Spring is in the air, and more!

Finally, spring is showing its beautiful face! Flowers are up and leaves are about to bud. Here at WVNCC we are on our spring break this week. But alas, some of the students have asked to come in during the week and do some work with their games and general Flash learning exercises. I continue to be pleasantly surprised at the enthusiasm the students have for this class.
At this point the paper prototypes are up on all but one of their project pages, as well as their wikis. Carl is finishing his today and should have it up by tonight. Everyone is working on the "Planning Your Game" topic and will be ready to move into the Flash part of the curriculum in the next class.

Flash and Pizza Marathon!

Today was a great class! We began working on our paper prototypes and everyone finished a storyboard  and will return next week with all the scenes ready to video for the final prototypes. Perhaps you are wondering where the title fits in with this post, since it obviously hasn't so far. Well last week everyone agreed that after we finished our scheduled class at 11:40am today we would stay in the lab and work on learning some new Flash material. And since one cannot be expected to learn Flash on an empty stomach, I provided pizza for everyone and we continued on until 2:30 in the afternoon. As they say, "a good time was had by all". Due to popular request our next marathon will be Flash and Sushi!

Special thanks to Patrick from MCTC for the www.cartoonsmart.com link. If you have not checked it out, you should. A great resource for Flash tutorials, reasonably priced.