It working! I'm impressed...

I came in today to class to find out that blogger is working, which is more than I can say about my computer. The desktop is barren and it restarts itself constantly. I think I'll still do most of my work at home still since I know that the computer is safe.

Blogger is down...again.

So blogger has been down for about a week now again. This is probably the third or fourth time it's happened this year and we are still oblivious to what's causing this. We restart the computers, ask technicians for help and sill nothing. Looks like I'll be updating from home until farther notice.
As far as our game has been, we've been doing paper prototyping for the past week, so not much to do on the internet. I'm the one designed and drawing out the layout for the first level since I'm the only one who can draw on my team apparently. I've finished the start up screen, help screen, trivia, screen, and the two scenes of the first level. It's all gone pretty smoothly and it has been fun. I still have a lot of work to do, but so do my other team mates. They're in charge of making up questions and answers for the questions that are asked on our game. I'm still a little worried that our plan is a little rambunctious, but you'll never know if it is or not if you don't try for it. The rest of the year shall be full of hard work in this class.

Argh....the sleepyness....

We've been off for a week for Thanksgiving and Christmas break is coming up in two weeks. It's going to be a while to get back into the swing of things, especially today. It's really hard to stay focused on anything right now....

Still making up...

People are still trying to get caught up. We didn't get any work done yesterday since our teacher wasn't here and the internet was donw. We're about to start our Thanksgiving break as well so we're going to have a whole week  off. Our teacher is giving us our paper protypes to look at and refine over the break. It should be finished by the time I get back...

Game Synopsis

Our game is gonna be an action/adventure type of game. It's about current events such as the BP Oil Spill. We have made a character aka Bob the Rebuilder who in fact works on the construction site. He is to use his tape measure (grappling hook) to swing from pipe to pipe in order to retrieve the missing pieces to patch up the spewing oil. Along the way he is going to be defending himself against oil blob monsters. Various levels will have to be beaten until you rich the final stage which is a boss battle.
At the beginning of the game though we will have a select few choice questions before the game actually starts.
The arrow keys will be moving Bob and the left- click mouse button will shoot out the tape measure.

The most exciting thing that I'm looking foward too is all the drawing and animation that's going to have to be done.

Mondays....

It feels like forever ago since I've updated my blog. Today was a make up day for every one. Apparently some of use were lagging behind while others were ahead. We're taking time to back track to make sure that every one has everything they need filled out and every one is on the same task. I think class is going to be might be more stickt from today onward.

Today...bleh

After coming back from a nasty ear infection I am greeted to a not so good day at school. Globaloria was an up though. We entered our game into some kind of contest or something and we finally got a picture for your team up.

Team Pages

We were told that we're going to start making team pages today on our wikis today. I hope it's not too hard....my brain hurts.

Today...

This week we've been doing paper proto-types. We've pretty much finished ours except for some touch ups. Today picture day has interrupted our day and we're looking over a paper about our game.

Paper Prototype?

We were meant to start on this Friday, but our teacher didn't say anything about it so we're starting on it today. I'm a bit nervous about it, but I'm sure it's not going to be any where near as hard as the flash mini games we worked on for two weeks.

Updates updates updates

I'm reporting this blog from my classroom today! Everything has been up and functioning as of now. I was finally able to log onto my wiki and do some classwork I wasn't able to do a few days ago.
The teacher's not here today so it's kind of a free day, but we do have some questions to fill out on our mini games today.

What's with all these troubles?

So I'm updating my blog from home today, and I have a feeling I will be doing it tomorrow. Monday we didn't really have get any work accomplished because the computers were done. The only thing we did was finalize our min games...again. Some people didn't really need it, but I think our team did.
I don't know what's up with those computers, but this is getting a little ridiculous. I still can't log onto my wiki either! We've tried everything and for some reason the computer I'm on just won't let me do it. I wish we could get new computers, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

I Win!...but there's still a problem...

My minigame assighnment is finally finished. I was able to add the wolf and it's effect along with the score board! It was really easy to finish once I got the bunny to move. Now I'm trying to add another symbol, the pizza, to the game. It moves just like the carrot, but has the effects of the wolf. I attempted to get it right yesterday, but I couldn't get it to move. Hopefully today I'll be able to get it sorted out.
There is one major problem I'm having that's outside of the mini game. I still cannot log into my wiki. It's been about a couple of weeks since it started doing this, and no matter what we do it still won't let me log in. We rebooted the computer, requested a new password, and made sure that all the information was being typed in correctly. I haven't updated my learning logs in forever, I can do them at home however. I just need to stop being so lazy and forgetful and do it there I guess...

BREAK THROUGHS!!

Yesterday was a very exciting day! I finally got the bunny to move by using the up key on my flash mini game project! It took me forever to find it out and even though I had the right script it wouldn't work. Finally I just took off the bunny layer and put it back on. It's weird though, because I name it correctly and every thing, but it just wouldn't work. Maybe you had to put the code on before the layer? I don't know, but I got it to work and maybe I won't have as many problems now.

A Bunch of Bad Computers

The computers we use in our class are horrible. I think I've heard that they're over 9 years old and the way they run I would believe it. It takes flash about 10 minutes to load on some if you're lucky, I can't log onto my wiki on the one I use, some lose internet connection with no reason.
It's not just our class that's having trouble with them either. The year book staff use these computers and most of them aren't even hooked up to the printer. I'm told it's a battle every day.
Our teacher has asked for new computers, but was rejected for some reason. We really would benifit from having new computers.

It's been a while....

Last week I didn't publish any blogs on this website. I guess I'll have to post four this week to make up for it. Any ways a recap of last week. We started using flash. We were given a step by step instructions to follow to introduce us to it. I managed to get the carrot to move and loop accross screen and I was working on trying to get the bunny to move when you push the up arrow key, but I'm having trouble with it.
I feel like I'm far behind since I wasn't here Friday and had computer troubles on Monday, but if I work hard I should be able to catch up no problem!

Interupted Week

Our homecoming week is this week and it's been interesting. Unfortunatly since we didn't have any school Monday and we won't be in this class tomorrow or Friday we've only had two weeks to work. There's a lot more stuff I wish I could have got done, but I guess I'm just going to have to work a little harder to get through...

Sooo maaannyy cchaannggeess

So yesterday we grouped back together to talk about the games we were going to make. Our ideas have totally changed. It went from a pretty complex game with like six different characters and ten levels to a simple eight-bit graphiced game. We have a little bit of a plot going, but I don't want to post anything about it until it's final.

Globaloria is....

When this year started I had no idea what Globaloria was. When I found out it dealt with blogs and wiki's I thought it was going to be intertaining and easy, but then we were told that we were going to be making a game. I got pretty pumped about this class after that. What I've learned and seen has been very interesting and I still have pretty good feelings about this class. I'm really excited to actually start on the game, but there's also a little feling of doubt that I can do it in the back of my head.

The games we reviewed the past couple of days varied between good and bad. While on most games the graphics were just bland 2D graphics, some of the racing games had some very nice graphics(even though I saw no educational value in it). Some games I don't think were finished like Zeitgeist. I would go through and finish every level, but it wouldn't let me go farther and I would just die. I'm not sure if I was playing it right though, so it might have been me. Then there were some games, like, Ayiti: The Cost of Life, which was pretty complex in programming. Everything effected everything no matter what you did, and there was more than one outcome reached going through different paths.

Updates

This week has been a very relaxing one compared to last week. In Globaloria this week I was interupted yester due to a senior meeting, but Monday and Tuesday we played some games to try to figure out what we want to do for our game. We got a lot of ideas and I think we know what we're going to do. I just hope that we can pull it off...

Smooth as Riko Swauve!

Yesterday was the day that I presented the work I've done on my blog and wiki. Over all people seemed to like it, but I wish I would have been able to put a picture or two in it. I have a lot of new ideas though and now that I've seen that there's no such thing as over decorating I'm going to let loose. Hopefully I won't crash anything, but with some of the ones I saw yesterday I'm sure I won't.

New Projector Yay!

Tomorrow we've been told that we're going to present our wikis and blogs tomorrow. I'm pretty much done with mine unless I've over looked something. Pretty sure I haven't though.

Blogs, blogs, blogs....

Looking around at my class mate's blogs has managed to eat up half of class today. There are a lot of good ones. Very pretty colors, good grammer(for most of them any ways), and of course fun apps.

Stranger Danger

Our teacher today wanted us to go over saftey on the internet. I think we all know about internet preditors, but for some reason some of us are posting our last names. It might have just been an accident or they weren't paying attention, but to make sure no one is going to track you down and lock you in their basements it's best to keep personal information like last names and addresses private.

I finally got my wiki taken care of...for now anyways. The only things we had to do was upload a video, a picture, type out some information about us, and chaning the the color of the background and font. I think I kind of messed up on the background color though since the hole space went black, but it looks pretty cool and you can still read everything. I'm sure I can learn how to do every thing successfully in the future though.

*sigh*

This week has been a little crazy for Globaloria. We didn't have school Monday thanks to Labor day, which was a nice change in pace actually. Then on Tuesday we moved the computers around. It looks a lot more organized now and every computer got a desperately needed dusting. Yesterday we finally sat up a wiki page, which lead some some confusion amongst the students, but it's all been taken care of. Today our teacher isn't here so we're to work on our blogs and wikis. I decided it was a good time for a post.

Hmm...

In all I'm happy with the team I have going into this. I have very focused, smart, and...really really interesting people to say the least. I'm sure we'll be able to get through this...with an A+!!! >:3
I think there was talk about 2bit graphics or something so I'm sure it'll be fine. The only worry I have is that our expectations are to high for what we're going to get and we might not be able to finish everything. This game would be pretty sweet if we can pull it off.

GAMES!!

The big assignment we were told about in the begining of the year was the game that we were going to make. We spent a couple of days looking at examples of games other people made. Some of them weren't the best, but I'm sure it's not very easy to make things like this. Especially since it was probably new to them and they didn't have a lot of time.Which worries me a bit about my game.
Our game sounds pretty complicated. The story is that you play as a hero that's trying to save various aquatic animals from the recent BP oil spill accident. There were a lot of characters mentioned and the since the way you'd defeat the bad guys were with randomly generated math problems....uh....I can sence some problems.

The Second One Is Here

This is a second account of drcocofreakout66-freakout.blogspot.com that is now dominant. The other will not be updated and this one will be the one in which I use to document my adventures in Globaloria class.
Besides this there is nothing new to report. The internet was down Friday so no work was really accomplished except for some brainstorming....so...I guess in acutallity there is something new to talk about...well...
The brainstorming session was of what our game will be about. We're to make a flash educational game about something in civics. Our ideas were....interesting to say the least. XD
I have good expectations for this class. :3