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We will be conducting an experiment in group programming tonight to build this small project: Faux Pong

Download the work file (link)

Here is the completed "faux pong" file (link). Take a read through the code and see if you can follow it. Try changing some of the values and see what happens. Once you know how to program PONG, you can program just about anything.

Next week after looking at Project 2 we will go over the program flow, defining and calling functions, and controling Flash sound and text in depth.

Be the ball!

Lecture notes
History of Pong
Wikipedia reference
A version of Pong in a radically shifted context: Blinkenlights

You may find these sample chapters from Colin Moock's book: ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide useful. Although the book was written for Flash MX, most of the material is still relevant to Flash 8.

http://www.moock.org/asdg/samples/moockasdg2-ch13.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/actionscript.html
http://www.moock.org/asdg/samples/moockasdg2-ch03.pdf

Here are the projects I have received so far. I had trouble viewing a few of the projects submitted. Let's resolve these FTP issues!

David Becker
Jenny Davis
Stuart Freeman
April Gardner
Giovanni Gensale
Christie Gilliland link 1 link 2
Jennifer Grygiel
Rasvan Iliescu
Jeungah Kim
Jason Meinert
Karl Ozaeta
Andrea Parent
Mike Pastore

Tonight we will be finishing up the programming pong exercise and looking at the Flash Sound and Text classes.
Sound class
Faux Pong completed

Here is the link to the Project 3 assignment (link)

The link to the Sound class (external .as file) is broken. Here it is again (link)

Line Rider (toy? game? art?) Line Rider official site Line Rider fan site

Animator vs. Animation

Watercolour Park (Tate Online piece)

Christian Botting
Andrea Piekarski
Ashley Umbro

There are some interesting art examples at the Incident web site, including some dealing with memory and time.

--from the exhibit notes:

THE DETAIL

Between the subject and the object, between the perceiver and the
perceived. As we shift from the detail to the entirety, the change in
scale is ascertained through comparison. Can a detail exist all by
itself? Would it still be a detail? Do we have to stop once we arrive at
the detail? Can't we just keep going until the detail breaks up into
endless fragments of further details?

Yes, tonight we will have a quiz to review the Pong related scripting.

Here again is the work file. This is intended to be a low stress quiz to identify any problems or questions in writing basic actionscript. You will be able to use the Flash help but not the completed 'faux pong' file elsewhere on this site. We will also answer questions and provide help in the event you get stuck.

Project Submissions
When submitting your projects, please do not send me the source. Instead you should .zip it, put it on your web site and send me the URL, along with the URL to view your project. Also, please name your Flash source file with the following convention:

firstInitial_lastName_projectNumber.fla

So my Project 3 would be:

rPardi_p3.fla

OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media: McKenzie Wark and David Weinberger
http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/

DATE: March 28, 7 pm
VENUE: Emerson College, Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont Street, Boston
STREAMED LIVE: http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/2007/live.php
BROADCAST TO SECOND LIFE:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Emerson%20Island/153/109/24
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

Here's the simple pong file that I put together at the end of class

Download file