The games industry at the moment is facing some problems due to the economy drop; quite a lot of jobs have been lost due to this. For example the games company "free radical" has been shut down altogether due to one game release called Haze which did badly for the company and the sales didn’t cover the costs and they had to close up.
I think with this in mind that the games industry would need a few years to fully recover from the economy drop and will be proberly better for it. During the drop it will be even more difficult for people to get jobs in the industry simply because the companies might not be able to afford them. This includes the 3rd years if I were them I would be trying not to panic heh.
From the Rare lecture we had both lecturers talk about how much they enjoy working for Rare and that it is a social fun place to be like for example they discussed how they would play football between breaks and have see each other out of work to have a drink or two at the pub. I think it’s nice to have that since people wouldn’t want to work in a boring environment and do nothing.
Monday 16 March 2009
task 11 week 11
Game play- Game play is a huge part of a game; it’s the interaction between the player and the game, the player playing as the character in the game interacting with objects/enemies etc. Game play is seriously important without it; it wouldn’t even be a game to play he he.
I think it can be a set of rules within a game to help the player succeed. like for example in metal gear solid 4 you will be told that if you are seen by the enemy, he will call for reinforcements to aid him to kill you, so to avoid this simply keep out of sight.
Game play can be designed within a game depending on what you want the player to do, one example is above another would be something simple like Pong which the player moves the pad up and down and when the ball hits the pad the player counts as interacting with that object.
Game play is in every game (hence the name) from simple things pack man to the very detailed gears of war, it’s almost inescapable!
I think it can be a set of rules within a game to help the player succeed. like for example in metal gear solid 4 you will be told that if you are seen by the enemy, he will call for reinforcements to aid him to kill you, so to avoid this simply keep out of sight.
Game play can be designed within a game depending on what you want the player to do, one example is above another would be something simple like Pong which the player moves the pad up and down and when the ball hits the pad the player counts as interacting with that object.
Game play is in every game (hence the name) from simple things pack man to the very detailed gears of war, it’s almost inescapable!
task 10 week 10
For this topic I think ill choose a graphic novel called "The Watchmen" which is based on several masked heroes which have their own psychological profiles. My favourite character in the watchmen is Rorschach, a disturbed individual who wears a trench coat, hat and a white mask with black ink spots which move depending on the characters feelings.
What amazes me with this character is that he’s straight to the point! No Mona-logging like normal super heroes, he brakes fingers and then asks the questions! He’s more of a bad cop bad cop type then taking pity on criminals.
I like the way the artist makes him look like a mad man but half the time he makes good sense and figures any case out in the end. Also his appearance in the costume is unlike any other, instead of the horrible spandex that most super heroes wear.
Rorschach also has a gravelly voice as if you’re being beaten up by the pavement which makes this character even more interesting.
All characters in this movie have problems which make it different to every comic/graphic novel to be brought out so far, the way each of their stories is told is interesting like for example doctor Manhattan is a normal man but is blown to pieces in a horrible accident which he then becomes a blue creature which can bend matter into anything he wants, such as water into metal etc.
Here is a picture of the Watchmen comic which is out in stores and the Watchmen movie is out later this year so check it out!
http://a3.vox.com/6a00e398b76ac000040109d073f8a3000e-500pi
What amazes me with this character is that he’s straight to the point! No Mona-logging like normal super heroes, he brakes fingers and then asks the questions! He’s more of a bad cop bad cop type then taking pity on criminals.
I like the way the artist makes him look like a mad man but half the time he makes good sense and figures any case out in the end. Also his appearance in the costume is unlike any other, instead of the horrible spandex that most super heroes wear.
Rorschach also has a gravelly voice as if you’re being beaten up by the pavement which makes this character even more interesting.
All characters in this movie have problems which make it different to every comic/graphic novel to be brought out so far, the way each of their stories is told is interesting like for example doctor Manhattan is a normal man but is blown to pieces in a horrible accident which he then becomes a blue creature which can bend matter into anything he wants, such as water into metal etc.
Here is a picture of the Watchmen comic which is out in stores and the Watchmen movie is out later this year so check it out!
http://a3.vox.com/6a00e398b76ac000040109d073f8a3000e-500pi
Sunday 11 January 2009
New year New stuff (last day of xmas holiday)
Hello happy new year etc etc, any who I’ve enjoyed my holiday it was pretty good I got a few things for Christmas like a Boba Fett boggle head to Fallout 3 and some other PS3 games!
Some of my PS3 games I have to say are pretty awesome, there’s Fallout 3, Folklore, Soul Calibur 4, The Orange Box, Lair and Far Cry 2. Here is my opinion on each of the games.
Fallout 3- Fallout 3's a pretty cool game its slow at first but gradually gets you into the game and starts you off on your journey in the outside world. At the moment I’m not very far I’m still in the first town but I’m on my way to another city to help someone complete their report on dangers in the outside world. The only problem with this game at the present time is that enemies are extremely hard to kill in packs and you have to use a lot of med kits to stay alive, but other than that the graphics are nice and the way you can talk to someone to get information on things is quite clever. 8/10
Folklore- I didn’t play this game much since Little Big Planet took over my holiday pretty much but it is quite fun. You start as either a male journalist or a girl looking for her mother in a ghost town on a freaky island. I chose to play the male first and started bashing little evil fairies with magical powers which is fun. Only problem i could find is that if you forget to level up the little girl then you can’t go any further into the game until you have her at a certain level which can be frustrating. 8/10
Soul Calibur 4- There’s nothing like playing Darth Vader and smashing your enemies into the ground it’s the whole reason why you would have to buy it ha-ha! I really do enjoy the graphics on the game and the button bashing is great fun the only problem i would find is fighting someone a lot better then you at the game ha-ha. 9/10
Far Cry 2- Far Cry is a really good game even though I’m still near the start, the graphics are great and finding diamonds in briefcases is fun (one of the many trophies of the game is to collect them all). The one thing I say I don’t like is the somewhat A.I the game has, the snipers are always facing away and never get to shoot you unless you stand in open view and people sometimes don’t shoot but stand there and wait for you to kill them which isn’t very challenging. 7/10
Lair- Riding dragons and destroying hundreds of men in an army is great fun, especially if your dragon sets fire to them with its dragon breath or takes a swipe and knocks about 20 of them into the air in slow motion. The graphics are amazing but the game play is difficult but I suppose you can change the controls in the options menu to suit you. 7/10
The Orange Box- Okay I might have people shout at me but Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 isn’t that great! The graphics are nice but the problems with it are a few like for example on TF2 you can only play one player and you have to play online, if you want a 2 player game and you don’t have the internet TF2 isn’t for you. There’s also an issue with players on TF2, their bastards the lot of them! your playing for the first time so you’d expect to get put onto a server with people who are just starting out but no, you get put with the professionals that camp on the other side of the map and headshot you as soon as you walk out of your base its horrible! Then when they kill you they dance next to you and boast on how much time they play on the game and how much they think you suck. It’s not a nice feeling to have when you want to relax and have fun. Portal is ok but it is far too easy to figure out and get repetitive very quickly, mind you I do like the cute robots that ask you if your still there just after they tried to blast you into little pieces he he. 5/10
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/071204/brill_071204_portal_1p.hmedium.jpg
Some of my PS3 games I have to say are pretty awesome, there’s Fallout 3, Folklore, Soul Calibur 4, The Orange Box, Lair and Far Cry 2. Here is my opinion on each of the games.
Fallout 3- Fallout 3's a pretty cool game its slow at first but gradually gets you into the game and starts you off on your journey in the outside world. At the moment I’m not very far I’m still in the first town but I’m on my way to another city to help someone complete their report on dangers in the outside world. The only problem with this game at the present time is that enemies are extremely hard to kill in packs and you have to use a lot of med kits to stay alive, but other than that the graphics are nice and the way you can talk to someone to get information on things is quite clever. 8/10
Folklore- I didn’t play this game much since Little Big Planet took over my holiday pretty much but it is quite fun. You start as either a male journalist or a girl looking for her mother in a ghost town on a freaky island. I chose to play the male first and started bashing little evil fairies with magical powers which is fun. Only problem i could find is that if you forget to level up the little girl then you can’t go any further into the game until you have her at a certain level which can be frustrating. 8/10
Soul Calibur 4- There’s nothing like playing Darth Vader and smashing your enemies into the ground it’s the whole reason why you would have to buy it ha-ha! I really do enjoy the graphics on the game and the button bashing is great fun the only problem i would find is fighting someone a lot better then you at the game ha-ha. 9/10
Far Cry 2- Far Cry is a really good game even though I’m still near the start, the graphics are great and finding diamonds in briefcases is fun (one of the many trophies of the game is to collect them all). The one thing I say I don’t like is the somewhat A.I the game has, the snipers are always facing away and never get to shoot you unless you stand in open view and people sometimes don’t shoot but stand there and wait for you to kill them which isn’t very challenging. 7/10
Lair- Riding dragons and destroying hundreds of men in an army is great fun, especially if your dragon sets fire to them with its dragon breath or takes a swipe and knocks about 20 of them into the air in slow motion. The graphics are amazing but the game play is difficult but I suppose you can change the controls in the options menu to suit you. 7/10
The Orange Box- Okay I might have people shout at me but Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 isn’t that great! The graphics are nice but the problems with it are a few like for example on TF2 you can only play one player and you have to play online, if you want a 2 player game and you don’t have the internet TF2 isn’t for you. There’s also an issue with players on TF2, their bastards the lot of them! your playing for the first time so you’d expect to get put onto a server with people who are just starting out but no, you get put with the professionals that camp on the other side of the map and headshot you as soon as you walk out of your base its horrible! Then when they kill you they dance next to you and boast on how much time they play on the game and how much they think you suck. It’s not a nice feeling to have when you want to relax and have fun. Portal is ok but it is far too easy to figure out and get repetitive very quickly, mind you I do like the cute robots that ask you if your still there just after they tried to blast you into little pieces he he. 5/10
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/071204/brill_071204_portal_1p.hmedium.jpg
Monday 15 December 2008
The world will end? with my HD cable!
Okay I watched a video with my classmates on this program that involved sticking a remote control on a rat and making it move randomly left to right. In a way I see their trying to make a huge discovery but I also see cruelty to an animal which aint right, it makes me want to stick a brain box on them and see if they like being moved around not on their own free will! Makes me laugh though the fact that if they do start to test on humans there would be many failures and deaths and eventually people will be saying “oh hold on a min, your killing people even if they did volunteer your still killing em” and soon after there would be massive complaints/protests and it would get shut down, so what would be the point? Oh in case some of you were wondering “brain box” is off the Dino Riders cartoon which the bad guys use to control the dino’s and makes them attack people. God I miss that cartoon it was class haha http://www.hgunn.com/dino_riders_site/DinoRidersSeries1Picture.gif
Oh and you could tell how bananas some of these people were, one scientist thought that a robot would eventually kill him (well done terminator) and a man who kept laughing like he was on some form of drugs or had too much caffeine in him! I mean come on I don’t see my Playstation 3 strangling me in the middle of the night using its HD cable as a garrotting wire and beating me across the my head with its plug socket! People take computers too seriously and need to relax; they’ll be long dead before the PS5000 wipes the planet out and even then I think if computers can do that, humans would have found a way to travel to other planets and it’ll take a long time to kill everyone anyway.
Unless it becomes like titan A.E now that’s a good film haha!
My rant over unless my PS3 has got something to say about it...
...
...I thought so!
Oh and you could tell how bananas some of these people were, one scientist thought that a robot would eventually kill him (well done terminator) and a man who kept laughing like he was on some form of drugs or had too much caffeine in him! I mean come on I don’t see my Playstation 3 strangling me in the middle of the night using its HD cable as a garrotting wire and beating me across the my head with its plug socket! People take computers too seriously and need to relax; they’ll be long dead before the PS5000 wipes the planet out and even then I think if computers can do that, humans would have found a way to travel to other planets and it’ll take a long time to kill everyone anyway.
Unless it becomes like titan A.E now that’s a good film haha!
My rant over unless my PS3 has got something to say about it...
...
...I thought so!
task 9 week 9
There have been a lot of gaming platforms I have used in the past and the one with the easiest interfaces I have ever used was on the Megadrive and the game was Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonics interface was just a simple life counter, ring collection, timer and point collection. Ah I remember the simpler times where games didn’t allow you to save and all you needed was three simple buttons, ah good times haha!!
The nicest looking interface I’ve seen would have to be God of wars with the nicely made health and “magic” bar which is sat upon a sword picture and has your special ability where you can see it in the top left corner. Also in god of war it counts how many hits you strike the enemy with and gives you a rating on how good it is so it’s communicating with the user and encouraging them to do better, also to kill each boss you need to complete a button pressing sequence which pop up during the fight smack bang in the centre so you can see it clearly.
I think that interacting with games consoles is still as simple as the very old consoles back in the day, I think there’s only been a few changes like wireless in controllers and that you can tilt them and they react but the buttons are still pretty much the same hehe. I think in the future it will stay the same, unless they actually introduce proper VR gaming which I think will be rubbish due to its limits, try playing Prince of Persia on one of them and watch you fall and break your ankle now I think that would be repetitive haha!!! The person might as well go outside and jump up walls if he wants a proper reality game. Oh and if you fall you will most likely die, which is a game over I do not want hehe.
The controller and joystick will never die I think it will last as long as video games do, because as I was writing this I imagined from the film Minority report where Tom Cruise is controlling a screen with his hands and even then I think that’s a controller because it would still be button pressing either way. If games were to be controlled with the mind ill take that statement back but then I would have to admit that you’d need to be telepathic and I don’t see that happening at all even with all this brain controlling gizmos on rats etc, total nonsense I think and thatll lead me to my next rant on the next blog.
The nicest looking interface I’ve seen would have to be God of wars with the nicely made health and “magic” bar which is sat upon a sword picture and has your special ability where you can see it in the top left corner. Also in god of war it counts how many hits you strike the enemy with and gives you a rating on how good it is so it’s communicating with the user and encouraging them to do better, also to kill each boss you need to complete a button pressing sequence which pop up during the fight smack bang in the centre so you can see it clearly.
I think that interacting with games consoles is still as simple as the very old consoles back in the day, I think there’s only been a few changes like wireless in controllers and that you can tilt them and they react but the buttons are still pretty much the same hehe. I think in the future it will stay the same, unless they actually introduce proper VR gaming which I think will be rubbish due to its limits, try playing Prince of Persia on one of them and watch you fall and break your ankle now I think that would be repetitive haha!!! The person might as well go outside and jump up walls if he wants a proper reality game. Oh and if you fall you will most likely die, which is a game over I do not want hehe.
The controller and joystick will never die I think it will last as long as video games do, because as I was writing this I imagined from the film Minority report where Tom Cruise is controlling a screen with his hands and even then I think that’s a controller because it would still be button pressing either way. If games were to be controlled with the mind ill take that statement back but then I would have to admit that you’d need to be telepathic and I don’t see that happening at all even with all this brain controlling gizmos on rats etc, total nonsense I think and thatll lead me to my next rant on the next blog.
task 8 week 8
I think that computer games should have a great strong storyline otherwise you wouldn’t understand what’s going on and you wouldn’t have cool cinematics because that normally helps start off a storyline. An example of a beginning cinematic would be Onimusha 3, I love this game! Even when I watch the beginning it still amazes me.
The scene involves a character named Samanosuke, who takes down a demon army warmachine (and army!) using his magical weapons and ogre powers to blow the army to pieces also it stars Jean Reno (Leon, Godzilla, Ronin) who is a French cop which is given powers to help Samanosuke on his quest to destroy the demon empire. What I love about that game also is its puzzles and gameplay, button bashing won’t work unless you’re fighting monsters.
In a way I think that the storyline follows your character because the storyline is usually follows around the main character of the game which would normally be you. Like for example, all the Lara Croft Tomb raider games follow a direct path which you have to steer your character through it to complete the game. But in some games you can choose your own path, like become good or evil an example of this would be Star Wars: Jedi Knight Series where if you killed innocents you would in the end become evil or if you saved them you would become a good Jedi. Another example of this would be Fable 1 and 2 with the whole “good and evil” plot.
World of Warcraft has a huge story base in each of its expansions and is the follow up story from the Warcraft RTS series which is about an ongoing fight between the Orcs and humans until the Burning Legion come and try to kill everyone which ends up having everyone against the legion. The story does follow a certain character named Arthas which is a human prince sworn to protect his king, until one day he is driven mad by the demon sword known as Frostmourne. He betrays and kills his farther and friends and becomes the Lich king of the burning legion and is the final boss you have to fight in the new expansion called The Wrath of the Lich King. If you haven’t noticed I had to shorten the storyline otherwise id still be writing this after Christmas haha! I mean WoW has its own Wikipedia!!! www.wowwiki.com
The scene involves a character named Samanosuke, who takes down a demon army warmachine (and army!) using his magical weapons and ogre powers to blow the army to pieces also it stars Jean Reno (Leon, Godzilla, Ronin) who is a French cop which is given powers to help Samanosuke on his quest to destroy the demon empire. What I love about that game also is its puzzles and gameplay, button bashing won’t work unless you’re fighting monsters.
In a way I think that the storyline follows your character because the storyline is usually follows around the main character of the game which would normally be you. Like for example, all the Lara Croft Tomb raider games follow a direct path which you have to steer your character through it to complete the game. But in some games you can choose your own path, like become good or evil an example of this would be Star Wars: Jedi Knight Series where if you killed innocents you would in the end become evil or if you saved them you would become a good Jedi. Another example of this would be Fable 1 and 2 with the whole “good and evil” plot.
World of Warcraft has a huge story base in each of its expansions and is the follow up story from the Warcraft RTS series which is about an ongoing fight between the Orcs and humans until the Burning Legion come and try to kill everyone which ends up having everyone against the legion. The story does follow a certain character named Arthas which is a human prince sworn to protect his king, until one day he is driven mad by the demon sword known as Frostmourne. He betrays and kills his farther and friends and becomes the Lich king of the burning legion and is the final boss you have to fight in the new expansion called The Wrath of the Lich King. If you haven’t noticed I had to shorten the storyline otherwise id still be writing this after Christmas haha! I mean WoW has its own Wikipedia!!! www.wowwiki.com
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