Game Development Club (GDC) is a student organization of Southern Arkansas University that provides gaming related information and opportunities to its members.
Hello and Merry Christmas! As I'm sure you all know, Steam's Holiday Sell is currently making many a games affordable for college students (Skyrim is available for $8 right now!). However, there is one game I think we should all consider buying, especially students who interest rests in game creation. That game is RPG Maker VX Ace.
RPG Maker VX Ace is on sell at Steam for $18, as oppose to the usual $60, until tomorrow at noon. The game is more of a game creation kit, requiring little to none programming skills to create your very own RPG. This could give you immediate experience in creating games and you would have plenty of time over the break to develop and share your ideas with GDC members, friends, and other internet users.
RPG Maker VX Ace also has plenty of DLC, including soundtracks or animation styles like Pokémon (all of which have great sales). For a complete look at the game content and DLC, click here and buy the game if you want. However, if you can not afford the game, perhaps you can ask a friend to buy it and you can share the cost later.
If this all sounds a bit overwhelming, know that there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube and that the creators of the game have a website that includes a tutorial blog for level, character, and other designs. While all of us may not wish to create RPGs, this is a cool and inexpensive chance to begin your game development hobby or career.
So as im sure the majority of you heard at the last meeting, I had planned on buying the PS4 once paychecks dropped the next day. Sadly, SAU took half of my check for fees I hadn't accounted for. So, to turn a bad situation (I sold my ps3 the night of the meeting to ensure enough funds for the PS4) of having no games to play, I bought a WiiU.
Now to be fair, I had been wanting to play ZombiU. It is a great game that is an entirely new take on survival horror centering around the (soon to come) zombie apocalypse. However, I cannot sit and play one game alone unless it has a very compelling story. Or if it's minecraft. ZombiU has a curious story but lets be honest, its a Zombie game. You can't do much without turning it into a Fable clone. So I was lucky enough to have bought the Windwaker edition console with the free download of Windwaker HD. You can't go wrong with Zelda right? Right? I can. As a kid all I had was the gamecube and one game. Windwaker. I beat it 47 times. No joke. Its not exaggerated. Its 47. So I got bored.
Tonight I decided I'd look at all games on the WiiU, released or soon to be. Guess what. The only noteworthy title I came across was Super Smash Bros. And thats not slated for release until a few months from now. So I looked at ones that are out now and all there is is Bayonetta 2, Monster Hunter3, and Ninja Gaiden 3. '-' Not a fan of Monster hunter. Never played Bayonetta 1 and ninja gaiden is a bit too hack and slash for my taste. So now I am sitting in my room at 1:42 a.m. womdering why the hell I bought this thing. So here's my review for the WiiU!
The wii was a let down. No one can deny that. With one or two good titles, most gamers felt cheated out of their money when the wii never delivered on anything decent. Now the WiiU promised us so much more and even shpwed off a lot of fancy stuff for us to look forward to. Still, most of us ignored Nintendos "next gen" console. I guess that was the gaming community punishing Nintendo for the catastrophe the Wii was. I personally didn't buy into the hype, like any sensible gamer. But the WiiU did catch my attention with ZombiU. I had not made any plans to buy this console for just one game when I was an owner of both an Xbox360 and a Playstation 3 at the time of its launch. Soon Xbox betrayed me, and I became a PS3 fanboy. I was good. Now the PS4 is out amd I was dying to get one. I had the money and SAU took a bit. Oh well right? I figured I'd get a WiiU and swotch to PC gaming when we got money back next semester. So I went to gamestop amd bought the WiiU. '_' The first thing I noticed was the extensive set up process. I figured "Awesome! This foreshadpws a great UI for me to play around with!" Iiiii was wrong. Its just like the 3Ds, which dont get me wrong is good for the 3DS ALONE. This is a console, come on Nintendo what're you thinking. Oh well, it should be faster than the Wii this time. Nope. Its actually slower. I clocked it at 53 seconds to open the settings. I was a bit dissapointed. But hey UI doesnt make a console, its the games. So I popped in ZombiU in my dorm room and got into it. ZombiU wasn't quote what I had hoped but it was still an amazing game. I love the whole aspect of 'if you get swarmed you are going to die'. It was realistic and challenging. But I found it dofficult to focus with me constantly having to look at the gamepad to see what button im hitting. The controller os just too big to handle properly. Especially if youre used to the thinner Playstation controller. It absolutely took away from the gaming experience. I feel like the console has potential but I just can't justify my buying it for $350. It's quite the letdown. So my final verdict on the console, is a 2 out of 5. If the console had sold better and some third party developers had got with it amd given the console a bigger library to choose from, it may be a 3. But with a slow OS and a wonky oversized controller that mah as well be the tablet im writing this with, the hardware and software are just dissapointing.
Feel free to comment and tell me im being a picky little douche, but I think I deserve what I paid for. :/
For the longest time I have always thought that the
longer a game, the better it was. The longest titles were usually
RPGs. I would average 40 hours playtime in games like Legend of
Dragoon, Chrono Cross, and Final Fantasy IX. The longest game I have
played so far would have to be Xenoblade Chronicles in which I had a
game completion time of 110 hours! I got pretty close with Oblivion
and Skyrim, but never finished all of the content, so I had between
40-60 hours invested on those titles. However, one of the strangest
experiences I had was with Jade Cocoon.
Jade Cocoon was this RPG title that I rented a long
time ago when the Playstation was still brand new. I played through
this awesome game and made it to the very end. To my amazement, my
playtime barely scratched 20 hours. I deemed it less enjoyable than
the other games that took longer to beat. As I grew older I noticed
more and more games were reduced in length. Games such as Portal,
Braid, Limbo, and Bleed took less than 4 hours to finish. The
shortest game I have ever played was Journey and I clocked in at 90
minutes! Why are games becoming shorter? A better question might be
is this a bad thing?
Portal was a short game, but my time with it isn't what
I would call brief. Brief implies it was not long enough. Short just
refers to the overall length of the game's duration. Despite spending
only 4 hours playing Portal, it was a grand experience. Braid's
playtime was almost 4 hours, but I loved every bit of it. Bleed was
around 3 hours and I had a blast slowing down for bullet time and
dodging attacks that should be impossible to avoid! And Journey
absolutely astounded me. I played a total of 90 minutes. You would
think that would be a complete waste of my money, but no. The game
was incredible. I literally felt like I spent a lifetime playing it
even though an hour and a half was all that passed in reality. I do
feel like it could have done just a little more, but that's for
another time.
I think duration and longevity in a game is of little
importance at this point. If I play a game for 20 hours total
playtime, but it feels like it's dragging on, it should just end
already. I expected the story to stop 5 hours ago. Why is it still
going on? Haven't I done this before? When will this monotony end? I
don't think a game has to be incredibly long to be truly enjoyable.
Earlier when I said Xenoblade Chronicles was the longest game I
played? I would have to say 90 of those hours were spent on side
quests and being lost. It wasn't a bad experience, but some parts did
make me want to hurry the story along. When it gets to the point the
game feels like a chore, just proceed with the story. If the story is
the chore, maybe take a break from it.
What are your thoughts on longevity? Should a game be
padded out for the sake of a long duration or should it only be long
enough to prove its point? Is there an objective minimum length a
game should be? What's the longest game you've played and how much
time did you invest in it?
I always noticed that games have a tendency to appeal to
basically everybody. Gaming itself looks like it's a male activity
because a lot of men play, but there are lots of women who play as
well. I also noticed that most game genres do not try to target a
specific audience based on sex. Developers might do that, but the
genres themselves seem gender neutral. However, some genres such as
Fighting, Racing, Sports, and Shooter seem to be more masculine. In
addition to the main question (see the title), are there feminine
games out there?
From what I have observed, men have a tendency to
compete. They always want to try and be the best of the very best.
Fighting games are a common way to prove who is better at everything.
Argument over who gets the last chicken wing? Fight it out with
Tekken. Debate over who knows their chemistry and who doesn't? Mortal
Kombat will settle that once and for all. Racing and Sports games can
do the same thing, but competition seems more friendly in those
titles. At least in Nintendo titles and their cartoony style of
graphics. Realistic looking Racers and Sports tend to invoke the
man's spirit of competition. They start to take it a bit too
seriously. Shooters are kind of the norm for males at the moment. If
you don't play a Shooter, you aren't a man, apparently. It's really
specific, too. Team Fortress 2 is a Shooter, but it isn't realistic,
so it gets a lot of hate from players who play more realistic
Shooters.
Almost every other genre I see is gender neutral.
Adventure titles? No preferable gender. How about those RPGs? Loved
by everybody (that I know at least). Those Platformers? Appeals to
anyone. Keep in mind I'm not saying everyone loves these genres. I am
trying to say that they have this appeal that doesn't make them feel
like it's only meant for a specific gender. But if there are games
that appeal to a masculine audience, surely there are feminine titles
out there? If there is a genre that appeals solely to women, I can't
name it.
So I recently picked up zombiU. I didnt figure it would be too hard, but man was I surprised. Its like the wii version of Dark Souls. Ive played "I wanna be the guy" and havent died nearly as many times as I have on here. So, out of curiosity, what are your favorite insanely difficult games?
Difficulty
is the term to describe the level of challenge a game provides. Some
games have a static difficulty level whereas others give players the
option to adjust the difficulty. This raises a few questions: namely,
the titular question “How does it affect gameplay?” and other
questions such as “Can a game be too easy or too hard?” or “Is
difficulty subjective?” I suppose I could answer the first question
right now.
Difficulty
is the way the game challenges the player. There are typically three
major difficulty modes and they are Easy, Normal, and Hard. Easy mode
is basically a casual stroll through the park. You can spend more
time stopping and smelling the roses than you can trying to save your
own skin in the middle of a gunfight. There is very little danger or
threat to the player and is an ideal difficulty for newcomers to the
gaming scene or someone who has had a bad day and just wants to vent
their frustrations against enemies who cannot hope to win.
Normal
mode is a balance of challenge and fairness. It is meant to keep the
player engaged enough to pay attention to the game, but is never too
taxing for the player to handle. At least for the average player. A
newcomer may stumble and trip their way through Normal, but they can
get the hang of things and overcome adversity to reach the end.
Normal is the most commonly picked difficulty in any game that has a
difficulty select option.
Hard
mode is just absolutely nuts. This mode is almost always designed to
give the player a sense of utter dread after they lose countless
times. It is built to test the most hardcore of gamers, to challenge
the most skilled of players, and to be taken up as a dare for $1.00
USD for the guys who don't really know what they're doing and so his
friends can laugh at his demise. Why do some of us enjoy Hard mode? I
dunno. Maybe we're masochists? Or quite possibly the intense feeling
of reward gained from overcoming the seemingly impossible odds! Yeah,
we are masochists, aren't we?
Can
a game be too hard? Of course it can. This can be subject to a slew
of factors such as the game mechanics, the player's skill and
understanding of the rules, the controls, the jeers of your peers,
and uncontrollable aspects such as undodgeable attacks. If the player
is just not able to keep up with the game's pace or how many things
are going on at once, it can be overwhelming and they might deem it
too difficult. A hardcore player, however, may delight in the idea of
complex mechanics and hectic environments. But hey, if a game is too
hard to handle, it isn't the end of the world. You don't need to
worry about beating it on the hardest difficulty. Plus, difficulty is
a perfectly good reason for disliking a game. Even if it is trivial
as opposed to frustrating.
Speaking
of trivial, a game can be too easy, as well. If the mechanics end up
being too simple with no expansion or variety, the game can get
boring fast. It doesn't have to be complex, but it still needs to be
interesting. The worst part is sometimes the difficulty can be
mislabeled. Any of you familiar with Dust: An Elysian Tail, the
Normal difficulty mode feels like it's set to Easy. I played on Tough
to get a bigger challenge out of it, but it felt like a Normal
difficulty compared to other games. It gave me a modest challenge and
I even failed on numerous occasions. Anytime you play a game and it
feels too easy, try upping the difficulty. It might become more
engaging.
Overall,
difficulty is subjective. One player may play on Normal and find it
an adequate challenge, but another player may play on the same
difficulty of the same game and argue that it was trivial. Different
modes provide a different experience depending on the player. On that
note, what do you all think of difficulty? Should all games have a
setting for difficulty or be static? Is there a limit to how hard a
game should be? Just tell me what you think in the comments below.
Portfolio or art blog. How should I share my artwork with potential employers and fellow artists?
Every artist looking to be employed should have a digital art portfolio. This should only be your very best work.You will want to review this portfolio regularly, re-evaluating your work, adjusting what is included and fine tuning the presentation of your skill set.
An art blog, on the other hand, is not for your best work, it is for your ongoing work. This should be viewed as motivation to keep working, a way to connect with other artists, share your talents with the world, document your progress, push yourself, make goals and archive your work. Some of the best digital artists I know maintain regular art blogs. In these blogs they post works in progress, ideas for future projects, tips they have learned and want to share and whatever else strikes them. Many artists will participate in monthly theme "contests" or groups, for motivation, group critique and camaraderie.
Disney Interactive in Salt Lake City has an active art blog for the artists working in the company. This is not required by the company, but rather the artists have found that it helps them to keep making art, explore ideas and encourage and motivate each other. The artists regularly give one another challenges and critiques. From this community blog you can also link to the individual blogs of many of the game artists and get an idea of how an art blog can be used by a professional artist.
Hey, I'm sorry to post this so late. This post is a reiteration of the email I sent out to our members, as it has recently come to my attention that not everyone checks their email. So if you've read this before, skip this post. If not, read ahead knowing the time limit for recommendations is now tomorrow at noon.
So, since next week consists of days studying for finals and because we haven't had many meeting this semester (we had to wait to be made official by the school, which happened last week) , the next GDC meeting will be more about relaxation than planning any huge future opportunities. Thus, we will be mostly playing/critiquing games at our next meeting and taking a break from studying ( I may mention Angel Tree again).
I need you to let me know before Tuesday (at noon) what games (System too) you want to play and if you can bring your own remote, system, television (or PC), or anything else needed to play the game. We'll probably play two games during our meeting from 6 to 7:30, so make sure the game you wish to play is fun to watch (like Spelunky) and/or a multiplayer (like Mario Kart).
I currently own a TV (with HDMI), a Wii and it's remote (without the nun chuck), a PS3 with its two controllers, and a PC with Steam and a remote.
I'll email you Tuesday about whichever game is most popular and with more information (time, place, schedule, etc.). If you have any more ideas about our next meeting, email me. Also,if you can not come to our next meeting at 6 on Thursday in Wilson 119, please email me before then.
Hello fellow bloggers and readers; I hope you're had a good Thanksgiving break (at least here in the U.S.)! It's been awhile since our last meeting, but I wanted to post about what we did last time so members or potential members who couldn't be there will be kept in the loop.
What is GDC
GDC (Game Development Club) is about games developers and enthusiasts meeting together to talk about (and later create) video games. We do this my meeting weekly at Southern Arkansas University in Wilson 119 at 6 P. M. or by blogging on this website. During our meetings we discuss video game news and opportunities related to GDC or in our region, critique games, present our game ideas, build friendships, and eventually create games. We're currently as new as our university's Game Design major, so now is the time to visit, express your ideas, and help define GDC for years to come.
2. Game Presentation
GDC's Cody Duncan presentation included a PowerPoint about a game he and his co-developer Cody Bonner have been working on for quite some time. The game will feature exploreable and active environments in which the protagonist will level-up in a apocalyptic world. Since this game idea is so huge, the creators of this game are looking for help with art and writing. If you would like to help with the development of this idea or have any questions, you can email Cody Duncan at Codyjay95@gmail.com.
3. IGDA and GDC
GDC plans on joining IGDA (International Game Developers Association) in the year of 2014, which will provide scholarships and other benefits to it's members. As a non-profit organization, it will also provide information and discounts for potential game conferences that we may visit later on, such as E3 or GDC (Game Developers Conference). However, any student in the video game field can now volunteer their time for Game Developers Conference through an application without being a IGDA member. There is more information about IGDA here here and GDC here .
4. Theme Night
Most of us want to develop video games because we enjoy playing video games. Thus, as a club, we will have game nights centering around a genre or generation of games. We will pull aside a night and play: retro games, fighting games, frighting games, driving games, and indie games. This will be an opportunity to discuss why we love the games we play and introduce games and game ideas to members with similar interest.
5. Altruism
To be apart of IGDA and improve our community, we discussed altruistic acts we could participate in or create. We decided to donate time to Angel Tree, which is an on campus organization that gathers gifts for underprivileged children for the Holidays. Here is a Link to the various ways we can help Angel Tree achive its goal of giving every child in our community a present(s).
6. Time and meeting
The group has decided to meet in Wilson 119 from now on, which hosts a large room with over 20 computers. We will continue meeting on Thursday at 6 P.M., with meetings being no longer than two hours.
Thanks for reading about what our meeting consisted of and hopefully you will come to our next meeting on 12/5/2013 in Wilson 119 at 6 P.M.
When
you first start a game you likely have no idea what you are doing or
even how to play. Luckily, every game usually comes with an
instruction manual that tells you how the game works and what rules
to follow. It covers many basic controls and aspects of gameplay, but
never mentions the more advanced topics of the game. Those the player
tends to figure out as they progress. For those of us who never read
the manuals, today's games feature in-game tutorials that perform the
same functions. But are these tutorials really necessary?
The
purpose of a tutorial is to explain how the game works. Without this
the player may find themselves lost and confused. As for veteran
gamers, figuring out gameplay is very easy. For newcomers, not so
much. It may take a little longer for a novice to grasp the mechanics
of a game, but today's tutorials seem to think the average player
needs to have their hand held constantly. These tutorials will pop up
on the screen with an excessively detailed explanation on what a
particular function does and how to perform said function. Not only
that, they pause the game to do it. This interrupts pacing! Worst of
all, it is for the most trivial of commands. Even a newcomer can
realize that the directional buttons are used to move around. They
can easily guess this just by pressing the buttons. They can even
figure out what the other buttons do by pressing those, too.
Yet,
tutorials are still needed in most games due to the complexity of the
game's mechanics. They just have to be implemented properly. How is
this done? First, I would gauge how difficult it is to play the game
overall. Second, I would see what aspects of the game require a
little explaining in order to fully understand. Finally, I would put
these hints in places that do not disrupt the flow of gameplay and do
not obscure the screen.
You
see, if the game is so simple that the player needs to only focus on
one goal, then a tutorial is completely unnecessary! Even if there
are a few rules to follow, the player should only have to see them
once before starting anything. If they forget something, they can
always check a manual or pause the game and see if the pause menu has
any option to view the rules. But what if a game is more complicated
than that? What if the game has mechanics that expand and change as
the player progresses? I'm just going to use Braid as an example. One
of the first rules you see in Braid is that you, the player, control
time. Magnificent power, that time controlling thing is! Anyways, the
first thing a player will notice is that time can be turned back.
There is a little hint that explains this, but it only shows up once
and never again. Simple mechanic, right? As you progress, the game
introduces new mechanics such as rewinding time to create a shadow
that performs your previous actions. Through observance, the player
can see this. There is no explanation nor hints that tell you how to
do this. The mechanics are so simple that a tutorial is hardly
needed.
More
complicated games, however, do require tutorials. Let's say the
player is trying a role-playing game. If anyone who has played RPGs
knows, they tend to have a lot of stats and numbers. Most of these
games do not describe what each stat does or how it affects gameplay.
Over time, I learned that terms such as “STR,” “PWR,” or
“ATK” generally affect how much damage (more specifically
physical damage) you deal against a target. Those may be easy to
figure out, but terms such as “AGI” or “DEX” are enigmatic.
What do they affect!? Does AGI mean Agility? Is that how fast I can
attack? Does it affect critical chances? Is it meant for dodge
mechanics? It's hard to find out what this term means unless there is
a manual or in-game tutorial explaining what the attribute stands for
and how it affects gameplay.
As
I mentioned before, implementing tutorials is usually done wrong.
Pausing the game to tell the player how to rotate the camera is not
necessary! A little hint box at the bottom of the screen will
suffice. Shoving it in the viewer's face comes off as overwhelming
and intimidating. It's like trying to read a popup book about
cooking. The game is pushing information into your head and you're
not quite ready to take it all in yet. This is why we chunk our
information so we can internalize it faster.
I
say tutorials are necessary for games with complex mechanics, but not
for games with simple rules. What do you all think? Do you believe
tutorials are necessary in every game or just some? Should they stop
the gameplay so you can read it carefully or not disrupt the flow at
all? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
So, I get paid on the 16th of December, I used to be a massive Assassins Creed fan but after the ending to 3 I was practically forced away from it altogether. I recently read up on the AC4 modern day story which revealed that it will explain how the series continues. So here is a question im posting for you all: Should I buy AC4, or find something else? If not AC4 what game would you reccomend for ps3?
Hey guys and girls, thanksgiving is upon us. Have a great break. And play PLENTY of vidya games while we are out. Ill be playing Battlefield 4 and Assassins Creed 3. What will you all be playing?
Path of Exile Open Beta Trailer (the game is now out of open beta, but this is still a great trailer)
If there is one thing I enjoy in games, it is being able to play a character how I want to play my character - and if there is one thing Path of Exile does incredibly well, it is provide effectively endless options for making characters.
Path of Exile is an action role playing game, similar to games like Diablo 2, where your goal is to progress through the game world, leveling up your character and getting better gear for your character. Your character, one of the six (seven as of release, once you unlock her) exiles, is sent to the continent of Wraeclast for various crimes they may have committed.
Your exile of choice washes up on the shoreline of Wraeclast, waking up next to a dying exile. After some conversation and a most likely brief fight, you begin making your way up the coast armed with a weapon that you found and a skill gem, which is how skills are able to be used in Path of Exile. If you don't skip enemies and simply fight them all, you will quickly hit level 2. You get a nice little notification on your toolbar that you have unspent skill points, and you click the button, and you find out just how grand the skill tree is.
The Shadow's starting area on the skill tree.
The game very effectively uses the first 10 or so minutes of gameplay to show you how the game works.
There are no preset skills, instead you use Skill Gems to have access to whatever skill you want. This means you are able to use whatever skill you want on whatever character you want, if you are of a high enough level and have the required stats to place it in a socket. The sockets are also sometimes linked, which later allows you to apply Support Gems to augment your Skill Gems (demonstrated in the video, with things such as Fireball linked to Chain)
This game will not pull any punches in terms of difficulty, even in the first areas. Watch your health or die. I did not mention this, but in the very first area of the game, Twilight Strand, the enemies, especially the very first boss (a minor one, but still counts as a boss), will do a decent amount of damage, and if you do not use your flasks that are given to you at the start, you will die. This game does not hold your hand and tell you that you will get to the level cap eventually, it tells you to fight for your life to maybe get past act one.
The Passive Skill Tree is very robust, allowing for a large variety of builds. What I feel is the main draw of this game is the Passive Skill Tree. All of the exiles share the same passive skill tree, with the differences between them being where they are on the skill tree at the start (the Shadow, for instance, is near the top right), and their starting stats. This allows you to make whatever character you want and have it work. You could turn a betrayed assassin into a hulking juggernaut of beating things to death with a blunt object, if you want.
As you play the game, you will become more knowledgeable of the game's mechanics, and realize you could make a better build. There are no free full respecs, instead you have to earn respec points through quests and finding Orbs of Regret in order to get passive skill tree points back.
This is a truly great game, if you are willing to lose. If you get upset when you die in games, turn back now, because this game will catch you off guard on multiple occasions, and you will die. You could have the most durable, hardest to kill character possible, and you can still die if you make a big enough mistake. In fact, this happened to me, and as I play solely on the Hardcore leagues (when you die, your character is removed from the Hardcore league and placed into Standard league), I ended up losing two unique items, a lot of good gear, and about six hours worth of leveling. Did I quit? No - in fact, I went ahead and made a brand new character with a brand new build and gave it another go. (That character also died.)
There is no one build to rule them all, no one skill that will outperform all others, no character that is strictly better than others. However, that is the fun of it. It frees you to try new skills, new ideas. My suggestion to new players is not to look up guides, not to learn much about the game beyond the bare basics. The game starts off simple enough to where simply by winging it and playing at your leisure, you can get decently far. In fact, my first character made it to Cruel Difficulty in Act 2 of 3 before I could no longer continue on him, but the lessons I learned from that character were invaluable, and I would have just been disappointed if I had used some other build with various intricacies and mechanics that I did not yet understand.
The game website can be found at www.pathofexile.com, and the game is also available on Steam. It is completely free to play (and the developers are outspoken about their dislike of "pay to win" microtransactions - the closest you will get to pay to win is extra stash space, and you do not need it to play the game even to the end), so it is worth a try. Feel free to comment on what you like and don't like about the game in the comments section.
Hey everybody. I'm Cody. Zachary has invited me to come pitch a game idea for everyone at tomorrow's meeting at 6 p.m. I'm really excited to be given the opportunity. I'll be giving a short powerpoint presentation on a story I've been working on for a few years. Hopefully some of you (or perhaps all of you) will like the idea and will want to work on some concept art and story boards or even quest lines with me. ^_^
Now, we aren't worried about coding or anything until everyone has taken the classes to work with. We simply don't have the knowledge. However, if you write or draw, or even listen/make music, I'd love for the GDC to be involved with it all. See you guys tomorrow, Thursday at 6 p.m. In Brinson 221.
Our next meeting will be next Thursday, November 21. This is because Anime Club is hosting a Super Smash Brothers Brawl tournament on Nov. 11th at 6 P.M. to fund their anime convention trip. Although we will not be meeting this week, I encourage all of you to join or watch the tournament. This is an opportunity to observe what gamers enjoy about competitive gaming (specifically the fighting genre) and may introduce you to some new friends.
The tournament will be in Wilson 223 and costs $3 dollars to play (watching is free). Read Anime Club's Facebook page for more information.
The main point of this blog is to share more detailed information about game creation than Facebook or Twitter can provide. This blog is also an extension of our regular meetings and covers what happens in between meetings at Southern Arkansas University. Visit often to receive the most up-to-date news surrounding Game Development Club, such as KATV visiting our campus a few days ago.
While giving you information about game development, this blog is also a place to share some of your ideas. Post and comment about game development or articles you wish to link to other members. The more sharing, the more educated we become outside our classes. So consider this as your voice in a large group of friends talking about video games.
Ultimately, this blog is what we make it, so participate in and enjoy our Game Development Club blog.
