Friday, August 30, 2013

Cartoon Network Game Creator Ben 10 and Batman!




1. The first challenge in the Batman game is pure platform and timing game.
    The Adventure Time game is to defeat all of your enemies.

2. The camera mode is 2d static platformed third person.

3. The user uses space bar to use abilities, "X" to use your special (in the case of Batman), and the arrow keys as movement.

4. The goal of the game for Batman is to reach the portal, upon reaching it completes the mission. The Adventure Time game goal is to defeat all enemies.

Freemind Map


Game Idea Paragraph

Based right after the Civil War, you play a Union Soldier who is haunted by the war and the decisions you had to make. Your goal is to explore a war-torn plantation in Louisiana and interact with the environment and the world to discover what the soldier went through. Combat may take place through flashbacks to the war or through seeing traumatic images while traversing the world.

Collaborative Chess


Starting Conditions:
- All 16 pawns one one side of the board. (Each pawn is labeled 1 through 16)
- White King, Bishop, Knight and Black King, Bishop Knight on the other side.

Winning Conditions:
- All 16 pawns are removed from the board, via basic chess rules.
- Both Kings survive.

Rules:
- Both players control their own colored King, Bishop, and Knight, respectively.
- Neither player controls the pawns. Pawns move forward based on basic chess rules. Players can use the number labels to determine which pawn moves forward.
- Turn order is: Player 1, Pawns, Player 2, Pawns, Player 1, etc...
- If a pawn is capable of taking a player unit, that pawn is prioritized and will move immediately.
- Both player's King pieces must survive.


Friday, August 23, 2013

Basic Game Concept

Based right after the Civil War, you play a Union Soldier who is haunted by the war and the decisions you had to make. Your goal is to explore a war-torn plantation and interact with the environment and the world to discover what the soldier went through. Combat takes place through flashbacks the soldier experiences and through traumatic images in real time while traversing the world.

Friday, August 16, 2013

I, Videogame Survey

1. Videogames emerged from the culture of the "Cold War" - what does Henry Jenkins from MIT compare the period to in terms of a famous board game?

Battleship

2. Who was the inventor of the first Video game according to the documentary?

What was the name of the game?

William Higgenbotham
Tennis for Two


3. Steve Russell is credited with the first true computer-based videogame (in terms of its use with the PDP100 mainframe computer) with SPACEWAR - what popular science fiction book series also influenced him?

Doc Smith's Lensman Series

4. What innovation did Steve Russell's SPACEWAR introduce in terms of input hardware?

The joystick

5. When the USA was aflame with internal conflict in the 1960s and 1970s, what new home entertainment system let consumers finally control what was being seen on the home television?

Who was its inventor/developer?

Ralph Baer - Magnavox Odyssey 

6. PONG emerged out of the counterculture spirit of the early 1970s - its natural home was what type of entertainment setting?

Who does Nolan Bushnell say were generally best at playing the game?

Women

7. "Space Invaders" emerged in the late 1970s as the first game from Japan.

How did the production team intensify the emotion of the game via the use of the four-note in-game theme?

By speeding it up as the game neared its end


8. Steve Moulder reflects that the first arcade games tended to result in the player's defeat and that 'defeatism' in turn reflected the view by the designers that war itself is defeatist. Has this view changed since that time? Do today's latest games still convey this sense? Why? Why not? (use your own words)
Most bigger games purpose is either multiplayer driven or story driven. The story is mean to be finished, victory is encouraged. 

9. Have you ever played any of the games shown in this the first episode of "I, Videogame"? What was your memory of playing it? Where were you, when was it?

The first game that I played was Pac-Man. My memory of playing it was my mother took me to a burger joint and bought me a milk shake and played Pac-Man with me. I was 3 years old if I recall correctly.