December 2007
3 posts
Facebook App
The creation of a facebook application is quite a bit more involved than I thought. It is not just simply creating a game that would be fun to you, but actually creating a game that will keep making people come back and playing time after time. Incentives such as trophies and leaderboard rankings are something that I think will help my game work in the realm of facebook. So far, my Go Fish game...
Video Games in Advertising
This Christmas is clearly revolving around video games. Never have I seen so many commercials or print ads for games. It seems that every other second I see an ad for Rock Band or Assassin’s Creed and the amzing Mr. T ad for World of Warcraft. The video game industry is clearly going to capitalize on such an aggressive marking campaign and it will propel profits higher than ever before. ...
Audio Project
The audio project ended up being a very interesting endeavor. The most difficult part was getting the sound to actually sync up with the video clips. It was quite hard to do in Adobe Flash, and it would have been much easier for me to use it in an audio editting program such as Audacity. But it was a fun project, and we’ll see if my attempt at being funny actually works.
November 2007
4 posts
Pixel Problem
Thanksgiving break exhausted all my resources for trying to fix up my Al Gore platform game. My main problem has been trying to get the Al Gore character sprite to look better than it does. The issue is that in order for it to fit properly inside the room, the image has to be greatly reduced in size from its original. This results in putting a detailed image into only a few pixels, which...
Platformer Ideas
The platformer tutorial does not add up to a very fun game. However, if you can get a decent concept, it can greatly increase the value of the gameplay. For this game, the social issue we decided to tackle was global warming. And who better to be our hero than the Nobel Prize Winner himself, Al Gore. He has to battle nasty CO2 emissions and the elusive ManBearPig to save the earth from global...
Dewmocracy
This is a very interesting ad campaign, which apparently, as I was told the other day, was devised by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker. But besides that, it makes the contest seem like the person chosen will be saving the world with a soft drink. It will prevent the apocalypse and save all of humanity in the process. It is just like the plot of oh so many sci-fi epic games and fps. The...
Machinima difficulties
I believe that the sum total of my group’s machinima for “Raging Bull” came out pretty well. Once we cut down the actual video used and inserted more game clips, it seemed to flow better and genuinely seemed like a more finished product. However, there were many impediments along the way and things that made our machinima not quite as full as we wanted it to be. One of the...
October 2007
1 post
Ridley Scott Knows What He's Doing
Blade Runner…what can I say that has not already said by critics since the true Director’s Cut release in the early 1990s? It is simply one of the best Science-Fiction movies ever filmed. It is visually stunning, and one can easily see why the video game industry has been greatly influenced by this movie. The dreary world has been used for quite some time, but heavily influenced...
September 2007
2 posts
TOP 5 GAMES
All apologies for not being in class on Monday, and because of that, I will put my top 5 games of all time in my blog post for the week. In no specific order: 1) Resident Evil 4 (GC/Wii)- So good I bought it twice. Graphically amazing for a last gen game. Totally revolutionized the Survival Horror genre with its gameplay. The addition of interactive cut-scenes is one that should be utilized...
Video Game Spin-Off Problems
So I finished watching Lost season 3 today. finally caught up with the series by watching all 3 seasons over the summer. The one show I swore to myself I would never watch, but I got hooked and never looked back. And then I saw that they were making the show into a video game for all major consoles and the PC. And I immediately became worried. Why? For the same reason that I always get...