mgreenberry
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8 years ago Simon was introduced to a program called Stencyl which was used to create a playable game with 2 other students to make a team. They had to come up with an idea for a game and they discussed various ideas and settled on a spaceship game. The aim of the game was to defend the spaceship with shields from enemy craft and enemy fire by pressing the directional arrows to move the shield. Simon created the enemy spaceships and fire (bullets) for the enemy spaceships. He created 2 enemy spaceships, 1 with an engine firing and a second without so that the enemy spaceships would show an animation of a spaceship flying. He then created another 3 enemy spaceships with 2 animations each. After this, he created some enemy fire and had to have animation for these too. He then created enough bullets for each enemy spaceship so that it would look like he was firing at the main spaceship. Other members of the team created the main spaceship and it's shield and backgrounds, energy bar, etc. This needed to be linked to the each other in Stencyl so that the enemy spaceships would fire at the main ship and destroy it if it's shields were not in the right place. Four enemy spaceships would fire from four different angles so that the main spaceship would have to defend itself from four different areas. A full shield was created which could be used if all four enemies were firing at the same time.
Communication is difficult for Simon and he has difficulty grasping the tasks when written in English so relies on some sort of translation which doesn't always convey the complexity of the task at hand.
Therefore I've asked Simon to attach a Word document and a video of his experience of Stencyl and what work he has done on a week to week basis. When this is uploaded, I will provide a translation of it.