Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Top 5 Platform games







To be totally honest, before this class (Game Design) I was actually dead to the "game world". I never really played video games before but now its kinda cool. So for my assignment of choosing 5 of the top Platform games I decided to ofcourse choose the ever famous "Super Mario Bros". I believe this game is an all time classic! This is the type of game you tell your children about, its very cool and with all the levels its a bit challenging.


I also selected another classic, thats right "Final Fantasy X4" originally created in 1991. This is a cool game and its a game that in my opinion has made history along with "Mario Bros". I wanted to keep it trendy to by the way, so I choose "Fairly OddParents: Guts 'n' Glory". This game is extremely fun, and is exciting from begining to end. Another is "Go Diego Go: Rain Forest Adventure", I chose it because my little cousin owns this game! He cant stop playing it and he's literally addicted at the of 7. The game is fun, easy enough for a younger child, and the platforms used are absolutely cool (they match the rain forest theme). My final choice was a little something for the spongebob lovers! The game is called "Obstacle Odyssey 2" and its an easy game to play, with familiar characters, and fast action.

Monday, April 26, 2010


Who knew creating a simple scroll game involved so much math!!! OH MY GEEZ... This week in Game Design we were challenge with the assignment of making our very own Scroll game. When I first thought of "scroll game" I thought this should be fun an easy. Well it was absolutely fun but easy.. Hmm I wouldn’t say so. Creating the game and trying to allow my sprite to move involved me creating coordinates. (Sounds simple right??) Tricky thing though, Y-axis coordinates are negative at the top instead of the bottom! So now you understand where I’m coming from huh!!! But all in all, the game was fun to make, and I’m actually excited that I got through it.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Assignment 2


Oh my gosh... The process in making this game was absolutely tough, and long! I didnt know it would be as complicated as it was but I must say that Web Design was easier. In the steps of making this game I had to re-create one simple wall over and over again. Then I had to surf the internet for the perfect sprite that would complete my game. I decided a Baker would be a good choice, then I decided to have the Baker collect items (berries and meat). I think one of the hardest parts though, was creating events to match the actions of my character. I had to decide what I wanted my character to do with the touch of one button. But all in all I finished and with the help of Ms. Porter my game turned out good.

Monday, March 8, 2010




It took a very long and fustrating week!!! But finally I am done creating my game. I decided to start simple, so I designed a game in which the player has to catch microphones that are moving up an down at the speed of 4.5 seconds. My game is music based so I chose a stage for my background and an very popular Destiny Child's song for the background music. The game is really fun and actually it was exiciting to make. With my example game as a guide, my game was made very easily!!! I call it "Catch the mic's" .

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Welcome to my blog


Hi, Im Maya. Im a senior preparing to graduate and I am in a class called "Game Design". In this class I believe we'll be creating games an clearly blogging!!! I want to learn alot from this class. I really hope to master the skills reqired to be a game designer. When we start to create our first game, mines will be pretaining to TRIVIA!! I love games that requires people to think. But, I will also create games that make people laugh and smile...!