Big Idea : What is the MOST important concept you want your players to learn ?
The most important concept we want our players to learn is to conserve water. Since we are doing our game towards a young audience , we will try our best to show them how to conserve water.
Making Decisions as a Team : How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic ?
Our individuals ideas came together based on the interest we all had in the same subject. We noticed that we all had the same interest in common , so we narrowed it down to the top one that was the best and we chose it.
Roles & Responsibilities : Describe your specific roles and how you work together .. ,
Our team is called "4Green" and it consists of :
Salvador "Chava" - Programmer \ QA Tester
Paige "Peaches" - Artist\Designer
Estefanie "Bacon <3 'er" - Writer\Producer
Robert "Gandhi" - Writer\Design Helper
We all work together by dividing up the work and making sure each and one of us is doing our part and doing the work that needs to be done. We work really well by just being focused and concentrated on what needs to be done , and making sure we help out one another.
We as a team found some pretty good websites that had the information we needed and we did our best to gain knowledge about it. In those websites it had really good info that we could use to express what we are trying to teach in our game. We knew that these websites were really helpful because they were actually blogged by actual people who care about the conservation of water.
That was a really helpful advantage we had that could really help us.
Impact : Could the messages in the game concept or images in your game demo offend anyone ? If so , how can you avoid this ?
As a team we certainly did not in any way portray something offensive to our viewers. Our message consists of a positive message to the audience and nothing else. We hope that we don't in any way offend anybody by our message or pictures. If so , that is to happen we will definitely take it into consideration and look over it and decide upon the situation. We won't have to worry about it because we are certain that our messages and pictures will not offend anybody in any way.
The User Experience : What actions does the player take in the game ? Has this changed since you first started planning your game ? Why ?
Our game has about 3 different levels , so there are 3 different things it needs to do in each level. For example in one of the levels , it's called "Patching Pipes" in this game the player will have to jump some platforms to collect pieces of a broken water pipe and put them back in the pipe and fix it. This level and others were not the main ones that we were going to do , we had planned other levels. We first decided to do a game about a migrating bird that would go around everywhere and try to help out others to conserve water but based upon the feedback we got from our charity we changed it and now we have our game planned and ready to start on it.
Mastering Flash : What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far , and why ? How did you locate these resources ?
I think that the resource that has been helping our learning so far would have to be the programming. I mean without the programming a game wouldn't be able to work at all. With programming we get to learn to do many things at a time , like for example it has taught us to do the certain codes for the things we want to do. It sort of gives us the chance to prepare, look over the codes we are going to do and try to study them very well. We also have the chance to use the rest of the tools on flash that I know will definitely help our game work amazing.
Overcoming Challenges : What curriculum has been most difficult for you this far ? How did you overcome this difficulty ?
I think that Planning the game scene for our game would have to be the most difficult curriculum we've done. Basically , in the beginning we had our ideas mapped out and everything but then we had to change it because of our charity's feedback. I would say that we didn't have such a hard time on it but we did have our problems. Since everything was already planned , and we had to change it - it took us a while to restore everything and start thinking again. Now it's good that we figured out what to do , by the help of each and everyone on our team we made it possible to work and we can't wait to finish our game successfully . :)
The most important concept we want our players to learn is to conserve water. Since we are doing our game towards a young audience , we will try our best to show them how to conserve water.
Making Decisions as a Team : How did your individual ideas from "Imagining Your Game" come together for your team game topic ?
Our individuals ideas came together based on the interest we all had in the same subject. We noticed that we all had the same interest in common , so we narrowed it down to the top one that was the best and we chose it.
Roles & Responsibilities : Describe your specific roles and how you work together .. ,
Our team is called "4Green" and it consists of :
Salvador "Chava" - Programmer \ QA Tester
Paige "Peaches" - Artist\Designer
Estefanie "Bacon <3 'er" - Writer\Producer
Robert "Gandhi" - Writer\Design Helper
We all work together by dividing up the work and making sure each and one of us is doing our part and doing the work that needs to be done. We work really well by just being focused and concentrated on what needs to be done , and making sure we help out one another.
Research : What kind of research went into the way you will express the game topic ? What sources are you using and how do you know they are reliable ?
We as a team found some pretty good websites that had the information we needed and we did our best to gain knowledge about it. In those websites it had really good info that we could use to express what we are trying to teach in our game. We knew that these websites were really helpful because they were actually blogged by actual people who care about the conservation of water.
That was a really helpful advantage we had that could really help us.
Impact : Could the messages in the game concept or images in your game demo offend anyone ? If so , how can you avoid this ?
As a team we certainly did not in any way portray something offensive to our viewers. Our message consists of a positive message to the audience and nothing else. We hope that we don't in any way offend anybody by our message or pictures. If so , that is to happen we will definitely take it into consideration and look over it and decide upon the situation. We won't have to worry about it because we are certain that our messages and pictures will not offend anybody in any way.
The User Experience : What actions does the player take in the game ? Has this changed since you first started planning your game ? Why ?
Our game has about 3 different levels , so there are 3 different things it needs to do in each level. For example in one of the levels , it's called "Patching Pipes" in this game the player will have to jump some platforms to collect pieces of a broken water pipe and put them back in the pipe and fix it. This level and others were not the main ones that we were going to do , we had planned other levels. We first decided to do a game about a migrating bird that would go around everywhere and try to help out others to conserve water but based upon the feedback we got from our charity we changed it and now we have our game planned and ready to start on it.
Mastering Flash : What Flash resources have been most helpful in your learning so far , and why ? How did you locate these resources ?
I think that the resource that has been helping our learning so far would have to be the programming. I mean without the programming a game wouldn't be able to work at all. With programming we get to learn to do many things at a time , like for example it has taught us to do the certain codes for the things we want to do. It sort of gives us the chance to prepare, look over the codes we are going to do and try to study them very well. We also have the chance to use the rest of the tools on flash that I know will definitely help our game work amazing.
Overcoming Challenges : What curriculum has been most difficult for you this far ? How did you overcome this difficulty ?
I think that Planning the game scene for our game would have to be the most difficult curriculum we've done. Basically , in the beginning we had our ideas mapped out and everything but then we had to change it because of our charity's feedback. I would say that we didn't have such a hard time on it but we did have our problems. Since everything was already planned , and we had to change it - it took us a while to restore everything and start thinking again. Now it's good that we figured out what to do , by the help of each and everyone on our team we made it possible to work and we can't wait to finish our game successfully . :)
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