SlugWars

Battle Arena

by Daniel Helmick

SlugWars
Battle Arena

by Daniel Helmick

 

SlugWars: The Games!

SlugsWars is a collection of games on different platforms to let you enjoy building your slug’s powers and abilities and then battle each other in the SlugWars Battle Arena.

The Pursuit of Passion

What do you want to be when you grow up Daniel? … A video game creator?  Ok, then.  Let’s get started.  What’s your game?  SlugWars – slugs battle each other with salt weapons and each slug has special powers…  Let’s do it!

Daniel: The Creator

Daniel Helmick is the creative imagination behind SlugWars – one of his many ideas for some amazing video games.  Whether it’s Fortnite, Roblox, Steam or anything reptiles, Daniel is a force to be reckoned with…

Paul: GenX Geek

I’m all in to help Daniel learn how to design, create and publish video games.  Daniel’s an awesome young man.  It’s pretty cool to spend time with him figuring out new stuff together.

SlugWars: Roblox Edition

Roblox is a massively multiplayer online and game creation system platform that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of different types of games created by other users. The platform hosts social network games constructed of Lego-like virtual blocks.[1] As of September 2018, Roblox has over 70 million monthly active users.

SlugWars / iPad-iPhone

Apple is the world’s largest information technology company by revenue and the world’s third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. More than 1.3 billion Apple products are actively in use worldwide. The App store the store features over 2.1 million apps

iOS is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple that powers the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch.

 

SlugWars / MineCraft Edition

One of the best-selling, independently developed and published video games, Minecraft immerses kids in 3D creative thinking, geometry, and even a little geology as they build imaginative block structures – letting them explore, combat, craft, create anything they can imagine.

Over 154 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, behind Tetris. Microsoft bought Minecraft $2.5 billion dollars and today the games has around 91 million active players monthly.

SlugWars / Scratch Edition

Scratch is a block-based visual programming language and online community targeted primarily at children. Users of the site can create online projects using a block-like interface. The service is developed by the MIT Media Lab, has been translated into 70+ languages, and is used in most parts of the world.

Scratch is taught and used in after-school centers, schools, and colleges, as well as other public knowledge institutions. As of January 2019, community statistics on the language’s official website show more than 46 million projects shared.

My Blog: Sharing My Learning Journey

3D Dragon

3D Dragon

My sister Lily loves the movie/show "How to train your Dragon" We found this dragon model to print and give to her

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My First 3D Slug!

My First 3D Slug!

Very exciting! This one is "articulated" meaning that it has joints and can wiggle You can see the video below how it prints layer by layer As we change the color of the filament strings in the printer, we will make a slug in each color that we have [video...

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3D Snapping Turtle

3D Snapping Turtle

We are starting to download different creations from Thingiverse and print them Some of the objects you have to print on a raft, a layer of filament underneath the model Then you have to remove some of the support material sometimes that holds it up while printing

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A 3D keychain for my sister

A 3D keychain for my sister

We used a website called TinkerCad to make this. We put a rectangle on the design table. Then a small cylinder and made it reverse into a hole. Then we put the letters on top and grouped it all together. It's like a little keychain.

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Raspberry Pi Jam Day

Raspberry Pi Jam Day

We went to this event last week at the Bridge Valley building down in the South Charleston Technology Park. They had several demonstrations of how the Raspberry Pi computer could power robots, act as sensors, and automate tasks like remotely feeding meal worms to...

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First 3D Test Prints

First 3D Test Prints

These three examples came on the memory card with the printer. We are printing each of them off to see if we have the printer set up correctly. They all worked great. The three default objects that come on the MonoPrice printer memory card are a butterfly, an...

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New 3D Printer at Home

New 3D Printer at Home

We got an inexpensive 3-D printer for our home. We are going to learn how to use it to design and create things. We hope one day to be able to print the different slug characters from the game we are making. As we make different objects, we will share pictures of them...

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Watch out for Roblox Scammers!

Watch out for Roblox Scammers!

There are lots of players on Roblox that want you to tell them your password so they can give you special items It is a lie - they just want to steal your account They promise you cool stuff that is worth $99999999999999999999999 and lots of free Robux Here are...

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Raspberry Pi for Dummies

Raspberry Pi for Dummies

Daddy started reading through this book on Amazon. It's 500 pages!  He wanted to learn with me some of the things you do to get the computer connected and up and running.  It uses the Linux operating system which is different that Windows or Mac.  After he read it we...

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My New Raspberry Pi

My New Raspberry Pi

I got a new computer to put together!  It will be the first one I build myself.  It's a Raspberry Pi. I am excited to learn how everything connects together and how it works. My dad got one too and we are going to work together step-by-step to get it going.   The...

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Roblox Game Creation Tutorial Video

Roblox Game Creation Tutorial Video

Daniel and I watched this two minute video on how to make a game in Roblox.  We wish it was as easy as two minutes.  It looks like it will take a while to learn how to use the Roblox Studio game creation software.  You can create the maps and all of the objects and...

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Welcome to Slugwars!

Welcome to Slugwars!

Welcome to my new website for SlugWars! My name is Daniel Helmick.  I'm 8 years old. I have a creative mind and thought this game might be silly and a joke at first. But then I thought about it hard, and I really got excited and think SlugWars will be a great game. My...

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