A fresh start to the new year and
suddenly I’m actually enjoying this class a lot more than last year, so far the
idea of this class being split into two different days is working well. I’ve
noticed that towards the 2 hour mark of most 3 hour classes, I’m already
distracted by a thought or something online. This year seems like it’s going to
go well in this class since we will be focusing less on those paper board games…
which I guess WERE fun at times, but there was just way too many of them. We were
talking about level design and I randomly thought about how I used to spend
hours making levels in LittleBigPlanet a couple summers ago. Even for some of
our GDW projects before, the level design aspects was actually one of my favourites.
For this week’s classes we were
asked to take a favourite sport in groups and change one environmental aspect
that would make the game more fun and keep the same rules. This was kind of
challenging… a lot of the sports we talked about were played mainly on a flat
surface with two teams and two sides of possession. I noticed most of the
people around me chose Soccer even though I chose soccer also. It didn’t really
matter, since we were all supposed to have our own unique modifications.
What my group and I decided on
was to change the environment to become similar to a dome, where the field
would change to be circular rather than square as shown in the diagram. The
field would then be covered in a giant mesh like net so that the ball could not
go out of bounds but simply be in play all the time… this in our opinion would
make the game much more action packed and could be really fun. Although this
idea now that I think of it wasn’t really the greatest… it could not be played on
a professional level and I was trying to keep it realistic even though the
groups around us did not really stick to that... can't wait to see what happens in the future of this course
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