~~Pendley~~

May the Twenty-First 2010

2010-05-21T10:31:00.000-07:00

~It's coming down to the time when our games need to be finished. We've gotten so much further at this point than we were last year. Last year we tried to do videography in this class and do globaloria too. This year we mainly did globaloria. We got with our teammates and figured out what we needed to do. We didn't fool around with our tasks like we did last year. It also helped this year since we have teams of 3 instead of 2. It's too much work to only have 2 people working on a game. At this point if our game isn't finished, then it's not going to be finished. We're getting down to the wire and we have so many other things to do on top of this. We are going to work as hard as we can to get evertything completed, but I guess we'll have to make due with what we have. We're only lacking a part of the penguin scene and part of the coal scene. I finished my part of the game which is the house scene. I think our team has created a really great game. I think our game reflects the effort we put into it. I'm excited to see everyone else's completed game. I think their's will be really great too. We still need to set a date when we can all stay after school and practice our presentations. Last year CEKeener and I worked really hard on our presentation and I think it turned out great. All of the presentations went really well. I hope they go that well this year. It's a bittersweet feeling to know that I only have a few days left in high school. It disappoints me that because of my health problems I wasn't able to come to school more often. I'm excited to get the presentations over with and then we can celebrate the hard work we put into creating these great games.~

May The Nineteenth 2010

2010-05-19T10:41:00.000-07:00

~I didn't get to post a blog two times last week. I only got to post one time. I added all of our team progress together into one file. That's what I've been doing for a while. It's not a hard thing to do, but it's very time-consuming. I think tomorrow I'll start on the powerpoint. Today I added the rest of my team's progress into the game file. We're almost finished with our game. There are still some things that need to be done in the coal and penguin parts of our game. Once those parts are finished, I can add them into the final game file and we'll be finished.~

May the Twelfth 2010

2010-05-12T05:20:00.000-07:00

~Today I am going to continue merging the files for our game. It's not really hard to merge the files, it's just really time consuming. I think our game will be finished in time, if not I think it will be close to being done. I'm excited because it's finally coming together to show how hard we've worked throughout this year.~

May the Seventh 2010

2010-05-07T05:30:00.000-07:00

~Today I finished putting our game together. I added the title screen and the about screen into our game. I'm waiting for the rest of our game to get finished. Once my team members are finished with the rest of the game, then we can add it into my part of the game. It's exciting to see how it's all coming out.~

May the Fourth 2010

2010-05-04T05:07:00.000-07:00

~Today I am going to finish making the facts screen for our game. We're getting down to the time when our games need to be finished. My team needs to get together and add all of the contents of our game into one file. I went on the WIKI and got some of the game files on our team page and put them into the game. I uploaded the latest file of our game onto my team page.~

April the Thirtieth 2010

2010-04-30T05:12:00.000-07:00

~I was excited on Monday because I found out that a photo I had taken is going to be published in the "Best Photography of 2010" book. My biography will also be in the book. I haven't been to school for a while. I've been really sick. It's good to be back and now I'm ready to continue working on our game. Today we are going to finish presenting our game progress. I don't know which teams have gone yet, because I wasn't here.~

April the Twenty-Sixth 2010

2010-04-26T05:58:00.000-07:00

~Today I uploaded a "Facts Screen" for our game. Our players need to know the reason for our game. We want to teach them good habits that will help the environment. If children learn habits early in life, the habits will more than likely stay with them. Wednesday Mrs. Neal is going to have each team present to the class what we have completed so far. I think my team is on the right track. I think we will have a nice game by the end of the year. I'm excited to see what all the other teams have completed.~

April the Twenty-Second 2010

2010-04-22T05:21:00.000-07:00

Earth Day, Earth Day, It's the Earth's Birthday!

~Today I finished the new character for our game. I made this little lightbulb character called Lightbulby. He will be on the TV in the house of our game. I still haven't figured out how to do this. I think it will be a nice thing to add to our game. Once I've figured out how to put him in our game, I will upload my progress to my team page. I'm excited to see how our game is going to turn out! ~

April the Twentieth 2010

2010-04-20T05:13:00.000-07:00

~Today I am working on another character for our game. There is a TV in one of the rooms of the house in our game. I wanted to put a video on the TV. I changed my mind and decided to make a cartoon character called "Lightbulby". He will be playing on the TV when you enter the living room. He will just be kind of dancing around on the screen. I wanted a character that would fit into our game. I think that a lightbulb character will fit into our game well. Once I've finished working on him, I'll upload him to our game page.~

April the Nineteenth 2010

2010-04-19T05:22:00.000-07:00

~Today I finished the house part of our game. I think it looks good. I need to fix some of the actionscript though. I have multiple things in each room that are clickable. When you don't click them in the right order, it goes to the wrong screen. I don't know how to fix this, but I'm trying to figure it out.~

April the Sixteenth 2010

2010-04-16T05:13:00.000-07:00

~Yesterday I did the interview with David. I think it went well. Today I'm still finishing up the house for our game. There's some actionscript I need to fix, but other than that I'm getting along fine. It's a lot easier this year since I already know a lot about actionscript. Last year we had to learn actionscript and flash. This year I already know how to use flash and actionscript. It's coming in really handy. I've realized lately that it's a whole lot easier with three people in a team. Last year we only had two people in each team. We're getting things finished a whole lot faster this year. Each member of my team is making a different section of the game. Once we merge all of our flash files, I think we will have a really good game.~

April the Fifteenth 2010

2010-04-15T05:13:00.000-07:00

~Today we are continuing the interviews with David. Yesterday they filmed some of us working on our flash and our WIKI's. Today we are going to finish the interviews. I hope we all do well on the interviews. I hope we don't run out of things to say. I am still working on getting the house together for our game. I have all the rooms working, but I still want to add more objects to each of the rooms. I could even add a hallway, closet, basement, or an attic or something.~

April the Thirteenth 2010

2010-04-13T05:26:00.000-07:00

~Today I am still working on the house scene for our game. I made the outside of the house. Now I'm working on each room of the house. I'm making it where you can click on a room, then it will take you to the room. When you get there, you can click on various items in the room that need to be fixed. One example is in the bathroom there is a bright light bulb. You can click on the lightbulb and it will go dark. You can also turn the running water off. I'm finished with the bathroom and now I'm working on the living room. I made a lamp that you can turn off and I made a TV. I'm going to make a little video on the TV if I can figure out how to do it. I'm excited to see how our game is going to turn out.~

March the Twenty-Fourth 2010

2010-03-24T06:15:00.000-07:00

~Today I continued working on the house for our game. I made the inside of the house and the outside. I'm going to make it so that you can click on a room and it will zoom into it. That's where you'll click on the things in the house that need to be fixed. If you want to look at the scenes you have to download the fla file because I haven't put any actionscript into it, so it just flashes on and off. I'm going to keep working on it and I'll post my progress as I go along. I think our game is going to come out nicely!~

March the Seventeenth 2010

2010-03-17T06:14:00.000-07:00

~Today we updated our team page so that it tells what our game is about and how it's going to be composed. I am excited for our game to be finished and ready to play!~

March the Twelfth 2010

2010-03-12T05:25:00.000-08:00

~Today we are registering for the STEM Games Competition. We are getting together as a team to register. Team SEE is gonna win!!!~

March the Eleventh 2010

2010-03-11T05:57:00.000-08:00

~When playing a game, if you have a connection with the game, such as a life experience, then you have a better game experience. I love music, so if I played a game that had to do with music, then I would have a better game experience rather than playing a game about something that I don't know anything about. Game experience very much depends on your connection with the game.~

Snow! Snow! Snow!

2010-02-11T19:40:00.000-08:00

~I like watching the snow come down, but once it's down, I'm ready for it to melt away. We've had enough snow this year, and I'm ready for it to end. Everyone else is probably happy because school's been out, but I'm homebound so it didn't make a difference for me. The snow is exciting for a little while, but now it's getting a little old. "Snow, Snow, go away, come again another day." Ha Ha.~

February the Seventh 2010

2010-02-07T21:44:00.000-08:00

~I finished my powerpoint on perspective and viewpoint. I emailed it to Mrs. Neal. It was hard for me to do the powerpoint because once I found some information on the internet, I realized that powerpoint wasn't on my computer. I had to go to the library the next day and download Open Office. Then I did the powerpoint. It was hard to find information and tutorials about perspective and viewpoints in flash. I had to base it on things that I already knew. I put a couple of links to tutorials on my powerpoint. I don't really know how good the tutorials are because I couldn't watch the whole video since my internet is so slow. At least I got the assignment finished, even though it took a while to get it done!~

My Favorite Game

2010-01-19T23:27:00.000-08:00

What is your favorite game and why?, then follow up with you how your game is going to be incorporating those components.

I have a lot of favorite games, but if I had to choose, I would pick Super Bonk(a Super Nintendo game). Hardly anyone has ever heard of it, but it's my all time favorite game. It's really old, but time didn't change this game. I got it when I was little and I still play it every once in a while. I can't really think of any components of it that we will use in making our game, except that it has animated characters like our game will have. The only social issue that Super Bonk has to do with is that you have hearts and you have to keep your health up. It's random, it's crazy, and it's fun. That's why it's my favorite game.

January the Fifteenth 2010

2010-01-17T20:55:00.000-08:00

~I've been working with flash trying to get the hang of it again. I'm starting on some components of our game. I'm going to make pieces and upload them to my team page. I also updated my learning log.~

January the Twelfth 2010

2010-01-12T05:53:00.000-08:00

~ Today we updated our learning logs and blogs. I updated my learning log from a long time ago. I'm glad to be back to school and I hope that this time I'll be able to stay in school. I've been working on some game characters at home. Once I've finished them I will upload them to my team page.~

December the Fifteenth 2009

2009-12-15T05:24:00.000-08:00

~Today I am updating my blog and learning log because I haven't updated them for quite a while. I am probably going to be homebound for a while after today, but I am still going to work with my team through email and the WIKI. I can make game characters and scenes at home. I can upload my work to the WIKI and we can merge the flash files.~

December the 11th 2009

2009-12-11T12:01:00.000-08:00

~I haven't been to school for a while, but I have been working with flash and making different characters. I haven't had internet because my power has been out. I came to the library today to update my blog. I am going to go on the GWHS WIKI and read what's on there.~

November the Fifth 2009

2009-11-05T06:15:00.000-08:00

~Today we talked about our game idea presentations. We have to have three game ideas to present tomorrow. We came up with an idea for each team member. We took notes about real world situations that pertain to our game ideas. There is one game idea that we all really like. The other two ideas are good, but not as great as that one.~

October the 30th 2009

2009-10-30T05:11:00.000-07:00

~Today we are using this time to catch up. We are suppose to update learning logs, blogs, and anything else we haven't finished. I think I have everything just about finished. In the second half of the class we are going to get with our team and talk about our three game ideas we came up with. We have to present our ideas to the class on Monday. So far I can think of two game ideas my team came up with the other day. We'll probably have to create another idea today. I am going to finish up with what I'm doing and then go discuss the games with my team. I am having a little trouble with the mini game. I cannot get the scoreboard to work correctly. Does anyone know how to do it?~

October the 29th 2009

2009-10-29T06:04:00.000-07:00

~I went to Mrs. Neal's blog and took the left brain, right brain quiz. My first results were that I am 51% left brain and 49% right brain. I use both sides of my brain, so I guess I am pretty well balanced. The second test said that I was 32% right brain and 78% left brain. I don't know which test was accurate. Switching the subject, I have gotten to the part of the mini game where you make the scoreboard, and I cannot get the score to change when the bunny eats a carrot. I do not know what I'm doing wrong, but I'll probably figure it out tomorrow.~

October the 28th 2009

2009-10-28T05:24:00.000-07:00

~Today we are continuing our work on the Mini Game. I've gotten a little confused along the way, but I've done well so far. I'm now stuck at the part where you do the collision detection. I haven't worked with the score board yet, so I don't know if I'll have trouble with it or not. We are working together as a class, so when others get to that point, then they will probably be able to help me.~

October the Nineteenth 2009

2009-10-19T05:39:00.000-07:00

~Today I am updating my learning log and my blog. I'm finished with everything else. The others who weren't here Friday are getting caught up today.~

October the Sixteenth 2009

2009-10-16T05:21:00.000-07:00

~Today I created the page for Team SEE. I uploaded an eye I had drawn in flash. If my team doesn't like it, we can change it when they get back. Neither of my teammates were here today. We can fill out the rest of the page on Monday.~

October the 14th 2009

2009-10-14T06:20:00.000-07:00

~Today I worked on the mini game. I got to where you make the bunny move and I had a lot of problems. I can't get it to work quite right. I'll work more on it tomorrow.~

October the Thirteenth 2009

2009-10-13T05:13:00.000-07:00

Response to Question of the Week:

~I think the boy should be punished, and he should be in a facility for troubled children. Even though he's very young, he still probably knew better than to abuse his family. It was bad too that he abused his parents, which are probably the ones who paid for the cell phone.~

October the Ninth 2009

2009-10-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

~Today I added everyone to my blog list. I haven't been here for a while. I'm trying to keep caught up on my blog and my learning log. When I'm not at school, I'll still try to update my blog and my learning log.~

September the Twenty-Fifth 2009, 2nd post

2009-09-25T06:01:00.000-07:00

~I finished watching the tutorials and reading Drawing in Flash. It helped me to get a better understanding about drawing in flash. I think that if I would have taken the time last year to watch these tutorials before I started making my game, it would have probably been easier to draw. The tutorials were very helpful.~

September the Twenty-Fifth 2009

2009-09-25T05:28:00.000-07:00

~I went on Ingrida's blog and I watched the two short movies. The first one was funny, and it still got the point across. The second one wasn't as interesting, but it was still good. I think the videos got their point across in a way that students can understand. Now I am going to continue watching flash tutorials.~

September the Twenty-Third 2009

2009-09-23T05:26:00.000-07:00

~Today I am beginning to watch the tutorials for Drawing in Flash. We watched the first one yesterday.~

September the 21st 2009

2009-09-21T05:24:00.000-07:00

~Today we are fixing our blogs so that there are no links on our profile that do not work or that link to things that are blocked at school. I added two links to my profile, one to the GWHS wiki page and one to my Snpendley wiki page. I changed the layout of my profile and added some gadgets. I am going to finish up on my blog, then add something to my daily log.~

September the Eighteenth 2009

2009-09-18T05:12:00.000-07:00

~This week I have worked really hard on getting caught up. I posted my comments about the games on my projects page. I had to work hard on getting my projects page fixed. It was different than everyone else's since I kept the one from last year. I had to go into one of the new student's projects page and copy it. I pasted it into mine, so now mine is just like their's. I went on down my projects page and started on the "Choosing a Topic" assignment. I am now caught up with everyone else and I am continuing to work.~

September the Seventeenth 2009

2009-09-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

~Today I finished commenting on the games I played. I am going on to the next assignment. I have been sick the past few days, but now I'm back at school and I've gotten caught up on my assignments. Today I also had to fix my projects page. Since I kept my same Wiki as last year, I did not have the same questions as everyone else. Now mine is like everyone else's, the only difference is that some of my assignments are in different places. I'm working on fixing it.~

September the Ninth 2009

2009-09-09T06:03:00.000-07:00

~School has started. I'm at school. The End~

April The 21st 2009

2009-04-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

My team is not far from being finished with our game. We are having some difficulties finishing up the actionscript. We've finished all of our scenes, and the actionscript is all we have left to do.

February The Twentieth 2009

2009-02-20T05:17:00.000-08:00

Today we are continuing adding actionscript into our game. We have decided that Cheri is going to do most of the actionscript and I am going to do most of the drawing. I think we're off to a good beginning to our game, and hopefully we'll be finished with it soon.

January 30th 2009

2009-01-30T05:12:00.000-08:00

I am continuing to learn about actionscript. My partner has been trying to help me figure it out, but she is not here today. After I learn how to use actionscript, we can finish our game.

January The Thirteenth 2008

2009-01-13T05:11:00.000-08:00

Today I am working on learning more about actionscript. I don't really understand it yet, so I am going to look up some tutorials and codes about it.

January The 12th 2009

2009-01-12T05:40:00.000-08:00

I am just now learning about game codes. I am going to look on the internet for different codes for our game. I still need to learn a little bit more about the game codes, but I am doing the best I can with what I know so far.

December The Eighteenth 2008

2008-12-18T05:14:00.000-08:00

I have recently started making my buttons for the game. I don't understand how to make the buttons do anything, but I am going to ask my partner for help. I still need to create our instructions and explanation pages before I make the main menu do anything.

http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/gwhswiki/index.php/Main_Page

December The First 2008

2008-12-01T05:26:00.000-08:00

Today I began making the title page for our game. We decided that the title "Time Warp" suited our game well. I haven't finished the title page, but when I do, I don't know how to make the pages change, for example, if you click instructions, you should be sent to the instructions page. I don't understand how to do that yet. I do know how to do both the motion and the shape tweening. I'm still learning new things about flash as I go along.

November The Twentieth 2008

2008-11-20T05:19:00.001-08:00

Today I started working on navigation. I tried making buttons for our game, but I don't really know how. I don't understand how to make something "clickable", where when you click it, it will go to another screen. I have the characters and backgrounds, but I can't do much more until I learn how to actually "make" the game.

November The 14th 2008

2008-11-14T05:33:00.000-08:00

Today I continued working on the characters for our game. I also began working on the backgrounds for our game.

November The Seventh 2008

2008-11-07T05:21:00.000-08:00

Today I continued working on the characters for our game. We still need to decide on the title of our game.

November The Fifth 2008

2008-11-05T05:30:00.000-08:00

I have been creating the characters for our game. I have created the main character. I have not made them move or anything yet, but as soon as I finish all of the characters I will begin doing that.

November The Third 2008

2008-11-03T05:13:00.000-08:00

~We have been working on uploading our flash clips. I uploaded mine without a problem. I have finally figured out how to use flash.~

October The 30th

2008-10-30T05:13:00.000-07:00

I have been working with flash for the past few days. I posted what I've done on my project page. I think I've pretty much figured flash out. I know how to make things move and everything. After I worked with it a little while, I realized it's not as complicated as I thought it would be.

October The Twenty - Second

2008-10-22T05:09:00.000-07:00

We've been playing around with Flash. I figured out how to make layers and then make them move by using flash tweening.

October The Seventeenth 2008

2008-10-17T05:38:00.000-07:00

Today my group recorded our paper prototype. I think we did a pretty good job. We were behind because we'd both been sick, but now we are caught up. I am goin to post our group name onto my daily log on my user page.

October The Fifteenth 2008

2008-10-15T05:28:00.000-07:00

Today we explored some websites. They told you how to get and create podcasts. It was interesting, because it would be neat to have something on your ipod that you created on your own.

October The 14th 2008

2008-10-14T05:46:00.000-07:00

Today we began filming our paperprototypes. I will film my paperprototype tomorrow. I still need to create some more "pieces" for my paperprototype. I will do that today so I will have it for tomorrow. Other than that, I am ready to film mine.

October The Ninth 2008

2008-10-09T05:12:00.000-07:00

~My group has been working on the paper prototype of our game. We've discussed our characters in the game and we've discussed the levels of the game. So far, our paper prototype is finished up to the end of the first level of the game.~

September The Twenty - Sixth

2008-09-26T05:38:00.000-07:00

~Today I read a tutorial about using frames and keyframes to create a movie with animation. It explained it well. I think it will be easier to learn flash if I just use it and explore with it. It's easier for me to learn something if I just play around with it.~

September The Twenty - Second

2008-09-23T05:39:00.000-07:00

Today we discussed the tutorial about paper prototyping. I had previously watched it. I think that it showed it well and I understand how to do paper prototyping now. It just uses a lot of paper to do it though.

September the Twenty - Second

2008-09-22T05:31:00.001-07:00

Today we discussed our games with our partners. We decided on the characters and the settings for each game.

Today, September Eighteenth!

2008-09-18T05:40:00.001-07:00

Today we are finishing the game reviews we were suppose to do yesterday.

Yesterday, September Seventeenth, 2008

2008-09-18T05:40:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, we reviewed games that were created by other students on Globaloria. Some of them were really good, and some were really bad. They helped me to get an idea of what kind of game I want to create.

~*~Pendley~*~