Tribute to Pacman...

The Computer Games Programming class have been busy building their skills... Early work started with some basic Flash 8 productions such as the following grass skier "game".



This progressed to more adventurous productions such as Hunters and Assassins by Tom:



Others have been using game development software such as GameMaker. The following is Daniel's tribute to the very early Pacman games. It might look simple but getting the trigger keys to time correctly was not easy...



Next term students will begin to use more complex 'game engines' from some successful commercial computer games.

In the meantime some students have been playing the new game PeaceMaker. This is a difficult game where the player takes on the role of Palestinian or Israeli leader and attempts to bring peace to those countries. The game uses actual historic events and the player chooses from a range of security, political and development options to bring peace.



You can watch some video clips about the game here and here.