# Session IV - 24. Nov. 2021, 14:00-17:00

This is our first game prototype session, which will be more loosely structured.

We'll arrive and have a short recap for open questions from last session.

Then jackie will go through today's slides and create a typing game from scratch:
https://tantemalkah.at/2021/artful-coding/slides/session4.html

One important aspect is to have a concept/draft first, where you already design
the rough layout and take some notes on how the elements should behave.
Then we can first create the HTML, then style it with CSS, and finally add the
main game logic and interaction with Javascript. This is just a rough sequence,
and most likely some parts of the HTML and CSS will change as you go with
your implementation. Also the concept might change during implementation.

At the end we have a prototype of a game, that already allows us to play it and
get a feeling for what could be changed or improved.

After the input, the rest of the session is an open workshop, where you can
work on the current or recent exercises.

## Exercise

The exercise for this session is mainly to recreate the typing game on your own,
and make some smaller improvements in terms of styling. This is the acceptable
low-effort variant. Everything counts, if it is not an exact 1:1 copy of the
thing presented in the lecture part. Feel free to reuse the code, but the
final result should at least look a little bit different in terms of styling.

Additionally you could also:
* Use a different story / framework for quotes
* Change the overall styling substantially, to make the game visually appealing
* Use effects / animations / sounds on success or errors
* Implement the statistics widget functionality

If you have fun with this exercise and get into a flow, that allows you to do
some of those bigger changes, this can also count towards your final project.
In that case feel free to submit everything now for the exercise and use the
same code base for the final project, then maybe only with a very few smaller
changes.

To submit your exercise, go to our shared base cloud folder into the "Session 4
- Typing Game" folder. Inside of it create a folder with your student ID and
name, where you can put your solution (there is a placeholder folder there as an
example reference). Put your solution there until 8. Dec. 2021, 14:00, to get
the full points.

## Peer reviews

As the next exercise deadline is in a week from now, there is currently
no new review assignment. The new review assignments will be sent out by
mail after the next exercise deadline.

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