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ICT careers assignment ** H A  Y L  E  Y   ' s p a g e   I C T        **  A few features I got from the chapter were: ** Program and scripting languages **    to inform to persuade to educate to entertain **Features** type of data will be processed how data will be stored in the computer what actions or processing will be performed within the program.
 *  Chapter 5: 19/6/2008    **   Today we looked at chapter 5 in the text book, to get a better understanding of the chaper I wrote up the main points in insperation so I have an overview of the complete chapter.

** Learning about game maker: 20/6/2008 ** Today I started to look at game maker I have never used this program before today, it seems comfussing and I think I'm going to have trouble making games. I have been reading the game maker tutorials to help me understand more they are a bit confussing but I find them somewhat useful seing as I have no idea what I am doing on game maker.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #694fee; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** New Skills: 24/6/2008 ** Today I got Eddie to sit with me and help me go through all differnt skills in game maker because I have never used it before and have know idea what I am doing. Eddie showed me how to get a sprite and make it move on game in all directions using the keyboard arrows, it was very useful and i understand how to move an object now. It is a lot easier for me to understand things if I am shown how to by someone rather then reading how to I find it confussing, so I hope I go ok in game maker if I have to read about all the skills used.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">       <span style="COLOR: #0b0a0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">**Game Maker: 26/6/2008**       <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Used all the skills that Eddie showed me the other day and tryed to use game maker on my own
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">first just look around on the program because I have never used it before
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">made some sprites and started to do things to make a game, like make a background etc:

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="COLOR: #00ffb3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">Butterfly Tutorial: 17/07/2008 **   ====== Made the butterfly game in game maker went through the instruction, but when I went to play the game my spider move right and I realised I didnt add the event to move right. So I went back and added it in and then my game worked fine.

I learnt how to collied the two objects togerther.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #1cca86; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="COLOR: #24d6b9; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif">    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** Game maker: 18/07/2008 **         <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #1cca86; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> Today I was going through instructions on the wiki page about game maker to help me understand more. I started to create the Monster Maze game by first making the sprites i made my own goal for the sprite and used a dinosaur instead of the dog which I found in studentpub in the year 9 game maker files. I find it a lot easier to make a game with instructions because im not very good at it doing it all on my own is going to be hard I'm not sure how I will go in the sac.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #5663e1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> **Monster maze:**   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; COLOR: #0d0c0c; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #5663e1; FONT-FAMILY: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> **22/07/2008** Today I worked more on the monster maze game creating next level with a new room and having monsters in the game that if you collied with one you have to restart the game, but when I made other levels I reasied I had to change it so when you collied with a monster you only restart the level your on bot the whole game. I leant how to move the monsters just going left and right or up and down so the player has to move around them. I still need to read through the booklet to understand what I have to do I can not complete things on my own yet.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #1863b4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 130%; COLOR: #0e8add; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">Space Indavers: 25/07/2008 ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I have started creating the game space invaders on game maker I find it pretty easy when you go through the instrustion from the book. From making space invaders I have leant alot of new skills to do with game maker like how to shoot others and distroy them, I loaded two backgrounds for space invaders but when I put the backgroud in the second room the objects would not appear in the room, I asked Eddie to help me and he figured out that it was because I had the backgrounds overlapping eachother in one room so I just needed to delete one and it was fine. I have nearly finshed the game and will have it finished by tomorrow I just have to add one more leavel into the game, I have already finished the first two games in the book, I just need to fix up the monster maze game next session.

<span style="COLOR: #0e0c0c; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #c200ff; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** Space Invaders: 29/07/2008 ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> I have now finished my space invader game I have created three leaves of the game I think I will add more feachers into the game like different aliens and having a higher score. I also went back to Catch the alien game I made and added in the scoring because I forgot to do that when i made it, and i figured out how to add in the scoring today.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 140%; COLOR: #5b14eb; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">Space Invaders: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">31/07/2008    ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have already finished my space invaders game but to improve it I made the aliens move side ways aswell as down so its harder to shoot them all. I also downloaded some other sprists and things from the gamemakers website and was playing around with a few things on game maker to learn different skills.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #00c7ff; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">Skills: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">1/08/2008 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> **    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif"> Today I looked on the gamemaker wedsite at the tutorials, I was reading how to make platform games I went throught the steps it was confussing me though I thought I had everything done right but when I went to play the game it wouldnt work I had done somthing wrong, I am not sure how to fix this problem I think it's becauase I couldn't see the examples they showed on the website which would of helped me. I really need to improve on the skills in game maker if i want to get a B in the sac.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #2ce270; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** Platform Game: 5/08/<span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 90%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">2008 ** Today I was reading how to make platform games from the link on the wikispace home page. Eddie was also helping me to improve my space invaders game by making the shooter move around the room and through the sides of the room and then come through to the other side.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #e02cf6; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** SAC: 8/08/2008 ** Today I worked on making all my sprites for my sac making them in different directions, for half an hour at the start of the session I had time to keep learning new things so I looked up website on how to create objects to shoot each other beacuse im not sure how to do that, I went through the steps but when I went to play the game the person would move but would not let me shoot, I'm not sure what I have done wrong I will have to check it again and also lean move on the weekend and over the next week for the sac.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #31f67f; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** SAC: 19/08/ 2008 ** Today I continuted on with my sac from having a week off, in my time off a learnt how to make the objects shoot at each other and then added what I learnt into my sac. I completed tast one of the sac today it was easy I have nearly finished tast two alwell i just need to complete the jumping part which I know how to do I just need to I just need to go back over what I learnt tonight.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #f854c9; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** SAC: 21/08/2008 ** Today I finished the jumping part of tast two and now completed it I also have finished doing tast three I didn't have much problems in completing that, But when I started tast fore it started to get a bit harder I new how to make an object come towards the main player fine but was not sure on how to make an object dissapear or add in text instructions I did as much as I could today and will finish off the rest tomorrow.

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: #20aef3; FONT-FAMILY: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">** SAC: 22/08/2008 ** Today was my last session on the programing side of the sac so I really wanted to finish as much as I could to get my best possible mark. I figured out how to enter text instruction and completed that for task fore and started with task five, I made the changers to the sprit when collision with another object and I had learnt the week I was away how to climb ladders so I made a ladder and completed that part I have finished everything just not sure how to make the game multiplayer so I will just have to leave that part out. My game isn't that great but its the best I can do with game maker and I glad I learnt so much from the first time ever using game maker and I hope I get a good mark.