The Bronze age...Or the 80s aka Task 3

The games in the 80s where very basic but this is when games really took off and people realised that its a harm less as a board game with games like tetras and duck hunt but all the time in the back ground there was an evil accountant at work, as the battle for the living room begin. As consoles where being made and games where being thought out in the reasoning of what can and can't be done the race would start, this for me is what made the consoles and companies of tomorrow like the Sega and the Nintendo it also set the style and market for many years to come.

I say this in a I was not there sort of way but from what research I have gathered and what I know from my own head there where 3 dramatic changes in the world of games in those days.

the first and the greatest was the fact of having a computer games console in your home this is the single largest step for the games world giving them a permanent foot hold in the world of the average person.

The second was the great idea of having changeable games for the consoles this gave them the chance to expand the market as much as possible and my 3rd and final greatest point is the idea of controllers I know I can't live with out them... can you picture a world with out controllers I can't.

The games made in the 1980s are the building blocks of our games world, as with any console the games that came out to begin with are nothing compared to the games that are released at the end of the consoles life

The History Of The Great One......Or Task 2

I beleave that the First coputer game was noughts and crosses the game was created by electric calculators.... (just read). This is what gave birth to games today because when electric calculators came about between the would wars, The basic misiles at the had to use electronic calcuation to chart trajectories. This was later developedand and made easyer by the use of computers they executed a sequence of instructions called programs (or software nowadays).
In the 1940 computers where very slow and took ages to execute programs and could run for a short amount of time, They could run a program table of square roots to solve complex equations this is how computer noughts and crosses was born.

I dont know who made this system of programs or how they thought this is only info that I have built up of the net.

I will post a new blog to map out my personal gaming history if I do it now then it will take well over 300 words.

The first game that I played I think was Sonic The Hedgehog or Altered Beast I can't remember. The game that I'am playing at the moment... well there are 2,Doom 3 and because I love retro games I decided the other day to play the good old dolphin simulator
(ECCO The Dolphin).

TASK 1 sorry for the late cut and paste

I have chosen scary ducks blog for my first blog test, I know that a lot of people will have chosen this blog as well because it is the best blog there are many reasons for this like the catchy name the cool logo and the weighting style. The fact that he puts every thing he does in to a story no matter how small a deal it is this is what I like about his writing style, I also like the fact that he has put pictures that relate to the tale that he is weaving like the picture of the pins when you first go on to the page you think ( What the hell !!!!!) then after reading the story you find the meaning behind the picture.

I find Blogging to be a personal experience to gain under standing about my self and those around me, I like this way of communication because it gives people the chance to express there feelings about any subject and I feel that I will learn about my fellows on the course with out talking to them.

I think that scary duck wrights every week if not more to keep his mind on track and for the fun of it. He wrights about things that have brought him joy or woe no matter how small I like that.

I see my self writing blog’s maybe 2 or 3 times a week, although I say or type this I’ am late writing this because I have had some trouble with my blog page when I lost my sign in name so I have set up a second one. I also feel that this experience will improve my typing speed and hopefully improve my grammar.

I prefer writing to an invisible audience because I can write as much as I want and I can put my point across in my own way

Thanks for reading by the way this course rules (sorry Mike) and well done Joel because trying to teach that many fresh’s must be hard work.

LIFE IN A CITY...and Halo

I' am as some of u may know from Wales (in the valleys), the thing is that I have come here from a very baron area so I am not use to all the frantic feel of city life and the internet all I have had for the last 10 years is 56k.
However I don't miss my home and I’m having a great time.
I choose this course because it is the best course for game art in Britain and I’ am very happy with my choice (this course rules) (Chris will hate that)

I am going to write a bit about games that i like, like Halo2 ,Doom3, all the Metal Slug games, and may be a little retro mania.

For me the real attraction to these first 2 games is not game play but story line granted the game play of these 2 games are great but the visual imagery is fantastic, like the building designs in Halo and the tones of strange computer systems in Doom3 (like the hydrocon) if u have played Doom you would know what I was talking about.
Any way the story for Halo1&2 is great in my opinion just to bring people up to date I will elaborate.

Halo as u all know is a halo shaped planet, the story is that halo was built by an ancient alien civ
to destroy the surrounding solar system in case the flood ever escape (the flood are deformed alien blobs that attach them self’s to people to increase there number).
at the time there is a war between the Earth and the Covenant (another alien race who hate man) the humans come across the Halo which the believe to be a weapon of awesome power but the Covenant believe that it is part of there religion the believe that if they can activate Halo that all who are worthy will be allowed to start the great journey but they don't realise that it is a weapon.
that’s basically it I’ve probably explained it craply..... give it a go there are hardly any good story lines these days...but this is one.