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Economies

Today in class we were doing economies. We had to balance a simple paper RPG the our teacher gave us, i think my team did a pretty good job. Now we are adding transactions. 

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First Week Over... Again

Today is the last day, of the first week, of my second year. We are currently learning about the psychology behind games and why people play them. We have learned about behaviorism and cognitive sections of psychology. It is very interesting learning about the science of why people play.

Can’t wait to make some awesome games with awesome people.

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A little late. But I’ve been away from my computer lately. Here is a post-mortem one of my team members wrote about our #GGJ2017 game Pistol Whip Shrimp.

Global Game Jam 2017 - Pistol Whip Shrimp

What I learnt and what I’ll do differently next time:

Keep reading

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Play Uncharted 4!!!

I picked up Uncharted 4 the other day because my old teacher recommended I play it. In order to see an amazing example of how to lead a player and how to tell a story without words.

Oh my is this game amazing. At no point did i struggle with where to go even though it seems as though you can go anywhere. Every scene has props set up that allow the player to establish what happened there without actually being told. From a messy attic, to all the areas with shoreline (a mercenary company that acts as one of the main antagonists) equipment set up all over the place.

All the audio and effects made for a very immersive experience and every time Nathan began to fall down a cliff, or a bridge broke, you could feel it and it gets your blood pumping

I recommend you pick this game up if you have not already.

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Almost done at the Global Game Jam 2017

Global Game Jam ends in a few hours. Here’s a preview of the game I’m working on called “Pistol Whip Shrimp” in collaboration with @lachlanmorrowgamedesign, @mitchellnojohnson

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GGJ!!!

The Global Game Jam is on this weekend and im going to be in it. Can't wait to meet new people, learn new things, and most of alk make an awsome game... Hopefully.

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Im back. Also some good news.

Sorry I haven't uploaded lately, I’ve been in ‘merica visiting my family who lives other there. I’m glad to say that I’m back and I’m ready to keep trying to become an amazing game designer. In other news the game i worked on with RUn Studios, Sanity is Overrated, has just reached over 150 downloads on itch.io see the link bellow if your are also interested in downloading and playing the game.

https://runstudios.itch.io/sanityisoverrated

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My Year at AIE

This year has been amazing. Enough if it was stress filled and annoying, in the end it was awesome. I have learnt so ,much this year its amazing. I have made many a friend and many a contact in the industry.

I cant wait for next year.

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FINALLY

Its here. Its finally here... GOLD. Handed in our game today for assesment. Will shall be releasing on itch.io in the near future after a few tweaks and changes to the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzy8sKTsIm0

Quick link to some gameplay, give us a like or subscribe if you want :)

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30 minutes left. Hopefully.

We have only 30 minutes left on the burndown. Hopefully ready for hand in tomorrow morning. However we know there will be issues upon hand in, there always is.

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Sexy lighting

The art teachers came around yesterday and gave groups some tips on how to make there game look better. We changed some of the lighting and its already looking 10X better then it did.

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BUGS

Our game has a crap tone of bugs and now we get to fix them and find more of them. Doing bug testing tomorrow and hoping to find hundreds so our programmers have something to do.

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FEATURE LOCK

We hit feature lock at the end of today for Sanity is Overrated. Its been a long and awesome journey and the finish line is almost there. Not just to polish the crap out of this turd... Which now that i think about it is technically impossible sentence.

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Colourblindness and you

So I am colourblind for all those unaware. Yesterday as a class we did 3 different colourblind tests and after all the “seriously you see a 24, its a 6″ kind of comments it was really cool to see everyone else learning about it. We used an app the simulated colourblindness and everyone was looking in there phones trying to find games that are bad for colourblind people whereas i just listed some i have actually played. So yesterday was good to see a whole bunch of people learn about something that is actually really common and learn how to make games in a way that makes them accessible.

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Pre-PAX burndown

I may be feeling like poop at the moment but that didn't stop me from pushing the group in order to get well bellow the line for the next week. Im hoping I will feel better for PAX in the next few days, time to rug up in bed and rest to get over this poopy feeling.

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Preparation for games week

My team has tried its hardest in order to prepare for games week next week. Two of our members are going to be away. Hope this will be enough.

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Testers are butts... not really

So yesterday i gathered a whole bunch of names of people who said they would be able to test today. a third of the people decided to change there minds and said they could not test. I also realized we need to put a lot more enthuses on letting the players know how to play the game. We noticed a large variety in how people were playing the game, most of which was not how you should play our game. Though they still had fun doing what they were doing they it wasn't our game. we have made a few changes to our game that are both small in scope, but will largely affect the game. Hopefully these help a lot.