by Fabio Espinoza

Screenshot of Gameplay

How to Play

The way to play SliceCraver is very simple. First decide if you want to play the game with music or not. Then press the play button. Once you’re in the play stage press the “START” button, the game will prompt you with a fraction from the Pizza Sprite and there will be a multiple choice selection of answers you can choose from. Once you click on your answer the game will repeat and give you another Pizza Sprite animation with a different fraction. Additionally the game will give you another selection of questions. The game has a 30 second limit and after it ends it will go back to the main menu. That is how to play SliceCraver and there is also a help page, an about page, and a resources page. The help page tells you how to play the game, the about page tells you about the game creator, and the resources page which contains a list of third party sources that helped create the SliceCraver game.

Player Control

The player is in control only with their mouse. This means SliceCraver relies on only click events from the user.

Self Created Items

This was the help page I created all by myself in Photoshop. The background, the texts, and button is all made by me and no external sources

This is the pizza sprite that I didn’t create by myself BUT I made the red fraction outline on the pizza by using the pen tool in Photoshop.

This is the bar I created in Photoshop. Usually this is to hold a button or hold some text like the fraction selections. Every bar and button in SliceCraver was self created and not taken from the internet

This is the About Page. All of it is self created using texts and text styling in Photoshop. Also the gradient tool and some shape tool objects in there too.

This is the Main Menu Page which the background, food sprites, and electric orb sprites, I didn’t make myself. however everything else I did. Which includes the track marks across the mountain, the buttons you see on the page, the color changing of the orbs, and the SliceCraver Title Text

Items from Internet

Sprites

The first thing I realized I had to work on was sprites so in order to do make good quality sprites I used photoshop. From class I understood how GIFS work and that they were composed of multiple frames to make a moving picture. My first approach was to use Photoshop to make the GIF files and import to Construct 2 but for some reason my Construct2 version wasn’t accepting my GIF files. Instead I had to do the tedious way and import picture by picture but it paid off in the long run. These sprites include the moving and nonmoving objects in my pages.

Backgrounds

Backgrounds are done on Photoshop. I made sure to get the resolution to match my Construct 2 project when I made the photoshop project which is 1708×960. I used some royalty free pictures from the internet and also edited a little bit on photoshop such as the colors and added some shapes of my own with the Photoshop pen tool. This project has taught me how to use this phot editing software more efficiently.

Event Sheets and Pages

My project was getting very clustered so I made sure to rename my Event Sheets and Pages. Additionally I had to make sure which event sheet and page was linked together so I named them accordingly.

Design

The design I was going for was a bitmap design and some animations on every page to make it feel like a dynamic game and not a static app. I used animations by importing every frame into my sprites. I made sure to also have a bright color scheme to make the player more alert and engaged.

Timer

To get a timer into my game I used a global variable in my event sheet and tied the integer value to a text box. I made the value go down every second through the system properties event.

Navigating Through Pages

Navigating through pages was going to be essential to everyone’s project since we have to include a contact page, a help page, reference page, and our actual game. The way I did this is by using a button or text object as my event handler to see if someone clicks on it. On click of the object, there is an action from the event sheet that lets the system go to another layout. This is also a reason why my design in my pages all have buttons to navigate through my game.

Fractions

The Fractions were represented by outlines I added to the pizza sprite via Photoshop. The slices of the pizza is highlighted red and the user is prompted with options of what the possible answer can be. The game is all about the user answering and being exposed to new fractions. Once the user clicks an answer a new fraction is displayed

Score

I realized this game is not about trying to get the highest score but it is about learning fractions. So the scoring system is based on attempts. The more the user answers the higher his score will be, this means the more exposure to fractions is what rewards your score. This game is intended to be educational and for little children so I didn’t want it to be competitive instead I wanted it to be a very relaxed game.