My Experience Thus Far....

I feel bad I have neglected to blog this long. So far I have enjoyed my experience in this class. I had no idea how much I could evolve an idea for a 2D game. In that game a boy is hired by the mayor to clean up the town with a super vacuum. Every time I worked on the paper prototype I added something new or asked myself something critical in the game that I never thought of before. When I made the character animation I came up with the idea of being able to use the skateboard the bullies had. After I made the story board I decided that it would be better to have the vacuum lose health instead of the character, to have arrows pointing which way the vacuum was being used, to change the character movement from TMNT 1989 arcade game style to Alien Hominid style, to let their be a key (c) that lets the player use controls, and to get rid of the huge bag in the back of the vacuum or 'Garbage Gourger'. After I made the official character animations I decided to create an indicator at the top left displaying what trash the player is using, how much they can hold, what trash would be up next, and that 'f' would cycle the trash.
Our next task is to learn some things about coding for flash. I experimented with Shockwave and Macromedia flash before. I used stick figures then. My first few animations were really choppy. In the last two I remember making my stick figure move where I wanted to fluently with different sounds and tracks being played in an over laying frame. I'm digressing--I need to be going over my class experience.
I have really slacked off in this class in my opinion. I have yet to post this blog talking about the class or upload my game review even though I typed it twice. I guess the third time is a charm. The other students I have spoken with tell me that they slack off a little as well due to there being a lack of official due dates. There were two classes during our paper prototyping where a few students and myself just spoke about current games. Some of us drew as we typed and others edited their wiki. That seems acceptable because we actually got things done. As of now we have only five students (out of 9)who continuously come to class: myself, Pat, the Jeremy's, and Clarence (or however thats spelled). I know that we can do things online, but I come to class because I have work, school, and a few hours to do things during the week. Most of the work I do is in class.
Empty classrooms feel eery to me. Clarence is usually here and today he wasn't. I didn't see him at IT120 last night either. I'm not a super friend of his or anything like that, but that strikes me as odd. Last night's IT120 class is a Wednesday only class last from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM. If you miss once then you miss labs, tests, and seriously need to know info. That class is why I'm not going to California to hang out with some family this month (I knew about the event, but I would have to quit work if it was the other time slot, I'll see them sometime really soon anyway). If I miss it then that would be academic suicide.