Keynote Speech, Flash Programming, Projects Pages Updates

It's been very busy these last two days! Yesterday was Idit's NECC presentation, which we got to watch here at the office via GLife. It was amazing to see slides that I and the other interns had put together displayed to thousands across the auditorium and the online community! A little nerve-wracking too. Yesterday, I developed a flash introduction to my game - but I only used one layer. I also spent a lot of time updating my projects page and creating a new one on MyHLife. Today was also flash oriented - I watched and reviewed Daniel's tutorials on Flash to see if I could follow them and then set out to create scenes for my game. I only managed to do three scenes, as I was working with multiple layers, something I had never done before. Working with multiple layers is a whole lot harder than working with just one! And it became even more complicated when I started adding new scenes. It took me awhile to get the hang of it, as programming is not my forte, but I really enjoy challenging myself to create better images. Hopefully next week I'll be able to step up the quality of the scenes I began today, and Leslie (who did some beautiful work! you should go check out her projects page!) and I talked a lot about the direction of our game. As we begin to learn our boundaries as programmers, our approach to the game shifts and often narrows. It is interesting to see how we adapt our game to our strong points (Leslie's graphic design and my animation) and how we change the focus of the game to highlight this.