Adding game ingredients

The coding for some of the game ingredients really stressed me out. I had a hard time making the timer because it wouldn't work. For some reason it will go too fast or too slow. I ended up getting it to work but then it got lost so now I'm trying to do it again and its being hard for me again. I just hope that by tomorrow I have done it and it actually works just as it did before.

Present your hidden object game

The Big Idea:
Describe your learning topic for the game.
The learning topic of the game will be that mexico has tourist places that are very interesting and fun to go to.
What is the most important thing you want your players to learn?
I want the player to learn that Mexico is not all about shootings and fights that it actually has a very strong culture and very beautiful places to visit.

Research:
What kind of research did you do?
I had to do all kinds of research. From where the places are located to their history.
What did you learn about your topic?
From this topic I learned a lot of different facts about the tourist places in Mexico specially because i had to choose the ones that I was the most interested on.

Making Decisions:
How did your ideas change as you worked on your game?
My ideas changes a lot while making the game. I had the idea of just making the Yucatan peninsula and making it a long game but then when I was doing research another things interested me a lot so I had to change the things and also the graphics looked a bit different.

Mastering Programming:
What Game Ingredients and Help Center resources have been most useful to you so far, and why?
I think that the game ingredient of collision detection and scoring have been the most useful resources to me.

Overcoming Challenges:
Which part of making the game was most difficult for you?
The most difficult part of making my game for me was the coding and action script.
How did you overcome this difficulty?
I made a lot of research and I also watch a lot of Youtube video tutorials in order to know exactly what to do.
What features are you most proud of in your game?
I think that I am really proud of my graphics this year and also that it was a little bit easier this year to make my game.

Hidden Object Quiz

 I created this Hidden Object mini game by hiding the butterflies into the bushes and also by creating the graphics. I had to add code so that the butterflies will disappear when the player clicks them. It was fun to make the graphics and I think that this code is easy for me now because have mastered it. Now I have the opportunity to play around with the code more. All I had to do make sure that it will look good was make the graphics in different layer and give each butterfly a different instance name.

Add Hidden Objects

This was actually not the first time that I had worked on Flash. I had been working with this program since sixth grade so it wasn't new for me. I really enjoyed putting code into my actual game. This is actually part of one of my game scenes. I have really big ideas for my game and I can't wait till I hide more objects through my game. I am going to work on a scrolling background as my next thing for my game and after that I will make the character move.

Draw background

I really enjoyed drawing this background. I really liked the variety of the things that I can do while I trace something because I have my own idea and the original one also. I am not use to trace because I like to do original things so it was a cool experience. I really enjoyed seeing my things that i imagined come to life and to be original.

Post-Election Day 2012

Was your prediction correct? My prediction was correct. My prediction was correct because I taught that Barack Obama!

What do you think about the results?I think that the results were too close. I actually thought that it could go either way, even though i wanted Obama to win. Obama had a 50% of the votes but Romney got 49%. This was way too close not be worried.

Paper Prototype

What did you learn from creating a game with paper and pencil? 
I learned that when we draw a game in paper is easier when we make the graphics but tits harder to actually imagine the things moving because you have to do it on paper.

What was easy about drawing your hidden object game? 
It was really easy to draw the character because is a bubble character. It was also really easy to draw the whole game because we have the pencil to do this things instead of the courser.

What was hard? 
It was hard to actually put my ideas together and make them come alive. Even thought is not the real game yet I do agree that putting your ideas together and actually see them is hard.

What do you still need to add to your game?
I still need to put more details in the game. I also need to actually bring my life to live and just think of things that would look good in the game life for example more tourist places or things that people should go in Mexico.