- Excel VBA portion of final exam study guide:
Visual
Basic for Applications and Excel macros.
More later - Scratch and/or Maya option and hands-on portion.
- Look for When I Procrastinate, I write code...
-
Light
It Up - Key light, Fill light, Rim light (KFR)
Three-Point lighting
for 3D Renderings by Jeremy Birn.
Playing chess with a PAWN.
Great lighting tutorial.
- Building a Platform Game - A Beginner's Guide - much easier tutorial on Platform Game. Sprites and Background provided.
Due and to be demonstrated in class on Tuesday 11/18.
- How to make a PLATFORM GAME using Construct 2.
Due date; Tuesday, November 18th - graded in class on 11/18/Tuesday or on 11/20/2014 Thursday.
- Download CONSTRUCT
2 GAME programming software
package.
- Create a CONSTRUCT Game: Construct
Beginner's Ghost Shooter Game
tutorial. Explosions, Bullets, Player and Monsters.
Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 class...
Finish the CONSTRUCT GAME. It will be graded in class on Tuesday, Oct
28th.
- VIP: Audacity Assignment
due on Tuesday, October 21st in class at 12:30 pm. No quiz.
About A U D A C I T Y Lynda
tutorial.
- Group presentations on Tuesday Oct 14th: See
the GroupPresentations.PDF, if you missed class
on 10/09/Thursday.
Air Raid, Space Rocks, Paddle Ball and Sliding
Puzzle
games.
- Flash and AS 3.0 Racing
Circles from Tuesday, October
7th
class. See the code in the FlashCirclesRaceCode.PDF file.
- Flash ActionScript 3.0: Creating a Ping
Pong Game on http://lynda.uni.edu. 50 minutes 25 seconds long.
- Audacity audio software:
Up
and Running with Audacity by Garrick Chow. It is a lynda.uni.edu
video tutorial, 1 hour 46 minutes long.
- Scratch - Ping Pong Game
tutorial: 12 minutes 16 seconds long. Two player PONG.
VIP: Two
Player Pong will be due on Thursday, Octoberber 2nd.
VIP: Notes/Transcript of Two Player Pong
video.
Ten pages of notes. First two pages used a bad felt tipped pen and scan
in a bit fuzzy. Last 8 pages are much better scanned result.
VIP:
Two player pong Scratch scripts
for
the
ball and the paddles.
- Game Programming University: Flash
Games - GPU example files.
- Study the
Creating
a Shooter Game chapter of video training. It is
37 minutes and 16 seconds long.
Login to
lynda.uni.edu
to watch the
videos from ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development with Todd
Perkins as the teacher.
- Scratch for creating stories, games and animations:
Scratch.MIT.edu...
- Assignment: Scratch
and Game Programming, 9 questions
and one PDF. Due on Tuesday, September 2nd.
- Ghostbusters 30th anniversary today (09/28/2014):
Ray: Two in the box.
Egon: Ready to go.
Peter Venkman: We be fast.
Ray, Egon, Peter Venkman: And they be slow.
Scratch: video
showing the four scenes of the movie script. The Scratch
application lasts for 8 seconds, 2 seconds for each phrase.
- Assignment: An individual joke or story in Scratch with at
least two different sprites will be due on Thursday September 4th.
Watch the following 3 minute 20 second video tutorial.
3 minutes 20 second video
.
You can save the assignment to your Scratch account at www.MIT.edu
and
leave
it there, but you can also download it to a flash drive.
An example of the individual joke, story, movie script or song
lyrics:
Ke$ha
TIC TOC song.
- The
Ghostbuster's
screens shown in parallel via four jpegs.
- Excel VBA intro: 23
Birthdays Visual Basic for
Applications macro - published PowerPoint will require Internet
Explorer to look at the slides.
