Week Ten Blog

This is my final blog post and as per the class discussion I will be giving my reactions to the class as well and what I got out of it. I think its great to look at games and the literature that goes with it in an academic setting. I learned a lot and the class let me fall in love with games all over again. There were some games that I just did not care for, but that is not what the class is about. It is about learning the different games and talking about them in an academic setting. That is just what the class did. I learned that table top RPGs are not just for geeks. I really enjoyed running call of cthulhu, and would also love the opportunity to be a player. I would have liked to see where the imagination of the keeper goes as the story progresses. I liked it so much I decided to make a table top based on it for my final project. I am almost finished with it and it is coming along quite nicely. I would have liked to have seen more of the FPS type games as they are my favorite. One of them that I used to play a lot was counterstrike. I would have loved to see some literature come out of that since that is the game I enjoy the most. Another big one is Diablo, with the new release of Diablo 3 it would have been nice to see some literature come out of the first two. I understand that there is limited amount of time in the class, however I did get a lot out of what we did cover and was very impressed by the term. I enjoy games and this class really let me get back into them, and meet new people. I do also wish the class would have met more often as once a week did not seem to do as much justice as I had hoped for. I think that the topic is one that can definitely be explored more as an academic.

WEEK 9 BLOG

Week nine already wow where has the time gone. I decided to write this blog with my ideas for my final project. Still working on finishing grand theft auto 4, seems as though there is a lot on my plate at the moment. I decided for my final project that I am going to make my own table top RPG using the Cthulhu type style. I am going to make the setting on an island and make it all scary. I don't want to give it all away but its going to be prety interesting. I am starting to incorporate the plot and am working on the mystery part of it right now. I am going to use the same stats as the haunted house, except I am going to put specific things you have to roll for to gain information. I am going to try my best to make my game like an onion, to where you are given the story kind of layer by layer. I am finding it difficult, and a challenge, but also interesting and fun at the same time. I think my island is going to be way more fun then just some haunted house. I am actually using the island from the tv series lost, and am using part of the plot from that and part of the plot from a movie called gone. The others from the tv series lost are going to be a group of cultists. I have not worked out all the details but I have found a sort of map from the lost island and am going to piece the story together from both plots to make a super scary, fun haunted island. I just started playing around with different ideas and its coming along quite nicely. I am going to put specific rolls that have to occur to move on and I am going to make it to where the people have to move as one group with different clues as to what the mystery is about at specific locations on the island. I am going to make the island haunted and have black smoke attack just like on the show. I love this idea and am having fun watching it unfold in to a game that should be fun to play. I was also thinking of incorporating time by using an egg timer or something to account for 12 hours per one hour on the egg timer so that time can run its course and I can manipulate time. I want there to be a different demention to the island where people can take a look at different places in different time periods. It is a lot to incorporate in a game so I am having a friend assist me who has played and kept a game before. I have not got to the reading yet as I have a lot to do this weekend but will get it done for class on Wednesday. Happy gaming and good luck everyone with your projects.