Game Summary: The third assignment required the class recreate an old Sega game using the MIT Scratch developer toolkit. Admittedly, I’ve never been a fan of Sega games so it was a difficult task to come up with a game to make. Ultimately though, I decided on building the original Sonic game. This was because [...]
Scratch: Nintendo Pokemon Game Summary: The second assignment required the class recreate an old Nintendo game using the MIT Scratch developer. After digging up my old GameBoy and playing with some of my old school favourites, I decided that it would both be challenging and interesting to recreate my first true game – Pokemon: Blue. [...]
As an introductory course to Game Design programming, I was tasked with recreating an original Atari Game with MIT’s Scratch program. While I found the game itself easy to replicate, the engine itself was incredibly lackluster. Proving to be difficult in allowing me to accomplish what I wanted. For my game I decided to recreate [...]
Artificial Intelligence is the backbone of videogames, without it you would have no challenge and no fun. It’s used to add more realism to the game by providing challenges to the player, therefore making the game fun. Artificial Intelligence uses many techniques to interact with the environment. I am extremely fascinated by A.I. and hope [...]
Released in the fall of 2007, Halo 3 was to date, the fifth best selling Xbox 360 game of all time, and the all time best selling game in the Halo franchise and Xbox exclusive titles. While there were more than one million people playing Halo 3 on Xbox Live in the first twenty hours of its release, now after six years [...]
It was the year 1999, Apple’s Steve Jobs, about to introduce a brand new game hands of the stage to a nervous Jason Jones. After shaking his hand he turns to the audience and begins simply: “So, our game is called Halo” No one really knew it at the time, but this new game would [...]
This is where I shout and scream at the world about everything thats happening in my life relevant to gaming. It’s completely up to the world to listen in or not. Anyways, despite being fed up of the wordpress system (bloatware much?), and the fact that ALL THE TEMPLATES PROVIDED, are the most hideous, revolting, unoriginal, [...]