Hey y'all this is Ryan again with your homeowrk update. We have final projects coming up so get on top of your assignments and get'er done.


Life Drawing: Stylized Self Portrait.


Psychology: We officially have our blueprinting assingment. You should know your groups and be getting ready to create your psychological games. The assignment details are up on blackboard. You have to have a half period report inwhich you need to present what you have at the moment. And then on the last day of class you must be done and have handed your entire project.


Game Development: Asignment 7 then the final assignment followed by the final project.

***Note: Assingment 8 is a ONE DAY assignment started and due on the day of the practical class.


2D Game Computations: Survey and test. Test only has three questions but it is a little harder than previous tests.


Sound Design: Flash Game Sound Remake. You have to replace all the sound effects in three of four different flash games. Note that the new files MUST have the same name and file type as the original sound effects from the game.


History and Principles: Portable gaming presentations in groups of 1-3. You have free reign to do your presentation. Everything from a poem to song to commercials are allowed so go nuts.


Okay that's all folks. Get your work done, have fun, and enjoy your weekend.

Hey y'all this is Ryan again with your weekly homework update. We actually don't have too much in terms of new assignments so you can take a breather this weekend.


Life Drawing: Stylized self portrait is our next assignment if you want to get a headstart, but don't worry too much about this one.


Psychology: We have to read chapter 7 for this week (next weeks?) quiz. There's an anouncement in Blackboard about it. We also have to start thinking about our blueprint project.


Game Development: We have Assignment 6. Two more to go after this one. You have to create a random number guessing game. Anyone having a lot of difficulty feel free to ask me. TIP: There's errors in the code that Tony gave you for the random number generator cpp and h files. You need to assign const variables to make it work, and you also need to change some of the variable names to properly reflect if they are double or int variables (containers.)


2D Game Computations: Nothing.


Sound Design: Replace the sound effects of a flash game with your own. You can either adjust the ones already existing or just include your own. Extra points for inputing your own narration and music into the game, but it's not necessary for the project.


History and Principles: You have three attempts to perfect a quiz on everything up until this point. You can have the presentations open when doing the quiz so this is not difficult by any stretch of the imagination. All of the presentations are actually inside a .zip file under the assignment tab.

***Note: remember to give Gerry a copy of your character sheet for the D and D report


Well thats it. As you can see not a lot to do so get to it and you can relax for the weekend. Or don't get to it and relax anyways. Either way have a good weekend ~

Hello y'all and this is Ryan here to give you a huge homework update. We have A LOT due next week and you will want to get it done now or over the weekend. With that here's what we got.


Life Drawing: Still Life due refer to week 6 for details


Psychology: there doesn't SEEM to be a new thought piece but there is the term essay due AND mid term due. Refer to week 5 for essay details.

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There is about 100 to 120 marks. There is multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and possibly something else. 70% of the questions are from the textbook and 30% from the slideshows. I recommmend first going over the tests and then covering the important points in the textbook. After run through the slideshows (specifically the brain and personality types *myers-briggs*).

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Game Development: nothing for once


2D Game Computations: there is a test (super easy) and a midterm.

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For the midterm go over the online tests and review your notes. SUPER IMPORTANT: you can bring ANY written materials including textbook, cheat sheet and notes. Do NOT fall for the trap of brining your textbook its better to make short form notes. Your notes in your notebook and a cheatsheet with a quick reference to Newton's Laws and all of the equations are a very good idea to do.

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Sound Design: nothing unless you are late on your gunshot assignment or your browser game report assignment.


History and Principles: There is a Dungeon and Dragons assignment where you need to play the table top game of Dungeons and Dragons and then write a report about your experience. Details on blackboard under assignments in our history and principles course section.


Okay so thats it. Have fun get your assingments done and feel free to contact me with questions. See y'all !

Hey y'all its Ryan again bringing you your homework update for week 6. I also want to mention that we ahve no class on Monday as it is Thanksgiving, so dont come to school you willl be very lonely. Anyways here's what we got.


Life Drawing: Okay we have a Still Life due (check calendar) and because group 4 still does not have our blackboard course up here are the assignment details plus some things Chris went over in class:

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You need a minimum of 3 OBJECTS. Your drawing must be shaded AND have a title. It must be on MINIMUM of 8 1/2 by 11 paper and must have CLEAN EDGES if you are not submitting it electronically (no torn page). It can be handrawn or it can be digital. You must draw a plane for it to sit on or it will just be floating in space. If you wish to submit it electronic I will offer to scan and adjust your drawing in photoshop at my house just ask ~

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Psychology: check your live email for the specifics but we have our psych paper coming up (refer to week 5 for details), a new learning journal entry, chapter 6 in our textbook Looking In, Looking Out, a quiz and finally our mideterm also in week 8 on the same day as our psych papers ... fun.


2D Game Computations: standard quiz and survey. We also have our midterm coming up (check calendar). Note: you must be able to convert rads to degrees AND degrees to rads ( flip the fraction you multiple by ).


Game Dev I: we have a new assignment due which we need to create and display to random dice and ask the user to reroll or not. Please take note that there are videos of our class on Blackboard that shows us how to make the dice object ( super useful ). If you need an explanation of how the randomness works just ask me and I can show you.


Sound Design: We have the Gun shot assignment in which we ened to create four different gun shot sounds. Now the trick is you need to make ONE close shot then change it and then adjust BOTH of these gunshots to make it sound like its far away. Fairly simple, but if you have troubles with the equalizers you can watch the SOUND ADVICE videos online.

A quick idea of how to adjust the equalizers is to split them into right and left and then curve either side up or down to change how the sound sounds.


History and Principles: We have our gaming reports (refer to week 5) due next week and we have a new dungeons and dragons assignment up on blackboard. Form groups of 4-6 with a DM and then report on how the game went. Not to hard and you can use the steam group to form parties if you wish (Im sure Mel wont mind).


So anything that does not come up every week (so not like the surveys or anything) will be posted up on the calendar for your easy viewing. So happy thanksgiving and see y'all next week ~

Hey y'all this is Ryan G posting the homework for week 6. Keep in mind that we do NOT have an assignment due in game dev this week so now would be the time to finish a bunch of our larger assignments (*cough*psychology*cough*). Also because of some confusion on due dates I'm going to start posting due dates for assignments in the calendar (I'll do it later today). So anyways here's the homework:


Life Drawing: Again there is a still life coming eventually if you want to get a headstart, but not really a priority

Psychology: First there is chapter 5 to read in Looking In, Looking Out. Also the term paper based on "Quiet" is due WEEK 8 and our midterm also happened to be in WEEK 8. So keep that in mind ... Also there will be two more quizzes and learning journal entries for the following weeks.

Side Note: Look in your algonquin live account to double check this.

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Okay here is a little side note about the essay. First off by the end of this weekend you should have finished reading "Quiet" and have a general idea of what your essay is about. Now your first step is to get the three base sources which is the myers-briggs test, Looking in, looking out, and Quiet. You then only need two other sources I would just use the internet. Also if it helps you can make an outline to sort your ideas. Very handy. The only point is that the paper is 2000-2500 words and needs to have 4-5 SOURCES. Also it is in APA style. If you want to learn how to get microsoft word to do this automatically for you ask me.
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Game Development I: nothing unless you are playing catch-up

Sound Design: just get your gun sound done in audition. The list of guns you can recreate is in the "Top 10 Video Game Guns". Submit before next class.

2D Game Computations: Survey and Quiz. Hint: Newtons are measured in KG PER M/S^2 NOT KM/HR.

Gaming Principles: We have a report due for week 8 about 1984 game design. Its only 400 words or so not overly difficult. You just need to answer some questions and your done. No sources, but make sure you have a TITLE PAGE.


Well that's all folks remember to do your homework and good luck. Talk to me in class or comment on this announcement if you have any questions ~