Cover Art

Hello everybody, how are you guys and gals doing today? I was browsing through my music and I came across an interesting cover on one of my albums. The name of the CD is "K.O.D." by an artist named Tech N9ne. The art on the cover caught my eye when i first saw it and i liked the scene that it depicted. I liked how the artist is looking and how the crows fly past him. It looks like a desolate, dark place that the artist wants you to see. The vibe of it makes you think that the album is going to be very dark. I am working on a video game for my final project and I would like to make a cover like that, if I am making a horror game because that could be a very good cover for it. Here is the cover:

Game Story

So far I have been making the backstory for all of the factions in the game. It is coming out ok so far. I have made the back story for three of my factions so far, it's kind of hard coming up with ideas, but hopefully I can make all of them including the main good group really good and interesting. Well, back to the grind I go, see everybody Wednesday.

Game of the Future

I have been working on my video game that I want to develop. I have came up with what the bad guys I want in the game to look like. I came up with the opening scene and more. I want the game to play like Gears of War and Ninja Gaiden, I want it to be an action adventure game that has an open world feel to it. The art direction I want to go is either realistic like Grand Theft Auto IV or like a cell shaded look like Boarderlands. Hopefully in a few years, I will be able to bring this game to life and release it.

Bad Sports Weekend

Hello to all. I have had a bad sports weekend. My college team, the Michigan Wolverines got outplayed by the Penn State Nitny Lions and now my Tampa Bay Bucs are getting smacked around by the New England Patriots. And as I type this the Bucs just scored. Everybody have a good Sunday.

Music Games Idea

With the upcoming releases of DJ Hero, Band Hero, and Lego Rock Band... everybody always argues with which game is better and what music genre is better. I had a wild idea of making a action game about different types of music, like the just released Brutal Legend, but with more music genres in it. Have like five or six worlds and each one is designed to fit a certain music genre. You use the music you receive to fight through each world to get the ultimate instrument to that genre of music. For example, maybe a turntable for rap and hip hop, a keyboard or piano for classical, or a guitar for rock and roll. Instead of just putting in one type of music, lets mix them all together to see what can happen.

October 21, 2009

Hi everybody!!! How was everybody's weekend? I'm in class typing this up because I have ideas for my future game popping into my head right now. I want my game to have RPG or Role Playing elements in it, like a level up system. As you progress in the game, you character gets stronger for the upcoming tougher levels and missions. I want to have a balance between as you get stronger, the game gets harder. You can still get through it, but instead of being easier it gets tougher like Ninja Gaiden. I want boss fights in the game make the player have to think and not just do the strongest move over and over, they will have to have a strategy going into the fight.

Boarderlands Review

All I can say is WOW!!! This game is so much fun, that i barely made it to school today because of it. Boarderlands is a mix of playstyle of Call of Duty and Dungeons and Dragons. It is a very fast action paced game, but it mixes in Role Playing elements that makes it unique. The grahics are cell-shaded and it looks like a comic book. The game is about tresure hunting on the make believe planet of Pandora. You choose from one of four playable people. The game is very good and I highly recommend it to anybody who is a fan of shooter games.

Simpson's Halloween Special

Tonight, the Simpson's are doing their 20th Halloween. The first part was a Alfred Hitchcock spoof, where Bart and Lisa scheme to kill each others teachers, but at the end Lisa and Mrs. Krabapple were actually setting Bart up which was pretty funny. The second part was a 28 Days Later and a Dawn of the Dead spoof. It is pretty funny so far, Krusty the Clown made a new burger and it is tainted and turned whoever eats it into a zombie or "muncher". The cure to stop the zombies or "munchers' was that they had to eat Bart or have him bathe in their food so they can get the cure as well. The third and final part was a musical, so I skipped it and watched the game.

Dreaming Ideas for my game

When i graduate from school, I want to get into the video game field. I always have thoughts going through my head for what I want in it, but I always want it to be a long, epic journey. I'm always thinking about the story that I want to put in it, but everything is so messy and out of order, it's going to take me a while to figure out my story.

DJ Hero

At first, I was very skeptical about this game, but now after seeing it in action and listening to some of the music, I must say that I am looking forward to this game. It has 93 mixes you play and it comes with a turntable shaped controller. The graphics look very good and I will tell everybody about when I get my hands on it.

Weekend Post

Hi everybody, how is your weekend going? Didn't go out this weekend, I used my time to catch up on my school work and finish up some projects I had due. Watched football for most of the weekend and now the first BCS polls are out. Florida, number 1 and Bama, number 2. Lets see how things go from here.

Ideals for future game

As I'm typing my blog, I thought of some ideals for my game so I am just writing them down. Trying to see if I get piece everything together:

1. I want to make it an open world style game.
2. Trying to think between present day or post apocolyptic setting.
3. I want it to incorporate some gameplay style from Devil May Cry, Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row, and Splinter Cell.
4. I want it to be a long, epic action adventure game.

Monday October 12th

Whats up everybody, how was your weekend. All my sports teams loss and that makes me sad. Finally got my Comparison Report first draft done, so I'm happy. Brutal Legend comes out tomorrow, I will give everyone the heads up on it if it is a buy or rent.

Pictures of Visualizing Information Project

Hey everybody, how is everybody doing. As I promised, here are some picture of the project that me and felloe classmates Eric and Sean worked on. This was all done in Illustrator.

Ideals for future project

I'm sitting down right now just resting up for my next class and I had some ideals pop into my head. I had a little back story I came up with but i'm working on the details now. All I can say now is that it's about a underground society and how a team of four Agents went rogue after they found out what the society is really about. That's all I have right now, hopefully I can come up with some more ideals to make this story really good and very deep.

Big Day Today

Hello evertbody, today is judgement day for my group. In my Visualizing Information class my group has to give our presentation on our internet game about tomatoes. Everybody did their part, now we have to see if everybody else likes what we came up with. I'll post pictures up of what we did later on today or tomorrow. See you guys and girls next week.

Another Rhythm Music Game Release

After the release of Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles' Rockband, the makers of Guitar hero are giving the public another game, but this time for the Hip hop heads and Rap fans. Activision is releasing "DJ Hero". DJ Hero releases later on this year I think around November. Instead of using a Guitar shaped controller, the player now will use a turntable style controller with cross faders and three colored buttons. The playlist for looks pretty good and I am kind of excited to see how it will play. The game features mixes by some famous DJs like Daft Punk, DJ Jazzy Jeff and no Fresh Prince before anyone says it, and many others. One feature i like is that if you have the Guitar Hero Guitar, some songs on the game can have a DJ and a Guitar perform through the song. I'll go into it more when I see some more info on it.

Boarderland

An upcoming game release that I am waiting for is Boarderland for the XBOX 360 game system. The game comes out October 20th and it looks very promising. The gameplay itself is nothing really innovative, but the art direction has really caught my eyes the more I see it. The look of it is kind of like a comic book in motion. It has four player cooperation in it, so three of my friends and I can all play and enjoy the story together. After I have had a chance to play it, I will tell you guys if it is worth a buy or not. Here is a picture on the left side.

Big Midterm

WOW!!!, finally got done with my group midterm project that is due tomorrow. It was a lot of work but we all did our parts and got it done. After we do our presentations tomorrow, I'll put up some pictures of what we came up with. I like what we did and I think if we were to make it for real and had a budget for it, the game could come out very well and be pretty great, but that's just my opinion.

QUICK Thought

As I was looking at ads and videos for games, I came across a weird combo coming out soon I think. The same people that made Rock Band a music game like Guitar Hero, that is very popular, now they are making a LEGO Rock Band, yes you heard correct, a LEGO Rock Band. I don't know how it will work, but let's see how this works and where they go from here. Here is a picture of the cover for it.

October 7th

Hello everybody, how are you guys doing? Today as I was watching TV, I saw a commercial for an upcoming video game called "Brutal Legend" made by Tim Schaffer, who was responsible for the very underated and funny "Psychonauts". Seeing this video game opened my eyes up to the possibility of if the music genre and the action or adventure video game genre were to be put together perfectly in one game. It could very well be the best game in either genre. Here are a couple of screenshots from the game. If this game goes well and sells a lot, it could open up a bevy of creative games coming out of this genre.

October 4th

Hello everybody, did all of you guys have a good weekend. Boy, working on that assignment for this week was hard, hopefully everybody got it done and did a great job. Well, I will talk to you guys laters, gotta finish up a couple of midterms for this week. See ya later.