Blog Post #5

PART 1

I am not currently taking any studio courses, but we did do some game creation work in our Video Game History class, so I am posting one of those images and it is the one I will be talking about in this post.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/121260495/

Blog Post #3

PART 2

The work I want to talk about is my Player vs 3 SI Pong(SI: Simulated Intelligence). The strongest part of this work is the coding for the player and his paddle. The weakest aspect would be the coding for the opponent SI paddles, since they do move slowly, and also the coding for the reset, since it does mess up every once in a while. I feel that the project is a good concept that could be made more difficult or complex with imagination. It can be strengthened technically by fixing the coding to the point where it doesn’t mess up every once in a while(I blame Scratch for that). There aren’t that many other comments I can give for this work other than that doing the coding is like trying to fish with a spear. It is possible, but very, very difficult and annoying.

I do have a personal project I am working on that is going to be a 2D dungeon crawler. The concept and game design is probably the strongest part of it. The weakest aspect would be the coding, especially since I’m still trying to figure out how to do the Dungeon Level Creation with the coding. I feel that the game is a good concept, but I will probably be adding a safety zone to sell items found in the dungeon and to take quests and level up your character and other characters. The list of things that can be strengthened technically is longer than my list of assignments that I’ve done this year and have to do. Honestly, I have so much stuff I still need to do for this, but the journey is half the fun so on with this I go. My only comment for this is that this project will be the biggest project I have ever done associated with game creation. I’ll be glad if it works perfectly by the end of this year, much less the end of this semester when I would like it to be finished. More on that, I have my first couple of pages for the Game Design portion of my project below this paragraph so you can look at that if you want.