Civics Game

Well, now we must forget about all our old game stuff and start from scratch. (I am not complaining because it was the classes idea!) Anyway, i am rid of my old partner now also :), and am paired with the genius of the class, Ian. We hope to win the civics competition. Our game puts you in the feet of an up and coming senator running for president. The objective of the game is to win your debates with other delegates and eventually become the president of the United States. We have not quite got the nitty gritty details done, but it seems like a very good concept and we hope that we can accomplish what we want too, we probably will with wiz kid on my side.

Civics Game

In our class we are entering our games into a Civics game competition. I don't where or what this competition is called, but we have found a couple good sites for our research. We have decided to relate our game to civics by putting the player in the governments shoes, and they must make decisions on who gets the vaccine and who doesn't. How you get a high score is keeping the death toll the lowest. Anyway, here our the links and what we learned from them.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm187156.htm - This leads to a summary of a vaccination for kids, this is what gave us the idea for vaccinations.

http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-guide/swine-flu-faq-1?page=2#highrisk - this goes to a page that tells about who is at the highest risk for the swine flu. This will help us design the need factor in our game.

How My Game Relates To Civics

How mine and Nick's game relates to civics is simple really, it is just like this. The swine flu is a healthcare issue, and it is also a national scare. This is making the governments around the world spend money for swine flu vaccinations and  other things. However, the swine flu is not really that dangerous and I hate that people don't even know what it is and they still are afraid of it. Oh well, i guess that the government can use it as a scare tactic so that they actually seem like they are doing something. Dumb civics.

Drawing In Flash

Here we are, with my game planned out and my ideas in check. Me and Nick are now actually drawing in flash, and it is very very very very challenging (and a little ennoying). To put it simple, it sucks when it doesn't work (the common occurence) and it is rewarding when it does. This is really all I have to say about this.

Planning Our Game

In my last post I believe that I mentioned planning our game and how ennoying it is because nobody can decide exactly how to make our game the best game ever. Well let me tell you, I can definitely stress this ennoyance again with another wonderful blog. To tell you the truth, planning your game sucks, you want all your ideas to be a part of the game, but you don't want to hurt your partner's feelings by telling that their ideas just aren't up to par with yours. Good thing I have Nick Anderson as a partner. He basically follows me in what I say, but he adds some good things. And, heck, he even did almost all the paper prototyping (which also sucks). Overall I feel like I got off easy with this plannin the game thing.

Paper Prototyping

Well, paper prototyping is not the funnest thing to do in the world, however, it is useful. A couple of days ago we had to do paper prototyping with our groups. It is ennoying how you have to draw all your ideas out and you disagree what you should make your game about and how your going to do this, but in the end it all works out fine. I guess this really is a very important step in the game making process. Oh, well, I'll deal with it for now.

My Minigame

We  made our minigames today. It was actually fun to make it, (probably because it worked!). Anyway the game is a rabbit that is hungry and likes carrots. A carrot flies across the screen and you must move the rabbit in front of it to score points. Now, this game is extremely easy, and you can score a million points very easily. Anyway there is more great games to come, so follow me B****!!!!!!