YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!

Last blog post EVAH!! I'm ecstatic. In closing I would like to say that I hate the subject matter of this class and I will never open the Flash program ever again in my life. haha. free at last....free at last...

civic question

There were alot of things we didnt get to in our game. One was the budget bit. We didnt really get to show how the money is spent, and code the game to make the money decrease. Aint it a shame......

Getting ready for the presentation

We have now started preparing to present our game. We only have a few minor details to finish up on our game and I am completing our "powerpoint" thing. So glad we are almost done. I will never open flash ever again in my life. thank you.....

fuction blog prompt

We dont really have a "hardest concept", but it is very hard to find the information for our concept. We are focusing on government involvement in natural disasters......It appears that the information needed to portray this concept is very hard to come by. Between finding the info and finding a way to incoperate it into the game, it has been a very tedious act

completion?

so now that the demo is done and we are accumulating graphics, it is time to start assembling all of it and trying to complete the game....easier said than done. There is still a lot to be done. One problem i predict for our team in the future is coding. Neither of us has enough knowledge or experience with coding. Hopefully we can recieve some help from our fellow students. This is the next thing i am going to try and work on..

The American Choice

While looking for a game to write about I stumbled upon this game. I was somewhat taken aback by the themes portrayed in this game. It presents a multiple choice question to you and you must answer the question "correctly" to get points. The only problem is that it asks you a very opinionated question. The question gives you a scenario and asks if you feel the death penalty should be used in that situation. There is really no right answer to that question, and if you happen to be against the death penalty you just lost points. ha ha. Doesn't really make sense to me..

UPDATE!!

Since i have last blogged many things have been accomplished. Our game demo has been completed and uploaded to our team page along with other endeavors involving "my civic engagement". This will be one of many blogs within the next two days, becuase i have fallen behind on my blog prompts for my civic engagement. Also, what about this weather folks!? dang? im lovin" it!!!!! hahahahahaha

Function Introduction

Hello, my name is matt and i am part of the team SHAUNDYE. My teamate/partner in crime is haldan. We are working on a game titled We Shall Rebuild. Pretty self explanatory as far as gameplay goes. You rebuild a city after a natural disaster. this game focuses on all the aspects of recovery and the governments role in it. Showing how the government is involved in natural disaster recovery qualifies us to be a part of the function category.

Loading Screen

Our loading screen has been completedand uploaded as of today. We had a lot of help from our fellow students damien and matt. Now that we have our loading screen done we will be moving on to our opening screen asap. I had a lot of new learning experiences with flash today and I feel a lot more comfortable with the program.

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So, today we worked a bit with flash trying to get our loading screen up and running. thereign lies our dilemma. No one seems to know how to do this. We have a tricky premis for our loading screen so we will probly need some help from a higher source of intilect. This help is being acquired as i type........

Coming Back To School=Coming Back To Work

So we are finally back in the swing of things after a much appreciated (and very much extended) christmas break. This means picking up exactly where we left off after almost a month of forgetting where we were. There are alot of things I've forgotten about learning in this class and I've had to do alot of brushing up. Mainly we have been focusing on updating our team page and moving forward in developing our game. There is still a lot of hard work to be done.

ooooohhhhh yeeeaaaahhhh

Finally finished the Paper Prototype. We just completed our film and we are in the process of uploading it to our page. Hopefully it will be uploaded by the end of class so it will be available for your veiwing pleasure.

Almost Done......still

We are almost there. We are dangerously close to completing our protype and should be filming it on friday. Its been quite a chalenge coming up with ideas for the actual gameplay in our game becuase our concept is kind of drab. Regardless, I think we have done a good job working the hand we've been delt and I'm looking forward to filming it and uploading it to our page.

No team mate

So thanksgiving break is over and school has started again. Only problem is my Globaloria team mate, Halden, is on an extended break in Disney World. This leaves me to do all the work. This means i will have to make our entire paper protype by myself and most likely present it as well. Needless to say I am not a happy camper!

Actual Paper Prototype

Finally getting started in on my paper prototype. I've completed a large portion of the prototype and will hopefully be able to film my presentation withtin the next two classes. I'm not sure how acurate the protype is going to be to our actual game. I have a feeling alot of stuff is going to change when we actually start making the game. But nonetheless the protype is a good basis for when we do.

HELP!!!! I need somebody!

Today I finally completed my flash game. I had made one previously but it got deleted by mistake. I received help in my quest from my good friend Matticus. He showed me the ins and outs of flash coding which helped me tremendously. I hadnt had much experience with coding before today so I have great sense of accomplishment.

Paper Prototype of a Paper Prototype

Today we thought about each individual screen in our game. This includes the opening screen and the other screens involved in the gameplay. We did not draw out our paper protype, but we mapped what each page was going to be. We still have a long way to go as far as the actual gameplay goes but we have alot of good ideas floating around. Hopefully our paper protype will be completed soon.

Paper Prototype

We haven't gotten very far on our paper prototype so far. the only things we've decided on are tyhe loading screen and the opening screen. Obviously ther are alot of things we still have to figure out , but I'm pleased with the progress we've made so far. Further advancments will be posted.

The Name Of The Game (and other details)

"No one, no community can fully prepare for a disaster of that magnitude (tornado in kansas) and it requires the help of local, state, and federal officials to help get things back to normal."--Frank McEnulty (projectwhitehouse.wordpress.com, January 11 2008)

This applies to our game because we are not preparing for a natural disaster, we are recovering from one. Recovering is what really matters in a natural disaster. Yes, preparing helps, but you can never fully prepare for nature's fury. That is why recovery is essential!....key!.......PROFOUND!!! Without an efficient recovery, a region will perish in the pits of poverty. Our game shall involve federal and state government cooperating with each other financially as well as rationally. we will also involve many other orginizations and politocal systems in our game. Our game is called WE SHALL REBUILD!
AND YES, WE SHALL REBUILD!!!

Filler Blog

The main purpose of this blog is to fill space and make my page look fuller. Enjoy. In order to secure a good grade in this class I am required to have a certain amount of blogs. I have not met quota so therfore I have made a meaningless blog in order to meet said quota. Hopefully this will be a valid post and help me recieve more credit. RACKBALL!!!!!