You are to take on the role of a gaming program designer. You need to come up with a new video game. You can choose the age range, sprites, objects, game design, and story. You must also choose a gaming console and your reasoning for choosing it. We have played many, many games in class. It's your turn to design one of your own. It needs to be different! Fun! Exciting! Challenging! And appropriate for the age you choose. Remember, games are rated E, T, M, etc. Make sure yours goes along with the age group.Paragraphs:
Name of the game
Design Story (An evil doctor threw three Koalas down in the dungeon because they tried to escape the zoo. They now have been brainwashed and when the main Koala goes in a certain direction, the other Koalas follow. They need to escape each lab without getting blown up by TNT or saws!)
Sprites - what they are, what they do, how you control them
Objects - the good and the bad. What they do, how they do it
Age range - reason behind age
Gaming console and REASON
Why did you design this game the way you designed it?

Choose 2 games. One needs to be internet based and the other needs to be a video game from a gaming console. Describe the sprites and objects. What's the objective of the game? What's the design story of the game?

Alice

1. Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web


2. To download Alice you would have to go to http://www.alice.org/, then click download.


3. It offers four different worlds, and a ton of sprites such as anything from stuff that has to deal with high school, to Egypt, to outer space


4. To make short skits and make games.


5. The pros of Alice are that you can create your own little world and make the objects do what you want them to do, think, and say.


6. The cons of Alice it that it is difficult to figure out how works and how to get your animations to move a certain way


7. In Alice I made a snow world that had three penguins dancing.


8. I enjoyed Alice it was a fun experience


9. I think I would use Alice again because it kept me entertained and that it was just really fun to work with.

Cyber Bullying

Megan Meirer committed suided at the age of 13 due to cyber bullying. Megan was a vitcim, a group of individuals had created a fake myspace of a boy whom they named "Josh Evans" a 16-year-old boy who had taken a liking to Megan. On October 16, 2006, "Josh" told Megan, that the world would be a better place without her in it. Later that day Megan hanged herself in a closet at her family's O'Fallon, Missouri home. I think that it was wrong for a group of individuals to do that to a poor innocent girl, just because she didn't fit in with the "cool" crowd. Nobody really knows what happend to the bully's but the person who was bullied killed herself. This could have been prevented if Megan had more self asteam.

Staying Civil Online

a.) 5 rules for Internet etiquette.
1. Use your personal cell phone for personal phone calls
2. Don't write anything in your email that you don't want your boss to read
3. Your Internet usage can be monitored, so don't do any personal web surfing at home
4. Don't use your personal email account from work, since an employer can tap into exactly what you see on your screen
5. Don't talk on the phone if it doesn't involve work

b.) 7 "netiquettes"
1.Behaving as though you are communicating in person.
- act as if you were face to face with the person your emailing
2. Remember that your words are open to interpretation
- when you are posting or sending something becareful of what you say so that you don't offend anyone.
3. Do not "shout" online
- don't not use all caps when talking to someone
4. Do not "flame" online
- don't post or say anything derogatory
5. Do not send spam
- don't send junk mail, or addvertisments.
6. Do not distribute copyrighted material
- don't take somebody elses words and not give credit to them
7. Do not be a coward
- don't say or do anything stupid

c.) I think and netiquette is important because it lets you know what your limits are.

Acceptable Use Policy

a.) An AUP is a set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used.

b.) AUP is used at Glenvar by the dress code.
- 5 important rules
1. Short must be longer than mid thigh
2. No spaghetti straps
3. No holes in jeans
4. No inappropiate wrighting on your clothing
5. No showing mid-drift

c.) An AUP policy could be put in place at a job by

d.) AUP's are necessary because it reduces the potential for legal action that may be taken by a user, and often with little prospect of enforcement

e.) If I was the boss of a large company and each employee had their own computer and access to internet, the rules and regulations I would have would be, no usage of cells phones or internet unless it involes work.

Emoticons

a.) An emotion is any strong feeling.

b.) An emoticon is representation of a facial expression created by typing a sequence of characters in sending email.

c.) 10 examples of emoticons and what they mean.
1. O:-) Angel
2. (: Happy
3. =^.^= Cat
4. :( Frown
5. \VVV/ King
6. :-o Shocked
7. (: Tired
8. ;) Winking
9. -@--@- Eyeglasses
10. <:3 )~ Mouse

d.) An acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name.

e.) 10 appropriate examples texting/IMing acronyms. 1. BTW - By the way 2. FWIW - For what it's worth 3. GTG - Got to go 4. hw - Homework 5. LOL - Laughing out loud 6. MYOB - Mind your own business 7. N/A - Not Available 8. ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing 9. U2 - You too 10. FUBAR - Fouled up beyond all recognition