Day 9

Here is my mini-game, enjoy!

It took me FOREVER to embed this properly. Seriously, every time I embedded this thing the only thing that displayed was a blank, white box. I am so glad I got this. Also, this will probably be the last day I use the Day # format for naming my posts, I will be creative!!!

Day 8

Me and my partners thought of an idea for our game. The topic will be Technology, specifically Cyber Security. It will be an action game and a side-scrolling platfomrer/shooter. It will be set in a grid or circuit board styled world where you battle virii, malware, spyware, and rogueware as a virus protection program (of no specific brand, as to prevent copyrighting and product placement). The player character will be portrayed in a humanoid form, and the various enemies will be represented in ways similar to virii, such as worms as worms, horses wearing ancient Greek helmets as trojan horses, and a guy in a trench-coat, fedora, and shades to represent spyware. Each level will add a new virus enemy, the beginning of the level will display both their in-game abilities as well as what they do in real life.

Day 7

Played Dwarf Fortress recently. You literally cannot win this game, no matter how hard you try, you will fail eventually. It may be a few minutes, it may be a few hours, but eventually, YOU WILL LOSE. But it is so fun and challenging, I can't stop playing. By the way, go onto the wiki, http://df.magmawiki.com/, and search "fun". Anyway, it is essentially a stratgey game where you control your own little community of dwarves. You have to account for a wide variety of things to ensure your society survives, such as food, shelter, medication, happiness, and defending your fort from a dragon attack. It is done in TUI or Text User Interface where basically everything is represented by a different text symbol, rather than an actual image (for example dragons are represented by a big green D). Dwarf fortress gives me an idea for our own strategy, sort of like a construcion & management game where the player runs a town, store, prison, amusement park, etc. They will have to manage resources and the happiness of the population of said facilities, though we certainly won't be using TUI.

Day 6

So, yeah my favorite game is World of Warcraft, one of the largest MMORPGs in the world. I'm not joking when I say enough people play to populate a small country. It had, at one point, almost 20 million regular players. Now it's only about 10 million, still one of the most played games in the world though. I like to play as a caster, a.k.a. anyone who casts spells, whether it's a mage setting enemies on fire, freezing people solid, and striking with pure magical energy or a warlock, casting shadow magic to slowly drain the life of his foes, conjuring apocolyptic firestorms, and commanding demons to do their bidding. There's also priests who heal allies, but that's boring to me.

Day 5

Hoping to make a fantasy-themed game with my partner, Powercat, preferably with a wizard in it. Perhaps a platformer, or even an RPG, or perhaps a shooting-gallery styled math game involving a wizard blasting answers with fire, ice, and lightning. Just an idea though...

Day 4

Looking forward to learning about Flash. The video we watched, the Single Story, was inspiring, and it reminded me of why I love the arts; we get to see the inner thoughts of individuals from various walks of life. Through art people can express their thoughts, their beliefs, and their cultures to others, whether it be through story, song, film, drawing, or video games.

Day 3

Heres the video I meant to post last time, yeah... ENJOY!!!