Tuesday- The Exam!

  Tomorrow is the exam and I have been studying since Saturday. I believe I am ready, however I also have a French exam to study for. My French exam is in the morning and my ICS exam is in the afternoon. I have been studying so much it's not even funny! I finished 2 of my exams yesterday and they both went by in a blink of an eye! I hope this is the case for the 2 exams I am doing tomorrow! 

Friday- Ate so Much!

  I have such a bad stomach ache! I ate so much cake, took one for the team I guess! I also ate a lot of cookies and chips, what a unhealthy lunch! I have to run for like hours on end to burn all this fat off my body. Aw well, I am going to the YMCA any way so I guess I can burn off all the fat that I have consumed today. I start playing basketball at 6:30 and stop at 11:00, therefore I will be running for 4:30 hours! Yes, I will be burning off at least 2000 calories, which is good for me!  

Thursday- Printed my Advertisement

In my opinion they should change the alcohol with coke 

  I made an account in Staples and printed my pdf, advertisement with it. I went to pick it up after school and luckily, even though I came early they gave me the laminated sheet that I had wanted. They said it takes 6 business hours to created the laminated sheet, however I came to pick it up in 4, oops! Thankfully the man was nice and printed my paper. I watched how one laminates a piece of paper. They first take 2 sheets of plastic, putting one on each side of the paper. Then they cover it with a plastic folder. After that they put the sheet covered in the plastic into a machine that melts the plastic onto the sheet. 
  Whoa, that was a long explanation, any way tomorrow is the party! Mr.Arkin said he is bringing something that is in need of plates, I wonder what it could be? I love parties, there like my happy place away from all the work I have to do. 

Wednesday- Making Webpages Takes a Long Time!

   I am trying to create my webpage for the culminating activities, however it is taking so long! I forgot how long it took to create webpages. Yes, webpages, not only do I have to create one web page, I have to create 3! One for the Testing Report, One for the User Manual and the last one for the advertisement. Speaking of the advertisement I have to print it! I have so much work to do by Friday. So much pressure and the main reason for this is that I procrastinated, thinking I would be able to finish everything in 1 weeks time. 
  I have finished all my other culminating activities, for my other subjects. I presented my French culminating today, my Music culminating on Monday and my English culminating on Friday of last week. Now I can put all my focus onto my ICS culminating. 

Tuesday- Forget to Blog!

  
  Due to all the stress from the culminating activities and now the exams I forgot to blog for one whole week! I feel ashamed just typing this blog, I can't believe I forgot to blog. Any way, on Tuesday I finished up my User Manual and my Testing Report. I decided to put everything up on touque.ca, then add a link to Wikispaces, so that Mr.Arkin can mark my game. I also created an executable for my game. Nonetheless, I have taken off the music component from my game because, I do not want the user to have to download a folder so that they can play my game. This making it much more convenient for the user. 
  Mr.Arkin also informed us about a party on Friday. I have decided to bring cookies as my contribution for the party. I am hoping everyone brings something so that we can have a great party! At the moment I just want this month to end, because that would mean  I would have finished my exams and I would be starting a new semester.

Monday- Drawing Closer and Closer AND CLOSER!

  The culminating deadline is drawing closer as I type. The only things I have to do now are, finish up the user manual, finish the testing results and creating a webpage for the two. I also have to make an add, advertising my game. OH MY GOD! So much work to do! This culminating needs to be absolutely perfect, because it is worth 15% of my mark. I believe the hardest culminating activity I have had so far is this one. Mainly because of the time it consumes. So far I believe I have been working my very hardest to get the best game that my abilities allow me to make. I have decided to take out the meteors and instead add in decoys. These decoys will try and divert the users attention from the stars that must be clicked. The user will have 3 lives which will be based on if they click on the decoy or not. If they click on the decoy they lose a life and if their lives reach 0 they will inevitably lose. 
  As I type I am trying to figure out ways on how to make my game more efficient and how I will be planning out the user manual and the testing results. Today we also got our Mosaic projects back, oh my god! Mine actually looks professional because of the background. Me and my friend were have having a debate on who's was better. Of course we left it as an open ended debate. 

OH MY GOD! I've said this phrase way to often, here's where I get it from :


OMG- Usher feat. Wil.i.am

Friday- Successful Swim Meet!

Hey thats my stroke!

  It was an extremely nerve racking swim meet, mainly due to the fact that I had to go up against seniors! I went to the swim meet and there was well over 100 people there, however no junior did the event I was in, the 50M fly. Therefore, I had to go up against the seniors and came in second, behind an 11th grader from my own team! So Vic Park took both second and first! I had 2 other events, the 50M free and the 200M Medley Relay. In the 50M free I came in second! I hate this, because my regular time in the 50M free is a 28.5 seconds, however this time I had a 30 second time! I went to the swim without any energy and I don't even know what was the cause! In the 200M Medley Relay, we lost because, 2 out of the 4 people who regularly do the relay did not show up!


  Today as Mr.Arkin had announced he was not present. In class I learned how to add music files onto my game. I added the song dynamite by Taio Cruz. My game is looking very promising at the moment and it is fully functional. I have added buttons in the menu. These buttons include, Start, Instructions and Quit. I have also made a button for the difficulty levels. Here is the song that is in my game: