Starcraft
Uses a lot of menus, with quick keys. Once you get a lot of units and multiple building areas, it becomes more difficult to more to where you want to be , which is why quick keys are extremely useful. Every unit and building has their own menus/ actions to choose from. When you get use to using a certain race you learn all the quick keys to be able to direct your units faster.
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Zelda has a basic interface that is easy to use. It only allows you to have one tool at a time besides your sword and shield. To change weapons you have to pause the game and switch the weapon. This actually gets the player a much need break while fighting the main bosses
Starcraft vs. Zelda
Both rely on menus. While Starcraft has a great deal more than Zelda and is a much more difficult game to master.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Level Design Critique
Zelda: A Link to the Past
At first you are only allowed to follow a certain path, to start the game. You must sneak into the castle. After that you have a huge world to explore. At first the world has three main dungeons and castle plus various little place. Once you reach the dark world there are seven dungeons and a castle to explore.
Starcraft
Since starcraft is a RTS its level change a lot during play. And have different strenghts and weakness. Such as having more resources, a better place for denfence of your base, or less resources and a wide open base.
At first you are only allowed to follow a certain path, to start the game. You must sneak into the castle. After that you have a huge world to explore. At first the world has three main dungeons and castle plus various little place. Once you reach the dark world there are seven dungeons and a castle to explore.
Starcraft
Since starcraft is a RTS its level change a lot during play. And have different strenghts and weakness. Such as having more resources, a better place for denfence of your base, or less resources and a wide open base.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Week 6 - Two Critiques
Two Towers:
I would be careful with the name you have chosen its might remind people of 9/11 or since its a medieval free it might remind people of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. But other than that the game seems to be pretty solid. It has the same feel as 1945 the flight game that you play as an airplane, but with a more free flowing game play.
Tank Hero:
The game is a lot like the other games that involve a tank. I think that if there could be some changes in how you go about the game. Like the pilot has certain skills and different things they might be good at. The armor upgrade is cool, but thing about having the tank before different countries that have different resources and technology so they get different upgrades.
I would be careful with the name you have chosen its might remind people of 9/11 or since its a medieval free it might remind people of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. But other than that the game seems to be pretty solid. It has the same feel as 1945 the flight game that you play as an airplane, but with a more free flowing game play.
Tank Hero:
The game is a lot like the other games that involve a tank. I think that if there could be some changes in how you go about the game. Like the pilot has certain skills and different things they might be good at. The armor upgrade is cool, but thing about having the tank before different countries that have different resources and technology so they get different upgrades.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Week 5 Assessment
We have started working on game play and character design. The game is puzzled based and the character is a ninja, in a black uniform
Week 5 - Critique 3
Zelda: A Link to the Past is well balanced. As you go through the game it gets hard, but at the same time the player becomes better at controlling the character and also gets better items. The game comes with a bunch of side quests that allow the player to become even better. There are different styles that you can play and use different weapons. There are expert players that don't get all the life that is optional, which makes the game harder.
Starcraft is a well balanced game. Some items are readily available for all players to use, and others can only be held by the player who gets it first. In multiplayer, you are pitted against players of all levels of skills. But you can set the skill of the computers you are against, which people are in which teams and these allows the player to customize the difficulty of the multiplayer game. The game is easy to learn but there are a lot of different stragies that a person could use. Since there are different types of gameplay, both single player and multiplayer, a player can choose to train himself online with a more experienced group. This allows a player to start off with the basics and ramp up the difficulty as he gets better.
Starcraft is a well balanced game. Some items are readily available for all players to use, and others can only be held by the player who gets it first. In multiplayer, you are pitted against players of all levels of skills. But you can set the skill of the computers you are against, which people are in which teams and these allows the player to customize the difficulty of the multiplayer game. The game is easy to learn but there are a lot of different stragies that a person could use. Since there are different types of gameplay, both single player and multiplayer, a player can choose to train himself online with a more experienced group. This allows a player to start off with the basics and ramp up the difficulty as he gets better.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Weekly Assessment 2
Changed the game idea from a FPS called Patroller 48 to adventure game called "the blackness."
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Game Critique 2
In, Starcraft, you take a omniscient view. You have control over almost everything to do with your units, and decide where to build. During story mode you are limited in the beginning to what you can build and units you can create.
Some challenges that you face are the limited resources around the area as well as making sure that you protecting your forces. There is also a limitation on the amount of units you can have making it more difficult on the player. They have to then balance attack power, defenses, and gathering and building.
Certain races in the game have different specialties. Zerg are a faster race, with the ability to strike first, the Terran and Protoss get strong as the game goes on although the Protoss are a more expensive of the two. Due to this difference, when the player uses a different race they have to change their strategy, and a lot of players tend to only use one of the three races, because they can't find a strategy that works with the other races.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the view is in a third person. In this game you only have control over the main character, Link. Throughout the game you are faced with different puzzles and problems by getting different tools. Your character also gets more health and better equipment.
Problems that occur during the game are looking for arrows, health, and bombs. In certain areas it is harder to get items, and there are bottles that carry different items that can be changed. To get through the game you must constantly be using different items and bring different items to make sure you can get through the dungeons.
As the game gets harder you can upgrade certain weapons. With the boomerang you get at the beginning of the game which is blue you can throw it into the great fairy's pond and she returns it better than before, with a longer distance and a different color. Also there are a total of four swords that you could get in the game, the starting sword, the master sword, the upgraded master sword and if you through the upgraded one in the fairy's pond you receive the fairy sword. Getting these upgrades along with the player getting more use to playing the game makes it easier to get through the game .
The player is also challenged to find the solutions to different puzzles and also different weakness to each dungeon boss. Usually, the item found in that dungeon is the weakness to the boss but that is not allows the case.
Some challenges that you face are the limited resources around the area as well as making sure that you protecting your forces. There is also a limitation on the amount of units you can have making it more difficult on the player. They have to then balance attack power, defenses, and gathering and building.
Certain races in the game have different specialties. Zerg are a faster race, with the ability to strike first, the Terran and Protoss get strong as the game goes on although the Protoss are a more expensive of the two. Due to this difference, when the player uses a different race they have to change their strategy, and a lot of players tend to only use one of the three races, because they can't find a strategy that works with the other races.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the view is in a third person. In this game you only have control over the main character, Link. Throughout the game you are faced with different puzzles and problems by getting different tools. Your character also gets more health and better equipment.
Problems that occur during the game are looking for arrows, health, and bombs. In certain areas it is harder to get items, and there are bottles that carry different items that can be changed. To get through the game you must constantly be using different items and bring different items to make sure you can get through the dungeons.
As the game gets harder you can upgrade certain weapons. With the boomerang you get at the beginning of the game which is blue you can throw it into the great fairy's pond and she returns it better than before, with a longer distance and a different color. Also there are a total of four swords that you could get in the game, the starting sword, the master sword, the upgraded master sword and if you through the upgraded one in the fairy's pond you receive the fairy sword. Getting these upgrades along with the player getting more use to playing the game makes it easier to get through the game .
The player is also challenged to find the solutions to different puzzles and also different weakness to each dungeon boss. Usually, the item found in that dungeon is the weakness to the boss but that is not allows the case.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Game Critique 1
Game Critique of Starcraft & Kingdom Hearts
Starcraft which is a real time strategy computer game made by Blizzard Entertainment. Starcraft was a variation of Blizzard's already successful Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Starcraft brought some new and interesting aspects for game play. In the first two Warcraft games there were only two races to choose from human and orc. In Starcraft there were three races to choose from. Since all three races were very different from one another there was a lot of different strategies that could be used.
The game's story takes place over three campaigns one for each race and containing ten levels. There are also a lot of cheat codes for those that get stuck. But the thing that's makes Starcraft such an great game to play is the online play and custom maps. Some of the great maps include turret defense, where you just make turrets and defend against flying creatures, and the fastest map possible which allows everyone playing to get resources as fast as possible and get all the possible units and buildings. This makes it hard to know what your opponent is going to do.
Later on Blizzard released an expansion to Starcraft, adding new units and thirty new levels which made for many more possible strategies.
What I liked the most about this game is the editable of maps and being able to make your own maps. And I have spent countless hours online play with my friends.
Kingdom Hearts is an action RPG, developed by Squaresoft and Disney for the Playstation 2. Kingdom Hearts was one of the first games actions games that allowed the user to change the team of character they were using during the game. This allowed you to use the different abilities of the characters to make the game easier or harder. Its also had three choices at the beginning of the game to set up you characters main attributes, being attack, defense and magic. Depending on which you chose your character would start with different stats.
The game has an interesting story making a new alternate setting that includes classic Disney characters like Mikey, Donald and Goofy, with characters from Squaresoft's popular Final Fantasy series, such as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 and Squall from Final Fantasy 8. There is a central plot for the game which takes place across multiple worlds, while at the same time there are stand alone stories within each world. The ending of the game finishes off the story but then starts another story which continues in the new sequels, Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2.
I spent a lot of time on this game. I found it enjoy to create and find new weapons and ships. The side quests and so many different stories makes it a good game with high re-play value.
Starcraft which is a real time strategy computer game made by Blizzard Entertainment. Starcraft was a variation of Blizzard's already successful Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Starcraft brought some new and interesting aspects for game play. In the first two Warcraft games there were only two races to choose from human and orc. In Starcraft there were three races to choose from. Since all three races were very different from one another there was a lot of different strategies that could be used.
The game's story takes place over three campaigns one for each race and containing ten levels. There are also a lot of cheat codes for those that get stuck. But the thing that's makes Starcraft such an great game to play is the online play and custom maps. Some of the great maps include turret defense, where you just make turrets and defend against flying creatures, and the fastest map possible which allows everyone playing to get resources as fast as possible and get all the possible units and buildings. This makes it hard to know what your opponent is going to do.
Later on Blizzard released an expansion to Starcraft, adding new units and thirty new levels which made for many more possible strategies.
What I liked the most about this game is the editable of maps and being able to make your own maps. And I have spent countless hours online play with my friends.
Kingdom Hearts is an action RPG, developed by Squaresoft and Disney for the Playstation 2. Kingdom Hearts was one of the first games actions games that allowed the user to change the team of character they were using during the game. This allowed you to use the different abilities of the characters to make the game easier or harder. Its also had three choices at the beginning of the game to set up you characters main attributes, being attack, defense and magic. Depending on which you chose your character would start with different stats.
The game has an interesting story making a new alternate setting that includes classic Disney characters like Mikey, Donald and Goofy, with characters from Squaresoft's popular Final Fantasy series, such as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 and Squall from Final Fantasy 8. There is a central plot for the game which takes place across multiple worlds, while at the same time there are stand alone stories within each world. The ending of the game finishes off the story but then starts another story which continues in the new sequels, Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2.
I spent a lot of time on this game. I found it enjoy to create and find new weapons and ships. The side quests and so many different stories makes it a good game with high re-play value.
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