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This class has been quite the expierence I must say. I thought I knew what 12th grade English was going to be all about, I dreaded the thought. Entering the first day of class I never would have expected to hear that our senior project was going to be to make a game. The game sounded exciting and fun, I didn't know how complicated it actually was going to be.To me this class has kind of been like a rollercoster. I've had fun, I've been frustrated, I've felt accomplished. I feel lucky to have been the first class at Riverside High School to have taken this class, and I believe all classes from here on out, whether for English or just an elective should have the priveledge of taking it. This class really gives you a new way to look at things a way to bring out your creative and imagive side.Although we didn't get a fully functional game, we got the idea across. When Chris and I first became partners, we knew nothing about eachother, i'm not even sure if we even had talked before. This was a great expierence to becuase I have a new friend. We went from knowing nothing about each other, to finding out what makes the other aggrevated, happy, mad, and we also know eachothers quirks. I'm really glad that we were partners, and now I know .. you don't always have to be with your friend. I believe we really suprised each other at the end. One of the head people even asked for our powerpoint! I really want to thank Chris though, he never let me give up, and I was tempted!A couple things I have had fun with, and I'm proud of our my blog and my wiki. I went from knowing nothing about it to being a OFFICER. I was so proud everytime I moved up, I even remember one day Chez called me a newbie, and I was like " Hey I'm a dood!''. Thanks Chez for being a great teacher, I know it wouldn't have been quite the same without you!
I would first like to say that it was interesting to see other people's team pages, and see how far they have came apposed to Chris' and my team.The first teams game that I played was Thing 1 & Thing 2, this is Ashley and Chad's team. I honestly was very suprised! They actually have a working game! My over all view was that I was amazed, and their game is very educational. I didn't think they really need to work on anything; even though there game is great I probably wouldn't take any ideas back besides that it is well made, becuase our games are so different. There game is fantastic and I envy that there ready to roll. (= goodjobhttp://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/rhswiki/index.php/Team:Thing_1_%26_Thing_2The second team I visited was The Pinky and The Brain, this is Amy and KT's team. My over all review was that there game has good potential but has a way to go. They have navigation well, and well made scenes but the mouse doesn't stay in the lines, and you can hit next before you even start. Once again becuase our games our so different I probably wont take anything back to mine. There isn't really any education in it, like questions and answers, but it is a course through highschool. They still have work but it is so far so good.(=http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/rhswiki/index.php/User:Aebess10
Today we did a group ' literature' activity. We were broke off into groups of three; I was with Rusty and Jeremy. We had to read a poem each and summerize it on a gmail group chat, after summerizing out own poem the other two asked questions about it. Unfortunatly for me, I was in a group where all three of us had a hard time understanding the poems. Jeremy did the first poem and it took him a while to summerize it but after he finally got what he thought it meant we asked questions. I didn't really agree completely with what Jeremy thought it was about, but we came to the conclusion that it was mainly about imagery. Rusty had the second poem, we all agreed that it was about a workaholic who missed out on simple things in life like love and romance becuase he couldn't get out from behind the books. I also added in the conversation that this just didn't happen to him and at that time, that this happens today too, and often. Finally it was my turn, I thought my poem was kind of easy to summerize. What I got out of it was a man who was depressed because he was lonely in life, so he basically drank his life away. I referred this to a guy now days who is sitting at a bar on Christmas eve, lonely, no family or friends drinking the night away, looking outside the window watching the happy families pass. I really liked doing this activity becuase it was a fresh break from FLASH, and it gave us an oppurtunity to communicate with people in this class that we might not usually associate with.
West Virginia, " wild and wonderful" " open for bussiness", but tragedey sets it. In our community right now, people are devistated, and lives are flipped upside down. A major coal mine explosion leaves a wife without her husband, a son without his father, a little girl wondering if daddy's ever coming home, and families in wonder if there is still hope. This comes to show sometimes technology fails and fate steps in. One of my best friends was effected daramatically by this tragedy, Seth Davis has lost a brother and other family members of his are still in there; he has to be strong and take life one day at a time right now, I hurt for him. With 122 violations how can you send these hard working men in? And obama, a fifteen minute speech, is that it? If this was happening anywhere else in the country something would be getting done, but "it's just West Virginia right?" Your the President, DO SOMETHING!West Virginia is beautiful and has proven its self to me. West Virginia residence are having to constantly defend themselves. A lot of out siders think were just redneck hilbilly's and it wouldn't matter if we dissapeared off the face of the earth, but this is how we are patrayed by the media. We shouldn't be looked down on by other states, we have a lot to offer; states are just borders, we are all one, one nation under GOD. We read a song today " West Virginia Girl" this song tells a lot about West Virginia in a unique way, one might not understand unless they seen or knew what West Virginia was about. "With a 'coal tattoo' deep in their chest, a death stare in their eyes",this is a line in the song and to me it is touching, and has a lot to do with what is going on. These men have a coal tattoo deep in there chest, there heart, and death has stared and is staring them in these eyes, can you even imagine?
So, I suck! Today we learned or some of us learned how to make animation in flash. I didn't quite catch on like I had hoped to, I tried several times. After several attempts I realized I was just holding process up. I didn't get my animation done today, however my partner Chris is going to help me one on one. Ah, frustrating !! >:o
PaperPrototyping was farely easy; even though I had to draw Will, our hobo, like 700 times! We thought it out and made a page for every part and buttons. The camara part wasn't hard to do becuase I am familiar with them! Soon as Chez gets them uploaded I'll post it.
