Basic Steps of Flash

I found that the tools and the time line are the most important things, becasue with out them you couldn't accomplish much. I also find the shotcut keys to be very helpful, they help me navigate through flash with ease such as F9 which brings up the "actionscript" window, or F8 which brings up the "convert to symbol" box. Other than a few broken window pictures, I think this tutorial is very helpful to help me understanding flash.

Flash CS3 code problems

This week we have experienced several difficulties mostly involving the code. I would copy the code and follow step by step instructions from the wiki website, yet it always had multiple compilation errors! It makes me want to scream, plus we are using outdated software, we have CS3 when we could be usuing CS4. Sad face indeed. :(

Civic game that I found

The name of the game is Statetris.
http://www.flashgame6.com/14946/statetris
Its really hard to play, but you will learn something. It's kinda like tetris, but with countries. You have to put the countries in the right spot as quick as you can to win.

Civics Games

American Symbols Game: Its a simple game, but you will learn something.
Bill of Rights Match Game:This game is ok the first play thorough, but it never resets. The answers are 4 yes's and 2 no's, in that order.
Geography America:This game will help you learn the states, but that stupid guy on the airplane is super annoying!!!

Redistricting Game: This game is kind of confusing and I didnt like it.
Branches of Government: This game is lame, and I didn't learn anything.
There Should Be a Law: It's kinda confusing, and it's very narrow minded.

Pick 12: This game has tons of flaws, it wouldn't even let me pick anything!
Play the News:I hated this game, because it asked me to make an account, and its not even any fun.
Bump the Birds: Poor game play, it is very exciting.

These games are all lame.The only way educational games are fun, is if you trick people into learning without them being aware.

My games

The Game I would like to make would be a FPS(first person shooter). I really enjoy them and would like to learn how to make them. Also I enjoy MMOFPS,but that is a little more difficult to make, but one day I want to make the first MMORPGFPS.

Games I liked (hated)

I played a vast majority of the games on the wiki site, and while I didn't like most of them, the one I did prefer was "the cost of life". But it was still lame. The reasons these games are lame is because they are social issue games. Generally when you try to combine education with games, it usually results in a lame game. (Much like these games.) Don't get me wrong I think it’s a great idea, but in this case it doesn't work. Also “Darfur is dying" is very unrealistic the children can outrun trucks. I don't think a ten year old boy, regardless of his race, could out run a truck. Both of these games are social issue games. (Life Simulation). But it was fun outrunning trucks with little kids hah.

The hardest thing to do in this assignment

I found the hardest thing to do, during this assignment, was to upload a picture to the header. Every time I tried to upload a picture it wouldn’t work right, then it was never the right size. First it was too big, then it was too small, and then it took up half of the page and just looked dumb. But in the end I beat it and resized it to fit snuggly in the header box.