Entry13/24.12.2010
All sounds as of the moment have been uploaded onto file share: footsteps in sand/gravel, bat flapping its' wings and squeaking, pop-up box noise, cookie crunch noise and a few variations of thunderstorms. Sounds have been met with approval bar the cookie crunch as it wasn't in correct keeping with the theme.
On a plus side as it's close to Christmas, stores are doing mad deals. Steam has ended its week long event and has now started on its end of year clean up. Fallout: New Vegas going for £15 now.
Also have played an early release version of Two Worlds II, I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but I will try my hand at another review could be good practise.
Friday, 24 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
18 Dec 2010 - week 12
Entry12.8/18.12.2010
Have had a shed load of snow again, which means havoc again everywhere. Airports closed trains stopped roads icy, for a superpower nation we're beaten by a bit of snow. This will be brief because it's Christmas time and theres work to do.
Have had a shed load of snow again, which means havoc again everywhere. Airports closed trains stopped roads icy, for a superpower nation we're beaten by a bit of snow. This will be brief because it's Christmas time and theres work to do.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
07 Dec 2010 - week 11
Entry11.9/12.12.2010
Here is my final draft ready to be criticised:
Here is my final draft ready to be criticised:
Space Invaders is a 2 dimensional arcade shooter, where the player controls a turret to defeat waves of enemies. First released in 1978 manufactured and sold only in Japan by Taito, the game was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado; the game was later licensed for production in the US by the Midway division of Bally. The aim of the game is to defeat waves of aliens at a steadily increasing challenge.
The aim of the game is to take control of a scrolling turret and destroy waves of aliens before they reach the ground. The player only has 3 actions that they can perform; move left, move right and shoot. Slightly above the player are shields which can be destroyed when sufficient damage is dealt to them, above those are the aliens. The aliens are the only enemy in the game, as the wave progresses the rate that they drop down, increase speed and reverse direction slowly increases. As the player beats each wave a life is added to a pool and the aliens steadily get more powerful. Although the player can only take one hit so can the aliens, as they become more powerful they shoot more often and aggressively. Their base movement speed also increases from wave to wave, this mean that later waves will require tactics as well as skill as your rate of fire is always the same. As the player destroys the aliens they earn points at random intervals a mother ship will scroll across the highest point of the screen, and can be destroyed for bonus points.
By looking at the different categories that have been pulled from Costikyan, Hunicke and Venturelli, we can break down the games’ core components; these are interaction, goals, struggle, structure, endogenous meanings, pacing and space of possibility, starting with interaction.
A game needs elements that the player interacts with and this interaction must change the state of the game. In Space Invaders the players’ interaction with the world is small but can make a difference; the player can choose to shoot through their shields but this will permanently lose them. As a result of this the player now has more open areas to shoot from but this mean that the aliens’ attacks have a higher chance of contact thus defeating the player. This is the only real choice the player can make to alter the environment, which for some may be too simple and mundane.
‘Games can be susceptible to goal directed objectives to the point that it is a good game despite no win state’. This is true of Space Invaders; there is no real win state rather a seemingly endless waves of alien ships that the player must prevent from touching down with a steadily increasing difficulty. Even without a clear win state, players can dictate their own personal goals which could just simply be to get to level 10 or getting a bit more challenging, make it to level 10 with the shields intact. This adds some replay ability to the game as players will come back to best their previous score. This is a prime example of a game with player driven goals, however because of this it can get boring quite quickly. This is because the player has too much freedom with their goals and with no record of their own goals being recorded, a lot of hard work would only yield so much. Bragging rights to friends and strangers might be a plus for some, but this solely represents how many waves the player survived before succumbing to the horde. Because of this I believe special challenges should have been added that would be recorded somewhere, but this maybe too much of a stretch.
‘Challenging yet possible’. This is a phrase that is used to describe many games, but in many cases doesn’t portray the games true challenge. In Space Invaders, the challenge would start out easy with the aliens barely firing anything and a low start speed. This then changes as the player advances through waves; where the aliens shoot more rounds and more accurately, as well as their starting speed being slightly higher each time. Another unlisted challenge is for the player to dodge incoming fire, as one hit will destroy the tank, but also the rounds their shooting. In space Invaders there isn’t beam that instantly kills whatever it touches, instead you are stuck with a slow firing weapon whose rounds don’t travel very fast. As a result of this the player will have to learn where these rounds will go so that they can take out the aliens as well as strategies for taking out the higher waves.
‘A games structure shapes the players behaviour, but doesn’t determine it’. In this game all players agree to defend their zone of control by defeating the invading aliens. As such all players are behaving in the same overall manner; to defend at any cost. Tactics and the skill of the players will differ but will have the same purpose. Players will also feel like their playing the same thing over and over again repeatedly, which can get boring after a certain amount of time. Also the game doesn’t give us any real reason to stop the invaders other than a game over, please try again and do better. Not very engaging and very frustrating.
‘Has no real value outside the virtual world that it is found in’. Space Invaders has little to no endogenous meaning; if you fail you lose nothing but a high score and progressing far into the game only yields a bigger score. Although having the higher score is nice and it does make you feel like you’ve achieved something it is all for naught when you realise that despite your progress you’re facing the same thing about fifty times with the only difference being the speed and aggressiveness of your foes. Your ship has no upgrades or power up and only has one single cannon, that fires at a fixed rate. This means that it takes a lot of skill but also a lot of luck which means that outside of your three character signature and related score is your only legacy on the one machine, making it endogenous meaning minuet.
Pacing is the overall rhythm of the game, by indirectly crafting the player experience through mechanics, aesthetics and dynamics. The threat is generated by the games mechanics which are in this case are only the aliens getting closer to the planet. The aesthetics are the graphics and sound, in Space Invaders the sound of the aliens speeding up as they come closer to the planet creates tension very well. But the graphics do nothing; the aliens don’t even look remotely threatening. The players’ movement impetus is their willingness to progress, which again comes down to the tolerance of the sound as well as the only outcome being a score. The tempo of the game is relentless, at first it’s relatively easy to understand but as you get past level two, the game decides to give the aliens an impossibly high speed and difficulty. Any further than level two the game became to unforgiving and quickly becomes frustrating. The only break you get is the time between waves which only give you enough time to shift yourself before another pointless onslaught by ultra-aggressive enemies.
The space of possibility is a collection of all possible outcomes and actions inside the virtual world. In the case of Space Invaders the player quickly figures out all the patterns of the aliens’ movements with the only surprise being the enemy fire. All patterns are figured out in the first and possibly the second level, after that there are no more surprises and the fun factor quickly diminishes into a boring side scrolling shooter with only a score to keep. Although there is an increasing difficulty, it doesn’t make the game more complex because it is the same pattern just a little faster. The first couple of times you player the game you remember the patterns, the next twenty times you then get impatient and after that the game ceases to be fun and only serves as a reminder to learn when you should put the controller down. Seduction into the game is subtle but it is short lived.
In closing; Space Invaders has some good aspects to it but sadly is hindered by niggling issues such as a difficulty spikes and a lack of immersion. That said these shortcomings can be overlooked by many, but not me; the game has a good concept and ideas but only a limited audience but what they lack in numbers the make up for in loyalty.
I have no word & I must design: Toward a critical vocabulary for games – Costikyan
Formal abstract design tools - Doug Church, Gamasutra July 16th 1999
Don’t be a Vidiot – Costikyan
Space of possibility and pacing in casual game design – Venturelli,Gamasutra July 11th 2009
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
07 Dec 2010 - week 11
Entry11.2/8.12.2010
It's getting cold here and it's meant to get colder, good. All this ice has given me an idea for a little level design, I used Sandbox 2 before but now that I have more time we can improve the levels. Below are pictures from an older level titled Pheonix:
The level was never finished as such only really serves as a tech demo.
It's getting cold here and it's meant to get colder, good. All this ice has given me an idea for a little level design, I used Sandbox 2 before but now that I have more time we can improve the levels. Below are pictures from an older level titled Pheonix:
The level was never finished as such only really serves as a tech demo.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
07 Dec 2010 - week 11
Entry11/7.12.2010
Space Invaders review finished and awaiting a review. Delay is regretable but there has been no 'real' reason. It's been a while since the last entry so a breif overveiw is in order; we have begun and finished our group deisgn and concept docs, iterated several non-digital games from unbalanced to 'balanced'. I also have some work for a company making a game called "Omega Warfare"; I am building the levels in UDK for the time being as it does interiors a little easier than Sandbox 2.
A guide is aviliable here http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=598243. This is basic so furthur time needs to be given for better results. My only issue is stupid camera control mouse cant do movement and view in all three planes.
As I love planes of most kinds, it's good too see that Russia has begun putting resources behind their 5th generation Sukhoi/HAL FGFA fighter program ; the Sukhoi PAK FA. While most nations are working with gen 4.5, includes Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale, USA is the only nation with servicable gen 5 fighters; F-22 Rapor and the F-35 Lightning II. I'm not a big fan of American planes, generally they have to be going fast in order to turn tightly, where as Russian planes are so unstable that they can spin around very fast just at the edge of control. 1 on 1 F-22 against Su-47 would result in a Russian win; the Su-47 is designed to kill fighters F-22 inst a pure-bred.
Easy to see why this should be a hunter killer.
Birthday in 2 days.
Space Invaders review finished and awaiting a review. Delay is regretable but there has been no 'real' reason. It's been a while since the last entry so a breif overveiw is in order; we have begun and finished our group deisgn and concept docs, iterated several non-digital games from unbalanced to 'balanced'. I also have some work for a company making a game called "Omega Warfare"; I am building the levels in UDK for the time being as it does interiors a little easier than Sandbox 2.
A guide is aviliable here http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=598243. This is basic so furthur time needs to be given for better results. My only issue is stupid camera control mouse cant do movement and view in all three planes.
As I love planes of most kinds, it's good too see that Russia has begun putting resources behind their 5th generation Sukhoi/HAL FGFA fighter program ; the Sukhoi PAK FA. While most nations are working with gen 4.5, includes Eurofighter Typhoon and Dassault Rafale, USA is the only nation with servicable gen 5 fighters; F-22 Rapor and the F-35 Lightning II. I'm not a big fan of American planes, generally they have to be going fast in order to turn tightly, where as Russian planes are so unstable that they can spin around very fast just at the edge of control. 1 on 1 F-22 against Su-47 would result in a Russian win; the Su-47 is designed to kill fighters F-22 inst a pure-bred.
Easy to see why this should be a hunter killer.
Birthday in 2 days.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Sunday, 14 November 2010
14 Nov 2010 - week 7
Entry6/14.11.2010
Here is my continued Space Invaders review, now at the halve way point:
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Here is my continued Space Invaders review, now at the halve way point:
Space Invaders is a 2 dimensional arcade shooter, where the player controls a turret to defeat waves of enemies. First released in 1978 manufactured and sold only in Japan by Taito, the game was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado; the game was later licensed for production in the US by the Midway division of Bally. The aim of the game is to defeat waves of aliens at a steadily increasing challenge.
The aim of the game is to take control of a scrolling turret and destroy waves of aliens before they reach the ground. The player only has 3 actions that they can perform; move left, move right and shoot. Slightly above the player are shields which can be destroyed when sufficient damage is dealt to them, above those are the aliens. The aliens are the only enemy in the game, as the wave progresses the rate that they drop down, increase speed and reverse direction slowly increases. As the player beats each wave a life is added to a pool and the aliens steadily get more powerful. Although the player can only take one hit so can the aliens, as they become more powerful they shoot more often and aggressively. Their base movement speed also increases from wave to wave, this mean that later waves will require tactics as well as skill as your rate of fire is always the same. As the player destroys the aliens they earn points at random intervals a mother ship will scroll across the highest point of the screen, and can be destroyed for bonus points.
By looking at the different categories that have been pulled from Costikyan, Hunicke and Venturelli, we can break down the games’ core components; these are interaction, goals, struggle, structure, endogenous meanings, pacing and space of possibility, starting with interaction.
A game needs elements that the player interacts with and this interaction must change the state of the game. In Space Invaders the players’ interaction with the world is small but can make a difference; the player can choose to shoot through their shields but this will permanently lose them. As a result of this the player now has more open areas to shoot from but this mean that the aliens’ attacks have a higher chance of contact thus defeating the player. This is the only real choice the player can make to alter the environment, which for some may be too simple and mundane.
‘Games can be susceptible to goal directed objectives to the point that it is a good game despite no win state’. This is true of Space Invaders; there is no real win state rather a seemingly endless waves of alien ships that the player must prevent from touching down with a steadily increasing difficulty. Even without a clear win state, players can dictate their own personal goals which could just simply be to get to level 10 or getting a bit more challenging, make it to level 10 with the shields intact. This adds some replay ability to the game as players will come back to best their previous score. This is a prime example of a game with player driven goals, however because of this it can get boring quite quickly. This is because the player has too much freedom with their goals and with no record of their own goals being recorded, a lot of hard work would only yield so much. Bragging rights to friends and strangers might be a plus for some, but this solely represents how many waves the player survived before succumbing to the horde. Because of this I believe special challenges should have been added that would be recorded somewhere, but this maybe too much of a stretch.
‘Challenging yet possible’. This is a phrase that is used to describe many games, but in many cases doesn’t portray the games true challenge. In Space Invaders, the challenge would start out easy with the aliens barely firing anything and a low start speed. This then changes as the player advances through waves; where the aliens shoot more rounds and more accurately, as well as their starting speed being slightly higher each time. Another unlisted challenge is for the player to dodge incoming fire, as one hit will destroy the tank, but also the rounds their shooting. In space Invaders there isn’t beam that instantly kills whatever it touches, instead you are stuck with a slow firing weapon whose rounds don’t travel very fast. As a result of this the player will have to learn where these rounds will go so that they can take out the aliens as well as strategies for taking out the higher waves.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
02 Nov 2010 - week 6
Entry5/02.11.2010
Here is my fist part of my review of Space Invaders:
Here is my fist part of my review of Space Invaders:
"Space Invaders is a 2 dimensional arcade shooter, where the player controls a turret to defeat waves of enemies. First released in 1978 manufactured and sold only in Japan by Taito, the game was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado; the game was later licensed for production in the US by the Midway division of Bally. The aim of the game is to defeat waves of aliens at a steadily increasing challenge.
The aim of the game is to take control of a scrolling turret and destroy waves of aliens before they reach the ground. The player only has 3 actions that they can perform; move left, move right and shoot. Slightly above the player are shields which can be destroyed when sufficient damage is dealt to them, above those are the aliens. The aliens are the only enemy in the game, as the wave progresses the rate that they drop down, increase speed and reverse direction slowly increases. As the player beats each wave a life is added to a pool and the aliens steadily get more powerful. Although the player can only take one hit so can the aliens, as they become more powerful they shoot more often and aggressively. Their base movement speed also increases from wave to wave, this mean that later waves will require tactics as well as skill as your rate of fire is always the same. As the player destroys the aliens they earn points at random intervals a mothership will scroll across the highest point of the screen, and can be destroyed for bonus points."
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Thursday, 28 October 2010
26 Oct 2010 - week 5
Entry4.2/28.10.2010
Girlfriends gone now and I miss her. It's been an amazing weekend with her, my mother is now coming up tomorrow which means a free meal; hopefully at Pizza Express.
I will now start compiling a bibliography of resources to help with the use of Flash and other more general information, we will start with Flash and move onto others:
Our first assessment has now been set in motion. For it we have to write a review for a retro game, I have chosen to write about Space Invaders. In the review we are expected to design issues and identify the pros/cons aspects of the game, linking these issues to the concepts covered earlier in readings and in the course. We need provide specific examples of pros/cons of gameplay elements. There has to be suitable referencing using the Harvard method.
Must be 1500 words.
Hand in date: 17th December.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Girlfriends gone now and I miss her. It's been an amazing weekend with her, my mother is now coming up tomorrow which means a free meal; hopefully at Pizza Express.
I will now start compiling a bibliography of resources to help with the use of Flash and other more general information, we will start with Flash and move onto others:
- Foundation game design with Flash by Van der Spuy, Rex
- Nntendo Wii Flash game creators guide by Perkins, Todd
- Engaging Learning Designing e-Learning Simulation Games by Quinn, Clark N
- Computer Games between text and practice edited by Dario Compagno and Patrik Coppock
Our first assessment has now been set in motion. For it we have to write a review for a retro game, I have chosen to write about Space Invaders. In the review we are expected to design issues and identify the pros/cons aspects of the game, linking these issues to the concepts covered earlier in readings and in the course. We need provide specific examples of pros/cons of gameplay elements. There has to be suitable referencing using the Harvard method.
Must be 1500 words.
Hand in date: 17th December.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
26 Oct 2010 - week 5
Entry4/26.10.2010
After a nice long weekend with my girlfriend, blogging has been put on hiatus but will resume tomorrow once she's left. It's been a great weekend despite her getting ill but she's better now, which is good. This course is having an interesting effect on the way I view games; I can no longer be contented with just playing them, I must now analyse it's core gameplay mechanics and then moan about it because it has balancing issues.
Good news though, Chelsea beat Wolves which was hardly surprising, I was gooing to place a bet but with odds of 1/8 it would had lost me money.
Reading this week wasn't massively exciting but had some interesting points buried behind it all.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
After a nice long weekend with my girlfriend, blogging has been put on hiatus but will resume tomorrow once she's left. It's been a great weekend despite her getting ill but she's better now, which is good. This course is having an interesting effect on the way I view games; I can no longer be contented with just playing them, I must now analyse it's core gameplay mechanics and then moan about it because it has balancing issues.
Good news though, Chelsea beat Wolves which was hardly surprising, I was gooing to place a bet but with odds of 1/8 it would had lost me money.
Reading this week wasn't massively exciting but had some interesting points buried behind it all.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
18 Oct 2010 - week 4
Entry3.2/19.10.2010
We have reiterated our board games using a quick method which entales us making one change at a time to improve the games playability. The changes I made were to have more interaction between players through event square, this worked out quite well and was kept. The second change was more interaction with the route, event squares come into play once more, forcing the players to play a bit more tactically with a random element still at play.
We have also had to reiterate our group game to function without directly asking the player questions. This has been through use of puzzles and hidden facts which will teach the player without councious thought. The way the game is played has also changed from a point and click adventure to a more puzzle based adventure. What this really means is that there is no player movement outside of animations whilst the background pans by, this saves on resources which in turn will keep the file size down.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
We have reiterated our board games using a quick method which entales us making one change at a time to improve the games playability. The changes I made were to have more interaction between players through event square, this worked out quite well and was kept. The second change was more interaction with the route, event squares come into play once more, forcing the players to play a bit more tactically with a random element still at play.
We have also had to reiterate our group game to function without directly asking the player questions. This has been through use of puzzles and hidden facts which will teach the player without councious thought. The way the game is played has also changed from a point and click adventure to a more puzzle based adventure. What this really means is that there is no player movement outside of animations whilst the background pans by, this saves on resources which in turn will keep the file size down.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Thursday, 14 October 2010
13 Oct 2010 - week 3
Entry2.6/14.10.2010
Have our group sorted out now. Roles have been more or less sorted out and the prototyping scheduled for next week from the research done over this weekend. Our coder is Joe Kingslake, we have two artists; Phil Rozier and Matthew Jarvis, our designer will be Scott Payne who unfortunately missed today. An email will be sent shortly to him to inform him of what's happening.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Have our group sorted out now. Roles have been more or less sorted out and the prototyping scheduled for next week from the research done over this weekend. Our coder is Joe Kingslake, we have two artists; Phil Rozier and Matthew Jarvis, our designer will be Scott Payne who unfortunately missed today. An email will be sent shortly to him to inform him of what's happening.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
13 Oct 2010 - week 3
Entry2.3/13.10.2010
Interesting day today, and with the fall out of yesterdays' results for group projects. We have begun making pong in flash using some more complex coding; which is now rapidly becoming more elaborate. Although it's still not completed and the AI is debatable, it serves as a good stepping stone for improvement. Next week we will most likely finish it off then polish it or catch up on things we don't understand.
The groups have been announced as well, I will be working with:
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Interesting day today, and with the fall out of yesterdays' results for group projects. We have begun making pong in flash using some more complex coding; which is now rapidly becoming more elaborate. Although it's still not completed and the AI is debatable, it serves as a good stepping stone for improvement. Next week we will most likely finish it off then polish it or catch up on things we don't understand.
The groups have been announced as well, I will be working with:
- Phil Rozier
- Joe Kingslake
- Scott Payne
- Matthew Jarvis
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Monday, 11 October 2010
11 Oct 2010 - week 3
Entry2/11.10.2010
Been awhile since my computer was updating. Got a fair bit done since the last entry despite computer mucking around; we have begun work on our group project concepts. I have finished writing up the concept design brief and my team mate Dan Baker who is working on the concept art. Without giving away to much we hope that it will be selected for further production. On Wednesday I also got two balls to bounce around in a box in flash with collision physics too all entities. For this weekend I also read the Gamasutra article which was trying to isolate key design tools and how they are used in games. This was an interesting read and did touch on some possibly useful information and vocab. I will at some point if this thing will allow me, upload the CS file for the bouncing balls around the room, which will include the code for it as well.
This week we are going to be working hopefully be making pong in CS, which will use the same code for the collisions as used last week but will evidently be adding player controls to move the paddles across the screen depending on player input. We will also be voting for the group projects.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Been awhile since my computer was updating. Got a fair bit done since the last entry despite computer mucking around; we have begun work on our group project concepts. I have finished writing up the concept design brief and my team mate Dan Baker who is working on the concept art. Without giving away to much we hope that it will be selected for further production. On Wednesday I also got two balls to bounce around in a box in flash with collision physics too all entities. For this weekend I also read the Gamasutra article which was trying to isolate key design tools and how they are used in games. This was an interesting read and did touch on some possibly useful information and vocab. I will at some point if this thing will allow me, upload the CS file for the bouncing balls around the room, which will include the code for it as well.
This week we are going to be working hopefully be making pong in CS, which will use the same code for the collisions as used last week but will evidently be adding player controls to move the paddles across the screen depending on player input. We will also be voting for the group projects.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
05 Oct 2010 - week 2
Entry1.5/05.10.2010
It's not really been a week; but I'm off home after Thursdays' lecture and as such will not be posting again until that Monday evening, if I can be bothered.
This Tuesday was slightly more exciting than last; we got to play and analyse KS1 games. It turns out that a few of these games are short in certain areas which were highlighted in some very useful notes. These notes are more akin to simple headings derived from Costikyans article. The article itself was a very good reading material, although I enjoyed playing games I never truely understood why; this article gives the bare bones of what makes a game, but not what makes it nessessarily fun to play.
In the world of gaming it's not long until two big FPS's come out. Following in the wake behind Halo:Reach; Call of Duty:Black Ops and Medal of Honor. Both of these are set to be big hits, sadly CoD will always win. I always prefered more team based, realistic shooters. Now some may argue that CoD is realistic, it bloody well isn't but I will not have a rant about that.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
It's not really been a week; but I'm off home after Thursdays' lecture and as such will not be posting again until that Monday evening, if I can be bothered.
This Tuesday was slightly more exciting than last; we got to play and analyse KS1 games. It turns out that a few of these games are short in certain areas which were highlighted in some very useful notes. These notes are more akin to simple headings derived from Costikyans article. The article itself was a very good reading material, although I enjoyed playing games I never truely understood why; this article gives the bare bones of what makes a game, but not what makes it nessessarily fun to play.
In the world of gaming it's not long until two big FPS's come out. Following in the wake behind Halo:Reach; Call of Duty:Black Ops and Medal of Honor. Both of these are set to be big hits, sadly CoD will always win. I always prefered more team based, realistic shooters. Now some may argue that CoD is realistic, it bloody well isn't but I will not have a rant about that.
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
Thursday, 30 September 2010
30 Sept 2010 - week 1
Entry1/30.09.2010
A first in what will be a weekly account of how I think and my relevant actions.
I'd first like to say hello my name is Ryan Vaughan, and this is a report on how the first week here has transpired. But first a little more about myself, just general things that we have to put down. The last book that I read was "Bulletproof" written by RM Matt Croucher, a book about the eventful life of a Royal Marine. The films that I enjoy are mainly conflict themed, but do enjoy comedies as well. The games that I am currently playing are Halo, L4D, Borderlands, Hawx 2 and EVE. For those who wish to talk:
A first in what will be a weekly account of how I think and my relevant actions.
I'd first like to say hello my name is Ryan Vaughan, and this is a report on how the first week here has transpired. But first a little more about myself, just general things that we have to put down. The last book that I read was "Bulletproof" written by RM Matt Croucher, a book about the eventful life of a Royal Marine. The films that I enjoy are mainly conflict themed, but do enjoy comedies as well. The games that I am currently playing are Halo, L4D, Borderlands, Hawx 2 and EVE. For those who wish to talk:
- Steam - GoldenRaven
- XBL - Lt R Voychek
- MSN - unit66@hotmail.co.uk
- EVE - Unit66
"Alla fine del gioco, il re e il pedone andare nella stessa scatola"
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