Gilbert Guerrero’s Teaching Blog

Your final project is to create a game in Flash.  Your game must meet these requirements:

• Start screen
• Interactivity, which could be:
  • Key press
  • Space bar
  • Mouse click
  • Mouse drag
• Score
• Game over screen, shown when the game ends
• Way to replay the game
• Sound (optional)

Take a look at last semester’s final projects.

• Write a Creative Brief for your final project
  • Use the Creative Brief template
• Read the Chapter 6: Page Structure in Web Style Guide online

• Create a Title and Description for your final project
  • Use Microsoft Word or some other word processing program
• Read p83-94, Chapter 3: Basic Game Framework: A Matching Game in AS 3.0 Game Programming University

Code example from this week’s class: Button and Dragging + Throwing a Ball -  http://pastie.org/862324

• Read p65-81, Chapter 2: ActionScript Game Elements in AS 3.0 Game Programming University
• Create a Flash movie with scripted motion
  • Add an object to the stage
  • Make the object move across the screen using ActionScript

Code example from last weeks class: Bouncing Ball – http://pastie.org/850786/

• Read Chapter 1: Process in the online book Web Style Guide
• Read an essay by local performance artist and social theorist Guillermo Gómez-Peña:
  • Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier (or the Chicano interneta)
• Watch a video with Jaron Lanier, coined the term Virtual Reality, one of the founding contributing editors of Wired
  • Jaron Lanier talks about the failure of Web 2.0 with Aleks Krotoski (5:25)
  • Extra credit: Staying Human in a Tech-Driven World (72:34)
• Finish Group Projects, due next week!

• Read the chapter Graphics in the online textbook Web Style Guide
• Work on Group Projects

Next week: formatting images for the Web