Over the past week we have started to use Game Maker in class which is a free 2D game engine and using a tutorial we were able to make our first game Evil Clutches. Also this week we read about Marc Overmars opinion on what makes a good game. Marc said that a game cant be a movie which Evil Clutches isn't, it's a very simple game but definitely not a movie. Marc also talked about that games are all based around decisions and because Evil Clutches was such as simple game the only real decisions were do I move up or down and do I shoot a fireball to gain point if I hit a demon or loose points if I hit. For our first game it was surprisingly fun to just play and say that it was our own but it was not without it's flaws for example as the dragon you could move off the screen which shouldn't' happen and I though the screen was to small. Also I though the concept that you have to protect your babies would have been better than rather catching them as a random spawn off the demon almost like in Plants Vs Zombies. Overall making games in Game Maker isn't hard but if you mess up on one thing you have to go back and fix it if you want the best game possible and sometimes the bug will break the game functionality completely.
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So with about a years worth of experience of 3ds max we were posed the idea of getting certified in 3ds max. So I looked at saw that the requirements were and what exactly a cert would do for me. Certs by the way are things that you can add to a resume that proves that you understand a specific program and that you can do everything on the program at a respectable level these are given out generally by the software company who made them and they set the standards for what you have to know was well. When I was looking about that certs will do for me with jobs and applying to them, it talked about how certain certs are easier than others and that means the harder the cert the better it is on a job interview but it also talked about how you want a cert that is going to help you in the job field that you are working for example if you are working in 2d design and you are certified in a 3d program like Zbrush or Maya it might not help you as much and as the difficulty increases normally the price for the test bumps up along with it. So after all of the reading I believe if I was going for a specific job that I though required a cert or would help me get the job if i had that cert I would most likely get it and try to get the one that would best help me for the job and not half do it.
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AuthorIm a student at Durham School of the Arts Highschool in Durham North Carolina . I love playing video games and enjoy useing digital artwork as a platform to display information more efficiently, I also enjoy industrial photography and camping. Archives
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