December 2007
1 post
Gaming monopoly?!
And no, I’m not talking about the game Monopoly (which sucks as well, but that’s a different story…). I saw this on G4 a while ago and meant to blog about it, but i always get distracted. So I had to hunt down the story. Sadly, I couldn’t find the video the debate that they had, but I did find this article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7052420.stm>EA Predicts...
November 2007
3 posts
Ron Paul Revolution
Summary (Topic): If you’re like me, you find the entire presidential race more than a little boring- every candidate is watered down, boring and unwilling to take a stand on anything. And if they do, they’re pretty much crazy. So who are we left with? Not much. Unfortunately, that has led to a great deal of voter apathy in the past years, but to be honest, I can’t blame anyone. One...
DEWmocracy
Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy Pronunciation: \di-ˈmä-krə-sē\Function: nounInflected Form(s): pluralde·moc·ra·ciesEtymology:Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos + -kratia-cracyDate: 1576 1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or...
The trials and tribulations of making a machinima
Soooo… Brian and I are nearly done with our World of Warcraft/Zoolander machinima and we’ll post a link once we’re through tweaking it. It’s been an interesting process. Making a machinima is definitely more difficult than I had anticipated. It certainly is time consuming. I’ve memorized that one scene, shot by shot, line for line, and the funny thing is that I still...
October 2007
3 posts
Smart development insight
I was checking my Yahoo mail account the other day and a link reading “How to get your girlfriend to play video games” came up in the newsfeed. I intended to take a look at what had been said, but I got distracted and forgot. So just a little while ago I typed it into search and got this: Wiki-how It makes sense. And it’s pretty amusing from my perspective. Especially the...
My Persona Project
Instead of me babbling, I’ll just provide links to my animation so you can watch. ^_^ Day 1: Interview with my Mom Day 2: Survey with Mom’s Co-workers Day 3: Finished Product PotM: None for now because I left my external hard drive at Marist.
Heavenly Sword
So I had planned on blogging about female game characters and how they’re always scantily clad, but I’ve successfully been diverted from the subject. This rant was spurred on by fanart done by one of my favorite Deviantart artists. It was a picture of the heroine of the new game for PS3, Heavenly Sword. Now, I like to know a little bit about what I’m gonna complain about before I...
September 2007
5 posts
The hedgehog game!
The Garden Life That’s a link to my first game that I created for class. We had to make the “Catch the Clown” game and edit it to put our own spin on it. I cannot program for my life, even on really simplified programs such as Game Maker, so I concentrated on what I know—art. That little ball of cuteness floating around is a hedgehog. I made him from scratch, pixel by...
Women and gaming
And now for the entry I’m sure most people had wanted me to write from the start: Women and gaming. More specifically, why aren’t there more women in the field? Maybe it’s just because I’m a girl, but I really don’t see how it’s much of a mystery. Honestly? It’s because most guys alienate themselves. Although part of he problem is a of lack of interest in...
Bloxorz
Bloxorz stole about an hour and a half of my life… Addicting? Yes. Easy? Not so much. Although I did get to level 28!…with some help. My friends Tim and Matt worked a couple of them out with me. Brian may or may not have completed a few of them for me. But that’s what boyfriends do—they help girlfriends out when they’re stuck in digital games. So it’s okay....
Top 5
So we had to pick our top five favorite games. Here were mine, in no specific order: 1) Pokemon 2) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3) Mario Kart 4) World of Warcraft 5) Soul Calibur III And now, here’s why: Pokemon - Pokemon was probably the first actual game that I really got into. There was a stage in grade school where I was absolutely obsessed. Not only did I have pretty much every...
/babble
I’m really at a loss over what to write. I’d love to start off with something witty or intelligent to make a good first impression, but that’s not my field of expertise. However, I figure that the sheer shock factor of seeing a girl in a video gaming class is enough to make up for my poor blogging skills. Allow me to introduce myself, so that people don’t know me just as...