Senior Project: The Trilogy

       Yes, once again it's that time of the week. Coming in with a new update, I am glad to say that after several weeks of learning and falling behind by about a few days... I still know nothing! After spending some time on Codecademy; I finally began to start coding the beginning of my new game.

       I actually changed the story entirely just because I didn't really like my first option. The new story line will be based off of the main character waking up and finding a human shaped and sized flower standing in his/her room. The rest of the story is still half baked at this point but now I have a basis that I like. The rest will probably be made up on the fly or if I actually end up having any time I might be able to plan something out.

       I digress though, like I said, I still feel like I'm a little lost on what exactly I need to do. After I began to make my own, the problems started immediately when I realized that all of my questions and choices began to show as pop ups. That isn't even close to what I need it to be. My main goal for right now is to figure out how to get things to actually show up in the document. My side goal will probably be how to continue to display the part of the story that the user is on if they accidentally (or purposefully) put in a wrong answer.

       I suppose right now I have the basics, but I need to learn the more advanced stuff pretty quick. E
ven if I can't manage to find out how to make things appear in the document, I don't think it will be the end of the world if it's a pop up game, right? No?

Jake Smith

Senior Project: The Sequel

       Yes, that's right! Its back with an all new adventure, from the same creator of Senior Show: The Game, I bring the next chapter of this story into life. When we last left our main character, he was relearning javascript, but now he is doing... the exact same thing. The code to learn took much longer to learn than he thought.

       Really the lessons are taking much longer than I thought and I over-estimated the knowledge I had retained from learning this the first time. On the plus side I actually have an idea for what the story will be. I wanted to make it creepy and mysterious, but every time I came up with an idea it was something I had played before or ended up being science-fictionish. As much as I love sci-fi, I knew I wanted to stay away from that genre because I wanted to branch out and explore other interests. So, after inadvertently watching some inspiration on Netflix, I finally came up with the main idea for the story. The setting is a creepy old house/mansion and the main character (the player) is trying to escape knowing that their is someone else in the house trying to hunt down the main character. I know this isn't an original idea but I figured that I could take a general story line and twist it around using my own imagination.

       Really that is all I have for this update, hopefully I will be able to start coding the game before next week. So, until then you all have a great day.

Jake Smith

Senior Project: The Game

       Hello and welcome to my final e-Comm project for my last year of high school. I will soon never have to worry about high school ever again! I am so excited! But for now I have decided to learn just a little bit more before my freedom. For this final project we were told to make a project that demonstrates some new skill in an area that we have covered, and if you read the title, you can probably guess that it's going to be a game.

       I enjoyed using live coding when we did our javascript unit and I wanted to continue using javascript to make a game. In order to make it much easier on myself it will be a text-based game; that way I don't have to show how bad I am at drawing and animating. It is hopefully going to look something along the lines of one of my favorite text-based games You Find Yourself In A Room or YFYIAR. Of course, my game won't use such strong language or be as graphic.

       So far I am trying to relearn some of the coding we first used in the unit. It is always painful knowing that you have done something before but can't remember how it was finished in the first place. Still ever so slowly it is all coming back to me; from variables to if else statements and more.

       Soon I will come out with an update on how things are progressing and hopefully by then I will have a storyboard to put on here.

Until the update,

Jake Smith