Globaloria Exam

1. The Big Idea:

•     My game's topic is the detrimental effects of oil on the environment, and how to help save animals affected by it. The most important concept is about the animals--they need help, and need to be protected from the stupidity and recklessness of humans.

2. Making Decisions as a Team:

•       It was more of a compilation of smaller ideas with the given topic. There wasn't any arguing, and both members have made suggestions that made it into the game and concept to, hopefully, make it a smoother, more interesting game.

3. Roles and Responsibilities:

•        We don't really have a team process. It's more of just going about it, doing what we can do, depending on who does it better. We also switch roles for many reasons: to avoid growing tired of the topic, to experience new things, or to see if one person can do it better than the other.

4. Research:

•   Just standard research. We had to look up things about oil, oil spills, effects on the environment, and animals affected. Then the information had to be narrowed down, to only include what we needed to make the game.

5. The User Experience:

•        The player will, first, see facts about different animals. After that, the player controls a boat and a helicopter to help fight the oil. The boat will pick up the animals and take them safely to shore, while the helicopter is used to collect big slicks of oil and put out fires. It hasn't really changed, but it will most likely have t in the future.

6. Mastering Flash:

•        The most helpful things in learning about flash have been online tutorials. By simply searching for the on the Internet, a person can find a ridiculous amount of helpful tutorials and tips.

 7. Overcoming Challenges:

•      The most difficult curriculum topics has definitely been trying to learn to use Flash. It's fairly complicated, and very few of the numerous Globaloria videos and such have been helpful. Overcoming it has been, for the most part, trial-and-error, and searching for tutorials online. It's all a learning process.