Week 5 - Prac B

Week 5 - Prac B

This week practical we have a discussion about how to use action-script 3.0 to create game in flash, tutor gave us a a website called Lynda  which is quite helpful for coding stuff in action-script 3.0. 

I also found a snake game code through google and I know how to code the snake up/down/left/right direction:

private function directionChanged(e:KeyboardEvent):void

        {

            var m:Object = new Object(); //MARKER OBJECT

            if (e.keyCode == Keyboard.LEFT && last_button_down != e.keyCode && last_button_down != Keyboard.RIGHT)

            {

                snake_vector[0].direction = "L";

                m = {x:snake_vector[0].x, y:snake_vector[0].y, type:"L"};

                last_button_down = Keyboard.LEFT;

            }

            else if (e.keyCode == Keyboard.RIGHT && last_button_down != e.keyCode && last_button_down != Keyboard.LEFT)

            {

                snake_vector[0].direction = "R";

                m = {x:snake_vector[0].x, y:snake_vector[0].y, type:"R"};

                last_button_down = Keyboard.RIGHT;

            }

            else if (e.keyCode == Keyboard.UP && last_button_down != e.keyCode && last_button_down != Keyboard.DOWN)

            {

                snake_vector[0].direction = "U";

                m = {x:snake_vector[0].x, y:snake_vector[0].y, type:"U"};

                last_button_down = Keyboard.UP;

            }

            else if (e.keyCode == Keyboard.DOWN && last_button_down != e.keyCode && last_button_down != Keyboard.UP)

            {

                snake_vector[0].direction = "D";

                m = {x:snake_vector[0].x, y:snake_vector[0].y, type:"D"};

                last_button_down = Keyboard.DOWN;

            }

            markers_vector.push(m);

        }

Week 5 In-class exercise

Week 5 In-class exercise 
This week lecture exercise: discussing things need to be improved through these four video prototype.

First Video - Poxemic interaction

Firstly, It is better to use hand to control it as it is more simple to use.  Secondly, it is not convenient to automatically open the TV, this can just done by pressing a button on the controller. Finally, it is not necessary to pause the TV when two people turns the head to each other, cause people don't usually do that when watching TV.

Second Video - Microsoft courier

It is a bit complicated for first time user to use this as simple is the best. the "gap" in the middle that split two screen is not necessary as it is not good looking.'

Third Video - Globlemasters

This video is lack of explanation, which is hard to know what this product is about

Fourth Video - Library search interface 

lack of background music and explanation make the video too boring. In addition, this video should add more color in it as it only got black and white.