Snow Day

February 23, 2010

Today,

A day that I will never forget because it was snowing right at this moment.
It was sticking to the ground and everyone was excited about it and me. I wish I had my phone so I could call my mom my dad and everyone so we can all relize it. It was really exciting to see snow in Texas.. in Austin. It hardely ever snows in Austin and I have never seen it snow so much. When in got home my cousins and I were playing in it and we had snowball fights and snowmen... well little ones. Now it's March and it's getting warmer and now it's probably not going to snow again until next winter.

My Team

My team is the best to work with. They are very good workers and they work hard and are very responsible. Having to redo our paper prototypes and having to represent them on a camera. I felt having more time to present and work on our game was good to make improvements on our game. When I was grouped with my team I felt that we were going to be able to do a great game together. I think that putting math into our game was hard but we got through it together and made our game objective understandable and easy to do and work with. The frustrations were that some people were not cooperating and were with other groups but when it came down to the real things that we need to do they come in and help with whatever we need to get done. The triumphant moments were that is was hard to perform our game and present it in front of a camera that was going to be posted on our team page. My team members name's are Valerie Flores, Jonathan Henderson, Karina Sanchez, and Elias Cruz.

1. Valerie was the Graphinc designer on the compter
2. Jonathan was the team captain
3. Karina was the Wiki Updater
4. Elias was the Organizer
5. Dajasia (me) was the secretary

Game Blog

I got the role of note taking also known as secretary. I'm good at this job because I am good at taking notes and I have good handwriting. I had disagreements with my team like the team name and colors. We decided that we should all look at colors and pick the three best colors and we looked up good team names and found one called " The Good The Bad And U."

I look forward to creating a game with my team mates because we work good together as a team and we all agree on certain things and we are good at hard work and accomplishing things. Also the colors and graphics that will be in the games. The information we got for the idea was from pollution that smoking causes and how it can be stopped. Thats my blog for Technology.

Technology Blog

I enjoyed making the paper prototype for the game because we got to design it and color it. I also thought that working with my team members was fun because we had fun working on it together. It was difficult because putting all of it in order and having all the levels all together and all the small pieces. But we made it to the presentation and had fun explaining it to others.

I understand the reference of my prototype to my game and how it will help us along the way to creating our game and its layers and levels.

It was fun working as a team because its easier when you have a lot of people helping you along the way to help with the design and the game type.
The things that I liked working as a team is that it made it easier on everybody to have help and support.

The things that I didn't like about working as a team is that not everybody participated in the way that they should have.

They will get better if every one participates next time and concentrate.

Also we will get better at drawing up our prototypes on paper to make it more descriptive in the game.

Awesome Blog

My thoughts about Globaloria are that it's a very challenging class that you have fun in while learning. Also what I like about this class is that we get to learn about the computer and how to work it. I've learned how to blog and how to add videos,pictures,hyperlinks, and more. We also are learning about how to make a game about problems in Austin,Texas that have effected us in many ways. Ex. Poverty,Health,Environment,and Education. I enjoy this class because we update learning logs and we have a Wiki page that we can post comments and work on also.(Pollution)

I enjoy blogging because it can help with what you are learning and how to explain it better in your own way. I also like blogging because you can post it on your blog page and anyone can see it if they type in your URL. We are learning how to make a paper prototype for our game that we are making in our math objectives group together. You have to design your game on paper so when you do it on your computer it is already drawn out and ready to make. I look forward to learning about the computer's parts because in case your computer breaks down and you don't have to call anybody to come and fix it because you already know how to fix it yourself. Our game: My partners: Valerie,Karina,Jonathan,and Elias.: Our game is about pollution all types, but we are focusing on water and air pollution mainly. Our first level is about keeping the cigarettes out of the clean water of fish and lake animals. The second level is about questions,facts,and information that was distributed throughout the game. You have to answer the questions that we have created by information that WE had to look up. The third and final level is about getting the air that is already clean through the bad polluted air and making it safe to the other side without being polluted. Also my math objective is 2 which is ratios,patterns,and algebraic thinking. I am excited about making my very first game because I always thought about the people that make games for a living and I never thought that it could be me well not for a living but as a hobby since we are learning how to make them we can make our own as an extra thing to do in the summer. There are more things about Globaloria like our Wiki pages and our learning logs also. Our Wiki pages are for information on our game like our simple steps to making a game. Our learning logs are for what we have done that day so in case we need to go back and reflect on what we did so we can go back and get information.

(Globloria)

Now that it's a new month of February we have been working on new and advanced things like paper prototyping with our team and now we are going into the process of making a game.

So far we have made a web page that talks about our game and how it works.

More about our game is that its challenging and hard,but worth the effort and drive of our minds.

When I first thought about making a game I said "Oh no this is going to be hard.",but it wasn't as hard as I thought.