Hey, I'm Nathan and this is my blog.

Game Reviews

  • Name and purpose of the game.
    The Cost of Life, professional made, is a game that challenges its players to manage a rural family of five in Haiti over four years and keep them healthy, get them educated, and help them survive.
  • Describe it from a learner's point of view and a developer’s point of view.
    This game teaches the importance of medical attention and education in third world countries. The developer wanted to express the need for these along with the importance of money, and overall family happiness.
  • Design Analysis
    This game is very clean and well made, the graphics are really good.
  • Usability Analysis
    The gameplay is simple by my standards, yet the game is hard to beat.
  • Suggestions for improvement.
    Setting some diffuculty levels, and more health for the indiviuals in the family.
  • 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do.
    Make characters move along multiple paths, setting up random things to happen.

  • Name and purpose of the game.
    Zeit Geist,user made, which is probably took is name from the movie Zeitgeist google it, it teaches facts from ancient Egypt and Greece, while letting you kill enemies.
  • Describe it from a learner's point of view and a developer’s point of view.
    This game teaches some facts about life in these ancient cultures like their gods and geographical features.
  • Design Analysis.
    The game does look fairly well for a user made game, it is fairly rough, and other than that it is well made.
  • Usability Analysis.
    The story is hard to follow and what you are supposed to do is never clear, at least it wasn't for myself.
  • Suggestions for improvement.
    The character in the gameplay doesn't turn around, so that would be one.
  • 2-3 things that you would like to learn how to do.
    Making the charater move with certain keys, and moving enemies.

School

So it seems like we haven't been in school in a month, is pretty crazy with all the closings. Yet it is better than comming to school right?

Well

So this blog is better than this wiki thing.

Really?

Is school really necessary?

Globaloria

This week the class I'm in has started with the Globaloria program, which lets students learn about game making. I am looking forward to learning about and making games. Making games seems like it would be hard, but I have yet to figure out if it will be or not. So today I have made a blog page and this is it.