there would have to be some motion censer detecting the gun moving.    

1. Had a little problem with the programming on the scores.

2. Didn't spread the apples enough, too easy.

Game Designer Skills

Communication- It's always good to have communication when gaming because it could help you in strategy games or knowing where the enemy is. It's also good because you get to make new people and possibly have a conversation with them. All the friends I have made where people I had never met in person. This is one of the reasons I love games. Communication is key in gaming. 

Visual Arts- One of the reasons the new games are so exciting is because the visual arts or the graphics are amazing. I like a game where the character looks realistic because it makes the game feel so real. Some people like the minecraft pixel look, which is okay, even though the graphics were not the best, each and every pixel was so clear to see. Visual Arts is important when creating a game.

 Music- Music will make the game feel exciting in a boss fight, for example it does not make the game boring. Music can change a mood in a game. For example, in minecraft it has this calm and peaceful music that makes me happy. They could also be cool exciting music to play when driving like in GTA V. 

Animation-I think animation would be difficult for me because hard because you would need to make very small pixels for the slightest movement and these pixels would be in the millions. Graphics is extremely time consuming and I am not the best for doing one thing for a long time.