#9p4 #9m4 Interface in GameMaker REMEMBER

Remember:

Sprites  - 32 x 32, all different colours, name start with spr_
Objects - name starts with obj_, link to sprite, Add event (main 1 tab) got to room....
Room - load in your background via the backgroud tab, insert the obj_button to cover your existing button.

#9p4 #9m4 Creating Your Interface

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Interface: LO1 - To understand how to create a button in GameMaker so that you can set up a menu system for your game LO2 - To understand what testing ...

#9p4 #9m4 Creating Your Character

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Character: LO1 - To understand what makes an effective video game character so that you can develop one of your own Starter What makes a good video...

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m4 #9p4 Rules Log

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Rules Log: LO1 - To understand what a rule is in the context of computer gaming LO2 - To understand what a an action and an event are  in the context ...

9m4 - Cover period 3

LO: To enhance our understanding of the course requirement so that we meet the criteria required.

Starter: Each of you will be given a copy of the progress tracker. Use the key at the bottom of the page to help you. Write your name on the sheet!!

Task: 
1. Complete ALL missing work and tick it off on your sheet as you do it. Any Ps mean that there is either part of the work missing or incomplete or requires feedback and action taken to be completed.

2. If you believe you have ticked EVERYTHING off the progress tracker, you can continue with your backgrounds. (640 x 480)

3. If you complete this, start to mind map ideas for your characters.

Plenary: Ensure you have ticked your sheet when work is completed AND linked up to your web page.
Hand your sheets in.

9m4: Creating Your Game Screens1

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 Creating Your Game Screens1: Starter Download this assets table into Sites --> DA204SPB --> Evidence Assets_table.doc Download this file Open t...

#9m4 Storyboards

LO: To develop our story board and annotation skills

Starter:
Download the story board template in to your evidence folder if you have not done so already.

Task:
Complete your drawings for the following screens. You MUST have each of these screens.

1. Main Menu screen
2. Instruction Screen
3. Back story screen
4. Level 1
5. Level 2 
6. Level 3
7. Winning Screen
8. Losing Screen

Complete a storyboard for EACH of the above screens. Your drawings will be photographed during the lesson and put on the write drive. 

When your images are on the write drive, copy ALL of them in to your evidence folder.

EXT:

Get feedback on each of your storyboards in green font at the bottom of each page. 

You then need to link each storyboard Word document separately on to your index page.

Plenary:

How are story boards useful?

Moodboard Continued #9p4 #9m4

Click here for the Moodboard Checklist.

Ensure you have covered each bullet point before emailing me your work.

Work must be submitted to me (h.cooke@wildern.hants.sch.uk) by the end of the lesson for printing.

Moodboard #9p4 #9m4

LO: To understand the criteria for creating a mood board.

Starter: Click here to read the SPB page for mood boards.

Task: You need to collect images, examples of fonts, etc that could be used in your game. These will be printed out and stuck on sugar paper to form your mood board.

Remember: A mood board is mainly images and has very little text.

Make sure you have images representing the following:

• the game genre and style
• settings/environments
• the characters
• any music, sound effects or speech
• anything else you think is important

Click here to see an annotated example.

Plenary: Blog about your progress.

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m4 #9p4 GameMaker Tutorial1

MrMJSmith.co.uk: #9m1 #9n5 GameMaker Tutorial1: LO1 - To develop an understanding of key GameMaker terms LO2 - To create your first game using GameMaker Task1 In today's lesson you w...

mrmknight.co.uk: Basic Platfrom Game #9p4 #9m4

mrmknight.co.uk: Basic Platfrom Game: R1 Intro.pdf Download this file Task1 - Adding Sprites.pdf Download this file Task2 - Adding Objects.pdf Download this fil...

#9p4 #9m4 HTML - Adding tables and images.

LO: To understand how to add tables and images to our web pages.
LO: To understand how to embed a video on to our web pages.

Starter:
Recap of last lesson. Add to your HTML annotations as we go through.

Main:
Using this tutorial, create a table in your web page that has 2 columns and 4 rows.

• The columns will be labelled Advantages and Disadvantages. 
• Give 3 of each for using html to create web pages.

Using this tutorial, add images to your web pages.

• The images must represent the work you have done so far this year.
• Try aligning the images differently on the page. (right, center, etc)

Print screen the html code you have written so far today. Annotate this, explaining what the code does. Describe in detail.

EXT:
Try embedding a You tube video on your web page.
Again print screen the steps you took to do this.

Plenary:
Print your print screens.
Blog about your progress this lesson, stating what progress you have made as well as what you are still unsure about.

Challenge Card #9P4 #9M4

Mr Fenner Online: Challenge Card : LO: Be able to appreciate the wording of an exam question and identify own needs so that this can be drawn upon later in the year Exam Que...

#9m4 #9p4 Animation

LO: To understand how to create an animation in Fireworks.

Starter: In pairs discuss - What is an animation? How are they made?

1. Open Adobe Fireworks.
(Start, All Programs, Adobe Master Collection CS5)
2. Create a new blank Fireworks document.
3. Draw a circle shape and change the colour to red.
4. Duplicate the state 4 times.
5. Edit each state so that the circle is in a different position each time.
6. Play the animation - What happens?

Have a go at creating  your own animation. It could be a UFO landing, a Happy Birthday message, a running man, etc...

Plenary: Show case what you have done so far. Was it easy or hard? Why?

#9m4 Illustrator Tutorials

LO: To develop our use of Illustrator tools.

Click the link, choose a design to create and follow the instructions.

#9p4 Cover #9m4

Pupils need to complete any work they did not get done yesterday. 

Pupils need to complete adding information to their information points.
They need to add transitions and animations where possible.

Once pupils have completed this, they need to get feedback from a peer and write this feedback on their blogs. At least 2 stars and 1 wish.

They then need to make improvements from that feedback and again explain this on their blog.

Should pupils complete all of this, they can create a banner for their websites using Picmonkey.

Once pupils have done this, they need to research, what makes a good logo. This must be a Word document with annotated example logos. What is good about them? What is bad? And why?
Pupils will be designing their own logo for their website using either Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Fireworks.

Cover Work #10M2 #09M4 03/10/12

Courtesy of Mr Smith..

LO1 - Understand the benefits of using a template to create a website 
LO2 - Be able to create a series of web pages using a template

In today's lesson we will be looking at how we can use templates to make the process of creating a website more effective. You will be working with a template of your choice to create a website about a topic of your choice.

Task 1 - Dreamweaver Templates

1. Go to www.justdreamweaver.com
2. Preview the free templates (they're at the bottom of the Templates page)
3. Choose one that you think would be suitable for a website aimed at teachers and examiners?
4. Download it into to your Sites folder (you will need to sign up with your school email to be able to do this

Task 2 - Creating Webpages from a Template

Make yourself a folder in your Sites folder (if this ends up being the template you use then you can rename the folder) - Call it Unit 3 Take It Away
USE ONLY THIS WEBSITE:
http://www.justdreamweaver.com/dreamweaver-templates.html - scroll down to free dreamweaver templates

Choose your template (based on research from previous lesson)
(for some template websites you may have to set up an account)

3. Click on download - this ask you to save as a will give you a ZIP file (yellow folder)

4. Right Click on the Zip file and 'extract' to your new folder (Unit 3 Take It Away)

(If you get this next stage wrong you'll have to delete everything and start again)

5. Open Dreamweaver (All programs, Adobe Master Collection)

6. Click on Manage Sites (blue writing bottom left corner)
Give your Site a name (Take It Away) for example. Then browse to find the folder you saved your tempate / extracted files in.

7. All the contents of the Zip File (ie - what you downloaded) should appear bottom right corner - where it says local files - and all the folders should be bright green

8. Click on Index.html to see your template - .html is an example file of what your pages could look like

9. To make your own new pages - Go to File, New, Page from Template - choose the template you want to use. Click Create and save in the practice - call one index.html (save over the one that exists)
Products.html
Evidence.hmtl
Project Mment.html

Any areas in blue boxes are editable - any areas which display the "no entry" sign are uneditable.

TO EDIT / UPDATE

To edit your template - ie: change text or image so that it updates on every page, you need to edit the .dwt file. Try this out just with text to start with. Save and view the other pages. They should all look the same.
To replace the header image with a new one - create an image in Fireworks or Photoshop which is the same size. Replace the image which is in the .dwt file - save the template and all other pages should update 

Task3 - Post about your choice

1. Which template did you choose?
2. How will you make sure that your website is suitable for a teacher and an examiner?

Mr Fenner Online: Banner Creation #09P4 #09M4

Mr Fenner Online: Banner Creation: Task 1 - Create a banner for your Blog. In this lesson you will create a banner to go at the top of your Blog. You have a choice of how ...

9p4/9m4 - Website Comparison Lessons

Lesson 1
LO: To be able to identify how a website's formatting and content targets a particular audience.

This task is to get you thinking about how a website targets a particular audience and is preparation for your course this year.

1. Choose 2 websites, one that targets an adult audience and another that targets children.

2. Write a blog post that COMPARES the formatting and content of both. Use the list below to help you.

• Colour
• Layout
• Font
• Language
• Content
• Media
• Pages

Lesson 2
LO: To research and be able to discuss an ICT news story.
LO: To show the ability to create a website for a particular target audience.

Starter - What ICT stories are there in the news at the moment? 5 mins to find as many as you can.

1. Choose a news story and create a Word document of research on the story. You will need to write up your own version of the story.

2. You need to create 2 web pages. One that present the story for adults and one that presents the story to children. Think about the points covered in the previous lesson when deciding upon formatting and content.

3. When saving the web pages, create a new folder in your Sites folder called Web Comparison and save them in there. Make sure you name one Adults.html and the other kids.html.

E-Safety Prezi

    1. Go on to Prezi.com.
     2. Create a free account.
    3. Create a Prezi that explains:

–

• What E-Safety is
• What the dangers are online
• How to stay safe
• Some Top Tips (10)

You can include media such as video, images, etc 

   4.Add your Prezi to your blog by clicking the SHARE button.

   5.Copy the URL on to a new blog post.

   6. Make sure you write an introduction and give the Post a title.