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Bibliographies and Harvard references - On my specific course we was set a task to make blogs about the lessons we took, during this specific lesson we learnt about bibliographies and using Har...

Unnamed Anime/Game that I am visioning - For my second Design Methods assignment, I decided to do the first episode of a unnamed anime I had visioned for quite some time. There are a few things mis...

New Games Journalism vs Old Games Journalism - Old Games Journalism: Old games journalism usually contains a highly descriptive article that talks about all the different aspects of the games mechanics...

Games that inspire me! - - Roller Coaster Tycoon - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Mass Effect Trilogy - Army of 2 - Crackdown - Command and Conquer - Warhamm...

Some of my 3DS Max Work - OK so on entering this course in September 2013 I had NO idea about 3D modeling, but through lectures with Dave Pimm and through my own research (and occa...

La Decima Vittma - Sadly, I missed the initial screening of La Decima Vittma, and still need to view it. From what I have been told by others, it is a movie centering around ...

- *Semiotics* Singnifier denotation - marks on a paper sound in the air an object - areal physical entity Signified connotation - the mental concept in m...

Tweaking an ancient game: Ur - As part of an assignment, I need to tweak the mechanics of an ancient game of my choosing. for this, i have chosen the Royal Game of Ur, as I have the most...

Games Britanna: Joystick Generation - The third and final instalment of the Games Britannia dealt, of course, with the leap to video games and the influence they have had on gaming. Looking at t...

Semiotics - During our lecture on semiotics we were first asked to imagine that the word “glog” meant “cat”, we were then asked if we owned a glog and if so why/why n...

Paidea vs Ludus - Today we explored one of Newmans suggestions towards categorizing games the main two are Paidea and Ludus games. *Paidea* Paidea games are games which have...

Joystick Generation - Part 3 of the series *Games Britannia*, presented by Benjamin Woolley, is called "Joystick Generation" and follows on through the series' journey through B...

Ancient Game Iterations - For our assignment we had to iterate and try to improve one of the ancient games that we have been studying. I chose to do Tablut; here are my iterations: ...

Remediation - During this we learnt about remediation, remediation is the incorporation or representation of one medium in another medium, for example; taking something ...

Blog Task 13 - Remediation - Remediation is using media in another typer of media such as a digital version of monopoly. Immediacy - Making the audience forget they are watching a movi...

Ancient Game Tweaking - Sometimes it is good to improve existing games instead of creating a brand new game from scratch. During lectures we have looked at a variety of ancient ...

Games Britannia - Joystick Generation - *Games Britannia - Joystick Generation* In the final episode of game Britannia we looked at Space Invaders and packman talking about games that were playe...

Task 13: New Games Journalism vs. Old Games Journalism - New Journalism is a form of writing that originated in the mid 1960's and involves creative and artistic writing. New Journalism is open style and contains...

a idea for a game (still in progress) - the idea is your a news reporter sent to find out why a city was abandoned and you find things like abandoned science labs. something like This could b...

New Games Journalism vs Old Games Journalism - Old games journalism explores mechanics, graphics and controls which I feel spoils things a little bit. I prefer to explore things for myself. New games ...

NGJ/OGJ - New games journalism or old gamed journalism? New games journalism is explained in the place of the player, the journalist will explain what he did, how he...

Blog Task Week 8 - Going Cardboard - This week’s screening was a documentary called 'Going Cardboard'. This was a documentary about how board games have become such an intense hobby for some ...

ED Bryne - Building a simple level - Week 14 (31/1/14) - *basic elements of level* concept environment to exist in beginning ending goal challenge to overcome reward way of handling failure *tetris* concept: find ...

Tafl, Hnefatafl, Tablut, all strange names. - Hello once again Today I play even more ancient games, this time in the form of Tafl, Hnefatafl and Tablut. All of these game is are pretty much the same,...

Games Britannia: Dicing with destiny - Dicing with destiny is the first part of a three part series called Games Britannia. In the series, presented by Benjamin Woolley, we go on a journey that...

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Game Britannia notes - 1996 - iron game - game found - medieval times - game represents with religion - Win by going to the corners. Later in that period games started to come fro...

Paidea and Ludus games... - *In this post i will be discussing different games that I believe show signs of being either paidea or ludus. First of all I should probably explain the me...

A little about me - A little about me This blog was created as part of my Computer Games Design course and I was asked a number of questions as a little preface for any reade...

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