cd cover

site

http://redbite.imakewebsites.ca/

hey addam i could not get the object to work, could you do the js part? thanks

B

http://flog.fluid.com/experiments/swfobject-extension/ = the SWF Object Extension for Flash.

meeting for finalization

Adam I emailed you this as well but I'm posting here just incase


Let's meet up and make sure everything is working and together so we can burn and print stuff out. What time is good for you tomorrow before flash? Im usually in school around 8-830 so let me know ok?

Giancarlo

Game

Hey Adam, please take that child sound out of there, it's irritating!Let's leave it with no sound. Also, I noticed that whenever the time is over it doesn't stay on 0, it goes to -1, -2, -3, -4..etc...we need to fix that.

There's no need for graphic on the "Game Over" and "You Win" pages, I just thinking about changing the type and also the colour...remember, keep it simple.

Gianni said he will be in school early to burn the cd and print the covers. Can Brian and Adam be with him? I won't be able to since I have a meeting with Peter, then exam, then Peter's class. But I'll have my cel phone on me and if anything goes wrong I'll be available to help.

waaah!

oh man thats great lol really...what kind of graphic do u need?

Game update.

I think it will need a mute button

I think I'll take out the 'wah' entirely. There is no way to make that sound not make me want to puke. New baby image goes in this afternoon.


Anyone have some graphics to throw at the Game Over/You Win screen? I haven't been able to clear the storks and clouds off the screen which is why they are there after the game.

Adam - changes on the game look

Hey Adam, Gianni suggested you made the score and timer text a little nicer, and also the game over screen and the "you win" screen. The colour of the timer and the score could be different it's a little hard to read.
Can you try something just a little diferent on those?

Thanks,

Paola

ps:Brian and Adam, Gianni sent you the song effects for the game. If you didn't get that, please let us know.

Update

Ok people, seems we're getting a lot done today!We already have the mini website pretty much ready, just a few changes in the text itself have to be done.
The new baby was sent to Brian's and Adam's e-mail from Gianni.
The sound for the website is done.
The Cover is in process of being done.
The game itself is ready, needs to be embedded into the smal website.
Anything I missed?
Have a great night:)

Paola

baby do!

theres that baby again, man poppin em out like rabbits!

stuff

im finishing those tonight when i get back from my game...which is about to start ahhhhh! lol ok i really gotta go!

-gianni

The game

go play

I'm still hunting down some weird bugs.

Sound effects?
Picture of baby without the cloth?

naked site

ok so still putting content on page but tada!! look look navagation..... theres content on news just to prove the nav works

when its done well post it on adam's server, for now the quick and dirty can be found at
www.bworksmedia.com

B

logo

ok i made a very simple logo...thats why it looks so simple! didnt take me very long...hopefully its ok its not my best work

Organization

Guys, what's left to do for the website and the game? We need to organize ourselves and figure out what we need to do finish this up.
On Tuesday, during Andrew's class I have my English exam so I won't be able to be there.
Answer me ok?

Press Release

Hello everyone, how's everything?
Here is the text for the press release, see if that's enough.

Pond70.com and the Red Bite Team are releasing next Tuesday, December 12, a new online super fun space. Pond70.com is a portal focused on artistic ideas with the objective to inform, portray interviews, thoughts and even works of digital media artists.

Ready to take the next step they pared up with Red Bite agency and came up with a online flash game to entertain and retain their online gamers target. The game will be about alien spaceship invasion; in which the goal is to eliminate all stork birds which are carrying human offspring. Therefore stopping all future human reproduction. The website address for this fun space is: http:www.pond70.com/onlinegame

(ps:the adress for the website was ramdonly picked, doesn't mean that's what we will use).

web banner

ok so making a banner for the site, not sure how much flash should go on it but at least the top banner will be. 3 am and my wound is well..... giving gifts.....

good old korn keeping me awake.... mmmmmmmmmmmmm corn.....................................

k guys email me any and all art that would look cool on the site, cause cool is what im all about

good night moon

B

Website Address

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7XWEsSTM1I&eurl=

I mean http://redbite.imakewebsites.ca/

Brian, same log in as before. You've got FTP access now as well. I'll send you an email with the info. And anyone else who wants it.

-Adam

oops!

i think we all forgot to ask BUT you can go to our later posts where the details of the project is laid out..."HTML Display" hmmm...

-gianni

Website + Amazing video

I'll set up the CMS for the game website soon if we're doing this in HTML. Did anyone find out today?

Also, this is amazing. You might have to click on the big white space below these lines for it to start playing. Or go here.


-Adam

Oh baby!

Hey guys, how are you?
Me (Paola)and Brian just saw the game. We talked about it and we think that the baby should be fired every five seconds and in a lower speed so the user can identify it as a baby...The storcks should also fire less babies at a time. I know that people keep working on making them non stop, but let's try to take it easy on the storcks, what if their union complains about the amount of weight they're carrying?

Adam,could you get the vectorized baby that Gianni posted?

Well, how was your weekend?

See you tomorrow,

Paola and Brian

baby downloads

click the link to download a baby!

act now and you too can have a vector baby

http://www.giancarlomarcelli.com/BABY.zip

- gianni

Babies!

Press End to throw babies. I can't decide when the storks should launch them themselves.

Giancarlo, I'll need that baby in vector format.

Game arrangements

Hey Adam, I love the way the clouds move and we can get to see the land underneath! There are a few parts in which the background is too dark and also too green or too yellowish...

There could be more storcks coming and in a faster speed. The background could move faster too.

Anyways, great work:) I had fun playing it before javascript!

Paola

Fluffy clouds!

Just watch them go by. I think things might be too purple now. Should I thicken up the cloud cover so we have more orange? Also, let me know it runs too slowly - the clouds could be pretty processor intensive.

Anyway, next up - BABY CHUCKING!

-Adam

Elevator experience

Yesterday I was in school waiting for the elevator when I heard a scream coming from there, I was pretty surprise and as soon as the elevator arrived I saw 3 guys and a girl coming out of it. I couldn't ignore what I heard so I asked them if they were ok and the answer from one of them was that they needed to release some of their stress.
Well, the elevator didn't go down as I expected, it went to the third floor and as soon as it arrived there were 3 girls looking kinda scared and curious and also the security guard next to them, asking me if everything was ok. I had to explain them that some guys just needed to release their stress.
Well, if you guys feel like letting some of it out, go ahead and scream, trust me, great experience.

Last Meet Nov 28

Greetings true believers…
So at our last meeting we got to laying out some site designs to build the promotional site. We also had a chance to meet the client who seamed to like where we are so far.







Dam supliers


Tune in next week

Whose baby is it?

How cute your son Gianni!Ready to be exterminated by our super, dooper spaceship that rotates!

...

here's your STUPID baby! grr damn thing wont stop crying :P

Next few days

Ok people seems like this game is coming along...now we need the babies from Gianni, to come up with the webpage itself...so, buttons, background, etc...how about meeting real quick and discussing the concept idea for the site?

We have to keep in mind the clours used in the game so there is an identity to what we are developing. Less is more in my opinion, so how about keeping it simple and interesting?

Tomorrow we all have 3D together so we can meet up and decide on the next steps...
Can you guys feel the pressure?

I AM TIRED. AND I CAN'T SLEEP.
and I don't know why...

ooOooo

oh man as simple and not finished as that is its fun! wooo spinny spaceship! hahaha

ill have my work up asap, i cant even see the screen anymore, someone else is typing this for me lol

gianni

Fun with Flash

• Vector space ship image is in


• I've resized the ship and storks


• I've made the ship feel floatier on the y axis. Not sure if I can do it on the x-axis yet since is linked to the terrain scrolling

Can I upload Flash files here? NO! To my server... YES!

In giant screen format.

The scrolling clouds will be more complicated than I thought, so it won't happen tonight. I still don't like the collisions.

-Adam

Adam, can you get into msn?I need advice from you:) Pleeease?!

Paola

Spaceship

Hey Adam, I sent you the spaceship.ai file...did you get it?

Paola

Planning

Ok troop, we achieved a lot today at school thanks to Adam, our hero, I mean, mascot.
We need now the second state for the storck in which it explodes, we need the clouds to be moving better, fix the background and get rid of the extra border, we need the website design, change the spaceship image (not pixelated), point system,timer, game over screen.

Me and Gianni are gonna work on the design, he should have the storck exploding by tomorrow.
I will send Adam the spaceship with the ai. file. Adam and B will be messing with the game itself too.

I want the pics from today B and the flow chart for the website.

Good work people.

Paola

lions and tigers and storks? oh my?

ok i made a few crappy storks...these things are odd to draw top down so i did my best and another side few...gimme ur suggestions they arent 100%

Gianni

new spaceship

Gianni, I took your advice...there it goes, hope you guys like it...

Let's meet tomorrow earlier to get things together? How about 11:00 am?

This spaceship took me 15 min.

bird of baby

hey g
u can draw all u want ill scan and trace later np

b

Background

Prepare for a clash of styles! I'll have to cartoon this up.

Anyway, the game is an overhead view and takes place in the sky. Red/Orange/Yellow? Sounds like dawn to me. Reference time!


But the game takes place looking down from on top of the clouds...

Oooohh! Lets put a city down there. I'm borrowing a picture of New York for now, we can make something similar later if we want to go like this. My background:

too cloudy!

I like this one a bit more. Bright orange clouds, dark city below. It should look spiffy with the layers of cloud panning by at different speeds in the game. Still, it probably won't match the style of the UFO and Stork, so I'll have to do something more abstract.

Time taken: 25 minutes.

good work

hey guys, im gonna have my stork up later on.

Good work on the spaceship, but if u have a lil time, maybe but on a lil radial gradient on certain areas to make it seem like its a solid object. just a suggestion.

im going to have LOTS of fun making a stork. how the eff will i do that on the computer? i can hand draw one...

Spaceship

Hey guys, here is the spaceship seen from above...sorry the lack of talent. Let me know if you want me to change something or everything.

OOOps

Hi guys,how are you?Sorry Adam, just saw your message now about the new assignment for tuesday.
B had his operation, he's ok but resting and recovering for now. I also went twice to the same tradeshow for Peter's class.

Ok, since he wants to see concepts on tuesday we can do this: Gianni is very good at designing stuff, I think we can divide beetwen ourselves the design. Him and I can get something done.

Colors: I belive they should be bright and warm colors,like orange, yellow, redish...The storck should be white since the bird tends to be that colour.

Adam could design the background,Gianni can design the storck itself and I can find a spaceship.

B for now helps me out since I can be with him more often.

So here what we need to do next:

Adam- design background,keep inmind the bright warm colours.

Gianni- Design the storck, don'tforget the freakin' bird is white.

Paola and Brian - design the spaceship.

After we start working on the stuff we can post here whatever design we have to show the others,ok?

Sorry for not answering earlier guys, see you tomorrow.

Paola

Game engine + Stuff

'Tis online at ye olde p70nd blog. Yes, the PLAY AGAIN button doesn't work.

I've added a feed on right to list the newest posts there, and moved our website links into the profiles. I'll underline them soon.

The almighty, all-knowing, all-smelling Red Ninja has posted our next task. I quoteth:

Make sure you have the following ready for tuesday

- graphic assets that you can test in the game engine ..they dont have to be final versions ..but still should be pretty close

- Color theme

- Concepts ideas for how the mini-site will look and load content

Paola, I think you should manage some us to draw some storks, spaceships, and babies this weekend, and manage the other some of us into conceptualizing the mini-site, have us post the stuff on Sunday night, choose the best and refine it on Monday, and bring it in Tuesday.

-Adam

Today's meeting

Cool, seems Gianni got it all up there...tomorrow I gotta go check out a tradeshow (yupiiii) and also make sure Brian comes out ok from the operation.
I picked up my business cards today, there were some problems with them so they will be printed again. I still managed to take a few to distribute tomorrow at the tradeshow.
See you guys tomorrow (maybe...).

Ah, I have my server and domain running...there's only my business card up there,if you guys have any insight on what I could do with it, let me now,please!
http://www.pconsulting.ca
Later!

meeting details - project concept

ok so after todays meeting we have decided on a few things:

1. The game will be about an alien spaceship invasion; in which the goal is to eliminate all stork birds which are carrying human offspring. Therefore stopping all future human reproduction.

2. Plot:

i) Aliens are pissed at us humans for leaving garbage on the moon (American flags, Moon landings, errant astronauts *oops!*) and to get back at us they invade and try to wipe out civilization.

3. Details:

i) Spaceships will shoot "Anti-Stork Lasers".
ii) Storks shoot babies (ironic? indeed.)
iii) Babies making "Wah!" sound when being shot.
iv) The setting is obviously in the sky.

4. Characters:

i) Alien Spacecraft
ii) Storks
iii) Babies

5. Logo:

Our choice for the logo is infact the RedBite with bitemarks

I will touch it up before the completion of the project.

6. Title:

"Humans Be Gone!" care of Brian Medeiros ;)

last meeting on Nov 23

Hey true believers
Incase you where unable to make it to our last adventure, hear is what you missed
...












hope to see you next time!

MEETING - THURSDAY, NOV 23 AT 13:30

Cool guys, good to see you are always checking this out! Let's meet tomorrow after 3D then, ok?

Here goes Andrew's instructions for this assignment:

Project name: Client game

Client : Pond70.com // super fun space

Specifics:
• You are required to fulfill the client's requests, meet deadlines and conduct this project yourself and all contact in a professional matter.
• Knowledge learned from previous class addressing; font selection, graphic elements, layout, file formats, crossover of elements from other art mediums must be considered.
• The client target online gamers
• Final output: online
• SIZE 800X600
• Budget: Plan $20.00 for your printing and supply cost for this project
• Blog: Document the process from start to end, The studio blog must include photos, budget cost, break down of time, images of working files..plus all hand drawn ruff notes. Concept ideas. All members names and job titles … all members must post.

• http://blog.pond70.com: Like other cousers I'll be creating the same project with same spec's and deadlines. So all the concept, planning, layout, computer work, printing etc and everything will be online The reason is to share my process with you and provide another method of teaching. This will also give you a yardstick to measure your own "studios" process.
Theme and Style: DO your research develop a style and design that clients will want to play, Do not over look details, ask for help, look for answers online in forums and user groups. Stay true with the design, make decisions that will meet deadlines , do not become a victim of design

Interaction and Details:
• Relevant Menu Options(Info, media, download, play, etc)
• Develop your own studio name and logo
• Use embedded or external videos in the interface / sample game
• 1 level sample online game



Include the following engine scripts into the design
• Client supplied basic shooter engine
• Zigo Engine
• Tween Classes
• Filter Classes
• Super Fades/Ease
• Video Playback
• Pre-loaders
• HTML display
• Flash embed/detect w/ java and /or vb
Submission: All work must be presented online at an active online account. Attached files will not be graded It is each student's responsibility to maintain and manage his or her own files and develop active content solutions for access of all material created 24/7. It is strongly encourage that each student investigates alternative hosting solutions for content in addition to a school matrix account. Each studio-group must provide instructor with an email that contains the active online link for
• Production Blog
• List of members and job requirements
• Production updates by all members each day as the mini-site/game is developed.
• Clock hours for each member and work completed
You will also be required to provide a CD with all FLA and development files and the Completed application. Please keep this organized

Due Date: Beginning of class in week 14 , Email must be sent with link to active account and a release style CD that contains all files in the creation of the game, finished cover designs ( outside / inside / back ) DO NOT INCLUDE a CD label ( unless you can print directly on the CD )
The studio production blog must have a press release for the game
Submission Address: Provided in week 13 only.

Subject line: LAST NAME - FIRST NAME - SECTION - CORRECT PROJECT NAME

Total: 25% of student's final grade ( the total = several milestone requirements )

Grade structure: Present in class

Supplied Assets: The client ( pond70 ) will provide the company logo in vector and bitmap format. A basic commented game engine will be provided ( flash 8 ) Other required scripts can be found on student > moby >>>>> All other art , sound effects , music must be of your own creation.
Other details are covered in class meeting only or via "client emails".
FAQ
1. All art work, music, sound effects, assets must be of your own creation. You will be held personally responsible for any copyright infringements
2. Ctrl+C & Ctrl+v online tutorials at your own risk. Understand the function of your code incase of last minute client "requests".
3. Back-up all files including FLA several times on different mediums
4. Simple is best and meeting deadlines
5. Everyone must share the workload
6. can we remake a game > NO
7. can we have the user click on separate SWF for sections of the game – NO

RESEARCH SAMPLES
http://www.2kgames.com/pirates/pirates/home.php
http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/home.htm
http://www.2kgames.com/conflict/flash.html
http://www.ghostrecon.com/uk/ghostrecon2/


HINT HINT HINT !!! Plan for deadline pressured content and design changes. Develop for a scalable site easy to add content and keep files organized and all content active and current.



- Paola -

meeting

wow this bogging thing is fun......
Thursday is fine but on weekend after my operation i may be full of pain killers, might be a great time to have a meeting for creative

Brian

meeting cont'd

Thursday afternoon is good for me.

-Adam

meeting cont'd

hey im always free on fridays after 1130. wednesdays are always good since we are off all day. just let me know when everyone can make it, we need to start making this stuff happen soon. and designate specific jobs.

ciao,
gianni the red headed stripper

Meeting

Ok people, time to organize ourselves and get this going. When is best for each of you to meet? I have an all day trainning this saturday for SMILE, the program at Seneca college for mentoring...sunday I'm free. Brian works saturdays and sundays all day long but this won't happen this weekend since he has an operation friday. He has to rest on the weekend and recover. He also works mondays and tuesdays after school. Wednesday (free all day long for him), thursday and friday free after classes.
Well, let's see what we do even if B can't make at the first few meetings, I can fill him in on what was decided, that's easy.
Ah, tomorrow, thursday, might be a good day for us to get started, Me, B and Gianni have 3D and then we are free for aq couple of hours (I think...)Adam, how about you?
Answer ASAP guys. I'm gonna go after you anyways in case you guys don't access this blog.
later
Paola

teeth

just a cheese thing i did the second i woke up......

its nice waking up at 11 am, must do it more offten

-Brian

redbite logos

the so called art director ;) made some quick logos and wanted to show em off

Brain Cancer

Well, isn't that friendly? Come play our game and get sick hehehehe
What exactly we need to get done by tomorrow?
A name we have, logo (not yet, liked the one Adam posted on the top of all the others), positions...hm...who goes on top?:P
Well...waiting for answers...

Brains vs Cell Phones

This is the first idea that has come to my head.



If you lose, you get brain cancer.

-Adam

Templates and Logos

I dumped some red onto whatever template this is. Go Red Bite!

I haven't given much thought to what we want to convey with our choice of font, or what kind of bite mark to use, but I do like biting things.The font would need to be on the chunky side for the bite to work well. A thinner font might need the bite to be put outisde of the lettering.

-Adam