User:Mattjordan

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

Make a Video Game on MacroMedia Flash
 * Research Component


 * week 1


 * week 2


 * week 3

Work on Game Concepts
 * week 4

Start Character Design
 * week 5

Finish Character Design Start Level Design
 * week 6

Finish Level Design Begin Compiling it all
 * week 7

Finish game, begin debugging
 * week 8

100% Complete

Why Do I Like What I Like?
For this assignment I picked the sculpture was “Persephone Unbound” by Beverly Pepper. I chose this sculpture as my least favorite in the park because I thought it was a tree, and I still think it is a tree, and for that it is pretty dumb in my opinion. But after reading into more about Beverly Pepper’s work I found out that she likes to do a lot of work that is basically, big rocks made of steel, granite, marble, etc, that are supposed to symbolize something. Now Persephone Unbound was made to symbolize Persephone, the queen of the underworld who was abducted by Hades, and it was based off of the idea that in ancient civilizations, well-positioned stones created connections to other worlds. So Beverly Pepper made this stone to suggest the ideal of freedom, while at the same time embodying the unchanging eternity to which Persephone was subjected. But I still think it just looks like a tree. My initial opinion of this sculpture was that it was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, and that someone had cut up a tree, and got it into a sculpture park. But on looking into it I found out that it wasn’t just a stupid tree, and that it was actually made of steel, which I didn’t believe at first, and then that the way the stone was made actually had thought put into it. So in conclusion, I don’t hate that dumb tree known as “Persephone Unbound” as much as I initially did, but I still think it is pretty stupid.

Self-Assessment
My self assessment for the class, is that overall i think that i did a good job in the class. I put good effort into the assignments and tried by best at them. The thing that i thing i could have done better is that if i actually had the time, and wasn't a huge procrastinator as well, i would have very much liked to at least make one or two levels in a side-scrolling game for my "always wanted to" project, instead of making pinball. Other than that though, i think that the quarter went rather well for this class.