Monday, December 15th

Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin

Notes

Welcome to Week 15! Let’s all make our folders now…
We have 7 days left of 2025 in class. Here is what our schedule is going to look like beyond normal school:
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
  - Visitors
- Thursday
  - Visitors
- Friday
  - Finals of Smash Tournament
- Monday
  - GAWD goes to the movies!
    - We pay for your tickets.
    - You buy concessions if you are interested – maybe find a snack buddy? Get a tub of popcorn and share candy?
    - We may be back late / after lunch ends this day, so make sure you have big breakfast.
- Tuesday
  - AM – Pre vacation Game Environment Jam. Work as a giant group doing Game Environment. Create 3D assets to give to the Level Designers working up front.
  - PM – Socialize, game, and eat our leftover food from the previous Sameday!

10:05 Attendance and Article

10:10 Last Looks

Last looks is when I give students time to upload their completed work to the weekly folder on the public, in a folder that is your last name. Remember we aren’t doing any work today – this is just when we turn it in. Plan on not doing more than scan / upload each Monday morning – and the scanner may have a line!

UI Integration into Game

lastNameGameUI.mp4

DH14: 3 Point Floating Boxes

lastNameDH_14.jpg

Week 14 Agency

lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg

10:35 Unreal Review

Review of Timelines

10:50 Morning Break

11:00 Critiques

Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.

If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.

11:30 3 Point Perspective Review

11:50 DH15: Looking down from a high place in 3 Point Perspective

DH15 will be creating a scene where we are looking down using 3 Point Perspective. As in the two architectural examples above, we will place the 3rd vanishing point at the bottom of our sketch. This will force the vertical lines to start converging as we move down down down away from our eye to the ground far far below.

Save your work as lastNameDH_15.jpg.

11:55 Lunch

No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.

12:25 Attendance and Article

12:30 Monday and Tuesday Enemy Creation Time

This week we will all be required to program in a negative game state (death) due to some event (hit by enemy, hit by enemy a certain number of times, timer counts down, etc).

Today and Tuesday PM in this after lunch session we are going to start making the Digital Asset used later on this week to represent hurt / death / damage.

This can also include the UI elements connecting to the damage, a piece of concept art where you really flesh out the mechanic, etc.

Create the art over the next 2 days so you can program functionality in later on this week.

12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow is a reader’s dream — a wonder-full, nuanced story full of wit, insight, and imagination.

Read along with Mr. Cronin. Improve literacy, word decoding, enjoy a nice story, and unplug from the world.

1:10 Afternoon Break

1:25 Speed Design

Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in CAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.

1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production

DH15: Looking down from a high place in 3 Point Perspective

lastNameDH_15.jpg

Week 15 Agency

lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg

2:15 Dailies

2:20 “19 Minutes”

Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:

Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
Unplug

At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.