Game Stories

 "Game Stories"

The reading this week was quite different from the previous weeks, as we didn't just read about game design or how gamers come up with ideas, or how long it takes to create a game. The reading this week was all about building a story and what makes a story whole, basically.

The point made is that a game is not a movie, the structure of a game, is not that of a movie, in the article they said that's what mistakes were made in the beginning of gaming, basing them off movies, and that didn't work out well. We're also told about the common misconceptions of creating your games story, that it's not dialog and story doesn't matter, which in my opinion is both right and wrong. I think some games are most fun when it's a free for all and you just go on a war path, others love games that you complete missions and level up and up, you get a sense of achievement from things like that.

Then we are taught about CONFLICT!!!, that's what story is, conflict. After reading, it's very clear it is, here it is, you have a hero, something bad has occurred in their life, they will do whatever to make it right or seek revenge. The hero, has to take risks, or the obstacles will be too much, the hero has to take a much greater risk to achieve his/her goal, you win or lose and the game is over.

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This has helped me understand how to approach making another game, hopefully that doesn't happen, but I can use this to make the idea process much easier, I can even use this information when I'm making my digital video techniques video, which I should make a start on this week!!! Overall I found this reading more enjoyable and beneficial than the other, more so because I enjoyed something different.

Twitter Task Week 10

 "Twitter Task"

For this weeks twitter task I created a twitter list, before completing this task I've never heard or used a twitter list before, it's all new to me. I t took me a few minutes to find where to create a list, it wasn't in my account page like the example on the cdmonline website, but after searching for a few minutes and going by it a couple times I found it, right in front of me.

All I had to do was click on the "List" button on the side of the twitter feed, then it comes up with the option to "create list", all you do is click on that then it asks you to name the list, add a description and a picture, the last two were optional. When that's done it opens up a search bar, and below lists different accounts and people that might relate to the title of your list, then you just start searching and adding people to the list. 

To add people to the list you don't have to follow them, but when their added, post recently uploaded by them will appear under the list.

I named my list "Internet Geniuses", not a serious list of internet smart people, it's a joke, kind of on the people of the list, some I really like and think are funny others are just straight idiots, such as Donald J Trump, he is a clown. Since this was my first time creating a list I thought it might be a bit difficult but that's not the case today, it was a grind, but I got through it, now I think I could get through anything.

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Thanks for wasting your time here for another week, see you next time!!!