Final Class Reflection June 4, 2022 I’ve always loved playing games. My first taste of games was Poptropica: a 2d side scroller game in which you would travel around to…
Critical Play: Hollow Knight! May 27, 2022 For this week’s critical play, I (re)played Hollow Knight by Team Cherry on Windows. While Hollow Knight is one of the first games I’ve…
Critical Play: Puzzles May 19, 2022 Monument Valley, a single-player iOS puzzle game by ustwo games, is by far one of the prettiest games I’ve…
Critical Play: Mysteries May 13, 2022 For this week’s critical play, I tried out Life is Strange, a story about a girl with the power to rewind time. While the…
Critical Play: Walking Simulators May 6, 2022 During the summer of 2020, I spent an (unhealthy) amount of time playing Sky, a game produced by ThatGameCompany, as a means of escape…
Individual Post: Concept Doc P2 May 3, 2022 Moodboard: https://pin.it/71umRr8 Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wM5egoXdtrpWng7ylmOV2?si=75763bc5b9bb447e Directions for the Game: Kinds of Fun (for all ideas): Discovery: exploration of the game as a 2d side…
Critical Play: Bluffing, Judging and Getting Vulnerable… April 22, 2022 Name of game, creator, platform: “We’re Not Really Strangers,” online, made by Koreen. Target Audience: 18+ (adults) “We’re Not Really Strangers,” created by Koreen,…
Blog Response: Visual Design of Games April 18, 2022 Exercises (Cheese or Font Quiz) 2. Visually Stunning game: Ori and the Will of the Wisps. The game does an amazing job of implementing…
Critical Play: Competitive Analysis April 15, 2022 Skribblio is centered around players drawing and guessing various drawing prompts. To begin, one player will pick one out of three prompts automatically generated…
Blog Response: What do Prototypes Prototype? April 13, 2022 What type of prompts should our game use? The game will only really be “fun” if the drawing is executed in a way that…
Skim & Watch: MDA & 8 Kinds of Fun April 12, 2022 Over quarantine, I spent most of my time playing Hollow Knight. And I’m really glad that I did: it’s become my favorite game of…
Your First Critical Play! April 7, 2022 Name of game, creator, platform Inhuman Conditions, Tommy Maranges and Cory O’Brien, typically an analog game but adapted for online play (called Robot Interrogation)…
