Game Pitch

   I have come  up with directions and a basic idea for the game board.  I will need a game board, box, dice, question cards, letter money, game pieces and trait pieces.  I will need two of each trait.  

   To make a successful game I think you need to keep in mind your audience.  If you have to broad an audience then you will not be able to make all of the ages happy.  You need to target one group of people and find out what they like.  I am targeting freshmen in high-school who have trouble in genetics.  My game provides an interactive and fun way to learn. 

Typography finish

    I like typography, it makes me think of poems that are in the shape of what they talk about.  I don't think all forms of type are typography because if you just type something then you are not giving it a creative style.  I think typography is art.  I do think Graffiti is typography because it is art in the form of words.  Even though it is illegal it is still creative inspiration.

Game- Plan

   My plan for this game is to create a board game where you go around trying to get all of the pieces to your Alien.  You can go around the board and buy different traits with letters.  It would be like buying them with money except instead of money like dollars you had the nucleic acid bases of the mRNA like A U G and C.  If you can get these nine letters together you can trade them in for a trait.  You can get more letters by landing on a question box where if you answer a question card you get these letters.  You can put together the traits on a laminated sheet with velcro.
   In photoshop I will create the design for the box.  In ROME I will create an idea for the game board, the directions and the parts of the creatures.  The pictures on the box will be made mostly from different webcites that I will get pictures from and use the parts.  I will of course cite these.  I need to get pictures for the box and the dimensions of it.  I will present my final product in an actual game.  Later I plan on giving my biology teacher this game.

Game- Investigate

For this project I need to make a game that relates to a class I am currently taking.  I need to give an overview of what this game will be like and how it will be played.  I am doing biology and using cells.   got many different cites that explain the structure of an animal cell.  I will create a box, pieces and the art for this game using photoshop and ROME.  I also think that this other biology game where you create a character from DNA would be cool.  I think this would be more fun so I am rethinking my cell idea.   I think it will take about three weeks.  My goal audience is freshmen or middle schoolers learning about biology and giving them a fun way to learn about it.
these are the cites I found for the cell game;

"Animal Cell Anatomy." EnchantedLearning.com. 2010. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/cell/>.

 "Animal Cells." Users.com. 7 Nov. 2009. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/A/AnimalCells.html>.

 "Human Organs." PurposeGames.com - Create & Play Online Games. Lumosity.com, 2012. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.purposegames.com/game/163>.

 Rickey, John. "The Human Organ Game, Body Organs, Parts of the Human Body." NetRover Inc. - Canada's Internet Provider. Room 108, 2006. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/body/body.html>.

 "A Typical Animal Cell." Welcome to Wisc-Online.com. Facility Builders Webmasters, 2011. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. <http://www.wisc-online.com/Objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=AP11403>.

Typography -Evaluate

    I was able to carry out my plan of making a picture totally out of words that we what they were creating.  I made a picture that was completely filled in and made of words.  I was able to create a full picture.  I think other people will like this picture because it is colorful and it hypnotizes you while you try and read every word.  Making things in the picture that were straight was easy, I would write the word over and over again until it worked, the I just added color.  It was a lot harder to make something curved.  I had to resize the word to make it smaller and make a lot of them, all turned a just the right angle, and the fill in the space.  I wish I could have made a couple things more neat, the sky doesn't totally match up together like I might want it to.
   My picture meets the requirements because it make a picture using type.  I think my product it proficient. It meets the requirements but could be a little more neat.

Typography - Create

I decoded on doing a picture that was made out of words, the house is made up of lots of red words that all say, House.  Each thing is made up of the words of what it is.  I decided to not do clouds because it was to difficult to make them curved.  Everything else went as planned.

Typography

Typography is more than just words.  It is an expression of art through words.  You can use different fonts and sizes to create something really cool.  Different colors and styles make a piece amazing to look at.  Typography can be many different things, coming up with a new style of writing, creating a picture using different letters and symbols as shapes, or even sometimes make the picture out of the things it describes.  I like typography, it is artistic.

Typography- Plan

For my project I will be using ROME.  I am either going to make the picture using letters or make each object in the picture made out of what it is.  I have seen a couple of things from both.  I found that Thomas Broome does a lot of work where the things are made of the words that they are.  His things are much more detailed and in black and white, I am going to do mine in color and not all of it will be filled in.  This is backwards because I had to take a picture of it, but this is my idea;

I was also thinking of doing something made out of letters, like this;

Again, backwards

When it's done I will take a screenshot and post it on my blog.

Typograpgy- Investigate

I need to make a picture, new font or graphical arrangement with type.  I intend to make a drawing.  It needs to show type in art, and my target audience is my teacher.

I intend to either make a picture out of letters and type, or I might make the objects in the picturewith the words that they are.  I think that this problem will take about two or three class periods to solve.  I will work on Investigate and plan today and next class period I will create.  THen the last class period I will evaluate and finish up everything.  When looking for ideas I used these sites;


"ANATOMY OF TYPE." St Thomas. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mjodonnell/coursework/j220/pdf/type2.pdf>.

 Howard, Jacci. "Typeface Anatomy Basics - Explore Parts of Letters." Desktop Publishing Tutorials and Software Recommendations. About.com. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typeanatomy/a/basic_anatomy.htm>.

 "Type 101 - Fonts.com." Fonts.com. Monotype Imaging, 2001. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Type101/>.

 Unger, Greg. "Typographic." RSUB.COM. Web. 11 Jan. 2012. <http://www.rsub.com/typographic/>.

Spell With flicker

This is really cool! You type in something and then it gives you your letters in a cool artistic form.  This is, I love you:

I also tried putting a word in in all big letters and all small letters, it came out totally different.