blogroll
February 26, 2006 at 7:05 am | In blogroll | 1 CommentI have added a blogroll. Do one yourself, if you haven’t already.
Some students have worked this out for themselves already and are adding comments to each others blogs. I’d like them to broaden out and add some comments to students they haven’t visited yet.
I’d like everyone to add at least 4 intelligent comments on other students blogs this week and then add a blog entry to your blog saying who you have added your comments to. No real names please.
Read each others blogs to get ideas for solving problems but no copying. The idea is that you help each other to learn.
making gifs
February 18, 2006 at 4:00 am | In gamemaker, sprites | 1 Comment
Students haven’t been posting their finished gifs into wordpress. After you make your animation then save it as a gif in game maker. Then I found you have to load it in GIMP and save it there, otherwise it won’t loop. Finally, upload it to wordpress as a full size image, not a thumbnail. Then you can see your animated gifs in wordpress! Remember to do a hard one (different sized frames) as well as an easy one.
problem 2:
2) Make an animation from a strip sheet of stills.
a) one where all the slides are the same size (easier)
b) another where the slides are of varying sizes (harder)
Solution:
Hint:
Sprite editor > File > Create from Strip
Sprite editor > File > Add from Strip
Hint: For slides of varying sizes start with the largest size and add the smaller sizes later and rearrange order. It can be a fiddly, tedious process!
Suitable strip sheets are astro_sheet.gif, shadow_sheet.gif, kadotsu_sheet.gif
categories
February 14, 2006 at 11:30 am | In wordpress | Leave a CommentLogin to wordpress and go into write or edit a post mode.
Look to the right and you’ll see a ‘Categories’ tab. Click on the + and add categories. I’m using categories like gamemaker, sprites, problems, wordpress, offtopic . Simple words that categorise what your posts are about.
Each time you post you tick the category boxes on the right which best describe your post.
Change your site’s look or theme
February 14, 2006 at 11:27 am | In wordpress | Leave a CommentLogin into wordpress
Dashboard > change your sites look or theme
Choose a theme that you like. That’s all you have to do.
I chose the ‘Pool’ theme.
problems and solutions
February 7, 2006 at 12:07 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
My expectations for the GAME MAKER SKILLS CHALLENGE worksheet. What I expect you to blog about:
1) Write down the current problem, it’s easier to cuts and paste from the challenge sheet
2) Describe your solution to the problem. What were the main important things that had to be done to solved the problem. Provide some detail here.
3) Who helped you? How did they help you? Remember you can ask anyone for help!
4) Provide a screen shot which illustrates the solution to the problem. Irfanview is a simple image editor for pasting and cropping a screen shot. Ask if you’re not sure how to do it.
game making stage one
February 1, 2006 at 3:37 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentThis blog is for the year 11 game making class. Here is the course outline:
Skills
- Solve a series of programming and multimedia challenges set by the teacher
- Skills test using Game Maker. Closed book. Develop a game with specified criteria without assistance in supervised setting
Folio
- Investigate and write about the issues of addiction and violence in video games
- Choose and evaluate an existing game from the Game Maker site. Teacher will provide guidelines for the game evaluation
Practical
- Design, build and document your own game using Game Maker software. Teacher will provide guidelines for documentation based on the systems development life cycle
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