Plague Inc. is a mobile game that allows players to name, create and design a pathogen to then kill every human on earth with it. The game has things that can slow down your progress. These things include political news, climates, cures, and much more. The game overall is very fun and engaging.
The color choices for the game are very understandable. The main colors used is red. The thumbnail of the app, the background of the setup, and the upgrades you can buy are all red. They all make sense. The color red is often associated with warning signs. It also symbolizes danger. The goal is to destroy humanity so danger is a well related feeling. In the game, you can choose from many different types of pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Each type has a special ability. Viruses can mutate symptoms more frequently. Fungi can release spores to infect a new, uninfected country. This is makes sense because these pathogen behave differently compared to one another. The game has things that can slow your progress to the goal. There is a cure that is started when the disease starts to become dangerous or life-threatening. It is usually led by the country you started the disease in. Other countries begin to shut down their outside transportation such as boats, airplanes and their border. This can lead to this country not being infected at all and ruin your game. There are also natural setbacks such as climate. If you start out in a cold country, such as Iceland, then it will be harder for your disease to spread to hotter countries, like Saudi Arabia, without dying. In summary:
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Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based drawing program that allows users to create logos, cartoons, etc. This week, we started to use this program for the first time. It's going to take me so time for me to get used to using but I'll soon enough get the hang of it.
The first time opening up the program was overwhelming. There are so many tools on the toolbar. Also the thumbnails for the tools are very small so I couldn't really see them. I also had trouble using the shape building tool. It's so easy to use which led to me accidentally making shapes over and over again. I found it hard to find certain things. I did not know where to find the color swatches but I did end up finding it on my own. Sometimes I think I need to go explore the program to find some new tools and techniques. I still don't how to make line intersect or overlap. That part is confusing to me and I don't know what to do. All the things you can do with text in the program are amazing. I wish I could have been able to do them in Photoshop. You can make the text go in a spiral or around a rounded rectangle. It is a lot easier to size the text in this program that in Photoshop. In Photoshop, you have to highlight the text and type in the size number but here you can just click and drag a corner to you liking. In conclusion:
Adobe Photoshop has a large variety of tools available for use in its program. We have learned how to use a few of them in class in recent days. Some of them were highly used and incredibly useful while the others were less favorable in my opinion. My favorite tool to use is the spot healing brush. The tool is very simple and extremely easy to use. It makes it look like you doing very intense work but in reality you are simply clicking over a spot to remove it. It is also very useful for editing pictures. You can save someone from embarrassment by editing out their disgusting acne. The use of the tool, if done correctly, is very unnoticeable even when you zoom in very closely. In the photos below, you can the changes I have made to the photo using the spot healing brush. I believe that the most useful technique we learned is how to fix the exposure of an image. I have least five photos that I have taken that have bad exposure. Sometimes, we don't have to time or skills to fix the lighting in area we are in. It is easier to be able to take a photo anywhere and not worry about it being too dark or too light. The photoshop program can take your worries away and fix your photos so you can post them. The two images below so the magic Photoshop has done to the original picture (I also used the spot healing brush on these pictures as well). In conclusion:
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AuthorI plan on learning the skills of Digital Design and Animation this year. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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