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Week 8 Reading

After briefly reading over my blog posts about my previous readings I think one of my favourite readings was the article called "Don't be a Vidiot" by Greg Crosiykyan,
 I liked this blog post because the language was really simple and easy to understand, it was the first of the readings that got me to understand more about this course and what the content of a game should be. He explained how most games should have a main character, a goal , a enemy and a conflict. He also went on to explain some useful tips on first time game makers.
After reading this article I realised that I should focus more on game play not the appearance or the story game.  Later in the article he goes onto explain how you can do almost anything with software. With software you can develop it and define it. Similar with games there is a crazy amount of different types of games. He uses the term "There is an entire universe of weird and wonderful gaming styles." This is why this is my faveourite article I have read from my readings.

After briefly reading over my blog posts about the projects I realised that I need to do a lot more writing about my project. Although I have most of my blogs done for my project I realised that with the amount of time I have left I will not be able to make the game I want in time so unfortunately I am going to change my game idea to something not as challenging. I've been thinking about creating a pirate game where the pirate has to find gold coins and there will be riddles and instructions for what way for the pirate to. I want to create a game with more of a story to it rather than my first idea where it was just based on a frog jumping from lily pad to lily pad.


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