Blog Assignment

When I played computer games in the past I never really thought about how hard the process was. I've played some pretty crazy flash games too. I can only imagine how much time and hard work the developers put into their projects. Now that I am involved in this process it's not what I expected at all. It's actually all just one big headache to be honest.

Whats going on..

We had a nice spring break, but I wish it could have been longer. Anyways back to work slowly making progress on the paper prototype. I understand it's long and lots of step to plan out a game, but all of this is really making me lose motivation. Ready to just jump into the real work!

Super Oil Disaster Squad

I thought this was a pretty cool idea. I haven't really seen any other game ideas like it. It was original. I liked the simple graphics too, they make the game amusing. It's a helpful game because you never know when a oil spill will happen around you, and by playing this game you will have a basic concept of what to do haha.


http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/gehswiki/index.php/Team:All_your_Base_Is_Belong_to_Us

agh..

The globalorian people tore us apart. We will have to come up with another new game idea again. Guess this will be a new trial and error experience.

Ready for the critics..

Hopefully, we have everything ready to be over looked by the Globaloria people. It's simple but it gets to the point. Hopefully after this the coding wont be too hard.

Status Report..

Slowly but steadily making progress..My team came up with a concept to encourage others to be active and vote. But with that we had limited options and not really enough to throw a game together in the amount of time we have. So we quickly looked for something else and came to a conclusion about being a good citizen. I wont post all the details about it yet, but it's nothing to special, so don't get your hopes up. From just throwing a simple concept together like this I don't know how the big guys do it, more power to them. This is hard work.

My review on two games...

Student - Sammy the Salmon http://www.myglife.org/usa/wv/resources/en/play/Social/sammythesalmon
I really didn't understand the whole concept of this game. It asked me a random question about a random fish and I would get it wrong, and once I got it wrong an annoying "WRONG!" message popped up and gave me no hint on the right answer. So I repeatedly got the wrong answer as if the game expects me to be some kind of ichthyologist. After I had no choices left to choose but the right answer an annoying eye blinding rainbow color "CORRECT!" popped up. Then I immediately closed the game in disgust. How this is a social issue game, your guess is good as mine. I give this game a 3/10.

Non student - What would you do?

http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/aids/explore_1360.html

Unless you have the memory of an elephant you can't remember the 20 pages of text in the beginning about the story. Anyhow, the game itself had a good point what to do under peer pressure and what not. I give it a 7/10.