Monday, 24 September 2012

What is the process for applying to university?

http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/universities/applying-to-university/
http://admissions.yale.edu/freshman-application-process
http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_table.asp

In this websites I learned the acceptance rate of many schools (mostly Ivy Leagues) and most of the good ones range from 6% to 12% and about 90% of them where top 10% of the class and most SAT rates are above 2000 so these are really top notch schools like most of the people know. You also not only need grades but also sports and community work because you need many things to enter colleges like these. You need to be a leader.

I still wonder what other colleges are top tier like these awesome colleges.

Game Design

I know that most of them are very complicated especially if they are multiplayer games and require a lot of time and dedicated people to do one of them while others you can do in just a few minutes. I also know that good ones require some kind of language like python, C, or Java. Most of them are Java and I know the basic of this coding language thanks to code academy.

I wonder which are good platforms to create a good server based multiplayer game and how to start doing one including the codes and graphic design. I also wonder what kinds of game designing jobs exist (even if I don't want to be one) because it is really interesting to know.

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/411/game_design_an_introduction.php
http://www.byond.com/developer/

Here like it is part of my google 20% project I am learning the basics to coding and making  a multiplayer game with a small world to start with that teaches me the basics

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Google Day 1

My 3 Goals:
- Improve in Java language with code academy
- Start learning how to make the platform of our game
- Choose the game developer


http://www.byond.com/docs/guide/

I am learning the beginning of of a multiplayer platform with this link which has all of the information needed and I already downloaded the program and I am going to being to use it in no time. I also got to 120 points in code academy which is a great improvement
What I want to Learn next Class:

Good start to understand how a world works:
http://www.byond.com/developer/Dantom/YourFirstWorld

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Google 20%

For my Google 20% project me and Andres Silva would like to do a multiplayer online server game. To do this many skills are needed but the most important one is programming and then comes graphic design because without the first one the game would have no base so there would be no game and without the second one you would not be able to see anything because it is everything we see in the game is part of graphic design. Also with programming and learning java language you could learn to do many more things like IPad apps and that would be really cool. Also you could easily learn to hack things and I would really like to do that.

To show that I learned this skills I will make just as I said before a simple but fun multiplayer game, which will require a lot of time and effort. This would show that I learned what I said in the first paragraph because like most people know making a game is extremely difficult and normally only pro programmers can do things of this magnitude. So as you can see it would show it really well because thousands of commands are needed and that is only for the start.
C/C website