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Gaming Journalism Part 3 Final

Desert Skies Slideshow Walkthrough.

Gaming Journalism Part 2

Today

    I went a little to far and beat the game, it was just so good I had to keep progressing, only took me 4 Hours.

    The specific things that I did today was add all of the workbenches to my flying machine, and made a small little tent with a sleeping bag and shelf in it to hold all of my  bobble-heads and trinkets. I also managed to get the better tools made of steel (Axe and PickAxe). I also visited a few new places along the way, the caves managed to jumpscare me a little.

    The Seeker

Town From Air

My Airship

Some Tips and Tricks

    Here's a few good little things that I learned while on my travels.

    -Any time that the Seeker Icon is not on the middle left your screen while on the ground, collect as many of the resources around you that you can. (Trees and Cacti) This rarely happens as it only disappears when there's AI to talk to.

    

    -Doors can hold the Seeker outside when you need somewhere safe to stay but never try to trap one in a building, he can just bust right through it.

    

    -Make storage early-on as it is helpful to store the materials and unique items that you've collected.

    

    -The Noise-Maker is SUPER useful to get you out of bad scenarios, make them whenever you can.

    

    -If you strafe Right and Left as the seeker attacks, he may miss you.

Questions

Where do you get the Stone Axe from?

From the workbench.

What Items can you Eat?

5	6	7	7
1	2	3	4

The Cookie and Seeker thing...I'm not sure, didn't get a chance to try it.

Gaming Journalism Part 1

My Play-through of the game,

Desert Skies

   (Type of Game)

    Desert Skies is a open world game that pins the player against the elements of the scorching desert, and its hostile creatures. 

    (Beginning and What To Do)

    You play as a survivor of some sort of incident in the middle of nowhere, gathering what food and resources you have left, and begin your travels on a make-shift hot air balloon. This is a resource based game where you must gather supplies from various locations, these will be used to progress and grow your hot-air Balloon to fight against the struggle of the desert.

Some Images of the Items and Landscape

This is the Hammer which allows the user to build on their Hot-Air Balloon.	This is the Bandage, it heals the user when they loose health.			The Chest is the storage of the game where you can store item or find them in the wasteland.
Desolate desert.	More Desolate desert from the air.			An abandoned Town.
These are a few bugs in the game that I found off-the-bat.

    (What To Do Next Hour)

    Now, I will continue in the wasteland and build up my flying machine and see how far I can make it.

SketchUp Part 4

Part 1

Tutorial

Part 2

Custom

SketchUp Part 3

CUBE Face 1

CUBE Face 2

SketchUp Part 2

3' - 3' - 3'

CUBE

4' - 4' - 4'

CUBE

SketchUp Part 1

Textured  Tiles

12" x 12" and 

6" x 6" Tile Pattern

12" x 24" Tile Pattern

10 Hours of Coding Pt.10

Coding Part 10 FINAL

HTML Stage 5 Section 2

What I did this HOUR

This hour I finished the coding and the last section in Flappy Square, and made the code into a playable game by adding color and a score meter to the upper right. And made the frame rate a lot soother for the player.

What specific things I learned

I just smoothed out the animation with some new code and added color.

function runAnimation

function startAnimation()

function pauseAnimation

What to do next HOUR

All the other projects in sketchup :).

Completed Challenges

10 Hours of Coding Pt.9

Coding Part 9

What I did this HOUR

HTML Stage 3 Section 5

Today I just continued to the beginning of the last stage (5). I added collision to the square and a border for the square's boundary, and randomization to the heights and widths of the obstacles the square has to fly past. ( And added text to the border for a title) .

What specific things I learnt

Some new code (a lot) for the different functions and how to place text in the game. Other than that nothing much :) .

function spiralText(size)

function drawBoundary

function random (min, max)

function flap ()

function clearBoundary ()

function checkBoundary

function checkWalls ()

function drawTitle ()

function endGame ()

function programSteps ()

while (size 

if

What to do next HOUR

Hopefully finish this challenge of the Flappy Square, probably learn some new code. We shall see what happens.

Completed Challenges

10 Hours of Coding Pt.8

Coding Part 8

What I did this HOUR 

HTML Stage 2 Section 5

This hour I continued where I left off completing the 2nd stage. I'm now in the 3 stage advancing towards better animation for the flappy square.

What specific things I learnt

I came across some new code and a way which makes the square look alot smoother while falling when not clicked, and another thing is adding a border for the player to know his or her limits of the game.

What to do next HOUR

Plan on completing the 3rd stage and getting closer to complete this challenge before my 10th post. (Just basically going as far as i can here, also sorry for such a late post).

Completed Challenges

10 Hours of Coding Pt.7

Coding Part 7

What I did this HOUR

HTML Stage 2 Section 1

Today I continued the Flappy Square Challenges, I completed as far as section 4 on stage 2. There was some new aspects I had to get familiar with and I got to begin the animation process which was cool.

What specific things I learnt

I used some new code to save/animate the square for later when it turns into a little, flying square. As well as I learnt how to do basic expansion animation for cubes :) .

setInterval()

What to do next HOUR

I will just be continuing the code getting as close as I can to the end.

Completed Challenges

10 Hours of Coding Pt.6

Coding Part 6

HTML Stage 1 Section 1

What I did this HOUR

Today I began the Flappy Square challenge. I finished 1-6 sections completing the first stage. It was similar in the beginning like the Cityscape challenges but is a little easier in my opinion.

What specific things I learnt

Today I went and learned new code for this new challenge. Its very simple and most of it is similar to the cityscape challenge.

context.strokeRect();

var wallX = boundaryMinX

var boundary = { }

var square = { }

var wall = { }

What to do next HOUR

I plan on continuing through to the next stage and seeing what else happens after this.

Completed Challenges