As a group we decided to create 3 games, one being a clone of Flappy Bird, the very popular game you should be familiar with, a clone of Colour Switch, and one that takes a higher difficulty due to us using more creativity, called Beat-em-up. For the Beat-em-up game we were influenced by games such as Streets of Rage, to create something like this.
To learn how to make these games we had help from GameMaker website, to understand the code and how it works. Lastly the program we decided to use was GameMaker because it was more appealing to what we would like to create with our games.
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Here is the trailer for our amazing game Beat-Em-Up Our last game we created was Beat-em-up. All of us are really proud of this game because so much work was put into it and it turned out really nice. To be honest I would play this game if someone published it onto Steam. The reason this took a lot of work was because since it is a fighting game, the motions a person does while fighting need to have different pictures. Think of it like a stop motion video. Thats how the character moves but really fast. Adjusting hit boxes was also a lot of work but in the end it was all worth it. The concept of this game is to go down Fraser Street and literally Beat-em-up. There are various levels and in each level you get to be a new character. In the first level you get to play as Aaren Lin, in the second there is Gurpartap, and in the third there is Me. Here are some pictures to show our work and what we had to do to make this game.
So for today's class we had to make a phone app which required us to use a program called Andromo. I have never used this program before, so first I had to learn how to use it. I decided to name this app, Life because it's things I like doing and stuff that relates to me. I also put a twist into the app by putting a cartoon version of myself to show what someone will be looking at if they click on something. Design - So I've already said, I wanted to add a cartoon twist to this app by adding a character which looks like me. In this app I have 4 things which someone can do and here is a picture of what the main screen looks like. What you can do - In this app there are 4 activities you can take part of. The first one is looking at awesome pictures which are related to me, because I am interested in graphics and always have been keen to learn how to make them myself. The second activity is exploring around the school, John Oliver Secondary. Another one of the activities is going to the channel of my favourite youtuber, Casey Neistat. Lastly if you click on the last activity it will take you to one of my favourite songs ever.
Next we took the next step adding more difficulty to the game we were going to produce. This game is a clone of Flappy Bird but we changed ours to be named Flappy Spence. In this game it was the first time we learned how to add our own images of characters into GameMaker to use them as sprites and objects. Due to Aaren's great graphics and Gurpartap and my coding, it turned out really nice. Look it is Mr Spence flying through John Oliver!
For my grade 8 IDS I chose to create a video game but it was really perfected to how I would of liked. I had the basic concept of the game running but it was no where from the quality I wanted it to be. This year for my term 3 IDS I decided to team up with Gurpartap and Aaren to create more games. Gurpartap and I would be the coders while Aaren would make the graphics. Here is our proposal.
With the help of Tyson our class had to learn how to use a program named Audio Sauna. Audio Sauna is free online software which lets you create music. It has various instruments you are able to use and many effects you can add on your notes which are being played. For class we had to produce one of our own music samples which had to include a base, a melody, and our own voice in the song. For the base I kept a traditional, beat every four beats, and for melody I made it sound funky with nice chilled vibes. For extra spice I also added high hats which make it sound really nice. I didn't know what to say, that would be added into the song so I just said "yo" since every rapper nowadays starts their song with "yo" or "eh". For not having any musical software experience before I believe it turned out pretty nice. This is my finished product. The first game we decided to create was the Colour Switch clone because it had the least difficulty but it would help us understand the way sprites work with other objects and eventually how we can produce our final product which is the Beat-em-up game. It was fairly easy to create this game because to understand what we had to do wasn't difficult. The only trouble was to troubleshoot if we had any problems. Several times there were problems which we had to troubleshoot but in the end we created the game and for the first game it wasn't half bad. Picture of code during the work to create the game. Here you can see the selection of colours being made to the object which is spinning. In game view of Colour Switch
Overall the IDS Expo went really well. Everyone had very unique projects which they were really interested it. I really liked how elementary school kids came to look at all our projects. It gives them a glimpse of what they can do when they come to high school. Many of the kids came to our booth and many students from JO were really interested in our project. Only 3 people were able to beat the game not including us 3. IDS is my favourite part of the year and to have it 3 times this year was really cool. Can't for for next year's IDS. Maybe again I might try increasing my knowledge with gamemaking and produce an even better game which could possibly be put on Steam or another app store.
Internet. Without internet I wouldn't be able to publish this post I'm working on. Today in class we were shown a video of how internet works, and with also the help of info on the internet this is what I came up with on how the internet works. IP. So the first thing we should learn about is IP addresses. An IP address is how your computer is identified. It is the way messages know where they need to travel and where they are coming from. These computers are linked with your router which brings us to cables and wifi. Lets say you want to send someone "Hi my name is Shivek". This information changes into bits or binary information from your computer and heads through cables and wifi to your router. When we reach the router, all of these bundles of information, named packets, get transferred through wires wherever they need to go. When the information reaches its destination which is the router the computer is linked with, the router then sends the information to the computer and the bits are turned back to letters on your computer. This all happens at fast speeds which benefit us because who wants to do anything slow?
Now what I am writing down here is going to go to do the same process I just talked about but with where ever the servers for Weebly are. In a split second I could publish this without errors due to how advanced we have become with the internet and to keep it as reliable as possible. It's amazing how it works and to think how so many steps can be done within the flash of an eye. Thanks to Khan Academy with the great videos! |
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