Jesse's Blog

We have been assembling our game the past few days. This means we have been putting our game on one computer and been putting them all in one file.
The things that I learned from this topic this year is that the game was harder to make then I originally expected
I also have to answer this question, if you had money, influence and power, what would you do to make an impact for the better? My answer to this question is this, I would use the money to launch campaigns against gambling.
Here is a link to our assembled game:
http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/0/0b/Game_Screens_Together.swf

We are adding interaction to our game. This involves using arrow keys to make our characters on the screen. I chose to make my screen the main character of Final Fantasy IV,Cecil, getting stomped on by the game's main enemy, Golbez.
The game were making will move a little differently though, we will be using mouse clicks to move the character. I am also liking Flash a lot more now that I can grasp it easier than I did at the beginning of the year.
Here is the link to the interaction:
http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/0/03/JDlee_lhs_addinginteraction.swf
You have to click on the screen before you can use the arrow keys.

I am doing this blog a bit late, but we added animation to Flash a few days ago. The mos inspiring animation I have seen is either the Transformers on Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen or Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.I like these because they are some of the most realistic computer graphics that I have ever seen.
Here is a link to a Transformers picture:
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/transformers/images/b/b3/Movie_BumblebeeCC_guardian.jpg.
Here is a link to a Final Fantasy picture: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/8/8f/Cloud-advent-children.png.

We are adding sound to buttons and animation in Flash. The sound is important because it can keep the person playing the game interested. The game I've played with the best music I know of is Kingdom Hearts. Our game topic seems still like a good choice to me. Most of the information on the blogs I follow are things that I already know, unfortunately.

I am supposed to blog about this class so far this year. The thing I liked the most this year is the shape tween, the link is here:http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/c/c5/JDLee_lhs_shapetweening.swf. I like this because it was simple and fun. The thing I like the least is the guided motion tween, the link is here:http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/4/47/JDLee_lhs_guidedmotiontween.swf. I did not like this much because I could not remotely understand it until my classmate help me. I think the grading system is fair because it is based on the quality of the work we do. I would not change the class because I could not think of any major improvements.I would recommend this class only if I thought they would like it, because this class would probably be difficult if they didn't.

We have been adding navigation to our game. We started by doing tweens. We have done motion tween, shape tween, frame by frame animation, and guided motion tween.

Here is the link:http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/index.php/User:JDLee/Projects

We have been redrawing our paper prototypes in flash the past few days. Our subject is the effects of gambling on society. I have learned more of the concept and rules behind the games we are creating.

We took pictures around the school yesterday. Today we have been turning the pictures into a movie with Photostory.

The more advanced technology gets, the more sensitive it becomes. For an example my MP3 Player, I dropped once and for a week it would not play the song in the order that I wanted it to(with a lot if songs this is very annoying).

I added three new songs to my play list the first is If You Still Believe by Elsa Raven for The Legend of Dragoon, Bring me Back to Life by Evanescence, and Be Your Girl from one of my favorite manga called Elfen Lied.

We filmed our paperprototypes the other day. George recorded the video, Jamie talked about the screens, Aaron moved the pages for the screens, and David moved the characters. I did not do anything because I was absent. The thing I like about paper prototyping is drawing, but I wouldn't like the filming because I hate to be filmed.

Today my team made a concept for a game called Nico-nico. The part of the game I am most excited about is the boss(lung cancer) and the weapons(lasers, nicotine gum, and disposal unit). The enemies will be nicotine and corrupted blood cells.

I have to answer a few questions in this blog:
Was it hard to make your mini game? What was the best part of this topic? The worst part?
I created a mini game in class. I think the best part was making the rabbit move and the worst was attempting to move the carrot. here is the link http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/b/b1/JDLee_lhs_minigame2.swf. Push loop after right clicking.
Do you play games in your free time? Which ones do you play and why are they your favorite?
I like to play RPGs , shooters, and platform games in my free time.

Today I created a movie in Flash. I think it was a lot of work for making a ball move across the screen, but it was easy after some of the people in the class told us how to do it. I am going to leave a link to the movie that I created: http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/lhswiki/images/3/36/JDLee_lhs_movieclip.swf

I have chosen nicotine addiction a the topic that I would like to make a game about. I also found blogs that had post that had to do with nicotine addiction. I found these blogs because they tell why nicotine makes quitting tobacco products are hard and the adverse affects that products containing nicotine has on the people who use them and the people around them.
The most interesting blog to me is how smoke from a cigarette in the carpet can harm babies. This post is hard to find on this person's blog, but it has a lot of information on how to prevent babies from being harmed by second and third hand smoking. The second blog said that smoking makes you loose muscle mass faster as you age. The third blog is SciNewsBlog, it talks about how nicotine makes your brain associate drinking coffee or talking to friends to smoking cigarettes, this makes you want to use one during these activities. I also need to point out that on the SciNewsBlog you must type in nicotine on the search bar to get to the post that I found.

I am reviewing the game called Climate Change. It is about how the laws you pass as a president effect your countries resources and amount of pollution that you create. The game's graphics are decent for the style it chose, cut-outs of people and animals. The game was fun except how you can be impeached just for one or two unpopular choices. The game also always chooses YES to lowering pollution which costs a lot of euro to do.
This is the link to the game, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/climate_challenge/.I

The second game is Jimmy Vs. The Spurge. It is about a boy named Jimmy fighting off junk food. The graphics are some of the best graphics I have seen for a Globaloria game. The game was also the funnest game I played. I only have two complaints, like how the enemies will sometimes overwhelm you and how you play the first level infinitely. This is the link to the the game, http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/resources/en/play/Social/jimmy.

Try these games for yourself, hope you comment on them.

In my posts I cannot create separate paragraphs, so for now on a slightly larger letter will mark the beginning of a paragraph.

I added a blog roll and a playlist to my blog yesterday. All the songs on the playlist are from my favorite videogame and story franchises. The first five are from Bionicle and the the others are from Square Enix games. I plan on finding more songs when I have the time. Today my class went over the participation guidelines and privacy policy