Flash

I've enjoyed my time in this class so far.  I've had a love-hate relationship with Flash.  I love getting something to work in Flash but I hate the frustration I go through to get it to work.

Animation

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1219779/shoop_da_whoop_in_the_lazer_collection_2/

This video is part of the inspiration for Laser Gator.  This is the only video of the Laser Collection trilogy that I could find that wasn't on Youtube.  I love it just because it's so random and stupid, but funny at the same time.  These videos have received literally millions of views on Youtube.  This link and the video are both school appropriate by the way.

Vlog

My hair wouldn't stay out of my eyes and I look really sketchy in this. 

Useful Link

I couldn't find anything useful from any other links, so I found one myself.  This has everything that I'll need to know to make my game educational.  http://science.howstuffworks.com/laser.htm
The rest of the site http://www.howstuffworks.com/ is also very useful. 

Visual Storytelling

I think we are going to use visual storytelling to teach about our topic in a funny way, but I'm still not sure.  A lot of our ideas aren't exactly set in stone yet.  There weren't very many games in the Playing to Learn topic that I found to teach their concept very well.  We haven't really been influenced by any other narrative games.

Drawing a Scene - What I've Learned

What have I learned about my topic?  Contrary to popular belief, alligators don't really shoot lasers from their mouth!  Can you believe that?  Since this is text, you probably can't tell how sarcastic I'm trying to be here.  We haven't really started to research the educational stuff yet, but I expect we will be using Wikipedia and Google a lot when research starts.  In other news, our game is coming along smoothly so far.  Laser Gator will come to life soon...

Paper Prototyping

This assignment has caused me to rethink everything about my game.  I realized just how impossibly stupid my idea is.  These games are supposed to be educational, and mine was far from it.  I may have to make my original idea come to life on my own time.  I feel like I've wasted this week completely.