Game Design – Week 8 – Logic, Flowcharts, and Coding

SUMMARY

• This week has been going by really fast and I have been thinking about what my first game should be about and how I am going to make it.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the scripting languages below, Javascript or C#  (NOT BOTH)

• The last lesson I completed in the 15 minute time span was the Printing text lesson in the Basic Concepts category. C#

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Write notes to help you remember the steps to creating a flowchart
  • Make sure the chart is either top to bottom or left to right
  • Connect steps with arrows in a certain direction
  • A square represents a process or action
  • A diamond represents a choice or decision
  • You can use a oval or terminator, or both, as the start and end point. You just have to make it clear which one is the start and end.
  • All the shapes should have their own colors but, the start and end shapes should have the same color

Mr. Le Duc’s Flowchart Shape Guide

More Flowchart Creation Resources

• http://capitalcomtech.info/2017/02/28/design-elements-flowchart/
• Design Elements Flowcharts (PDF)

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CuFruXJBAELUONOpGpHBK9POkE0S_AP6/view?usp=sharing

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Watch Elizabeth Gilbert discuss creativity and genius
• Creativity can be great but also can suck

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 60 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the game engines below, (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

• Start Daniel Wood’s, PlayCanvas Tutorial 1 – Getting started with PlayCanvas
• For extra support, explore PlayCanvas Tutorials: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/
• Work for no more than 60 minutes
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

Unity

• Start the Unity tutorials
  • https://learn.unity.com/course/beginner-design-unity-game-development-course
• Work for no more than 60 minutes
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• Today I learned a lot about cooking because me and my mom were making food for another family and she taught me a lot about how to cook spaghetti correctly. Yesterday my house had its flooring replaced and I had to figure out how to move all of my stuff out of my room and not have it interfere with the flooring people.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• This weeks work caught me a bit off guard with the amount of it, but I got around it.