Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Choosing a Topic

For our topic we picked Music and Depression. Music is something that influences us all, and Depression affects so many lives. So for our topic we picked Music and Depression. The goal of our game is to allow people to explore how music effects our emotions.  I found a good website about how Depression is healed by music. Musics effect the human emotions. Different music gives different emotions. And so I think showing and demonstrating how music heals depression would be useful. I think it's going to be an useful topic to help people understand a bit more.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Playing to learn

I loved how the action game had great graphics. I wanna know how to make the pictures looks so animated. Also the buttons. I really want to know how to make the things jump from one screen to the next. I think the action genre and maybe slightly puzzles. I think these topics and genres are cool and fun. I don't know what my partner will think, but this seems like the right genre. I really wanna learn how to change the slides. Do you think you could help me with that? It's seems cool.

Mini game

I thought the make a mini game thing was very helpful. Not only did it break down the action script layer's job and show us in depth about the layers itself but it showed us what all the steps are. I didn't like how you had to change the instant names. That always took forever. I don't think that the whole real game thing is gonna be that hard now. I think it's gonna be easy if we follow along the directions. Honestly it was fun and kinda easy. Maybe if we start soon on the real game it'll be easy too. I mean, after this and the mini scale of it, how hard is it gonna be? Just gotta be careful with the instant names. >.>

Friday, September 16, 2011

Video games in the classroom

I thought the article was surprising, I wouldn't have thought people would agree with video games. I think video games would be a good, fun way to learn. All subjects would benefit from it and the teacher's would have lessons still, but not as many. Together we'd learn everything we'd need to. It would be plenty for you to learn everything necessary. I wish that we could do something like that. It would be very beneficial for us to do something like that in my opinion. Of coarse the down side would be having truly educational games but it'd be a interesting way to learn. Maybe if ti was fun more kids would like school.