Designing the game!

Today our main aim was to start designing our game and write our design specification. Some people have started to create their game however they are making their design log as they go along. I might have to edit it as I might include more than I have written.

First off we started with a little table discussion about the things we need to include in our design log and in our work for assignment two task one. This task is designing the game so I am excited for it and I'm hoping the game will work in the end. I had to design another enemy for it so I chose to create a monkey as it was quite easy to do and I found a guide to design it.

After that I worked on drawing out my storyboard. I am not too good at drawing so my storyboard is not the best. I am happy with what I did and I have nearly finished the design of it. I will finish it off on Monday.

Overall I am happy with what I have done today and I hope to start designing my game on Monday. I have some experience with GameMaker so I should be good with designing it.

Quiz

We started off today with the quiz. This week Zoe made the quiz as she forgot to write down who lost last weeks quiz. This quiz was about self driving cars what is quite an interesting invention. In the end I got 5/12 but I was not last! It was a fun quiz and it is a nice weekly thing to do to break up the week.

After that we carried on working on assignment one task one. I have now finished that and I have moved onto task two. Task two is about different genres of games and different platforms. I think I will find this quite easy as I know many different game genres and I finish this unit quite fun.

This has been a good day and I am happy with all my progress today and I have finished half of my game genres. Tomorrow I will try to finish all of the genres and work on most of the different platforms.

Tuesday

We started off today with a little group activity to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of gaming. We were writing the advantages and then we had to feed back to the other advantages group. After that we wrote them on all a piece of paper and read them out to the class.

Then we discussed all of the different factors. This is for assignment one task one and I found it quite interesting. I never knew there were so many different factors about it. After we had discussed all the different factors we started to work on task one. I found task one quite easy and I have nearly finished it.

This day have been quite interesting and I am happy with my progress today. I will finish off task one tomorrow and also start my report for unit one. The deadline is for Friday so I should be able to meet it.

New unit!

Today was a new unit. We finished off the last unit on Friday and we have moved onto games development. I have been looking forward to this unit because game design is a fun unit and I have always wanted to learn more about designing games and how to do it.

The program we are using for game design is GameMaker. I have used this program before about three years ago so I have some knowledge of how it works. Before I made a platform game and that worked well but now the whole program is quite different. It has a different design however I enjoyed playing around with the program.

We were given a tutorial about a simple game. Some people were getting confused with it but in the end we all managed to finish the program. Some people did add more after the tutorial such as a background and some background music. I did not do too much and I started to work on a different game however  I did not get too far with it.

Overall I am happy with today and I am excited for the unit ahead. I cannot wait to learn more about GameMaker and make our games. I will download GameMaker tonight so I can work from home and also practice from home.