11/26/15

Today we didn't have because it is Thanksgiving.

12/10/15

Today was our second-to-last-week of class.  We play-tested each others board-card games.  I liked the card game called "Bionic Mayhem" because it was kind of a Magic: The Gathering-esque card game because it was challenging and it made you think carefully about each card that you used and the decisions that you made.  Because our board-card game takes long to play and finish, Emil didn't get any time to play-test our board-card game, so next week/the final week he will be playing it.  Ryan's group found alot of bugs in our board-card game.  Next week is our final week of class and/or our final class period, so we will be doing reviews and retrospectives.

12/03/15

Today in class we continued play-testing our board-card game "Demon's Wraith".  We played Ryan's groups board-card game: "Maelstorm" and gave them some feedback on it and his group did same for our board-card game.  I thought that their groups board-card game: "Maelstrom" was unique and different, but like most of the board-card games made in this class it had some bugs.

10/29/15

Today was the first day in class that we got to play our board-card game called "Demon's Wraith".  During own first play-through of our board-card game we really got to see how everything worked and what didn't work.  Our game board at this time have red sticky notes with words on them for the spaces.

11/19/15

Today was our last day in class before Thanksgiving break.  So we play-tested the crap out of our board-card game.  We tweaked and added some things to our board-card game, like the addition of of troll spaces, where you either "pay the troll toll" which means you lose 5 HP, or you give-up and/or discard 1 treasure card from your hand.  Our original game board had red sticky notes with words on them for the spaces, but then George Madison just drew the spaces and wrote the words on our game board.

11/12/15

Today in we play tested our board-card game twice.  For the first game/play test I was Mackeon Swift-Shield the knight.  I wanted to be knight for the second game/play test but George Madison thought that we should mix things up a bit, so we randomly picked our characters and so I got Isott of the Light the cleric.

10/22/15

Today in class we were working on our board-card game.  We were coming-up with some ideas for it and made a Google Doc for our board-card game ideas.  We ultimately came up with a fantasy-esque board-card game called "Demon's Wraith".  There are 4 characters to choose from, a knight, a cleric, an archer, and a mage, each with their own unique weapon and abilities.  Your primary objective is to defeat all 4 bosses in each 1 of their dungeons.  Philip Lor and I came-up with and made the weapon cards, which consisted of 4 different weapons, a sword (knight), a hammer (cleric), a bow and arrow (archer), and a staff (mage).  I came up with the idea and now feature in our board-card game that we should use a 6-sided die and that rolling a 5, you move backwards 1-space and rolling a 6, you don't move/advance any spaces.  Once we we get a bigger game board we will be using a 8-sided die.

11/05/15

Today in class we continued play-testing our board-card game.  I brought in 4 figurines from the Dungeons & Dragons basic board game that I had at home, so we could have figures to use to represent our 4 main characters.  I played our board-card game as the knight character: Mackeon Swift-Shield.

10/15/15

Today in class we presented our presentations on the greatest video game of all-time.  Our group was the last to go and present.  I think that are presentation went good, but I feel that we could have presented better.  Now we are working on coming up with a board-card game.  We had a little meeting before class at 11:30 to practice our presentation.  Nael Mohammad is now no longer with us because he did not show up for the presentation and most of the other days of class.

10/08/15

Today in class we reviewed our slides of the presentation.  I made sure that everything is looking good and ready for next week.  I think that we will do good on our presentation next week.  Next week Thursdays we are meeting in the cafe at 11:30 to go over our presentation and practice it.

10/01/15

Today in class we continued working on our greatest video game of all-time presentation.  I touched up some of the slides in our presentation.  I worked on making some note cards on the slides that I did.  I made note cards on the background, Link: the most prolific action-adventure character, and statistics slides of our presentation.

09/24/15

Today in class we continued working on our greatest game of all-time presentation.  I added and worked on the Link: The Most Prolific Action-Adventure Character slide of our presentation.  I worked on polishing up the slides.  I added a bunch more pictures to make our presentation look better.

09/17/15

Today my group and I finally came up with what we think is the greatest game of all-time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.  I created a Google Slides presentation and my group and I are currently working on it.  I was in charge of the statistics and background information slides of our presentation.  I used my Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2016 as a reference for my statistics slides.

09/10/15

Today in class we went over the aesthetics of the board-card games that we played over the first 1st two days of class.  We had a discussion on each other them.  We formed teams of 4 (some teams had 5) and have to work together to come up with what we think is the greatest video game of all-time and create a presentation on it.  The video games that we come up with that are contenders for greatest video game of all-time are Final Fantasy VII/7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and I said Grand Theft Auto V/5 but that was almost immediately shot down.

09/03/15

Today we continued playing board-card games and taking notes on each of them.  I played to board-card games: Sentinels of the Multiverse and Smallworld.  I found Sentinels of the Multiverse was a fun card game because it was challenging and it made you think as well.  I also found Smallworld to not as much fun as Sentinels because it was hard to set up and it took a long time to set up.

08/27/15

Today was our 1st day in class and watch a few Extra Credits videos on YouTube.  We learned about the 8 aesthetics of video games.  We took some notes on the videos that we watched in class.  We also played some board-card games.  I played two board-card games: The Settlers of Catan and Munchkin.  We took some notes on the board-card games that we played.