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Project Research

In this blog, I will talk about all the research I did since we got this assignment. Since my role was coding, I looked at different Adobe Animate tutorials so I can understand how to use it. I also looked at different kids games and take some inspiration from it. When I was looking at kids games I looked at educational games and other games from the age of 4-6 years old. I looked for games that were maths and games on the iPad, since we want a maths game and for iPad.

These were the games I found

The games on the iPad were a mix of drag and drop and tap/click while the games on PC were tap/click.

Drag and Drop;
PlayKids (iPad)
The tutorials I watched how to get it to go to one scene to another since I couldn't get it to do that I got it to go one frame to another. I watched different tutorials based on this and how to create buttons in Adobe Animate. Most of them were the same method, it was difficult to follow some of the videos because it was the latest Adobe Animate. So when I am looking for videos I looked at the latest year, any videos that were before 2016. Once I got the understanding of how to create buttons I just repeat the method and add effects on the buttons that were already there on Adobe Animate. 

To add the effect on the buttons I just need to put out which effects I would like to use and click apply. 




Other than looking at different tutorials and kids games, I researched different fonts that would match our game and genre but the logo for this game is still a working process. With the colours that were used for the illustrations on the main page, Esmee and I looked at the different colours for the buttons that would stand out.

Colours for the button;
Yellow before you click on it and
Orange when hovered over.
Body/Main Font
Logo Font


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  1. Robyn MulhallMarch 31, 2019 at 9:57 PM

    Hey Nhu:)) You're doing really good work within the group for Tiny Farm. Good job on the game design document by the way you did a lot of informative research. From the coding aspect of things are you finding it difficult or do you feel that you need more people to help in that area? The final game design document turned out really well I think our group is progressing at a great speed! Everything is going well in the art department it's good that we're giving each other a hand with everything when needed! Best of luck in the coding department I'd offer to help there but we both know I cannot code:)

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