So this is my last week of the semester at school. Tomorrow I'll be presenting all my writings, but before that I need to write about everything that's happened since my last post. For VICOM110 we our feedback on our design doc. Pretty much we just needed a lot more pictures of our game and reference images. Another week our class was given some pointers/principals to go by when working as a team and on our game next semester. We also had peer reviews last week, that's always fun; I have to really work on punctuality. VICOM115 Has really just been working on the edutainment(educational) game. I've mostly just been play testing and debugging on certain parts of the code Chris(teammate) made. I'm unfamiliar with "states" or C# in general so I haven't been doing much scripting, but I helped out where I could. One function I implemented was if you fall threw the map, you restart at the beginning of the level. The game is pretty much finished now, or it is "shippable" to say the least. All in all, I'd say I've learned a ton and had fun; can't wait to get started on our next project(s) next semester. One thing that I would change or would have done differently is work harder on the projects. Between work and my other 4 classes I was getting tired and lazy and didn't work up to my potential. Next time around I'll be a better student and team member, and I'll achieve this hopefully by taking less classes at a time and not overloading my work schedule. Lastly I want to thank all the members of Obscure Fish, and our instructor Emil; through them I'm able to continue on my journey to become, A POKEMON MASTER!!..when we finally get a commercially available pokemon mmo out there. I'll make a super glitched account with all level 100s and over 9000 health potions. But of course this is after my journey to become a game maker(pro)..until then, check out Obscure Fish'es website and buy our free game ObscureWhirl.

What's up everyone, it's been awhile since I last wrote on here, forgive me for that but here's the scoop. Since my last post, I have been working on those two games; from VICOM 110, I have been just updating my team's design document. For those who haven't read my post before, I'm designing the A.I. and User Interface for my team's(ObscureFish) game. Right now we are just about finished with that, and awaiting our instructor's constructive criticism to be better at what we do. For VICOM 115, what I've contributed since my last post on our educational game, was my design of the main, pause, and sound menus(HUD) for the game. And right now I'm currently working on making a security camera and lasers for the game, and making them trigger lights going off, and doors closing. I'll be on break for the next 3 days or so, so until then, game on!

Greetings fellow gamers and or game enthusiast. Its been about two weeks since I last posted; I know you were all eager to read about my experiences and I'm sorry that I've kept you waiting. Well since my last post I have been working on arrays in programming. Kind of tricky at first but I think I got it down. In VICOM110 I have just been working on our team's game design document. As I stated in previous posts, I am designing User Interface(HUD) and Artificial Intelligence but I have also been working on descriptions for enemies and level properties like wind, ice, and falling rocks. Yesterday in my VICOM110 class, we had peer reviews. At first I was worried but then I remembered I have nothing to worry about because I've been on my stuff and I couldn't have been more wrong. I could do better; I was told I need to be on time and I need to step up in my leadership position as scrum master. Also it seems I'm not working up to my potential, which is true. I could be taking on more task, and with that, I need to put my name on the work that I did. I have been working on stuff for our games in both 110 and 115 and not taking credit. Thankfully a classmate told me that, and I realized that by the end of the semester I would have nothing to prove what I did. I got a 4 out of 5. Most people would be satisfied with that but to me that's not acceptable. I will redeem myself...








Lastly in my 115 class, where we're making an educational game, I have been working on camera, and GUI scripts. To be more specific, switching between cameras using button keys as triggers, and the main, pause, and sound menus. That is all that I have been doing up until today. For the next few days I will be polishing the menus and or design doc until we move on to the next sprint or next set of task.
Until then, game on.

Hello everyone, Jared here with the scoop on game development as a student. So last week I had my test in vicom117. It was on writing loops in pseudo code and explaining what an example program's functions were. I think I did fairly well, and the reason why I say fair is because I got stuck on a part with writing the inner loop for a program. I had a brain fart and couldn't remember how to tell the computer to go back to the beginning of the program once it ran through the 1st and 2nd loop. I ended up just guessing and handed it in; hopefully I was some what correct. For my intro into Comp. simulation & gaming (vicom110) class, the team and I got a lot of work done with designing our mobile game. I spent most of the time working with the level designers since level design and the heads-up-display(HUD) go hand in hand. Our design document is due this Wednesday, and I am a bit nervous about it since there's a lot missing from it. I have a feeling we'll pull through though. Lastly in our production class, we are about at the same place with our game as in vicom 110. Actually, we are slightly further down the line of having it complete than that but far from complete as a separate game. There is a ton of programming that needs to be done, and though I am a noob I am somewhat productive; at least using my resources. Well, this concludes my summery of last week's courses. I hope these post are insightful in anyway, to anyone looking to go to school for gaming. I try to keep these short but if anyone would like more in depth details of my courses I'll try to give my post more content, or if there are any questions feel free to comment or inbox me. I do want reiterate that I enjoy every second of all my gaming classes. I'm not sure if its because I work with an amazing group of students, have such a raw teacher, or its because I go to school for gaming but all of these factors are likely explanations. Thank you for tuning in!!

I am now into my sixth week of my computer simulation and gaming classes. But this is a summary of all of the fifth week. For the first game class of the week, VICOM117, we went over loop statement in programming; More specifically, while looping. We did a few exercises and went over them, not too much to tell about that day because there were a bunch of no shows. A test was scheduled for that day but since many students didn't show the instructor decided to give the exam next week. On Wednesday for VICOM110, our company Obscure Fish decided on what type of game we will be developing. From there we discussed what the essence of the game should be like and delegated roles for the areas that each member of our group would be working in. I am assigned to design A.I.(artificial intelligence) and HUD(heads of display) for our game. This should prove interesting; I have no knowledge of A.I. except for the definition, but I am pretty knowledgeable about what a good HUD should be like. As for VICOM115, class was canceled that day. All classes before 5p.m. were canceled due to some administrative junk I believe, but me and four other students decided to come in and work on our educational game anyway because we are the real deal; we take our games seriously. *Achievement Unlocked:100GamerScore*(for the Gears fans out there). Anyway, we got a lot of planning out of the way and cleaned up our design logs. I'd say it was a productive day regardless of there only being 5 members of the team present. Later that day I went to our school's game club, MATC Mother Ship meeting. There, we got to listen to two great presentations from industry professionals; Nick Wichert of Vet Transfer and Matt Friedel of Jam Mobile. Nick spoke to us about entrepreneurship and Matt talked about mobile app development. They were very inspirational and I gained a lot of insight from them. That about wraps it up for this week. Stay tuned for more..me learning!!!

Hey everyone, so this is the fourth week into my courses. I didn't specify my classes before and the order in which I go through them each week, so to get that out of the way, For my first class of the week Logic in gaming(VICOM117), second in the week is Intro into Computer simulation & Gaming(VICOM110), and Game Production(VICOM115); VICOM stands for visual communications. I also take an intro in C# programming class since my emphasis is on game proggramming and English, and Math as general courses but that's the boring stuff, I'm here to talk about game development. I didn't talk about last week much, the only thing new was that in my Logic class we(the students) split into three groups and had to make a game out of 5 randomly selected cards from a standard deck of playing cards(clubs, spades, king, jack, ect...). This week we played each other's games, learned about loops in programming and practiced them in word problems to apply it in real situations like making a flower database for a plant store. In my VICOM110 class yesterday, we discussed working agreements like a real company would and are conducting research for our game that we'll(Obscure Fish) be making soon. Today in production class, we are beginning to plan for another game we have to make that must be educational. Not too many details are to be given since this project is to be somewhat confidential but also because we are just starting out. Well that's it for this week. Any news will be posted asap, thanks for tuning in!