Sentimental Gamer

Blast aliens
Solve logic puzzles
Strategy
Resource Management
Match the colors
Pwn your opponent
Stay in rhythm
Win
Win
Win
Exercise your competitive mastery
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These are games and their themes today. I do not wish to make them.


Spirit
Uncertainty
Love
Anxiety
Fear
Hope
Discovery
Longing
Transcendence
Bewilderment

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These are what I feel. I want to express them in computer interaction...

But how!?!? *sigh*... wouldn't I like to know.

Posted by Ben Humberston at 9:41 PM | Permalink | Comments

Oh lordy... mtvU is fishing at Cornell for a game to be made... so now I've got 2 days now to come up with a nice killer concept that fits the MTV criteria....

So if anybody has a gun, you know.... feel free to just shoot me.

Posted by Ben Humberston at 10:05 PM | Permalink | Comments

Time for semester number 4... the lead up to that glorious halfway point. Things are definitely spicing up, and I"m hoping my next 5 semesters are much more like this past one (minus the assuredly horrid changes at home). I don't care about my other classes... I wanna make games. I wanna learn about them. I want to learn how I can communicate feelings, thoughts, emotions... without just preaching it. Admittedly, I'm at a distinct distance behind other students in that regard... it's just never been something that I've considered. Maybe it won't be so bad though, seeing as the very idea of using games as storytelling is only so many years old as it is.

Who knows. I'm hoping to pitch the storyweaver concept this semester, unless somebody has something else that thoroughly grabs my interest. The tech projects are fine and all, but really I need something that'd fit in nicely at Slamdance (speaking of which, check out the controversy about the Columbine game going down right now... interesting stuff).

Checking out XNA Game Studio Express... seeing how it works out. I'm sure nobody in the 400 level class is interested in using the somewhat outdated GameX engine. I liked it just fine, but then again I was never before a C++ programmer. Switching over to C# feels like the love child of Java and C++, so whether this is good or bad... guess I'll find out. Problem is I'll need to have other people working with it as well if my concept is chosen.. soo...

Two weeks and counting....

Posted by Ben Humberston at 11:26 PM | Permalink | Comments