Save The Patty's Game Review

I love Spongebob so coming up with the game concept was very easy for me. As far as the images were concerned, it was mainly a process of google searching character images, scaling them down in photoshop and removing whatever background they had. The background was a custom creation to look like the sky they have in the show, so that took a little bit more time on my part to compile.

The music selection and explosions were tougher to determine exactly what I wanted to do. But I decided that, because they're underwater, fiery explosions did not make much sense so I switched them to bubbles. With that I found images of bubbles to complete the effect.

For me, the most frustrating part of this game was trying to change the bottom bar. Since there are a few different elements to it (the lives, the health bar, the game icon) it was tough to get everything aligned just right. Another struggle I faced was getting the explosions to work properly. Originally you could not see the animation but the sound was working, but I eventually figured out that I had to extend the animation for longer because it was just happening so quickly that you could not see it.

Creating the game was easy because it was mostly a matter of swapping out images and sounds from our tutorial. However, the tutorial was definitely difficult and took a long time to complete. Struggling through that and spending hours creating a simple game like this definitely makes me appreciate game makers and how complicated complex video games must be to create. Also, it makes me realize that this is definitely not a field I'm ever going to venture into. Although interesting, it just seems wayyyy too frustrating.

Save The Pattys Game

In this game, you control Spongebob and you must save the Krabby Patty Recipe. Enemies will be shooting bubbles at you to try to catch your patty's and steal the recipe! Don't get hit by the bubbles or you will lose a life and they'll be one step closer to the recipe.

Movie Trailer

Video Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHd9nr9tGWI

A trailer about a Corgi bringing happiness to the world. Nobody can not smile when watching the little guy do stupid little things.

Video Reflection

Since our idea was to be an improv film, we did not start with a script. However, we did compile a long list of ideas of what kinds of things we were going to do in our film. Since we could not meet together before Spring Break, we had to meet after we returned to school. At that point, "March Madness" had just about completed and we were just starting our video. Because of that, a few major changes had to be made.

Originally, we wanted to try to make every single pick to fill out a full bracket. However, after planning out our intro and all of the other pieces to our film, it was clear that picking an entire field of 64 teams was not going to fit into a 5 minute film. So we decided to only make a few of the picks on video and provide a summary at the end to create the effect of a full bracket. Additionally, since March Madness ended as we began to film, our original idea to randomly question people throughout campus did not make sense. Since we wanted to keep it improv, asking people who will win each game would not have worked without us scripting it to make sense. These two factors combined led us to eliminate that idea as a whole.

Throughout the filming process we faced a few minor deterrents. We wanted to do one segment where we ask Siri as well as "Ask Jeeves" but we could not figure out how to get a proper response out of Siri, and it seems Jeeves no longer exists. We were going to utilize the green screen, but that was unfamiliar to us all and we wanted to stick with what we knew to make the best video possible.

All in all, we are all very happy with the way our video turned out. Although the product was slightly different than what we originally had planned, it still worked out to become something we're proud of.

VIdeo Details

Matt Rosenman
Alex Adamowsky
Chris Griffith

Satirical how-to video on how to fill out your "March Madness" bracket. This video will show various methods for making the right selections and have a perfect bracket.

Our script will be improv.

Timeline:

Monday 4/2: film intro

Tuesday: edit intro, James Jones; film interviews, green screen

Thursday: finish up filming; edit

Over the weekend: finish up editing

Video Story Board

My Website

"Resource Edu" is going to be a website that college students can visit to discover and post many unknown resources that their college offers to them but they may not know about. Many resources are included in our tuition and we have absolutely no idea unless somebody tells us personally, so this is an opportunity to share those resources that we are all paying for. Things like subscriptions to certain websites or local secrets at restaurants, whatever it may be. Students can search their school and select a topic within their school and from there they can read or post resources as well as rate and comment on the ones already posted.

A list
- About us
- Search bar
- List of colleges
     - Food
     - Creative
     - Sports
     - Academics
     - Career
     - Comment box
- Help page
     - Submission page
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Websites to emulate:
ratemyprofessor.com
ratemyteachers.com
unigo.com
reviews.collegetimes.us/
resellerratings.com/