It's Play Time!

We worked a lot on getting our blogs and wikis in order and up to date. Still have some more to do but progress is evident. Highlight was our first exposure to Flash (wow, an unintended pun) and working on the mini-game project. It took far longer to accomplish even part of this project than I had anticipated. We all had problems with our codes and even direct copy/paste didn't always solve the problems. But, as a educator, it was an incredible experience to see the students working by themselves and together in groups to solve their problems. Certainly the most student-centered experience I have ever witnessed. Special kudos go to Howard and Gary for sharing their solutions and providing explanations for us all!

Coming up this week will be more work on the mini-game and discussions around game ideas.

Off and rolling!

Just finished week three of our class. Everyone now has a wiki, a blog, and working on game ideas! Looking forward to the next class when we will do our mini game project. It will be nice to introduce Flash and let everyone get a feel for what it is, what it can do, and then do some actual work with it. Do check out our updated wiki page with new colors and layout. More to do, but that will come in time.

I continue to be amazed, quite pleasantly so, with the level of interest and enthusiasm the students are bringing to this class. In addition they each seem to have some experience and/or special talent that will contribute to their games and our class. For example, one of our students has been doing stop-frame animation and has posted a video of his work, in which a rubix cube appears to solve itself. Also check out his Terragen video. Everything can be found on Andrew's wiki page.

Game on!!!