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   If we had enough time to finish our game the way we wanted we would only do one thing. This thing is very extensive and time consuming. We want to have a difference between the girl clown game and the boy clown game.
   We got the suggestion that we might want to make the questions different on the different genders. There is only one difference in the genders. The only thing that is different is the colors. We put colors on the girl's that would be appealing to girls and colors on the boy's that would be appealing to boys. I completely agree with the suggestion to change the questions but we simply didn't have the time.
   As you can see, we needed just another week of time. Unfortunatly we had WESTest and couldn't finish the way we wanted to. We honestly wish we could take it back. With all the regret we still love our game the way it is and we are confedent the users will love it too.




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My Work to do in One Week

    We have accomplished very little in the past week. We have about three things to do before next Thursday. Our teacher, Mr. Addair, has explained that he wants our game finished by next Thursday. We have gotten two hit tests working and three buttons are completed. We still have a few things to do. We need one hit test and about eight to ten buttons to do. We have buttons to do on our "Your right" scene, "Your wrong" scene, and the "Hint" scenes on all three levels. The hit test we need in on our "Milk bottle" scene. We are so happy to find out this is all we have to do! We thought we had a lot more to do than what we have.

Peer Evaluations April 1

     We did peer evaluations yesterday. We had alot of bad things on our evaluation page. We had a few good things but they were mostly bad. They were bad for several technical reasons. All our scenes are working but we have hit tests and buttons.
     They told us we needed all our hit tests. We do need hit tests. We have three levels that need hit tests. The dart scene hit test was working but we messed it up trying to get the girl clown moving. All I can do is change the names and the speed of the clowns. That is practically all you need but I forget which names to change and what number to speed up.
     The milk bottle scene is not working either. We have chosen two seperate games for our genders and that is proving to be a large problem. I got the boy button working but on the choice scene only the milk bottle button works. When you go to the milk bottle scene the hit test doesn't work.
     The balloon scene hit test still doesn't work either. There are seven different hit tests to do and we haven't found a hit test to work yet. We have good graphics but we are very affraid that no one will get to see the potential if we don't get finished.
    We have a lot to do in the three weeks we have. We are trying our best but we can only do so much.



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Wisely Using My Time March 25th

    We have really been slacking lately and we are trying to manage our time more efficiently. We have been doing our game both periods trying to catch up and that is not very wise of us. We are going to start doing our learning log and team page in home room and working on our game in 4th period.
    We are having problems with our game so it takes longer to work on our game than it does the team page and learning logs. We sometimes have problems finishing our learning logs because we try to catch up on our game. We are going to start managing our time effieciently. We are now working on buttons and hit tests.       
     We have had many problems and we can get finished fast if we could get the little technical things working. With our now managed time we will be able to be more organized and finish on time.



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Overcoming the Obstacles

    We have had many obstacles while creating our game. We have overcome some of them but there are still a few that we are having problems with. The trouble makers are basically the buttons but we also have problems with hit tests and drag and drop.
     Our buttons are awful! We have deleted and deleted them. After we deleted them we put them back with a code that we know works. All of the codes and names seem to be right but they just don't work. The buttons we are having the most problems with are the ones on the choice scene. We still can't work the buttons for the last nine scenes. If it were not for the buttons our game would only need one scene to finish.
    The next problem that we have is the hit tests. We have two hit tests to fix. The code works but we have just not changed all the names and put it on the nessesary scenes. We need to put it on the dart scene, milk bottle scene, and balloon scene. The balloon scene is going to be the hardest because there are six of them for the one scene.
     The next is the drag and drop. We were going to do a drag and drop on the milk bottles. We got teh drag and drop working then we decided that it was the wrong drag and drop and the kind of code that we wanted was going to be a hit test. We practically wasted our time on the drag and drop. The hit test we need is not yet finished.
     In conclusion, we have alot of codes to work out. We are really working hard on it and hope to finish in the next week or two.

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The Accomplishment of My Goals.

     We have set goals for ourselves this week and they are due next Friday. We said that we hoped to have a hit test done on the milkbottles, our buttons finished on the choice scene, and the gender scene working. We have accomplished 2 out of three of these goals. We have a Hit test code and we have the gender scene working. The buttons on our choice scene are still not working. They are the largest hurdels so far. We delete them and put them back then they still won't work. We have had so many problems with those buttons we are just going to keep working and trying to make it work.

The Goal

At the beginning of the week we set a goal for the end of the week. We had some unruly buttons that just didn't want to go to their appointed scenes. We wanted to finish the buttons by Friday. Well Friday rolled around and all our hard work went down the drain when the buttons didn't work. We are stil trying to make them work and we are now recieving assistance from our teacher.

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Things That We Are Doing Right

 We are really proud of our game right now. The thing that we are really happy about is our choice scene. We like this becuse the player actually choosing their own destiny. Onother part that we really like is the gender choice of the clowns. You can choose between a boy clown and a girl clown. The third thing is our seperate games for boys and girls. We really like this because we know boys and girls like different colors and we want to meet those needs. We are working on some buttons that I messed up.

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Avoiding a Quiz Game

   We are changing our game from a quiz game to an interactive game. We are changing many things but the most important thing is our level one scene. When you press go on, on the title scene it takes you to a scene where you see carnival tents and on the carnival tents there are buttons in the shape of the game you will play. You choose one of those to play first and once you play the game it will take you back to the choice scene again. That is the biggest thing we are changing. Another thing is the choosing the gender of your clown. There are two seperate games. The only thing that is different are the problems and the colors, the concept is still the same as the original. So if you pick a girl, there will be girly color scemes and if you pick a boy there will be manly color scemes. We just want to make this fun for either gender, wether your a girl or a boy. We are progressing at a good pace this is going to be easy if we just work together and stick our heads in our working ability. We are having problems with the buttons on the choice scene and we are currently bumfuzzled about it. We assume we have all the code right but we are double checking as I type. Thats about it with out changes. Can't wait for everyone to see the finished product.

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How I've Changed

We have amde some alterations to our game. We had a quiz game and now we have changed it to interactive and the player is able to choose the level they want to do first. We are planing on changing some more things like the loading scene. I messed it up so we have to fix the loading scene. The level one scene is almost finished with the interactive part of it and the buttons seem to be getting easier.

What I Learned!

    Friday, February 4th- We have had Game Demo Presentation this week. We have learned, grown, and received suggestions. We are going to let the player monuver the clown around the carnival to play the games of his choice. The player will have to play the games and be educated about the game of chance. We are going to put carnival backgrounds on our game scenes and have choices about the gender of their clown.

My Challenges

   I need to vent my feelings about my challenges this year! This year is my first year in Globaloria and everything is a learning process for me. I have had many stuggles but there is one that I just can't get over. My problem is my parter. The whole Globaloria year has just been on gmail for her. Her friends come in our computer lab and tell her to get on gmail and she does. We had trouble getting done with everything because she was on gmail the whole time. Another problem I have is Adding Scenes. Adding scenes is hard for me because all of the scenes just get me confused. I have to set and think about what colors go on what scene because I have so many scenes. I also have another problem. This problem is the codes that we have to use. That is the one thing my parter does, she is pretty good at the codes. Another problem is remembering to complete my learning log daily. I just can't remember... the only reason I remember to do it is because the teacher tells us too. Thats all the struggles I have experienced this year!!! Thanks for listening.



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