Using Time Wisely

       Time is very important when it comes to finishing a task. In the past, my team has wasted much time when we should have been working. Now we are pressed for time and really need to get things done. In the following weeks, we will be using every second we can to get this game done.
     It doesn't seem like a long time, but a month is actually more than enough. All we need finished now is the final playable level, Bacon's final little movie, and the dreaded action script that we hate getting done. Just today, I plan on getting Bacon's big escape movie done. I used some time yesterday to draw out the main scenes.
     We also need to get that final level done. It shouldn't be too hard, just the hardest Pythagorean Theorem question you've ever seen! Well maybe not the hardest ever; this is 8th grade players we're talking about. It also needs to be the most confusing maze. Oh, and if I can find it, we'll use the script on some triangles to make some real trouble for little Bacon to go through.
     Finally we have to get through that mountain of action script we have on our plate. We have to go back and insert a hit test on every line of those mazes. Plus we need the code that lets Bacon hit the right answer and go to the right screen. You can bet that most of our time will be used for that specific purpose.
     I guess that's all there is to using time wisely in the following weeks. If we find anything else that needs to get done, we'll just throw it in the schedule and wing it. I'm sure that all this hard work will pay off in the end and we'll have a great game.

Good Things And Improvements

Hello!!!! Our game, Maze Daze, is so fun to play. Not only do we have components like bright colors and quirky graphics, it's fun to play! Cassie and I have added a thing we call a "study button" It pops up at the beginning, and takes the player to a different page. Then Bacon has a fun time showing them how to use the Pythagorean Theorem. After they've took a trip down Funny Sunshine Lane, they can go back to the maze. First, you have to put theorrect triangles in the right holes. Thats another fun thing about this game. If you get that done. you get to move through the maze. There are three different exit points to the maze (another fun thing! :) They each have a different answer, so you have to pick the right one. It's true, there are a lot of fun things in this game, but there are some things we could improve on. We have a lot of trouble with hitTests. They seem to hate the very actionscript we code on. It would be great if we could improve on the hitTests in our game.
     Well, that seems to be all I have to talk about. Later today, we will be posting a updated version of our game. If you want to check it out, go here. That's all I have to talk about this time. Bye!!!!

Adding Animations

Animation From: http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/MathAnim/pythanim/pythanim.gif

This animation really stands out to me. It shows a strange way to solve the Pythagorean Theorem. Most people wouldn't really solve it this way, but it seems fairly easy to understand. It takes triangles, makes squares out of them, and shows you how it makes the a squared + b squared = c squared. It's very easy to understand and this one just takes most of the complicated numbers out of the equation and puts it into squares to make it easier. So thats why this animation stands out a lot to me. Thats basically it, nothing else to it.