As we are now almost half way through the second quarter of this year I thought it would be a perfect time to share my thoughts as this year has progressed. so far this quarter the work that we have been given has been tougher for me and I find myself falling behind in class. We have still been working in 3ds Max and we have been learning a lot of new things. Between learning how to get better with Boolean, or finding new tabs with all new objects too explore it has been a lot for me. while I may be struggling a little, I am still having a lot of fun in this class and I am still learning a lot from most of the activities we do. Overall while the second quarter has been a lot harder for me overall, I am still having a lot of fun in this class and I am still learning a lot.
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I've been playing NBA 2k19 for over a month now and I have to say I am having a good time in the game. The main mode in 2k19 that I play is MYcareer which lets you become your own NBA player and compete against other NBA stars. I have been playing this a lot because while you can have offline play against the computer, you can also have online against other players and their NBA players. Most of this has been really enjoyable for me because while I am still upgrading my player, I can still compete and have fun against other players that are more upgraded than mine. I think one of the coolest things is that you can choose which aspects of basketball you want to focus on for your player. For instance you can focus on 3 point shooting, dunking, defense, dribbling and others and you get to choose what your player is good at. This mixes up the game a lot and while some players may have better aspects that are more relevant, most of the archetypes are still relevant. As far as the game play goes, for the most part it is pretty smooth with the occasional frame drop or latency issue. This makes the game very fun for a lot of people and a lot better than 2k18 which had a lot of issues throughout the main stages of the game. Overall I have been having fun on this game and will continue to have fun on it because of all the choices that are made possible when creating my Myplayer.
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This week with the trailer for the new movie Detective Pikachu we were tasked with looking at some other movies based on video games and see how closely they compared to the actual video game. For this assignment I chose to watch and discuss the Super Mario Bros Movie directed by Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel in 1993. This movie was very impactful because it was one of the first movies ever created to be based off of a video game and this dove into a realm that no one had ever ventured into. The movie itself is really not that spectacular from the poor character design and costuming to the plot that can be at points very confusing and hard to follow. While something like this had never been done before, I really think that this was not the best attempt and could have been a lot better with more work. We all know that red plumber and all the enemies after just playing any Mario Bros game and this movie did not portray the same standard as most if not all of the Mario Bros games have. In this movie the costume design really stood out to me because there were some characters like the Goombas for example that looked nothing like the game and just left an ugly image in my brain. The story was okay considering the fact that it is very basic considering the games origins. Even Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie a 14% and an average rating of 3.7/10 Overall I really think that this movie could have been a lot better and if they had put more effort into the character creation especially this movie would have been a lot better and more authentic.
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AuthorHi, my name is Nick Bayer and I will be posting blogs about every 1-2 weeks in the 2020-21 school year. I am doing this for my Advanced Game Design class at Durham School of the Arts(DSA). The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Categories
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