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Excellent Article on the Japanese Gaming Industry
A friend pointed me towards an excellent BBC article called Is the Japanese Gaming Industry in Crisis? that looks at Japan’s recent decline in the gaming industry.
Gackt: The Mystery, The Myth, The Magnum
As I grew up, I never really got into the same music my peers enjoyed. I enjoyed a lot of techno (because it reminded me of game music), and I quickly developed a love of Japanese Pop music, because it … Continue reading
Posted in #4. Japanese popular culture, Blog Assignments
Tagged America, Expression, Gackt, Idol, Information, J-Pop, Japan, Mythology, Popular Culture, Society, Tradition, Visual Kei
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The Farthest Reaches: Exploring, Colonizing, and Escaping Deep Space
Overview The Farthest Reaches is a Nintendo Wii game about exploration, resource management, and city building. In the game, players will explore a foreign world at the edges of known space, and gather various resources along the way. Collected resources … Continue reading
Posted in Major Assignments
Tagged Cell-shading, Exploration, Fitness, Gameplay Dynamics, Gameplay Mechanics, Resource Management, Survival, Wii
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Forever Quest – Retreading Old Ground
MMOs and I have a rather strange relationship. We both tolerate each other while in the presence of the opposite, but when we’re apart we really don’t have a whole lot of love for each other. I grow tired of … Continue reading
Just a Little Side Project
Hey everyone, My friends and I have put together a podcast called Demmersion: Getting Out of the Game, and Dr. Delwiche suggested I should post it up on this blog once I get it all edited and published. So, if … Continue reading
Posted in Updates
Tagged Demmersion, Episode 1, Mafia 2, Narrative Complexity, Square Enix
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Welcome to the (Flat) World
When I was born into this world some 20 years ago, the internet was anything but widespread. When I was young, the internet was a thing of mystery, and it was something to use to work. Now it is a … Continue reading
Posted in #2. Globalization, Blog Assignments
Tagged Career, Design, Game Development, globalization, Qualities, Traits
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Triple Seven Five/349×10 012/Acorn
(Note: You can also read this posting on my supersexy awesome blog.) If you manage to reach me in this distant future, I will tell you all about how everything ended up. Oh, and I could do with an air … Continue reading
Posted in #1. Introductions
Tagged Gaming, Hobbies, Interests, Introduction, Pandorica, WorldPlay
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