Scratch Game Design

I've actually never created my own video game in SCRATCH before. But despite that I was doing pretty good for my first time in SCRATCH, did have some trouble. And even though I had a really difficult bug to fix I still had a good game of chase. However, I made it too easy by just making it so you only need to earn points by using the arrow keys. But my game does have two sprites and a background which is good, and the glitch in my game is explained in my third paragraph. In my "Platformer" game, since I knew how to do some parts in my video game, like using the arrow keys to make my character move it was a little easier at first. But I was having a hard time making the platforms because I kept accidently making the whole screen black, by using the bucket tool when coloring my platforms. After that finally stopped happening, I felt better and at least I was able to make two levels of my "Platformer" game! But I still need to fix some parts of my game, like getting the timer to count down and not up.

In my game of chase, you have to control the crab which is supposed to get away from the dinosaur. To earn points, you must click the arrow keys. I set a goal so if you reach 20 points, you win. But if the dinosaur gets the crab, the dinosaur says "GOT YOU!!!" and earns 20 points. Then you lose the game. A good tip is to hold the arrow keys until you see that you are at a corner. That way, it won't be as easy for the dinosaur to get the crab. Anyways, hope you enjoy or enjoyed playing my chase game! In my Platformer Game, the goal is to get the dragon to the orange square at first. Once you get the dragon to the orange square, the dragon has to get the light blue square. Warning, there is limited time for each level, but there is enough time to get to each square because you get 60 seconds for each level! Anyways, hope you have or had fun playing my "Platformer" game!

Okay, like I mentioned in paragraph one, I did have a bug in my game that I couldn't fix. The bug I couldn't fix was getting the game to end, after the crab reaches 20 points. I was so upset, I even got reminders from my parents to calm down. I emailed  Mr. Sanderl about the bug I couldn't fix, and he told me to try use another set of code. It again didn't work, even my parents couldn't fix the bug! So my mom emailed Mr. Sanderl that the bug couldn't get fixed. And my best code was getting the dinosaur to move at a slower speed and earning points for getting the crab. The glitch in my Platformer game is that it takes a few times of the dinosaur touching the orange square, just for the slopes background to change yellow, the orange square also doesn't disappear.

Invention Commercial

P3T10_Invention from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

My team's main goals for this assignment was to have good quality in our video in iMovie. When we were making our video we were suppose to cut out the parts of me saying action. And no offense to my other team mates but they didn't care about cutting out the parts of me saying action. But I on the other hand was really nervous that people wouldn't like our video if those parts weren't cut out. So I went up to my teacher Mr. Sanderl and told him about the parts of me saying action. He told my team that it is important to remove the parts of whoever the camera man is saying "action." I bet if those parts of me saying "action" didn't get cut off the other people in our class would have gave our video low scores. But at least all three of me and my teammates has something to do and my team did a nice job on our clips. And at least we added music and a funny sound effect when Treysen fell down after lifting up the 3 pound weight. 

If I were to pick one time of when my team was working together, I'd pick the time when we were looking for a funny sound effect of Treysen falling down. It really was a hard choice to pick the funny sound effect because my favorite sound effect that represents someone failing wasn't avalible, which kinda upset me. When we were looking for each sound effect we were telling each other "Hey listen to this one!" and we also smiled and even laughed a little. After a while we finally found one sound effect to actually use. We also added an effect of the word "ouch" appearing. But I forget if there was an exclamation mark or not but it was still funny enough. 

In our post production editing, I can't really remember what some people did but I remember Treysen and Josiah letting me choose the effects from our video. Treysen cut out the bad parts in our video and Josiah chose the music. The reason why I chose the effects was because Treysen and Josiah wanted to do other jobs so I got to pick the sound effects! Treysen wanted to cut out the parts that were bad in our video because he knew that people wouldn't like some parts except the parts of me saying action for some reason and a few scenes of Josiah quickly appearing. But at least we ended with a good video when it was time to watch our Invention Commercial in class.

Composition Scavenger Hunt.

P3T10_Composition_2015 from Kapaa Middle School MEDIA on Vimeo.

So, out of the 20 composition techniques the "Birds  eye view" is the most important out of them all in my opinion. The "Birds I View" is the most important composition Technique in my opinion because you can get a view of places on Earth if you ever look up the images of the land on Earth. You can see what's on Earth in "Birds I view" mode. Like once my dad showed me a birds eye view on an App of the land on Kauai. He showed me the birds I View of my house which is in one of the neighboorhoods in Wailua homesteads.


Out of the 20 composition techniques some were easy but some weren't that easy. But out of them all, the most difficult composition technique is Rule of Thirds Scenery and Subject because it is hard to divide both of them into thirds. It is especially hard to divide them equally into thirds if there is a lot going on in the picture. I can use this more often by looking at three things happening in an image or putting three images into one. By using this Composition Technique I can learn it more and it won't be so hard for me anymore. But in my opinion, Rule of Thirds Scenery is slightly harder for me because you have to show what is happening from far away.


During our Scavenger Hunt, I was in a team called "P3T10" with two others named "Josiah" and "Treysen." All three of us actually filmed, spoke and did the action in the video at different times. However, most scenes were pictures of parts of the Kapa'a Middle School buildings but Treysen was filmed in one of them. And when I found out that we had to say the Composition Techniques 11-20 in our own words, I didn't speak at all but I was mainly the camera boy. And when we were done filming, we imported our footage in Josiah's computer. There were some problems just getting our own footage onto Josiah's computer which upset all three of us but it turned out fine when Mr. Sanderl helped us out.