MTR Video

Here is a very good video on mountaintop removal. It shows how this method of coal mining truly effects the lives of people.

Latest Demo

Here is a look at where the game is at now. Obviously it is still just a demo but still shows how the game will eventually look and function.

Last Game Update

Tonight in class, I added some even more functionality / additions to the question / answer pages. There is a new scene that describes how the end of the game will look like / work. Depending on the score you earn, a set picture of an environment will be shown. Also, if you click on the right answer for the question, it will go to the next question or scene.

Next thing I am going to work on is the menu screens or the instructions page for the quiz.

I will post the updated quiz page later.

Question Design

Well, here is a look at how the question page is now.



There is still some functionality I need to add to it, so hopefully I can get that done in the coming week. The rest is just menu work and coding the buttons there.

Game Update

Well I managed to find a lot of info on the topic. I was also able to find some good videos that explains MTR in this area. They might be a bit dated, but it'll work to get the idea across.

Dealing with the game, I was able to add some more functionality to the quiz page. I am currently working on getting the buttons to actually work for answering purposes. Right now, I have the bubble next to the answer changing colors when clicked, but I have more plans to go along with it. The coding is the only thing holding be back at this point. I'll post what I have done when I work on it a bit more.

Latest development

After a bit of thought, I decided to take a break of trying to design all the graphic parts for the scenes. For the time being, I am going to work on the actual text / questions for the game itself. I only have a couple things worked out so far, like 3-5 questions, so I figured it was time to try to progress in that area. Forming questions from the information is actually harder that I thought it would be. Sure there are some easy ones to pull out, but I don't want it to be too easy of a quiz / game. Will update more later on as I get things done.

Latest Updates

As of the last week, I haven't had many updates to my game. Like a lot of people around here, my family has come down with the flu so my progress has been sort of stopped for the time being. However, I am still working on a rough look at my main menu screen, but it will probably be a while till it is at a point for posting. Once that is done, I don't have too much work to do on screens, other than credits and menu option screens. If I come close to finishing those, I will post those later on.

Title Screen for Game Demo

After a bit of work, I was able to make this title screen. Since I don't have a real steady hand, the drawing doesn't look too amazing. However, I can always make something better later on.

More work on the game design

Well this weekend I did some more drafting on the design for another screen of my game. Being that I'm not artistic at all, coming up with ideas / being able to make something good looking is pretty rough. I'm using what photoshop skills I have to create what I hope will be a decent enough screen. Once I get close to being done I'll post a pic of what I have.

Aside from that, I tried to add a bit more functionality to the quiz page. It should be enough for the working demo part of the game, but I'll try to add more as I learn more about flash. It at least shows the layout of how I want the page to look like, so it is just working on code from there.