Saturday 28 October 2017

Video Games : The Movie

1, Video games became successfully popular because of the new form of entertainment which is different from books or movies. Consumers can interact with the video games as they control the character in many way they want and it was something unique and interesting because books and movies can't do. The revolution of video games in 20th century allowed a lot of consumers to have highly developed visuals of story telling and graphics.

2, The reasons why the video games industry crashed in the 1980s is that licensing had not been stringent and poor quality of games flooded in the market. This caused the video games such as "E.T" ended up having terribly little profits, and it led to the demise of the video game industry.

3, I think that video games are a form of art because of the copious expressions of stories and pictures which can interact and connect with the consumers. The process of game-play of each consumers is individually different as they have selections in the games and the ending would change. Also, consumers can play around in the world of the games and discover unique details of the stories and background of characters.

4, I think the next evolution in video games is going to be exceedingly developed the computer graphics of images in the game world and new form of game-play. As the 3D world of games is rapidly developing, Virtual Reality is gradually known as a game devise in general and I think it's going to be the whole new way of game. For example, the headsets which cover your face and controllers allow you to enter and experience the game world as real as possible. One of the problems and challenges which need to be overcome is that the graphical capabilities for the VR is vast amount, although there are only a few and costly computers which are optimized for it. The cost is also a huge problem because you will need sets of tools that are individually high-priced. Moreover, health effect of long term of game play is unknown. These problems need to be solved in order to play safely and respond to consumers' expectations. I think the VR games are innovative and amazing technology which will be the next evolution in games.

Kodu - Intro

                                                              The terrain of my game,

                                                               Kudo's programming,

                                                               Robot's programming,


1, I had difficulties with programming Kudo and how he scores in the game. Though I could program him scores 10 when he gets an apple first, it was confusing that the apples stay at a same position and not disappear when they bump to Kudo. In order to solve the problem that he keeps scoring when he bumps to an apple, I programmed Kudo eats the apples and they disappear.

2, The student who gave me feedback advised me to have more apples because the terrain has high and low, and it lets apples to move quickly. The apples' positions also made the game a little difficult. The student said me to have more variety of controls to make it interesting.

Animated Pixel Art