Thursday, February 11, 2010

No more Pencils......

In January I started my first classes. The classes are 8 weeks in length. This first session I'm taking Intro to Game Design and Simulation(GSP110) and Critical Thinking(COLL148). Both are pretty basic.                    

GSP110 utilizes GameMaker by YoYoGames. www.yoyogames.com While a very basic game design program it does teach you the creation process and how object based programming works. If the previous sentence read "May I mumbo dogface to the banana patch", move on to my next paragraph about Critical Thinking. Creating games in this tool shows you how sprites, objects, rooms and other resources coalesce into what the player percieves as a game. An aside for my High School Algebra II instructor.... Mr. A? You should've told us we could use that stuff to play games, we would have learned it faster and better!!!

Critical Thinking is more about process and methodology than it is about thinking itself. Very Euclidian.

Next Session is Logic Design and a refresher in Microsoft Office. Wheeeeeeee!

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