Present Game

• The Big Idea: Describe your learning topic for the game. What is the most important thing you want your players to learn? My Game topic is pollution. I want the players to learn to stop pollution in the environment.
• Research: What kind of research did you do? What did you learn about your topic? I research some facts about pollution and how it harms the community. I learned that many animals die because of pollution.
• Making Decisions: How did your ideas change as you worked on your game? I was going to do my background as a park but I decided to make a house.
• Mastering Programming: What Game Ingredients and Help Center resources have been most useful to you so far, and why? Some game ingredients I used was hidden objects and decoy objects. The help center was helpful to me because it explained many stuff I didn't know how to do.  
• Overcoming Challenges: Which part of making the game was most difficult for you? How did you overcome this difficulty? What features are you most proud of in your game? The most difficult parts where doing the splash screen because then my coding in my game mest up and didn't wanna work. The teacher helped me fix my coding because I did have trouble fixing it. At the end I was glad I finished because it worked .
• Next Steps: What are you going to do with your game next? Who do you plan to show your game to? How will your game have an impact on your community? How could it change your school or neighborhood? Who will it help? I m going to publish my game on the wiki home page so people can play it. I plan showing it to my friends so they can play it. My game can tell you many facts on pollution. I will try helping by not trowing trash on the floor.

Add Game Ingredients

Write about a problem you overcame while working on the code for one of your game ingredients...

For my game ingredients I added game background music it was kinda easy adding the music to my game. I also added a static hint page, it gives hints to what to find for the player. I added a simple timer it was kinda hard because the timer didn't want to work at first then someone helped me to get my game working. Splash screen was kinda hard adding because it didn't want to work but my code was wrong. So my problem with coding was wrong with two of my ingredients.

Add Score & Message Box

Write about a problem you overcame while testing and debugging.....

I had trouble uploading the my file on wiki page. I couldn't make it to save on the wiki page. It took me long to figure out how to uploaded it,
but all the rest was kinda easy. I also was having some trouble with message box, but i figured it out at the end. at the end of my game i thought it was easy to make a game on flash.

Add Hidden Objects

What was it like to add ActionScript to your objects? What kind of game action would you like to add next?

Adding actions to my flash game was kinda hard. This was because I didn't know nothing about coding. Then I found the coding for my hidden objects so they could disappear when you click on them. When I added coding to my game it made it fun to click on them. When I worked in actions and coding it was kinda hard making a game on flash but not really when you know flash. 

Draw Background

Write a post about what it was like to draw your background in Flash.

When I drew my background in flash it was kinda hard drawing the objects. Then I got used to using flash and it got easier. Drawing my background was fun because I drew  my own game. It was fun drawing my background and it was kinda hard at first because I didn't know what tools to use. After some time drawing in flash got easier but it wasn't really that hard.

Paper Prototype

   
Paper Prototype

                                                                                                                Write about making a paper prototype. What problems did it help you to solve with your game idea?Some problems I had was deciding a background scene for my game.
I also had problems on what items to put as hidden objects in the house. 
At the end i decided to make a house with a backyard as my background and add hidden objects in their.

Chose Learning Topic

Write a blog post explaining why you like this topic for your Hidden Object game


The topic I choose for my hidden object game was pollution. I choose this topic because it seems interesting to make a game about pollution. I like this topic because people are leaving may places dirty because of pollution. I want to make a game where you can help pickup trash and stop polluting. In the game people can help the environment too.

Play to Learn part 2

Reflect on what you learned by playing these games. 

Something I learned about these games were that you can make your game fun but learn something in the game too.

What kind of ideas did you get for your own game?

I got some ideas about some decoy objects for my game and i would want to make a racing game because its fun to play. I also would make my game have some hidden objects to make it interesting.

Which game ingridients would you include

In my game some of the game ingrients I would choose to add scoring and decoy objects. I might also put moving objects and hidden objects to make it fun.

Where To Get Help

How might your classmates or friends help you with your projects? How will you help your classmates with their projects?

My classmates and friends can help me by thinking of new ideas  of games. I can help them in their projects by help them in codes or in flash. Another way i can help is by telling them what page they can go to or the instructions.  They can help me to go to the right pages.  They can help me and i can help them.

My Topic

I am interested in working in the following sites...

http://www.chulaleague.org/

http://www.austinparks.org/

http://www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/


The reason I want to learn more about these topics is because they sound interesting. I also want to learn more about them. I want to do something interesting to do and work with. I want to make a game like these topics  because there are many ideas for these games. I also want to make an  interesting game.

play to learn part 2

• Name of the game that taught you the MOST about its learning topic: Save the Animals
• Why was it so effective? That the player can go and help the animals in the beach.
• What social issue or educational topic does the game explore? Beach Pollution
• What can you learn from this game? Many animals get sick or hurt when polluting oil into the ocean.
• What game genre is it? Do you think this genre is a good choice for creating a learning game? Why or why not? This game is adventure and you need to go find the animals that are covered in oil.
• Design Analysis (Does it look good? Does it clearly illustrate the issue or learning concept?) 
• The drawings are good to represent what they mean.
• Usability Analysis (Is it clear what you need to do as a player? Does it work well?)
• Yes, the game works well and you know what to do it has clear instructions.
• Suggestions for improvement. How would you change the gameplay to make the learning and play experience work together better? Putting more trash that player can find for extra points.
• List 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do (in terms of functionality, design or content)p
• How to make things move
• multiple screens
• how to add sound