Spirit of The Marathon

Spirit of the Marathon

The Spirit of The Marathon was about how six people trained for the Chicago Marathon for many weeks. A marathon is a running competition that many people run in for many different reasons like to win! I think Deena Kastor's story was the most interesting because she had competed before and won and she was having pressure to win again and she did! I think most of the people in the video wanted to be in the marathon to show themselves that they could finish and feel great that they did. On the other hand the people who did if for fame I feel was Deena and Daniel because they were already awarded for their running so they just did it to beat their time to get even more recognition. I would love to say to myself that I completed a marathon and could feel good inside from people cheering you on and the medal that you get after from completing the marathon! I would practice and get into a marathon when I felt ready. The phase, "It's a marathon not a spirit" I think it means that it actually feels real when you are there running and the people on the sidewalks shouting you name and cheering for you until the end!! The spirit part is about that it does not feel fake at all! 

My Game

Our game was about, how cow's are treated horrible in the slaughter houses likes how they feed them corn and mistreat them. Our first level the player was suppose to get the cow from hay stack to hay stack without letting the farmer touch them, then it goes to the you win page and button to the next level. The second level you had to escape the farmer as well as the corn, if you hit the corn then will automatically to the you lose page when you got to the end it said '"safety", when landed on the safety area you would go to the you win page and it will have a button to go to the next level. On the third level you get the cow away from the farmer and corn and try to get to the green grass.
What we could of done better was the ability to get to each level easier and made the grass add points for the player. I think what we did good was the drawings and the backgrounds and making the rest of the game work correctly.

Final Game Reflection

  I have learned many things in the little time I was here in Globaloria. Some things are, learn how to do different tricks on the computer, and how to use a Google picture and make other layers and actually draw and make the picture look exactly like the image, and the main thing is that I learned how to work in groups and combine all of our work together. 

  I also learned many new things in Flash like making a platform game with many pictures and hand drawn characters and making a fun challenging game. I learned from Flash that small mistakes are hard to find and big mistakes are easier to find and fix.

  I gotten better at many things like, working with others and letting them help me because I really like to do things on my own and I learned that I really do need some help sometimes. Also, I learned how to get video's off the wiki to help me instead of asking for help from a teacher.

  I think I got better at asking for help from team mates and getting help off of the wiki video's than asking for the teacher's like I did in the beginning. So I think I have done better than in the begging of starting Globaloria .

   I learned that cows are being fed corn and that the companies just do that to make more money off of their meat. We tried to teach the player to not let the cow eat the corn or let the farmer touch them.
  I learned that I can really do more on computers than I ever thought I could! Now I can help other people with their problem with their computer issues.
  I think the most challenging part of Globaloria is figuring out what you did wrong in your code and fixing it.

Video Games in Somali

In this article video games are now in use and are getting teenage boys out of trouble. I think it is a good ideas for the parents to buy a game station or let their kids play on the station if they do not want their kids to go to war which parents don't want!!!