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Game Prototype

I am hosting my game on webhost. You will probably need a fast connection because the game files are about 60MB):

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Use the W-A-S-D keys on your keyboard to collect as many gems as possible and navigate through the maze to the giant cube. Once reaching the cube, you will arrive at another one of 20 randomly selected pre-designed mazes. If you press ‘G’, a maze will be generated for you in real-time.

For all the details about my project, see my wordpress:

https://swimmingwiththedolphins.wordpress.com

Here are some early sketches of aquatic elements and terrain that didn’t quite make the cut:

Tic-tac-toe: Online Game

I made an online game with Google Draw simply by drawing the hash lines with the rectangle tool. I used the multiplication symbol for the X’s and the doughnut shape symbol for the O’s. To play, just invite people via the share button.

Us Versus It

The first robot we designed walked to its goal while dropping mines most of the time. Three tanks couldn’t take this robot down as the robot to tank movements ratio was too high. We speculated that a lot more tanks would be needed.

The second robot we designed moved in a lateral pattern before inching towards its goal. Six tanks again failed as the robot’s laser and fist combo stunned approaching tanks.

The third robot we designed moved in a circular pattern and never reached its goal, which failed to meet the goal requirement.

We had to severely cripple the robot to allow six tanks to beat it. The last robot we designed only rotates towards the last tank that received damage from it otherwise the robot skips rotating. Secondly, we introduced stages that gradually increased the robot’s actions per turn. Six tanks defeated it on the first try due to strategic planning of the tanks. However, in the class exhibition, the robot defeated the six tanks due to poor tank placement and an early escalation into the hard-mode stage, which drastically increased the robot’s actions per turn.

Pinball Kinetics

In this wild west themed pinball game, the first challenge is to guide the ball to every point of interest on the playing field. Rolling down from a parked horse passing cacti and immediately clashing with hombres in sombreros, the ball crosses the dirt laden street to one ramp that goes underneath the railroad and two holes. The first hole goes into a wagon that gives a bonus. The second goes into a saloon that triggers a space invaders-pong mini-game with pop up cards after completion.

The saloon takes center stage as the main challenge- other than getting a high score. The lesser challenges include a ten times bonus for bumping barrels, even multiple bonuses for crossing the flipper area, holding the ball under the extra flipper, and knocking down the cards after doing the saloon. Timing plays a significant role in triggering the ramp bonus and achieving powerful flips.

By looking at the kinetics overlay, the flippers (red) give the player skill based rewards in keeping the ball juggling among the targets. The left bumper directs the ball into the ramp (green) and extra flipper. However, the ball feels heavy and passes the ball to the right bumper most of the time. The right bumper directs the ball towards the holes (yellow), where much of the excitement exists because of the extraordinary mini-game feature. The extra flipper directs the ball towards the top bumpers (blue) in a much random fashion.

Starsky and Hutch’s pinball machine offers a comprehensive set of challenges via a variety of features to try out: four ramps, three holes, three bumpers, two kickers, seven rollovers, and bunch of smaller targets scattered through out the play-field.

The flippers are very powerful and direct the ball high into many of the different targets. Since the play field is more narrow, the effective portion of the flipper is smaller and adds a higher level of skill to direct the ball to a specific target.

The ramps and holes give you the most bonus points. You can get an extra ball by getting the ball into the middle hole.

Machinations Game Feedback Diagram: Energy Town

The town uses 90% of its energy on public expenditures, such as education, security, and social programs, and 10% of its energy on research and development. Since the town allocates a lot of energy into its citizens making them increasingly smarter and too stealthy for the terrorists to find the energy, the only way for terrorists to steal the energy is when the pool of energy becomes visible to the terrorists and reaches an extremely high amount of energy.

Machinations Design: AR Collection Game

To get this special power-up (represented by the drain/down triangle), scan the QR code at all five poster locations (each represented by a colored resource triangle). The game will track the code scanned from a poster (represented by the circle labeled “qr scanner” which is a pool of resource codes). Once the fifth code is collected, the game will automatically reward you with the power-up.

Hero Machine 3

Thornton, First Mate to Black Beard, pulverizes his enemies before skewering them with his short sword. This ex-gladiator wrestles with sharks making his meals from their carcasses. His aquatic ears lets him hear the vibrations from beings swimming in nearby waters.

Vexing Clown is no ordinary clown. Coming from another dimension, one without color, he likes to show you his tricks before trying to kill you. He appears at night terrorizing unsuspecting pedestrians.

Not only can Rosehell, Leader of the Boxing Harpies, pack a punch, but she has knocked out all her mixed martial arts challengers to her throne. She can break the sound barrier by diving from high in the clouds. The shrill of her voice can fill the sky with echoes and stun an opponent before she goes in for the surprise attack.

Xienna, Athenian Bounty Hunter, carries a Magnum and often toys with her mark by making him/her dance with a couple clips before sinking her clunky boots into his/her backside. Her astounding vertical leap makes up for her inability to run. Occasionally, she does a super leap to time-warp to events of significance to protect the innocent.

Roll-A-Ball Unity 3D

I have made a Mac game using the UNITY game engine. You can download it *here*.

Click the download icon from the top navigation bar. Open the folder where you saved it. Right-click to pop up a drop-down menu and select Open. It will alert you with an unidentified developer warning because I have not attempted such certification yet. Then, click Open again.

Here is the game play using Ice Cream Recorder to obtain the footage:

Far Cry 2 Level Editing

Our level consists of three paths with the main features being: a para-glider, tunnel, and forest, respectively, as shown below:

Here is a side view that shows elevation details for the paths, especially for the one with the para-glider:

We drew the player to the goal by making two visible paths that show direction and a giant mountain with a glimpse of water in the horizon. Although we couldn’t make enemies to in the Far Cry 2 editor, we used trees, vehicles, buildings, and terrain to engage the player. Here is a view from the spawn point:

We had to redesign some parts of our level due to unforeseen limitations of the editor. We originally imagined driving a boat down a river. However, the mechanism to enable a boat to drive requires the water to be flat. Therefore, instead of a mountain, we decided to make a canyon with a narrow canal pooling out into the ocean towards the goal. Here is a view from the goal point:

Furthermore, tunnels (among other things) are not implemented in the Far Cry 2 editor. Therefore, we made a small sand-dune recession instead of the tunnel part. One of our play testers observed some trouble traversing this part of the terrain on foot.

The editor allowed us to bring our level into fruition in a fairly short amount of time.

Sketch Up Scene

A police helicopter suddenly lands in the middle of the road. The bus bellows out its fog horn coming to a screeching halt. Cars almost pile up as they steer into their skids. Pedestrians bolt into nearby shops. Fortunately, no body appears to be hurt. Window curtains peep for personnel to come out of the gusting craft.

The scene transitions into a 3rd person shooter where you rescue VIPs in the movie theater. Your partner radios a “clear” and you start towards the giant building.

Before you complete your stride, your partner is hit with fire from the nearby park. You roll behind the bus and see the culprit ducking behind the statue.

You release the safety pin on your pistol and set the cross-hairs...

#sketchup #scene

Original Game Concept

I will be working on a prototype for a children's adventure game on the mobile platform. The theme will be almost like a heaven on earth with rainbow pastel roads and faint chorale music in the background.

You need to walk in real life to move the character in the game across the world to find new adventures. My adventures involve tapping on icons along the way to reveal mini-games. For example, one of the mini-games I plan on making takes a mural on Balmy Alley and transforms it into an interactive 3D animation via augmented reality technology.

You must catch a certain number of tears into the white flowers/spots on the blue shirt before the minute hand on the red clock makes a complete revolution. If you do so, you can collect a trophy.

Protect the King: Cooperative Game Using Chess Pieces

Start Conditions: Pieces on one color: king, 1 horse, 6 pawns as shown below:

Goal: kings have to switch places

Rules:

The pieces can only move 1 space in any direction. Horse can eat pawns of opposite color. Pawns can eat the king of opposite color. During each player’s turn, they have to move the king, horse, and then the opposite color pawns. However, pawns have to move towards the other player’s king. If one of the kings die, both players lose. If all the pawns die, 3 new pawns spawn on each of the nearest open space to the goal spaces. However, if one of the kings are at the goal, players automatically win.

Ideal End Condition:

Mood Tone Exercise

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0RHb-E582Eda0dhLThPeWpmaXM/view?usp=sharing

Music:

Rise of the Videogame: Level 2 Questions

1) What kind of company was Nintendo before it made videogame and videogame consoles? Nintendo sold plastic toys and playing cards before videogames.

2) What videogame system did it sell before it made its FAMICOM (known in USA as Nintendo Entertainment System)? Game and Watch

3) Shigeru Miyamoto was not a programmer - what skill set did he bring to the industry? game ideas and designs

4) How did the limits of the technology affect the way Mario could be shown? Mario had to be less complicated to fit into a small screen.

5) Why did US retailers think there was no future in home videogame consoles at the time just prior to the NES release in the USA? video game crash of 1983

6) What was assumed to the be the 'next big thing' by electronics manufacturers? personal computers

7) What did Legend of Zelda bring to gaming that was new? story

8) How did the conservative values of the 1980s (Reagan & Thatcher etc) affect the culture of videogames? traditional heroes

9) How were the PC games published by Mystery House like King's Quest different from console games? 3d like world

10) How did Sega's 16 big Megadrive system change home console gaming? superior sound and graphics allows team sports with storylines

11) How did "Leisure Suit Larry" differ from most genre based games of the period? racy content in present-day settings

12) How is this aspect reflected in many games of today? games gave players choices, especially the choice to do bad things as in GTA, with realistic graphics

13) What is 'motion capture'? It is where put markers on person to get gross joint motion and get correct reaction from players in sports, for instance.

14) What is the 'uncanny valley'? It refers to a robot looking like us to evoke emotional response from us

#riseofthevideogame #questions #answers

Side-scrolling Platformer Level Making

I had to be careful to provide enough space for the player to traverse to the goal and enough ledge to land after jumping. The camera mode is side view. The player can use the arrow keys to move and the space bar to jump. The goal is to reach the white portal.

I had to delete some of the enemies to prevent the player from getting overwhelmed. The camera mode is side view. The player can use arrow keys to move and space bar to float (like Kirby). The goal is to reach the gold framed portal.

I had to add new brick elements to prevent the enemies from dying on loading the game. The camera mode is side view. The player can use arrow keys to move and space bar to throw a boomerang. The goal is to kill all the enemies and reach the LED-lit portal.

#level #editor #editing #creating #creator

Original Game Idea: World of Puzzles

In World of Puzzles, you have to walk around like in Pokemon Go, but instead of Pokemon appearing, puzzles will appear that will let you collect gems. Puzzles can range from anything like driving through a maze to solving a Sudoku. After selecting a native language, you can pick a companion who asks you questions to give you advice on quests and where to go.

Player's role: you can pick a female or male avatar Proposed primary gameplay mode: solving puzzles Genre: AR, puzzles Target Audience: casual players Machine it will run on: mobile devices Licences: free-to-play, privately owned Competition modes: single-player but possibly creates hot-spots for gatherings Progress summary: you can level up and the puzzles will become harder Game world summary: the game world will be like Pokemon Go's AR map

#originalgame idea

Pokemon Go Appraisal

Edward Gee

January 20, 2017

Game Title Examined: Pokemon Go

Year of Publication: 2016

Game Publisher: Niantic

Game Developer: Niantic

Game Genre: mobile, free-to-play, location-based, AR

Type of game ‘world’ or environment: AR

Perspective taken by player: third person perspective, top down

Link to the game on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/PokemonGO_20160822

Is the gameplay intuitive?

No. You have to have seen the Pokemon shows to understand how to throw a Pokeball at the Pokemon. If you have not seen the show, winding up the ball in a circle before throwing it will make no sense at all.

Is the gameplay patterned?

Yes. You just grind to level up: catch Pokemon and level them up.

What does the type of graphic approach used as well as the audio tell you about the limits of the technology at the time the game was published?

The Pokemon are in 3D and the map is a blue overcast over the default phone app's map. Since, the graphics are not too detailed, phones in 2017 are not as powerful as desktop computers whether phones are bottle-necking in networking, graphics engine, processing capacity, and/or other areas.

Describe your views about the game from the point of view of:

1) Ease of play: It is fairly easy to catch pokemon. There are ways to increase your chances of catching them via winding the ball, throwing berries, and using better balls.

2) Enjoyability: It is ok to play casually, especially if you have a knack for exploration and collecting. If your goal is to level up and you don't like grinding, this game is not for you.

3) Engagement/Immersion: This game will occationally make you go outside for a walk and make you want to go to places you haven't gone yet. This type of immersion is spatial because you are in a virtual reality.

Had you played this game prior to this time? If so, when?

I started casually playing in July of 2016. I still play this game.

Describe other games it reminds you of. How does it do this?

This game reminds me of Pokemon DS because the catching part has the same graphics except I am tossing the Pokemon with my finger on my phone and walking in real life.

#pokemongo #appraisal

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