Final Self-Assessment

1. What was your favourite activity/assignment in the course?

-   Everything I've done so far in this class such as blender, game maker studio, kodu ...

2. What is something specific you learned in this course?

-    Modelling character in blender 

3. What is something you found challenging in this course?

-   Language

4. How do you solve your problems when you are stuck or don't understand something in this course? 

-   I google it if I can or I'll ask teacher for help

5. What letter grade do you think you earned for term 3?

-   A

6. What letter grade do you think you earned for the whole course?

-   A

7. Are you happy with your work habits and progress in this course?

-   No, I still need to try harder and learn a lot of things

8. What is something you could improve about your work in this course?

-   Practising more

9. Any suggestions for the course or teacher for next year?

-   Please don't make me to study this course early in the morning. It makes me fall asleep all the times

GameMaker - Asteroids - Part 1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-RlVvRU5JUmZNVFE

  What difficulties did you have? How did you solve them?
- My problem is creativity because i really want to make my own asteroid version but it seems that the more sprites i want to change, the more problems I have about theirs sizes. So I have to use my sprites in photoshop to resize them.

Game Maker - Catch The Clown

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-ME5uU1N4eUdoWmM

What difficulties did you have? How did you solve them specifically?

- I had a big problem about understanding the progress of making the game, which turns out to be "easy peasy". As a result, i had to read the instructions so carefully that i lost so much time to finish the game. 

- I also had the problem about finding the game buttons too because of my limited understanding . After 1 step, they went faster and faster so i had to look back the previous steps , found out what were they doing and check out every button!

Blender - Character Modeling - Part 1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-M0dNUzlJSHMtWUU

Indie Game:The Movie

1. What are some of the differences between "big games" and "independent games"?
-There is no exact, widely accepted definition of what constitutes an "indie game".However, indie games generally share certain characteristics. Indie games are developed by individuals, small teams, or small independent companies; companies that are often specifically formed for the development of one specific game.

-Indie game developers are generally not financially backed by video game publisher and usually have little to no budget available while big games are on the opposite side.

Ex: Super Meat Boy (Independent game) - Call Of Duty (Big Game)

2. What are some of the difficulties the developers in the film have to overcome?

- No Funding
- Resources
- Protecting Your Work
- Flooded Market
- Publicity

3. What do you think is attractive about developing an indie game? What do you think you would like about working on an indie game? What do you think you might not like?

- You can put your own story in your own game or change any detail you want without asking anyone or any company about their opinions. I would like to put in my own story for the game and i don't like publicity for the game. 

4. What is some advice you might have for someone trying to create their own game based on what you learned in the film?

- Play a lot of games to learn about how they made the games

- Write it out because you need to prove your work
- Play test
- Make a prototype so that you can add everything you want to the game and make it better before publishing to community
5. What is the best part of completing the creation of a game for the developers?

- You can see how good is your result after you have been working very hard to create and develop the game.

Blender_Mushroom Animation

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-UVJ3V2s2bzlHbmM

Blender Game Leve1 Modeling - Level 1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-aWoyNTdQUDgyMkU

Term 2 Interim Self-Assessment

First Name, Last Initial: David.D
Block:5
Grade Level:101.Give yourself mark out of 5 for each of the following 
a.5/5 Attendance (consistent attendance, on time to class)
b.5/5 Achievement (assignments completed and posted)
c.5/5 Attitude (positive, cooperative)
d.5/5 Effort (uses class time wisely, consistent effort in all aspects of class work)2.Please list two specific (with examples) skills or concepts you have learned so far this term:

• I can : make a mushroom in Blender 
• I can: make a racing-game for 2 players in scratch

3.Please list one specific (with examples) topic or skill you are going to work towards improving in terms 2

• I will work to improve: my skills in making 3D models in Blender 
• How you will improve this: I will try to make some other models in Blender, search information about Blender and practice more and more

Blender-Mushroom

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-bTdvS3lGaVd0OFU
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5kYq1bqWdd-UVJ3V2s2bzlHbmM

Blender-Intro

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5kYq1bqWdd-dGxvTkJEZjJFazA/view?usp=sharing

Scartch Level 2 - Racing Game

1.I had many difficulties such  as how to setting 2 players, how to activate the game... because scratch is new to me. For instance, it`s really complicated to set 2 players moving separately because if we press up button , both of them will move. So i have to set everything different for each one so that this one will not be affected while we control the other.
2.I added the countdown before starting and two players because it will make this game be my own game and it will be more interesting, more attractive to players 

Link:Racing Game

Scratch-Intro

Kodu Pac-Man

1. My game is the same as the original one. It just has little bit differences that it doesn't have the prizes for Kodu to boost its speed . But in general, the way to play the game is the same as the original ones.

2. I just add some changes about the map because i need to make an impression on players

3.I have some difficulties about the map at first, i created a small map so that Kodu couldn't move easily. Also, i didn't put the bots on path so my game looked quite complicated and messy. But finally , i found out the way to fix these problems.

4. The testers of my game told me to fix the map, make it bigger and i have to start from the beginning, which took me a long time but it's worth. 

5. I would add some details such as the prize for Kodu to boost it's speed, adding some bots...The next step is making it as good as the original one or even better. 

Video Games Movie Quesion

1. - It helps people to relax, forget about reality and they can build or explore their own world in games.
    - There are several reasons why games became popular but in general, there are two main reasons:
  . Easy to control
  . Possible to win 
2. . The first reason is the video game console. Because in that time there are dozens of console choices to pick from. Each console came with its own set of games from the company that manufactured it , as well as an expansive web of third-party games 
    . A second problem is that , after the success the video game industry experienced in the late  70' and early 80', many companies were rushing to produce video games as quickly as possible. This became a huge problem because at that time console makers had lost control of what games were being developed for their platforms 
3. I do think video games are a form of art because we can also create our own things as well as our own worlds just like writing lyrics, creating music...
4. The next evolution in video games is making video games into real life, which means that we can control the character in games by our movements. But the challenge is that we don't know whether people like to sit in one place or and use controllers or use their body to control 

Kodu Intro

1. At first , i have some problems in the code of bot and kodu to activate the game.For example , i don't know how to set the code for Kodu to eat apples and to create a bot to chase my Kodu .But when i did all "lessons" again , i have figured out the way to do this .
2. Yes , he did . He suggested  that i should fix the game's appearance so that it could be more interesting and more attractive for the players . For instance , i have added some trees, some inks. 

Animated Pixel Art

Pixel Art

Photoshop Intro

-Choosing image -> Image :Adjustments -> changing Brightness , Color Balance and Hue/Saturation
-Dragging one image into another image so that we have 2 images together in one picture. Keep doing like that and we have 3 pictures together

About Me

About Me - Game Design Class Survey



What is your name? First name, last initial please

-David Do

What name do you prefer to be called?

-David

What block are you in?

-5

What grade are you in?
-10

What is your favourite video game(s)?

-Batman the arkharm knight

Which video game(s) are you currently playing?
-Batman the arkharm city

Why did you take this class?
-Because I want to know more about games

What are you hoping to learn in this class? Be specific, for example what programs or programming languages are you interested in? What about the creative side of game design?

-Know how to create and work creatively

What grade are you hoping to achieve in this class?

-10

How can you achieve this grade?

-Hard-working

What do you want or need from your teacher in this class to be successful?

-Helping carefully

What are you interested in outside of video games?

-Books, sports such as badminton , basketball ...

I wish my teacher knew...

- How to hack games

 

 

GAME ANALYSIS DAY

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HYzdaJBYduY6PzqiWeiStTlvJiYI2vottpVYy1Bw0JA/edit?usp=sharing
1. What game(s) stood out to you and why?
-Sortie En Mer because the game graphics are totally good , the game concept is really creative. Such as Call of Bieber ,Slither io...  because they're all good graphics.
2.What games were "good" games?
- A good game is a game that has good graphics , lifelike sound , a creative game concept
3.What games were "bad" games?
- Bad games are on the dark side of good games . A bad game is a game which has a normal ,uncreative concept, bad sound and bad game graphics
4.

-The story of the game is about a bird trying to get over its challenges which are the space between  columns

-Positives :  ~) The game is quite easy to play so that its quite engaging to play

                    ~) It is unlimited to play the game because the game doesn't have victories or losses

-Negatives: ~) If we play too much , it might be boring or too engaging and unhealthy too

-Link : http://flappybird.io/ . I would rate the game 4/5