So Friday marks and important day for Brandi and I. We finished our game, and our presentation. It seemed like the day was going to drag on forever though because of the nice extended weekend, and the "unofficial" last week of school deal.
We are just happy to finish this game since we have had so many problems in getting to this point. We have had so many great inside jokes though, (I met your children brandi!) so it made being an ASC kid all worth while.
For those of you who are unaware ASC=Action Script Challenged, because we are.
Today we finished the final survey, and we are all excited to be leaving school.
ok so I owe Brandi a huge apology and a massive hug. Since the weather is very sketchy in Kentucky, and I had to wear a dress in 4o degree temperatures, I got sick. Really sick, in fact I was so mind bogglingly sick my mom actually made me stay home. Those occasions are rare and few. I went from missing no school one semester to the apparent 11 days this semester.
So Brandi the amazing human being she is kept moving forward with our game, and our presentation is looking quiet epic right now. Our game only needs sound to be finished, even though it's not the best game in the class we still love it like our own child.
We have added more questions, and our game screens (as in the incorrect and correct screens) working with our questions that we have, and we have started to add facts to our correct screens.
Our game has come really far in the past two weeks considering that we couldn't figure out how to even make our instruction screen work to begin with. We've had a few simple problems, such as forgeting to code the action script correctly. Brandi and I are starting to think that we aren't actually as "action script" challenged as we were in the beginning.
Well, our game has expanded by about five more questions, and we've run into some problems with our first question. It just doesn't want to work, every other question works fine with the code we put in, but not question numero uno.
We are having slight problems with figuring out the wrong and correct screens popping up and then going to the next location they are supposed to go to. Luckily *but only in this matter) Brandi and I aren't seniors because we have 33 days to figure out how to fix this.
So Brandi and I are known to be major procrastinators, but in our defense we needed questions for our quiz game, so we've primarily worked on that for the past few days. Our game is working (for now) still, and we need to add in our questions and code the answers and wha-lah! bam, we're done.
But we do have all our game screens back and next buttons working, and our main screen going to the instructions page. :)
So, thanks to Ms. Spencer, we have a working portion of our game! Yes, after many trials of a failed instructions button, it works. We couldn't be experiencing more joy at this point of our day (besides the fact we had to come to school on a day we originally had off).
SO yes, our game is working until we break it again, which shouldn't take to long knowing Brandi and I's mad skills for causing software to malfunction.
So as Brandi and I venture into our forth coming days of this class, we need to learn a few things, like how not to panic every time we mess something up, because the might inventors of Flash CS4 (Adobe) created a magical thing called an "undo" button. Today we learned about adding animation and navigation to our games, and while we've had some experience with these topics, we're gunna need a little practice with these next couple topics. (My point, you can refence the unbeatable bunny game...)
I think the coolest thing about the animation is how simple or how complex you can makes it, this stuff seriously amazes me every time I think about how long it took to build and animate a working game.
So my video today is not only an excuse to laugh, but to enjoy some chilidhood memories, and my favorite song. Our game is about music, so of course I'm going to pick a parody that will make anyone laugh even if they have never heard the song before. I also feel that Jim Henson's team does a pretty bang up job with their animation.
There is also a good possibility that this video may not even show up, I seem to have this kind of luck with these kinds of things.
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
-Jim Morrison
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. "
-Jim Morrison
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid
