Thursday, February 21, 2008
Coding Assignment
For the ActionScript assignment, I felt that the only way to achieve this task of putting all these actions into one program would best be resolved with a program like the one I created. When we were being taught how to use some of the script, I thought about presenting one object that would essentially be manipulated by the user with a series of choices that he or she could click. I decided to make the object an insect - more specifically an ant - and to let the user do things that one would maybe do to an ant - look at it with a magnifying glass, cut in in half, set it on fire - the usual stuff. This assignment made me learn that it's a bitch to get slight little things to work.
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The whole command action script is very clear in that you can easily choose which actions you want to do, but I think the ant should have been a vector image b/c its very pixilated, and when it rotates the ant slowly conjoins.
I think that you really did a good job simplifying the actions and coming up with a concept that doesn't enforce a list of actions that we had to accomplish for our class assignment. I like how you made the list of actions work for you and not against you. Why didn't I think of that?
This is a pretty interesting idea, and I think it has a lot of discourse attached to it. I think that if you changed the button from "start over" to "get a new ant" it might be stronger because starting over makes it seem like the ant never really dies, instead i think we need a pile of ant carcasses on the floor to remind of of the deviant act we are controlling, and what it represents.
the code can be tough to get just right. I think the page needs a title to let the user know right away what they are looking at.
This is really well made, except a few small graphic details, mainly in the ant- where it gets pixelated or transparency would have helped.
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