EL405: Blog Portfolio Part Deux

My second blog portfolio for EL405: New Media Projects focuses most on my Catholic Social Teaching project. The class has moved away from the traditional texts and I, as a student, have begun to focus my efforts more on my projects. There haven't been as many blogging opportunities during this second portfolio, but what I have here is a detailed development journal of my learnings in Flash. I'm looking forward to sharing more of my development as I begin work on Project 2.

Coverage & Timeliness (Blog entries featuring analysis and commentary on required readings.. all completed on time or ahead of schedule)
• Catholic Social Teacher Has No Square Jaw I brainstorm game ideas based on the Catholic Social Teaching model.
• Flash Faux Politics While not related directly to an assignment, I did spend class time developing this project.
• Putting Project 1 in Perspective I talk about designing the rooms for my untitled CST game.
• Extreme Progress... but still no title. More development journaling about my CST game, including screenshots.
• A near finish product with a real title! A finalized project 1 with a title!
• Project 2 Moving On An entry about moving from Flash to GF2 for my final project.

In-Depth (Extended analysis on various blog entries)
• Flash Faux Politics In this entry, I explore how I created my campaign headquarters and talk about the importance of preloaders in Flash projects. I am more than ready to admit the concessions I had to make on this project due to time.
• Extreme Progress... but still no title. I talk about Puff and I exploring Flash coding. The hardest part of my game was figuring out how to get the sounds to play the way I wanted them to. Even after finishing the game, the sounds still didn't operate perfectly.
• A near finish product with a real title! An deeper look into my finished project 1. In this entry I talk about the design choices I made with the game, and talk about the balance of exploration and narrative.

Comments & Discussion (Discussions on classmate's blogs that I've participated in)
• Discussion on Leslie Rodriguez's blog about Audacity.
• Comment on Karissa Kilgore's blog about Project 2.
• Discussion on Amanda's blog about Project 1.
• Discussion on my blog about CST.

Xenoblogging (Helping along the blog-o-sphere)
• Comment Grande: Posted two comments with ActionScript code on Amanda's blog.

Wild Card
• We Are Dead. We are Robot Jox A dorky blog entry about my impossible quest to find a movie that I remembered from my childhood.