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Game Journal – Dice Town
Upon reading the advice in Game Design Workshop, I’ve decided to keep a Game Journal in order to improve my game design skills. So the first game I’m looking to analyse is a game called Dice Town. I’m...
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Game Journal – DC Universe Online
In early November, DC Universe Online migrated from a subscription model ($15 per month) to a free to play model. Having not played a MMO since retiring from World of Warcraft, I was fearful of...
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Game Journal – Super Mario 3D Land
I’m not the biggest fan of 3D Mario games. I completed every 2D Mario game, but I found the 3D-ness of games like Mario 64 to be somewhat challenging to control. Old dog, new tricks that kind of...
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Game Journal – Dungeon Defenders
A tower defence game with RPG elements? Sign me up! Playing the Game Dungeon defender is a tower-defence game with action-rpg elements. The objective of the game is to defend a crystal from waves of...
View ArticleBeing Engaged at the Brink of your Ability
In A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Raph Koster suggests different ways that boredom could strike in a game. Players might work out how the game works in five minutes and dismiss the game as “too easy”...
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Game Journal – Streetpass
A feature of the 3DS that requires the person to walk and makes me want to keep walking. What blasphemy is this?!? Playing the Game The 3ds acts like a pedometer recording the number of steps that a...
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Game Journal – StreetPass 2nd Opinion
Originally I was skeptical of the whole Street Pass concept, I mean who would want to just walk around with their 3DS everywhere (me apparently). While I was in Brisbane, my brother got me hooked on...
View ArticleHow I Reacquainted Myself with A Love of Doing (or Why Learning is Fun)
I used to be adventurous, and never afraid to try stuff. Try different stuff, and try to get answers through action. I competed in everything (I have the last place in every 800m race I ran ribbons to...
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Three Apps You Should Be Using For Travel Planning
So in about 2 weeks time, I’ll be trekking my way over to America. It’s been around a year since my last overseas trip. And I guess last year I was spoiled as my sister planned pretty much everything....
View ArticleThe Myth about being Busy
In my working life (which was drilled in to me at McDonalds when I was 15), you always needed to be busy, show that you are doing something. And so there’s always that perception, if Person A worked...
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