Date	Description/Objective	Screen Shots
9/2/09	The teacher showed the class how to use Alice. Which consisted of giving an ice skater character commands to perform moves in the program. Basically character animation. The class learned how to make this page I am typing on now. It was made using Photoshop.
9/9/09	The teacher talked about Atari and all the game consoles/PCs comprising the history of gaming. He split us into groups and we had a fun discussion about the pros and cons of developing a game on a PC vs a console. I felt I had learned a lot, listening to everyone's presentations. Then, we started Alice up again and were following the teacher's instructions. He showed us how to make a red cone and blue cone face the camera and put to the right and left of the ice skater. We then received homework to make a Japanese Fan Girl.
9/12/09	I did the Japanese Fan Girl homework. It was shorter than I thought it would be. It took about 10 minutes. It was cool how she twirled around. I am uploading it to the serve so it will be ready for class on Wednesday. Project 1
9/16/09	Mr. Dao took us into Counter Strike and talked about what some of the future concepts for games and gameplay would be. He showed us how to use the Hammer Editor and make a building for Counter Strike. We put a Counter Strike character inside of the building, and made sure the building had no holes in it. The class then needed to work on their indexes. We worked on them and went home.
9/23/09	Answered Chapter 2 questions. Mr. Dao talked about the game development process stages. Made a hallway and an adjoining room in Hammer Editor for Counter Strike Source. Turned in my index and fan dancer project.
9/30/09	Answered Chapter 3 question in group about how to localize a game to Germany and Korean countries. Mr. Dao talked about how the class credits will transfer to some schools but not all. He also spoke of how some of the class will drop out and only a few will actually make it out with degrees. Worked on Counter Strike room making turrets and a pillar. Received assignment to make individual turrets. I think I am going to make mine look like a snow man.
10/7/09	Did textures in Hammer Editor. Put in a light source. Played the map for the first time in game. Mr. Dao gave us the assignment to created our own map consisting of 8 players.
10/14/09	Did Chapter 4 question in group talking about how prototyping makes a big difference in the end product of the game. Made cat walks on top of the turrets. Made an arch way for the center of the room. Made a buy zone. Mr. Dao signed off on our maps.
10/21/09	We made a prefab in class. We were given an example of a box and how to make that into a prefab. Then were given time to design our own prefab.
10/28/09	I was absent with bacterial infection.
11/04/09	My Map