1. What is your favorite color? Castle Game-Part One February 7, 2013

2. For Today: O Word of the Day O Review Color Palette choices. O Design our wall for the castle game. O If time permits, we will start building our Castle Game. O Don’t forget to pickup your homework sheet.

3. Word of the Day Precise O Adj. O Sharply exact O Accurate O delimited

4. What is a color palette? O A color palette is the set of colors used consistently throughout a scene to maintain mood. O Generally, the desired mood sets the color palette that will be dominated by one of four general colors to maintain the mood: O Red O Yellow O Blue O Grey O The rest of the color palette is selected using contrasting and complementary colors from the color wheel.

5. Mood O Through color palettecolor palette O Red = passion O Yellow = cheerful O Blue = peaceful O Gray = gloomy O Dark colors identify opponents O Bright colors identify rewards or friends. O Through object shape O Sharp edges = scary O Soft edges = calming

6. How color is used? O Color is used to portray two different moods. O A lighthearted mood is portrayed in the game on the left. O A darker and more sinister mood is portrayed in the game on the right.

7. Castle Game O Situation: The Really Sweet Candy Company wants to have its candy appear as tokens in a video game. Your team has been selected to design a prototype game where the player will navigate platforms in a tower and collect candy. If your game prototype is selected, the game will be ported as a PC game, online game, and downloadable application for handheld devices.

8. Let’s do a little planning! O Take out a sheet of paper and a pencil/pen. O Put your name on your paper.

9. Answer the following questions: O What color would you choose for the brick wall in your game? O Explain why did you choose this color?

10. Rubric Scale of 5 – 1 (5 being the highest) Assign point for the following category: O Clarity of answer – Did they answer the questions correctly or…. O Explanation of choice O Add the points ______ out of 10 pts.

11. Answer the following questions: O After choosing the particular color, would you have chosen another color after talking to your neighbor? O And Why?

12. Answer the following questions: O After hearing your results, what do you think this chart reveals? O Why did you answer this way?

13. Let’s design our wall! O The first step is to designed the background for your game. O You will need to create a brick wall for a round tower. O Log into www.g-wonline.comwww.g-wonline.com O Choose chapter 4 O Open Activity 4-5 & Activity 4-6 O Open WORD! O Let’s follow the steps.

14. Example of a brick wall: