Kayla's+scratch+journal

=**Kayla's scratch journal** =

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On your journal page answer these two questions: Scratch Journal #1

My first exploration went pretty well I feel like I learned a lot. Something I learned that I helped other people with was changing the background. If you click the box that says background you can upload a picture that you saved or use one they provided for you. On my first try I accidentally erased the dot in the name so it wasn’t responding to it as it would if it had the dot. You can’t erase the file type or it won’t work I made sure to worn people about that after I taught them.  Another thing I learned that Yassine helped me with was I wanted to have the notes to a piano song playing while my character moved. Yassine showed me that you can have the flag clicked to do many things. So I could click the flag and have my character move while it played the music.

Scratch Journal #2 Which sample project did you explore? What did you learn?

During my exploration one of the things I noticed with most of the games was the ones where the codes where the most complicated where the most fun to play. The game I tried called Find blue must have been messed with because it was not fun at all and there were like two blocks of codes. The other game I played called Doodle was very fun and it had like eleven long blocks of codes. The graphics weren’t the bet but it was really fun to play. One of the other games I played seem to have a lot of glitches – pack man at first I could move up and down through one row then I couldn’t move out of the corner and when I clicked the green flag it started over and did the same thing. Either it was messed with or whoever made it didn’t ch eck it after it was done. When I make mine now I know to check several times for glitches. His mistake will make my project better.



- 2/16/12 - My current project didn't turn out how I wanted. How I wanted was the rabbit to travel out of the box and to do that you need to use scroll and i have no idea how to do that so I made it much more simple. The rabbit jumps over a lump eats the tomato with space bar and as he is eating it the tomato sprite switches to costumes with bites taken out of it and it makes a chomping noise until it's been eaten and the tomato asks if it won then the background switches to a green and yellow background that say "YOU WIN!!!". It pretty much sucks and isn't what I wanted it to be. I'm gonna try to do it again at my house during my free time that way it would turn out better with all the extra time. Maybe if it ends up better I can turn that one in and get a better grade.

=**Schooley scratch**= 2/22/12
 * What is the purpose of your game? || In my scratch there's a patch of stars or constellation but you don't know what it is so you have to connect the stars and make it a constellation. That's essentially what it's supposed to do I'm still working out how I'll do this. So I'm experimenting with the pen tool and other things. ||
 * How many sprites will you need? || That depends on how many constellations I'll make and that depends on how many levels I'll make. ||
 * How many backgrounds/stages will you need? || Same as sprites i really don't know until I get there. ||
 * How will users play your game? || I'm still really struggling with that because I'm not very knowledgeable about the pen tool but I'm hoping to learn. There are a few ways it could work, it could be the pen draws with the arrow keys or the mouse so I'm still working on that also. ||
 * How will users win your game? || The players will win by connecting the stars into a constellation, and having the form be correct. ||
 * Will the game keep score? || Yes, I did a really good scratch at my house and learned how to use variables so I'm going to have one be score. I learned if you have a score at a certain number you can make it sort of keep count so that if he winds lets say three times then the game will end so I'm gonna work with that. ||
 * How will you use music and/or sound effects to enhance your game? || i was thinking of making a little sound track to go with it because i don't really want sounds to be going on when it's playing but I'll defiantly have winning and loosing nioses as i did before. ||
 * How will you use music and/or sound effects to enhance your game? || i was thinking of making a little sound track to go with it because i don't really want sounds to be going on when it's playing but I'll defiantly have winning and loosing nioses as i did before. ||