Onorio Franco

School
Student, Trinidad State Junior College

How will I introduce Scalable Game Design in my school?
I will... show students that have no programming experience what I was able to accomplish with minimal amounts of programming experience and then encourage them to get involved.

Project Journal
Week 1, Tuesday: Today was very interesting, we learned how to use agent sheets and were introduced to Frogger. The game was very simple to compile and was a fun experience. A lot of creativity was flowing around the room and it was fun to walk around and see what everyone was coming up with. Problems arose when trying to input different generators, but with time came understanding.

Week 1, Wednesday: The day started with a discussion on computational thinking which led right into the construction of Sokoban. The day was not any more difficult that the previous day, but it was a little more tedious. The game itself was a complex build because of the puzzle we had to create but once the code was laid, the changes to the course were easy. I ran into trouble going from one worksheet to another because after level three I looped back to level one and entered a continuous loop of always winning. I got rid of that by reseting the level at the end of level three.

Week 1, Thursday:Today we made PacMan. It was very easy to build because we used the same compilation of the previous games. The only thing different was the use of diffusion. It was not a hard concept to understand and really made the game a lot harder. Overall today was very easy going and fun. It was nice to be able to manipulate the game to be hard or easier at my command.

Week 1, Friday: The concept of Collision..... .....

The concept of Transportation....

Week 2, Monday: Today was a good day to get all your questions answered. I liked hearing all the problems people were having and I liked being able to gain the knowledge of how not to get the same problem.

Week 2, Tuesday: We learned a lot more advanced topics about debugging and colorization with both game design and simulations. I found that i am very interested simulations. I enjoy finding a natural phenomena and simulating what will happen with it if it were to happen on a controlled state.

Week 2, Wednesday:Today we traveled to Fred's class and interacted with the students. It was amazing to see how creative these young kids were. On top of that it was even more amazing seeing how fast these kids caught on to diffusion and the math behind it. And if one student understand many other students were willing to help them understand the topic. The rest of the day I worked on my Robotics Simulation. I found a few problems with having multiple diffusions happening at once so I used global variables to change between which one is being followed.

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