Desk Crit- Received

Desk Crit Received: 04/01
From: Donna Washington

Daisy,

I know you've been working hard to design your nutrition game. I think you have a great idea in the making, unfortunately due to our course time constraints, I know getting it where you want it to be has been difficult.

I believe your game idea is great because the basic premise can be applied to so many health issues. Beside planning meals for a person with diabetes you could also add a twist and have the player plan a meal that would meet the guidelines of a calorie reduced eating plan. The possiblities are endless.

I like the idea of a shopping cart model because it feels very life-like as well as something people are accustomed to if they have ever shopped online.

I do have a comment/suggestion I'd like to offer. I'm not sure of the formula you've suggested to determine if the meal meets your proposed requirements. You might think of adding some specific data regarding the problems of the meal. Something like a table showing the recommended fat, carb's,etc. and a readout showing the chosen meal's content. That way the learner can see in what nutritional areas they would need to reconsider.

I really hope you are able to work out the "bugs" and produce a great game.
Take care.

Donna

Entry 6.1 - working to make this game happen

Well, this week I have been following the “shopping cart” tutorial that Josh indicated me. However, the tutorial seems too advanced for my ActionScript (AS) skills – [Click here to check out the Shopping Cart tutorial]. The tutorial starts explaining how to create classes and AS files and as you go further you can create a shopping cart. After going through it, I wasn’t able to figure out by myself how I could implement this into my project. Therefore, I asked my co-worker (Jin Tang) for help - her skills in AS are way advanced that mine. I explained to her my project and my frustration trying to understand the AS code. After talking to her, she gave me some examples and explanations on how I could do this in an easier way. So, she gave this FLA file that she created as an example of what I need for my project. Her file does what I need to do for my project; however, I still need to work on it to make function correctly.

Thus, I’ll be working on it this weekend and I’ll post my results here this Sunday. So, please, bear with me until then :-S, okay?! I hope can get it to work by then.

By the way, I got a written Desk Crit by Donna Washington this week and I'll post here later in another post.