April Dortch

School
Co-Site Director, The Young People's Project, MS

How will I introduce Scalable Game Design in my school?
I will provide support to the Itest Instructor for MS, Herbert Brown. We will be having the Scalable Game Design in an afterschool program at Brinkley Middle School.

Project Journal
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Week 1, Wednesday:Today I arrived in time for dinner, after a long day of traveling. Everyone was nice and welcoming. Wondering if I'll be able to catch up and hang with all the computer science brained people. My degree is in Graphic Design, so we'll see what happens.

Week 1, Thursday: Today I really enjoyed creating my pac-man game. Jason and Herb were a big help with the technical jargon. I loved learning how everything is programmed into a game. I will never look at video games the same way again! I managed to design the layout, have my ghosts exit an enclosed box, and move a special fruit across the board once the eaten number of cherries reaches 15. I want to work on adding a visible score counter, number of lives, and bonus amount for the special fruit.

Week 1, Friday: So far today I was on team 3 for Computational Thinking Jeopardy. Our team, the TerrorBytes, won by a landslide! We had 3100, to the Double Agents 1500 and the Terrible Twos 2100. Afterwards, we each found three videos that represented some of the computational thinking terms. My videos represent scripting, collision, and transportation. Enjoy!

  

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