James Phillips City High Graduation Project

Monday, May 3, 2010

Starting back up

well started doing grad project again, i finished my outline and my notes last week so i assume i'm with the class now on the literature review...this is so troublesome...I need to work on...

Literature Review
Website
Interviews
Presentation
Action Plan

i figure id give a week for the Lit. Review, a couple days for the Website, 2 days for the interview, and the rest of the time to work on my presentation. I also need to work with Mr. Mays on my action plan and its crucial that i get this done so i can present it at the end of the year.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

What i did

well i finished my proposal YAY! so now whats really on my mind is work and school its rushing at me all to fast i was planning on messing with VB sometime this week but i got work to do at home and as soon as i get there i need to start working...*sigh* im not having such a good week

Friday, October 31, 2008

............

ok my proposal is finish and my time line is done soo now i need to work on my support questions and answer them i guess...

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

A Spark Plug

Well as days go by and near the end of the trimester I began thinking. With some guidance from Mr. Mays I believe I'll start off old fashioned. Using Visual Basic if I ever get it on my laptop, would prove very useful in my research. As I find articles on different programming scripts I'm eager to mess around and make things on the top of my head. OOOOO the possibilities =)

Monday, October 6, 2008

More Idea's?

Well according to Mr. Mays we are going to try and get Visual Basic 2008 on my laptop. YAY!! This means i can toy with the program and using some external sources probably try and code a simple brick game as a start. As the days go by I'll make bigger projects and sometime something to present to the judges when it comes time to present the project =D

Friday, October 3, 2008

Essential and Support Questions

Main Idea- What is the purpose of Video Game Programming?

Support,

What is Programming?

Where did it originate from?

How do you become a video game programmer?

What are the requirements?

Who can do game programming?

What can someone do with Video Game programming?

What kind of code does it use?

If you have any other ideas or comments please post

Key Terms

1. Computer programming (often shortened to programming or coding) is the process of writing, testing, debugging/troubleshooting, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.
2. C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as a middle-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled language where compilation creates machine code for the target machine hardware, supports procedural programming, data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming.
3. Game programming, a subset of game development, is the programming of computer, console or arcade games. Though often engaged in by professional game programmers, many novices may program games as a hobby. Some software engineering students program games as exercises for learning a programming language or operating system.
4. C# (pronounced C Sharp) is an object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of the .NET initiative and later approved as a standard by ECMA (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270)
Beta- A beta version of a game is complete except for last minute tweaks, tuning and bug fixes.
DirectX- DirectX is an SDK by Microsoft that is used to quickly access hardware.
Engine- An engine is the code that makes a game run. An engine can be used for multiple games by using different art and data sets. The Quake 3 engine is a great example that was not only used by the game Quake 3 Arena but also by Star Trek Elite Forces and Alice. A good engine can often be licensed to other developers.
Fox- To cancel a game due to legal issues relating to possible infringement of intellectual property by the game developers. The term is derived from 20th Century Fox Corporation causing a game mod to be cancelled.
Game Artificial Intelligence- Game artificial intelligence or AI is logic used to determine a computer players decisions.
Gameplay- The important and hopefully entertaining interactions between a player and the game world.
Java- An interpreted object-oriented programming language that is based off C/C++ syntax. It's generally slower then compiled languages but the code can be run on any computer with a Java interpreter.
MIP-Mapping- A MIP-Map is a file with multiple images of the same object. These images are different sizes. The different sizes are used to reduce the amount of memory used if the object was far away by using the smallest image of the object that would be as small or larger then how the image should look in the game.
OpenGL- OpenGL is a graphics SDK for PCs and Macs used to develop 3D games like Quake.
Overlay- An image can be overlaid over other images. An overlay image will not change often and will be placed over the game view. An example of an overlay is a resource count and health information that is displayed at the top, bottom, or side of the screen over the game world.
Software Development Kit- A software development kit or SDK is a tool that programmers use to develop games without having to write hardware or hardware emulation code from scratch. Instead they can use function calls to the SDK library of pre-defined hardware and hardware emulation code. DirectX and OpenGL are both popular SDKs that game programmers use.
Web Game- A game played on a web page. These are usually made in HTML, Java, JavaScript, Flash, Shockwave, or Visual BASIC.