Month: November 2020

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• TITLE THIS BLOG POST: Game Design – Week 8 – Logic, Flowcharts, and Coding
• PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE  FROM SEARCH.CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG
  • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL
• REVIEW A BLOG POST EXAMPLE
  • Neremia’s Post
  • John’s Post
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s ALL UPPERCASE INSTRUCTIONS

“Binary code” by Christiaan Colen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

When asked the most important thing I should teach my students, the MIT student I was interviewing simply stated , ‘ teach them logic.’ – Mr. Le Duc

SUMMARY

• the end of my last week was honestly not too bad, i got some relly late assignments done and it was happy from then onto now.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

Unity

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 30 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Chicken Little Game Logic Flowchart
• Screenshot from Brandon Grasley YouTube Channel
• Watch Creating a Simple Flowchart in Diagrams.net (Draw.io) Tutorial
• Screenshot from TodaysTuts’ YouTube Channel
• 1, a normal wait for somebody to do something is a curved one side and flat other side
• 2, there are a lot of lines
• 3, it can get really messy
• 4, a rectangle with a wavy like bottom is a docutment piece
• 5, a diamond is a decision piece
• 6, a square is a process piece

Mr. Le Duc’s Flowchart Shape Guide

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Mr. Le Duc’s How to Save Your Draw.io File to Your Google Drive Tutorial
• Try to create your own game flow for one of your game ideas
• Use Draw.io and save in your Google Drive
  • We will share these in class, soon
• Link your Draw.io file from your Google Drive
• Write a few sentences reflection about what you learned
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

Unity

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

A problem that I solved today was how i organized my stuff and how it was all messy and not finished, but now i have a lot of thing finished and my stuff is more organized than it was before.

Your toughest work is defining what your work is! –  Peter Drucker

SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences of WHAT YOU DID
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).

STEP 1: MAKE A LIST

• finish week 8 and 9 of game design
• finish 1.4 and 1.5 of geometry
• finish line t and d of japanese
• finish science stuff

STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED

• finish week 8 and 9 of game design
• finish science stuff
• finish 1.4 and 1.5 of geometry
• finish line t and d of japanese

STEP 3: SET A TIMER

1. Set a timer for your first task
   1. Decide how long you think it will take before you start
2. Start working
3. Repeat this process for 45 minutes for as many tasks as you can complete, then take a 15-minute break
   • Get up and get a drink of water
   • Get up and go for a walk
   • Every 20 minute blink your eyes 20 times while looking at least 20 feet away
     • This is good for your eyes

Start steps 1 through 3 again, repeat for your school day

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 20 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch the first 30 seconds of this Oct. 2020 interview with David Allen

• Reflect on GTD and getting to the top of the colorful list above for a minute
  • How can the GTD process help you tame the crazy-busy dragon of modern life?

• Then, go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• Write a few sentence reflection
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Literally, read the article and go for another walk 🙂

“I coach C-suite executives and rising stars from the earliest startups to Fortune 100 companies. My passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential.”  – Read more about Katia…

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes reading…
  • FastCompany Magazine article about Katia Verresen’s techniques and GTD, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
• Then, go for another 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

i solved the problem of my time management