THE WALL:

I choose you!

ZZPosted by Hellray on Saturday, October 31, 2009 , under | comments (2)



A little earlier, Mr Sparkle made this comment:
"can u pls tell mr sparkle what are the games we can choose again?"
Well, Mr Sparkle, here at MED3905-BLOG we're glad that you asked that question...the answer is here:
https://sites.google.com/a/ait.nsw.edu.au/med3905/med3905/handbook/games/a-brief-history-of-games
pikachu22small.jpg image by mikebox
What are the rules for selecting the games?


1) If someone else already said they want a game...then ur too late!
2) I'll post games as they go...so u know that someone else chose one already
3) I have working versions for all of the games, and there are downloads for all of them in the MED3905 main site
4) If you can work out how to get your game going GREAT...if not, then u may have to wait 'til class on Monday [6-8pm] when we'll all do our installs =]


5) We will not be choosing Spacewar!

What happened to CIVILIZATION?

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What happened iz that ARWEN took it...so if u wanted CIV, too too bad...she was faster than u. She has powerful, speedy reflexes and u do not. She ate ur game for breakfast and spat it out..
Better luck next time, other gamer, who iz less successful than ARWEN at winning =]

Which witch is which?

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  • O0o0o0o0ooo...this has been interesting...trying to work out who's who from the names...actually i CORRECTLY guessed that Arwen was Cloudy  =]...(ask Grace/Paradox?). Here's the short-list of who everyone iz:
  • Hellray = Adrian
  • Arwen = Cloudy
  • Mr Sparkle = Peinang
  • doffgan = ? (currently I'm guessing Amber tho...)
  • imaginator = Max (BUT, that's his email address too...is that gonna stay his game-name?)

  • That would leave Grace and Christine still to join right now...although later we'll probably have some guests too...

    BTW...does anyone have a preferred choice for their first game yet? Arwen commented about my CIV-post...so I got the feeling that's probably her preference...iz it?

Your turn...

ZZPosted by Hellray on Friday, October 30, 2009 , under | comments (0)



Okies...so...what u do, iz write u own BLOG about a game that u LOVED...doesn't have to be a computer game...doesn't have to be as long as my BLOG...but try finish it before Monday, k =]

Hellray talks about Civilization!

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Civ(ilisation) 2 (PC):
Although the graphics were dubiously average at best, I loved this game for its gameplay. I’ve loved history and historical things since I was little and I’d always read everything I could about empires, my special favourite being the story of the roman empire (it still is really). To me, Civ 2 was like Simcity…you got to build your own towns and turn them into giant cities, coupled with a strategy game, you had to fight and beat other civilisations. I was always very determined to beat all the other empires and completely take over their cities. This is one of those games, like sims where you don’t just play it once or twice. I played this so many times.  Heh heh, SO many times.


In CIV you start by selecting a civilisation to play as. Then, it’s your task to build cities and eventually, if you survive long enough, to build a spaceship in order to colonise the nearby(ish) star-system of Alpha Centauri.


Gameplay works on a number of levels. First of all, you have to select good spots to build your cities, you have to ensure that there is enough local food for them to support their constantly expanding populations and that there is good transport between them. Cities must be well defended. Citizens must be kept happy, an often difficult process.


Throughout the game you must choose long-term goals for your scientists to research, and it is also in your interests to have a construction programme that includes Wonders of the World. Based on turn-type board games, time passes in increments of 20 years, starting from 4000BC and approaching 2100AD. A single game can take a very long time, like days.


What really makes this game so great is that it is a complicated attempt to simulate all the many many facets of building empires, but compressed into a game-type situation…but it really makes you think about it sometimes. Often it’s just a case of making good decisions to thrash the computer, but you also work on your long-term goals as well as keeping citizens as happy as possible in your cities. It’s also statistically challenging, as you like to (well I do) have the biggest cities, with the happiest citizens and the highest levels of production.


This was the second god game (after Simcity) that I played extensively and it is still the best just because of the array of its gameplay, over other similar games such as populous, black and white, Age of Empires and simcity in its different forms.




Periodic Table of Games Characters

ZZPosted by Hellray on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 , under | comments (3)





This is WAY cool. I HEART CHAOS is a sort of BLOG about pop culture. One of the contributors made up this periodic table of games characters. ZOMG!...it's SO impossible to identify all of them.



But wait...there's more

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...or at least there will be!

First Blog-post

ZZPosted by Hellray on Sunday, October 18, 2009 , under , , | comments (4)



Dearest readers...welcome to the MED3905 BLOG =]