Objective C – Resource Site

Construct A Logical Plan Demonstrate Technical Skills Follow The Plan Justify Changes Made

Construct A Logical Plan

Your sprites must be from Creative Commons, The Public Domain, or Kindergarten Drawings. Sounds should be recorded, created with Sound of Text, or a similar site.

The Commons

A good first stop when browsing for content. Click on the link to explore Creative Commons images music and sound effects.

Piskel

Create an 8-bit style sprite using Piskel

Scratch Editor

The scratch editor, which is built right into the developer module, is a convenient way to create or edit images.

Kindergarten Drawings

Use at least one of the kindergarten drawings in your game design.

Kindergarten drawings in png format can be found below.

Attributing Images

When you use a creative commons image, you need to attribute it to the copyright holder (the person who made it). A properly attributed photo includes links to the photo’s title, author, and license.

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“Thumbs Up”, by Paul, Licensed under CC by 2.0

Attributing images and audio in Scratch

Save license info for your resources so you can attribute them in Scratch on the project page.

Audio

An excellent way to get recorded voices is by using the Sound of Text website where you can easily download any phrase that you type.

The Scratch sound module, which is built into scratch, is an excellent way to record your voice or sound effects for your games. Find a quiet room when recording.

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Allow the flash player to access the microphone

Below are databases of creative commons licensed audio files. They can be used for free, but must be attributed.

Demonstrate Technical Skills

Remove Background

Most of the fun begins with this strand. Now you will need to find your images and edit them.

You can use Pixlr editor to remove a background from an image.

Click the butterfly below to open the app and then “open image from computer”.

Double click on the lock in the “layers” panel to unlock the layer.

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Choose the wand tool (shortcut “w”).

pixlr-wand A plus symbol will appear when you hold the shift keywhile clicking to select the white background

After selecting the white background, click backspace to remove it.
If you are having trouble selecting, try experimenting with the “tolerance” setting in the upper left.

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The checkered background tells us that the background has been removed.

Save your image as a “PNG transparent full quality”.

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Upload your image and the background will be transparent!

Follow The Plan To Make The Solution

For this strand, we will write of what we accomplished for each day. Include processes you used and tools. List any changes made to the design or the construction plan.

Justify Changes Made To The Solution

During the creation phase of any product, ideas change and the final product doesn’t always turn out as planned. In this strand you will write about the changes that were made to your plan and/or design idea while creating it.

Construct A Logical Plan

The Commons

Creative Commons

Pixabay

Piskel

Pixlr

Pixel Speech Bubble