sci fi pods
What was covered What is due Take a look

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I will read your two narratives as I do my final evaluation of your Sci Fi PODS project.
Please do not refer to Group Work in the least.
By the way, I commend all of you for your group work skills, best I've seen. I want you to only refer to your individual work..

1.As I play your game, learn science and receive a score please guide me through what multimedia content you contributed to the game.
What was most enjoyable?
What was challenging?

1.Please desctibe what you contributed to the artisic POD video installation..
What was most enjoyable?
What was challenging?
Week 1

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Masking in photoshop using "Quick Mask" the brush tool
mask and save three faces in .png format

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Your Learing Journal web page saved in a folder called scifipods and named "index.html"


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Week 2

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Draw Background - save as .jpg - import to library
Import faces and set up FACE Movie Clip

Scroll background with code
place code on FACE movie clip
Draw enemy or obstacle
Draw Jet Pack

Thursday:
Flash: Import your jetpack into your library. Create a new movie clip and bring the jet pack in from your library.

Import your enemy or flying obstacle into your library. Create a new movie clip and bring the enemy or flying obstacle in from your library.

Friday

**Type up your notes from science class lectures and formulate three questions that may be answered once the notes are understood. We wil integrate them into your game Friday and a player must answer them in order to get a jet pack.

you will need the movie clip from this .fla file

 




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INTERSESSION

Week 3

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Welcome Back - groups are below.
There are now three levels to your game and three faces and three jet packs.

Other things that have been presented but you may not have them in your game yet:

Movie clip timelines
Keeping a score
Keeping your movie clip on the stage
scrolling your background
timer
jet packs attached to face movie clip

The Science Game:
This game will have three levels:
Level 1 - scrolling bg , face and enemy from partner A
Level 2 - scrolling bg , face, jet pack and enemy from partner B
Level 3 - scrolling bg , face, faster jet pack and enemy from partner C

2 Owner's Manual's. Answer a question and receive a new jet pack to progress from level 1 to level 2 and another faster one to go from level 2 to level 3.




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Paper description
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Groups
Shattered Sky

Sarah I
Gabriel
Ricky C

Locus of Control;
Dominique
Ryan F
Daren Hilario

Robots
Ed G
Luz
Chris H

Team Monkeys
Philip L
Noah J
Conor H

Journey To Orxon
Martin L
Madison O
Wilson

Planet Paranormal
Sharaya L
Dave W
Tyler N

 

3-4 MM Block Groups
Clean Shaven
g5_9 and g4_1
Ashley A
Tim A
Daniel Y

Team Gravit0n
.Paul C
Adrianna B
Clark S

Theremin Politics
Thomas F
Dana N
Colton L

Big Mac
.Nico Shirey
Marcus Kastner
Kyle Kirch

Planet In Peril
Jennifer Z
Ian S
Sean C

Soul Surviving
Alexis E
Marcelo
Megan L

Integrity Orbs
Chris Mitchell
Douglas
Jamie R





 
What was covered What is due Take a look

Week 4

Link due to Blair via email on Fri:

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Submit rough introduction (3/4 page to 1pg) on Wednesday

Link game to your "Take a Look" section

Link to your "Glycolysis" notes with accompanying images

Link due to Blair via email on Fri:
Game
Rough intro (may be word or other text file)
1 new background each with perfect seam for NEW game level.

Sign up for course

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Glycolysis lecture on Wednesday
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Journal Link! To Include:
--Master Game
--Game intro in text format

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--Link to Glycolysis notes with supporting images saved as a web page
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nice example of Glycolysis notes with visual examples

Week 5

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Top 10 Flash Games
studio
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Prototyping your transport module

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what makes a game good?

Conceptual - thematic
operating with pizza tools
original ideas

reward
-ex. levels give you things you can use
ex. visual decisions quick

Artwork/aesthetic - color and value - smooth - transparency
graphics - aesthetic - color - value - transparency - gradients
complex animations

Playability/Strategy/
variety
challenging
ex. block bloxxorz - make you think
easy to restart and learn- score based - competitive - freedom of choice - you contribute to the game
User interface
destruction
variety of levels
complex
replayability
Control over game - decisions - customization - options

Music and audio

Character development if applicable)

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Week5 deliverables:
top 10 on your journal
revised top 10 - list the 5 students you chose to play the top 2.
Rank your top three by category (see left).

The PODS Interactive Community Research Assignment
Create categories that may be used to determine whether an online interactive community is good or not (as we did together with top 10 games).

Join 5 interactive communities.
2 must be educational in nature and one of those must be a community of flash/actionscript users

Rank your communities within each of your categories and post on your Learning Journals. Printed version due by 9:00 am Monday Feb 25.



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The PODS Interactive Community Research Assignment
Create categories that may be used to determine whether an online interactive community is good or not (as we did together with top 10 games).

Join 5 interactive communities.
2 must be educational in nature and one of those must be a community of flash/actionscript users

Rank your communities within each of your categories and post on your Learning Journals. Printed version due by 9:00 am Monday Feb 25.

 

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All voice overs recorded and playing in game

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GAME is 1000 x 700 pixels!

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Week 8
RECORDING STUDIO SCHEDULE

Time MON TUES WED THURS FRI
Block 1   Shattered Sky
Locus of Control		 planet paranormal    
Block 2   Robots

      
Block 3   Planet in Peril      
Block 4          


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Finish all artwork for the game - import all into flash

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ALL science note must be in digital form with accompanying visuals (as with your glycolysis notes)
DUE FOR * WEEK 100 POINT JOURNAL
Links to the game with cheat buttons that allow me to see ALL artwork in the game including the visual interface for the science and assessment of science

1 composition from each member of the group - linked as .mp3 files on each learning journal.

Links to each others' journals

A list of "what we need the code to do" linked from your journals and printed and handed to Blair.

All voice overs recorded and playing in game

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SPRING BREAK

Shattered Sky

Sarah I
Gabriel
Ricky C

Locus of Control;
Dominique
Ryan F
Daren Hilario

Robots
Ed G
Luz
Chris H

Team Monkeys
Philip L
Noah J
Conor H

Journey To Orxon
Martin L
Madison O
Wilson

Planet Paranormal
Sharaya L
Dave W
Tyler N

3-4 MM Block Groups
Clean Shaven
g5_9 and g4_1
Ashley A
Tim A
Daniel Y

Team Gravit0n
.Paul C
Adrianna B
Clark S

Theremin Politics
Thomas F
Dana N
Colton L

Big Mac
.Nico Shirey
Marcus Kastner
Kyle Kirch

Planet In Peril
Jennifer Z
Ian S
Sean C

Soul Surviving
Alexis E
Marcelo
Megan L

Integrity Orbs
Chris Mitchell
Douglas
Jamie R


 

 
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THEME SONG!!
Play it - sing it

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Week 10

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Robots

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Science in the game by Friday - present it to class for critique
Theme Song Due!

PresenTation Schedule - fRIDAY aPRIL 11

9-9:15 - Journey To Orxon
9:15-9:30 - Legend of Odin
9:30-9:45 - Team Monkeys
9:45 - 10:00 - Planet PaRANORMAL
10-10:15 - Robots
10:15-10:30 - Shattered Sky
10:30-10:45 - Locus of Control
10:45 - 11 - Team Gravit0N
11-11:15 Theremin Politics
11:30-11:45 Big Mac
1:30 =- 1:45 Planet In Peril
1:45-2 Soul Surviving
2-2:15 Integrity Orbs



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Week 11

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Presentations done

Animations due as link on Learning Journals



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Week 12

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Recording Studio Schedule:
AM PM
Monday:
Gravitron
Shattered Sky
Planet Paranormal
  
Tuesday:
Team Monkeys
Odin		  
Wed: Theremin Politics
Thurs:  
   



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Visual Instructions

Quick Mask technique in photoshop
1. Make an initial selection with the lasso tool

2. Click the quick mask button

3. With colors set to black and white, use a slightly feathered brush to paint with transparency or opacity

while working with hard masks, I recommend keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out as wellas adjusting brush size on the fly:



4. click the quick mask button again to return to a now more refined selection. Now you copy and paste into a new document with a transparent background. Using Save for Web, Save as png-8 format for transparency heading to flash or paste into your 900 pixel wide x 350 pixel tall psd canvas and create teh banner for your Learing Journal.


 

Creating the FACE movie clip:

Insert three keyframes and place your three faces on them.

 

place a stop(); action on the first frame

Create an instance of the face movie clip on the main timeline (drag it from the library) and give it an instance name of face in the properties panel.

right click the movie clip and choose actions to open the actions panel - it needs to indicate that the actions will go on the movie clip. Add the following code:


Figure out what this code is doing - how would you put limits so the face can never disappear from the 900 x 700 pixel stage? How would you make it go faster?