The cry of academia has called once more for a solid blogging, this time its comp4431.
So why am i doing this course? Its a pretty cliched answer but, why not? It looked like fun (which compared to most of the subjects I’ve done is a big plus), it worked with my timetable, and who doesn’t love games? When @maskedfool told me about this course my first question was: “are you sure we can enroll in that?” she said yes, and I squealed like a 13 year old girl meeting Zac Efron.
I love playing video games, but thanks to a little interfering thing called “life” it just doesn’t happen that often. When it comes to choosing something to play, i’ll take anything with a good story (Zelda oot) or pretty graphics (Rolando/LittleBigPlanet). Though having said that, after suffering through the horrifying controls of GTA4 (“why wont you climb the *%#^ ladder?! im mashing the %^*# triangle you ^*#%!”) I’ve realised that i will play anything. absolutely anything. right to the end. Unfinished games are just an itch. this is possibly part of the reason people wont play monopoly with me (we have to play until everyone is bankrupt).
There are games that i play for enjoyment and not to only to satisfy my obsessive completionist tendencies. Theres Rolando, visually gorgeous with simple controls and one great soundtrack. Assassins Creed, because of the motion and the interaction between the character and environment. Also the horse animation is the best i’ve ever seen. Prototype, because of the senseless destruction. and the fact that you can destroy a tank by throwing a helicopter at it.
But really my personal all time favorite is always going to be Zelda Ocarina of Time. Its the childhood game that just satisfies every request i could ever make in a game. its got the great storyline, the strong characters, the action, the puzzles, huge environment, iconic music, and the wide variety in the enemies and bosses. oh, it just gets me every time.
As for what games i’d like to make, well i dont really know. What i can tell you is they will be flash games. Also i’ll probably spend more time on the graphics than any kind of coding, so you know they will be a Visual Experience and a controls nightmare.
