So this must be that "Back Button"
that the students were talking about.
I wonder what it tastes like?
I know they won't miss it, cause I heard them say
that they already had their "Next Button!"
that the students were talking about.
I wonder what it tastes like?
I know they won't miss it, cause I heard them say
that they already had their "Next Button!"
The students are really working hard on their game demos. I'm really proud of them. They seem to be grasping the idea of Flash since we have been working on our Game Demos. We've gotten Drawing a Scene and Adding Scenes completed and uploaded. It took the students several tries to get their scenes working properly. They've learned to set up folders for each scene and to add the layers for each scene within that scene's folder. They've also learned to use the timeline and to set up each scene to go for 9 frames, such as GameIntro, TeamIntro, etc. They learned that they needed a new layer for each object. They learned to make sure that they were on the layer that they thought they were on when they were adding something to their scene, such as making sure the text was on the text layer and not on the background layer. It took them one or two "do overs" to learn to do these things correctly. They've learned many things about frames and keyframes, such as how to insert frames, remove frames, insert keyframes, insert blank keyframes, clear keyframes, convert to keyframes, convert to blank keyframes. That was a long, hard process, but we all survived it and are better at Flash as a result of it. Whew!
Now,we are tackling buttons. Oh yeah, those awesome buttons that get you from one scene to the next scene or from one scene back to the previous scene. Thus far, the students have been able to get their next buttons to work properly. However, there seems to be a problem with their back buttons. The back buttons keep going to the next scene rather than to the previous scene, even though it appears the coding is correctly. The students even deleted the buttons, coding, etc. and started over on the back buttons, but the same thing happened. I spoke with my mentor, Bill, and he is going to look at the Flash file that one of the students uploaded to their team's wiki and let us know what is wrong. Hopefully, the students can get this corrected so the Adding Buttons Flash files can be uploaded. Next, we'll be working on Adding Animation. It's great how all the students are working on their game demos and helping each other when they run into problems. I go around and check on the different teams and offer any help that I can once they have tried to solve the flash problems and once other teams have tried to help them solve the flash issues.