Scratch Game Design

Scratch Games

Use arrow keys to move in chase. Use arrow keys to move in platformer and spacebar to jump. In freedom use f and j to fight the slime h to heal and use r and u to attack the ghoul.

In scratch I made the game above. It was made in scratch, and was pretty difficult. The user experience was a very important factor  in making this game. One of my friends said it would be cool if the dragon changed when it touched your character. And also a few people said the movement was very cluncky  and I agreed so i changed the movement to slide to make it smoother. Also since we were trying not to make it losable but I was unable so you can lose. Many things affected the game based on the experience of players.

There are several features in my game that my game has. Such as a gravity engine in my platformer or costume changes in my platformer. In my chase game there is no gravity however there is in my platformer. In my chase game there is no levels unlike my platformer game. The platformer game is more complex than my chase for the chase game has a much simpler code. I honestly prefer the platformer over the chase comment down below your favorite game.

One of my most difficult bug fixes was probably recreating my gravity engine after I accidentally deleted the gravity engine. Also I had to try to figure out a fair time for the game. The code on the right looks semi-simple but this was just the timer code, I had to do some crazy stuff guys. One other bug that took me a while to fix was that when I tried to use the paint bucket tool for the flag it would paint the entire screen. This stumped me for several hours and I was so confused but I had a hole in my sprite so I had to re-draw the flag. So yeah this is the last school post for a while because winter break is coming and also last Thursday was my birthday and I turned eleven, So i will be posting minor updates but see you guys at the next post!

Invention Commercial

P3T8_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

In gt we made a commercial for a product that we made. Our goals were to target our product to our audience (Our class) so they would buy our product. We wanted our device known as the Multi-Read to help with everyday reading issues. It has a light to use in dark areas. It also can be used as a pointer. You as well as being used as a bookmark so you don't lose your spot. So comment if you would buy our product that Tyler, Elijah, and myself built.

Our best team moment was probably when my friends came to my house to help film. We got our filming done we found the perfect lighting and it was great. Also that was where we built the Multi-Read to use in the commercial. Finally after we got all our filming done my mom made cookies and we played video games and it was really fun. One funny part was that Elijah got lost trying to find my house and it was really funny. That was the best team moment!

Tyler, Elijah and I all played a part in creating our invention, the Multi-read. Tyler was the camera man mainly because he said that he was a quiet speaker and doesn't like to act. Elijah was a part actor and a editor just like I was.  We all had our own part to play and we all had a fun time doing it. Generally, we got an awesome grade! We got an A on our project and    we didn't think we were going to get a good grade so it was very satisfactory.

Cracking the Code

You know alot of you guys reading this can guess from the title that my class is learning about code. So I honestly think that everyone should code, it's a great life skill. One of the reasons I think everyone should learn to code is that it can lead to some amazing things from just kinda messing around with a computer.  It's crazy all of the things possible with code!

My first experience with code wasn't with Mr. Sanderl as many of you may think, it was actually at my school in elementary with Mrs. Chung.  When we did our code we got one hour per week and it was difficult for me, but as time progressed I was getting better thus it became easier. In Mr. Sanderl's class since I had already done that before it was a breeze. After we learnt the basic code we learnt  the more complex code such as using a little code to make a mini-game. IT was a fun time and  I think you should try.

I have been planning to talk with you guys about this for so long but now I finally get to talk about it for GT!! I have to talk about a game that I would code/design! So I would make a game that is heavily storyline and uses lots of the adventure aspect. I would call this game "Sky Quarry". It is a game where you find floating islands and mine them in your airship. Also there is an enemy city (Pirates) that want to take your city and it's riches. So that is the basic concept hope you enjoy see you guys later bye!!!

Composition Scavenger Hunt

                                   




In class we did a composition technique scavenger hunt with teams and are supposed to chose what we think the most important one is in this intro paragraph, So here we go! I think the most important composition technique is eye level. This is because in this it is good to use for when the subject is speaking or making a profound emotion. Also people in our class mostly understood what eye level was. So this means that it is common and effective, thus making it extremely useful. So that is why I think eye level is the best composition technique.

I think the hardest composition technique was low angle. This is because when we were filming my head wasn't showing and it was shaky from the awkward angle. Also our ants eye was so similar that it was hard to deviate. It was also difficult because I don't think you would find it comfortable to use often. So that is what I thought was the hardest composition technique.
                     
 My favorite Technique

My team includes Tyler Tanaka and Elijah O'Day. Tyler is mainly a silent person and was doing the filming and transitions. Elijah is a more talkative person and was acting as well as making a cuts in the editing. Tyler is slightly shorter than me and fun to have as a friend. Elijah is slightly taller and is also a great friend and is my friend. So that was my team, and I hope you enjoyed this post, bye!

National Overalls Day?

So this morning I was listening  to the radio when I heard that today was national overalls day. So some of you may already know that I live in America, so if you were from Thailand because I know you're out there single viewer it wouldn't be the holiday for you. Happy national overalls day and I'll see you tomorrow, BYE!!!!

Another Monday

Right now I'm in school doing nothing but waiting for next period and writing here for all you guys viewing! But I thought I would wish you guys a good Monday, So I will post tomorrow!!!!!

For People Who Have a Google Plus Acount

For everyone who has a google plus account, I have a message! If you have one you can look at google plus and you can get some messages when I post. So yeah have a nice day and read my humorous monologue!!!

My Humorous Monologue

KooN_Comedy from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

For our comedic monologue project (Yes this is the same one as in the last post.) my class has learnt alot. One of the things we learnt were how to edit in I-movie as we needed to have our B-roll over the image of our monologue. We also learnt about making B-roll and that the clips need to be silent as we don't want our voices to be cut off. We also needed pad, pad is what sating rolling and action is called, this is necessary because again we don't want our voices to be cut off. Lastly we learnt how to edit in I- movie! So those are some of the things we learnt.

Pad is a very simple concept. All you need to do to have pad is at the beginning say rolling, count to three and say action. At the end of your clip you want to count to three and then end the clip. You may be wondering, why would you need this? Well it is so your monologue does not get cut off. Pad is an important part in all film making and is very helpful.

I was kind of weak in some areas but I was strong in some areas. Some of the areas I was weak in were the timing, as I didn't fit into the timeframe. Another thing was adding effects as I couldn't because it would make my clips to short. Some areas I was strong in were getting the clips to be perfectly together with the monologue. Another thing was that I had clear audio. One way I could improve was to make myself speak slower because my audio was to short.

So I am trying to be as active as possible guys but it's hard I get really busy with school and music and boy scouts and other things so please don't hate I am trying to be as active as possible.

My score for the project based off of students.

Comedy Writing

As you can probably tell by the title of this post that I am writing a joke and for the intro I need to explain why a sense of humor is a important character trait so here we go! One of the main reasons a sense of humor is an important character trait is it can make things more tolerable for yourself and others. Another reason is that it can relieve stress or tension. The fourth thing is that it can get you through your own hard times or other peoples hard time. Thus if you want to have a good day, have a good laugh.

Some of the things you can do to help yourself to wright a humorous joke are use facial expressions for different reactions from yourself can lead to different reactions from the audience. Another thing that will influence laughter are to make sure that your joke fits the audience's understanding such as the fact a joke about Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift wouldn't fit for a group of elderly persons. Also you may want to just simply revise it a few times, make sure the grammar is correct and possibly edit it slightly. One other little tip would be to test it with family and friends to see if they like it and if they do, try and tell other people about it. One last thing you can do (I'm not saying these are the only things to do just Mr. Sanderl wants us to give five tips) is to just try and stay cool getting stressed can cause the audience to get tense and then they tend not to laugh. So yeah those were five tips for wrighting a joke and making the audience laugh.

So for my comedic monologue I chose to write about a fish at a therapist. So here is my joke and just in case you don't get I am going to explain why the joke is funny at the end, HERE WE GO! So I looked in the newspaper and there is a fish at a therapist and the therapist says "So, how long have you felt like a fish out of water?" The fish dies but the therapist doesn't know and then therapist says " Look I know how you're feeling and its okay to be shy but I'm here to help, so take your time. Five minutes later after constant talking the therapist says "Just answer the question you silly fish!!!! ARGH!!! After that he hits the fish and goes to jail. So that was my joke hoped you  liked see you in the next post!!!!

Motivational Poster

My GT project we had to make a motivational poster, here where some of the requirements. I needed to have to text layers, one of my manifesto and another of my personal quotes they were not allowed to have any holes or spaces on the document. One other thing I needed were 4 image layers one of myself, and three symbolic images that represent me. I needed a triadic color scheme and visual balance for the text. One last thing I needed was to Kern my text to fit the document.

What I had to do in order to make this poster was first take my symbolic images were taken by yours truly, and open them with Photoshop. Then I moved them from their separate tabs and put them into one piece. After that I wrote my personal quotes and manifesto in my google docs for the spell check and copied and paced it into my Photoshop document to. The next thing I had to do was choose a color from a color making website with triadic color, I took the ID's of those colors and pasted it to my text. Also forgot to mention this after the text part but I had to kern the text and resize the imaging to fit.

The hardest part of making this poster was probably the kerning. I had to though, it wasn't fun I couldn't leave any holes and I had to try to make it fit on one page and make the perfect color scheme which it didn't wanna do so yeah. I think I can improve on this though by practicing, that's how everyone improve. Lucky for me I know of a website to let yourself kern! I will need to do more kerning throughout the school year so it probably is a good idea to practice kerning.

About GT

So in my first post I said I would tell you about GT so here I am. So basically Gt stands for gifted and talented and it is for the advanced students at the school. My teachers name is Mr. Sanderl and uh yeah so that's about it.

Personal Manifesto

People in the world are all complexly different from each other here are some of the things different about me, Nicholas. One thing that is interesting about me is I have been talking bass guitar lessons for a year now. I am also a boy scout trying to become an eagle scout, it seems very difficult but I am determined. To be honest I am not the greatest and sports except for biking and swimming. I also live on a seven and a half acre farm with two dogs, and two horses. My father is a teacher and my mom is a social worker. Well there you go if you’re reading this, this is my first post for my school's gifted and talented program I’ll explain that later bye!

Live life to the fullest extent. If you can't do it it on the first try go again. Joy is a gift cherish it. experience is of value. Let your mind soar! new beginnings. travel. If you have a nightmare use a dream catcher. There is always something for someone. Knowledge is something everyone is born with intelligence people just need to find it. Labels are meant to be changed. Limits are meant to be broken.


A manifesto is a declaration that creatively shares beliefs or ideas. This is mine and this will most likely apply to you because there are a lot of things in my post, Although you should try to do some of the things in my manifesto even if they don't apply to you. Basically, what I am trying to say is that life is short for everyone needs to do some sort of thing that affects the people of this world and in my manifesto there are some things that you can do to follow this kind of lifestyle.