29th June, 2008
Thinking ahead to the 4th year game’s module and the fact I heard that part of the module is writing an essay on a game, well here is my most likely answer:
Personally I think this is the best game concept ever, and its still great after ten years.
28th May, 2008
When I first acquired Half Life 2, Episode 2 I just had to see how many of the quests I could complete once I had got past the act of playing the storyline properly once through. And of course I attempted to complete the particularly aggravating Little Rocket Man quest, which essentially sees you carry an ornamental gnome (found hidden in a radio station at the very beginning) throughout the entire game all while doing the challenges you face normally.
13th March, 2008
As a follower of the Half Life 2 series, naturally I have tried Portal and was kept amused by it for a little while, solving a series of puzzles with the portal gun set by a mad AI computer obsessed with cake.
However in my search for ideas for something I could make in Flash for my final year autumn term module Scripting for Digital Media (IDAT311) – (I am thinking I may as well get a long headstart on as much as I can now) – I found an amazing recreation of the portal game in a 2D Flash form. It can be found at http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/ – Portal: The Flash Version
5th May, 2007
Ok, so its my brother’s 18th birthday which means that instead of revising for the AI exam I have plenty of distractions.
Some good news in the form of our idat205 Eden Game has been uploaded to the Eden Project’s website, and has been featured in a BBC news press release!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/6629765.stm
Meanwhile I am working to produce a new website design, which I am happy fulfils every intricate criteria I am striving for, and replace the current site which was a result of mashed together previous attempts with the aim of trying to keep everything active. So essentially EVERYTHING needs to be replaced and unified. This is of course while I am heating up the search for a placement.
Seems relevant to the impacts of digital media as studied in idat203 –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6627135.stm
6th February, 2007
The games produced by Eyemaze are visually intriguing logic puzzles and I can see how such a mini-narrative puzzle might be applied to a crops and global warming story.
In particular, take a look at growcube,http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/cube/index.html
Because we needed to know for research, and it was damn difficult to find when I searched, the correct order for growcube is: guy, water, plants, pot, tube, fire, bowl, bone, ball and spring.
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