Now that I've complete my demo, I will start working on my game. I did not know of the cancer of which is hurting the Tassies' population until I started doing research on Australian animals at the beginning of this year. The whole class actually didn't know, and this cancer has been going on for years according to news and such over in Tasmania, Australia. I've learned so much about this cancer, what it's doing, and other details. Something I would like to know, though, is exactly how the Tassies are treated. I was wanting to put that into my game but I cannot find a good website or anything that would give me an inside look on what's going on with the Tassies when they're taken out of the forests and put into human care. I was wanting to find something that I could put into my game that is really happening and that would give some more prove and persuation into my game for the players. I've had to do research on my own, and read through articles in the news from Tasmania, Australia and such, and do alot of self learning. This has actually helped me with doing research and such on my own.

DONE WITH MY DEMO! :)

I'm finally done with my demo!!!! I got it uploaded on my team page along with the video of me presenting my demo. It was a little hard to put together at the last second, because I was having some difficulties with flash and saving my demo starting about 2 weeks ago. I've learned a whole lot more in my topic and dealing with flash. I've gotten a lot better in managing with the coding and all, and I've learned a whole lot about Tasmanian Devils. I honestly hope my game would actually get out to raise awareness of this cancer thats devastating the population of these little animals. I think that if I work hard enough on this game, it could probably have an impact on the knowledge of people in America who don't even know of this cancer. The cancer the Tasmanian Devils have has actually seemed to jumped species! There was something about a turtle having an illnes having the same characteristics of this cancer.

Finishing My Demo

So I got my demo done pretty well, but there are a few scenes I got to add to finish it perfectly and get it just right. The only problem is that when I was doing some scenes a while back, like my beginning scene and so on, I put it in flash 3.0 AND I messed up the layers a good bit. I dont have it organized at all so I can't really just copy it down and be done. Tommarow I plan on making some time so that I can get these two scenes on there and then I'll be ready to film again on monday. I hope everything works out right. Once I get that done, I'll have some more scenes to put together and I'll be on my way to finishing the game. I've got a good bit uploaded from flash on my projects page and my team page on my Wiki, so that should help me keep everything organized. Putting the game demo together was quite difficult since it took so long for me to understand flash better, and I've never done ANYTHING like this before, but now that I'm getting it, I hope that I'll be able to fly through it a lot better that I was in the beginning of the year. Wish me luck!

Updates on what I'm doing

So I did have my demo finished, but the computer messed up for some reasona and I wasn't able to save the rest of what all I did. So I have to restart on what I already had saved and finish it..... again. But it really shouldn't take too long, I hope. I also found this game for the peace corps. Click the link HERE and it will take you straight to the game. I tried playing it for a little while, but I had to get my demo done, even though that kind of failed on me. But I'm gonna play the game again when I get the time to. It had some pretty good features to it, looking at it in a gamer's perspective, and it had an assortment of minigames to go along with it. It relates to my game because it's an adventure game in which you control the next move. It also raises awareness for what is going on in Africa, where this game is taking place, just like how mine is targetted to raise awareness for the Tasmanian Devils in Australia.

My Demo

I worked on my Demo some today. I haven't done anything with it for about a week because I was trying to catch up on my projects page. My Demo came along pretty easy, and with finding a demo online, I was able to figure out the whole buttons deal alot better. I think that if I have the exact script infront of me and an example, then I can figure it out alot easier. I'm almost done with it, and just need to do some touch ups with the wording and all, then I'll have it finished. I was having troubles with adding animation with a mouse tutorial last class, so this was giving me a break before I jumped back into that coding again. The bottom line problem was, yet again, I was working in flash 3.0 and not 2.0! Someone else recognized that problem for me and I just copied it into 2.0 so when I do pick up that tutorial again, which would hopefully be sometime next class, I'll be able to get it done and not have such trouble with it.

Keyboard Animations

I'm not entirely going in order on my blogs, but this time, I did an animation using the keyboard. I had actually did this animation on the minigame project I did towards the beginning of the year. I put a Tassie as a moveclip on my Demo and had him move around by the arrows. This was really just an experiment and I can use that exact coding for a mini game some where during my whole game. I started on doing an animation with a mouse, but flash failed on me!!!! I was in the middle of drawing a banana and it shut off! After I do this tutorial, I will actually be able to use the whole slide for a minigame. So really, I almost have a minigame complete. And yes it involves a banana. :)
         I like working with flash a little bit. I'm not all too happy about the coding. But I like doing the drawings. I think I'm getting the hang of that part, even though it's sooooo hard to draw on a computer. The coding is confusing and I can't understant it. All the coding that I have I've been able to find and experiment with and make it something that will work for my game. I've actually been doing a pretty good job with it, but I still don't like how much time I spend looking at the computer thinking, "what if I did this?", or "what in the world did I do wrong for the game to act like this???".

Tutorials

I've gotten two tutorials done that I need to put together a Game Demo that I will be presenting. These two were Drawing a Scene and Adding Scenes. These two weren't very hard for me to pick up on, especially since I've looked at some videos explaining these a while back. I've learned a good bit about Tasmanian Devils ever since I've started making the game about them. Things I've learned are the measures that are being taken to save this species. I'm working on the scenes throughout the game and I'm learning how to tell the story through the different scenes. I'm going to encorporate some things into it to tell the audience more that just the cancer, but everything effecting the population. Throughout my scenes, I'll have explanation about the Tassies, where the Tassies are, and updates about everything on this topic. I hope that players will learn alot from this game when I'm finished with it.