What an odd trip it's been

This class has been really extraordinary, I never knew what to expect from day to day and everyday i learned something new, either about flash or wiki or about my own abilities. I enjoyed this class alot. I have created a wiki page.
I have also had to do a horribly nerve racking presentation with my partner Meghan. It's on Viddler, check it out.

From day to day I wondered if I would even make it to the end of the year because to be honest this class is beyond hard, not only did we have to do normal english work, but also design a game based on a certain topic. We chose poverty and the plight of the homeless man or woman.

I'm happy to have taken this class because I feel like I have learned alot from it, more about the web, english, and flash. I hope they keep this class at RHS for a very long time. Thank you chez for being an awesome teacher, couldn't have done it without you! Also I'd like to thank Jessica and PJ for all the help they gave us on flash. And lastly I'd like to thank my partner Meghan for putting up with me. I hope everyone has a good summer!

Other peeps games.

I visited all the teams sites and looked at their games, the ones that stood out the most was Pjs game on team page, "flash forward", and team "jessamiah".

Pjs game was quite impressive. He has almost an entire working game! He mentions his topic in the game which is drug abuse but I havnt seen it actualy in depth in the game, but I'm sure what I saw was only a glimpse of what is yet to come. Keep up the good work.

The next teams page was Jessamiah. They had a fully working game and it was exactly on topic! It was about recycling and West Virginias debt. They did a very good job, both teams did. I'm glad these two groups have figured out how action script works, maybe one of them can help me out??? lol

Poetry Conversation

It was interesting to hear how other people interpret poems from long ago. I learned a lot from this experience. Even though I doubt I even learned the true meaning to the poems, but I think we made a good attempt. It was pretty good.

West Virginia

I'm not actualy from West Virginia, I came here when I was 13 and I thought it was going to be grassy and mountainious where I was moving to, with backwards people and such. I was victim to the West Virginia sterotype. When I finally did move up here I found people that were just like the ones I left. Not everyone had only one tooth like the sterotypes say about West Virginia. For this I was glad. Technology here is the same as everywhere else I'v been from what I have seen. I realized this when I moved to Charelston. Technology helps us so much. It allows us to go from place to place, to build and grow our communities, unfortunately sometimes the negative sides of technology show up. Like when a chemical spill happens, or when a mine collapses like what recently happened, the good thing about technology is for every problem it causes it can also fix. We just have to figure out how to use it. I mean we are not as backwards as everyone thinks. I looked up on google for images of West Virginians, I found small towns and some old people, and a group hunting. Not that shocking. Yes West Virginia has these things but I don't know one state that doesn't, but i also found this picture.
Feel free to tell me how you feel about this pic because to be honest it kind of made me angry and I'm not even from here!

Animation!

Today in class we learned about keyframes and buttons and stuff like that. I made a box move accross the screen and rotate! I was so excited. Then PJ started his lesson on the button and my only error was i used the wrong {. I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Drawing in Flash and Button Making

Making a button in flash was easy, it just takes a few short clicks to set up a button. Setting up where it goes is a different story which we have not tried yet. Drawing in flash is rather difficult. I was drawing my city scape and nothing was turning out right, I got a rough drawing of it up on my team page on the wiki. I'm probably going to work on it a little more though. Keep updated people.

Learning text

Today I learned how to use the text tool, it wasn't that hard and I had already messed with it a bit already. I then uploaded my game idea onto my wiki (Check it out) which took awhile because it kept showing up as blank for some reason. Now how I feel about getting started on the game process, I am nervous and excited at the same time. I just hope I meet my own expectations of myself and do a good job and get the story that I want into the game without losing my hair.