game theory

Game Theory
One of the two topics that I had read about was in-game advertising. Games have become way more popular than they have in the past and the number has skyrocketed. Companies have now started to actually use games to do advertising. Say for instance that your playing a game like grand theft auto 4. Now on the billboards and posters all over the game, are actually advertisement posters for companies wanting you to buy what they have to sell. One statistic out there about this advertising is that around $75 million was spent on advertising in games. The main reason companies want to do this is that they know that lots of people play games and they figured that if they advertised in games, people would see them and hopefully buy whatever was advertised.
The second topic I read about was games and education. Since children love to play video games, then why not make games that they can learn from. Some companies have started to make education games that help teach children basic things like math, science, reading and writing, which are all essential to the development of children. Having education and gaming together actually helps children learn, because they are in a fun environment and they are willing to the work, unlike school work or test. Playing games actually helps you memorizing things better than the old read and study method found in schools. Students have fun playing the games while they learn at the same time. Basically killing two birds with one stone.

Interactive Resume 11/24

Today i got a pass to go and get my locker open, so i spent most of the period doing that. Then i came back with about ten minutes left and so i moved the buttons down bc a couple were overlapping, then i got a new idea for my computer consol which i will add next time we work on IR

Interactive Resume 11/18

Today i took each individual button on my monitor screen and added all the coding and layers inside of them. i ran into some problems with actionscript 3 not wanting to do wht actionscript 2 can do easily, so i switched it ovr to actionscript 2. Then all my problems changed and i had to go through and change all those things. I LOVE FLASH!!! (note sarcastic voice)

Hopefully now that im using actionscript 2 i can get some work done. pic up..... maybe sometime later.....

Interactive Resume 11/12

Today I explored adobe after effects again getting use to the controls and everything. I was getting ready to do a tutorial so i could relearn some of the things i have learned in the past to get a quick refresher, and then did some slave work for Fitzer instead. So i cleaned up the studio with my partner in crime Jon Allen. Then i looked for some tutorials and saved the links, then made this post.

Interactive Resume 11/10

We did peer grading today, so i looked at Jon Allen's interactive resume. Then i gathered some ideas on how to create the buttons. Then we discussed the new actionscript 3.0 and how the on function doesn't exist.

Interactive Resume 11/07

Today i gathered ideas for making shooting stars and possibly creating a person. and then i looked at a few peoples resume and then showed mine.

Then i set up the games for third hour.

Interactive Resume 11/05

Today i worked on the new animation for the screen, instead of apearing and growing, im actually going to make it pan down and flicker. To do this, i created a movie clip, and inside that movie clip, i created the screen, and had it move from the top of the monitor to the bottom. Then i created a layer and covered the bottom of the monitor. Then i made it into a layer mask, and that made it so that the screen would seem to come out from the bottom of the monitor. Then i selected random frames and moved the mask off, making the screen invisable. then moved it back, when viewed it appears that the monitor appears and disapears.

Interactive Resume 11/04

Today i created animation with the computer consol for more neutral state animation. the lines i animated to move side to side in a random fashion so that it doesn't look dumb. Then i added animation to the lights on the consol so that they will light up in a random order, the order is what im still working on.

Interactive Resume 11/03

Today i changed some of the gradients by changing the darkers point and making it lighter, creating a less harsh shading effect. Then i also added some animation to the computer consol.