Good riddens to 2 painful projects.

Maybe it was just our negativity towards an idea that most of us felt was more than a little ilconceived, but I for one am happy to be done with it.

Admittedly my 3D project was weak, personally not impressed with the effort I put into that. Interface, I worked hard on, and not for a technical misshap at home would have had time for a further layer of polish.

So, 2 down and several more to go.




Hope everyone is keeping their spirits high!

Assigments for the Following Week

Critical Perspectives
Sound Design
3D Modelling
Video Production
Game Interface Design
Scripting

Anime Nights?

**NEW NEW - http://gamedesign07.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-anime-list for all your information on upcoming ANIME NIGHTS!

Had the first Anime Night kinda thing on Thursday March 8, worked out well enough I think despite the small turnout. Managed to get it set up on the Green projector.. nice, high quality. JOIN US! Next Likely Anime Selections - Outlaw Star, Black Cat, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, more Eureka 7 (??), Fullmetal Alchemist, .Hack , maybe some others...

Well, I like Anime, and I have Anime, and most people are staying nights after school, so...

I was thinking of doing some Anime previews to let people see what they like and might want to see more of. 1-4 episodes of one series before moving on. Likely once or twice a week. I don't know how the timing would be set up for this as to when it would happen, perhaps lunch, dinner, or after school. Lunch and dinner usually find people eating... Please send me some feedback. I also don't know where we'd show it... Stealing a set of computers to watch at would be ideal for in the class, or if there is a lot of interest then maybe the class projector or the Bear Pit or something. PLEASE comment for great justice, guys.

I'm just throwing out ideas to liven up the already lively class and keep it fun. None of them need to be implemented! I like the idea of them all, however, and would be willing to do whatever.

*NEW - Brian proposed after school someday, which I agree with. I brought in Outlaw star as of Thursday March 8, will keep it here until somebody wants to watch I guess... Let me know if there's interest still!

COMMENT PLX.

~Jono

The GD07 Blog's FIRST UNOFFICIAL GAME COMPETITION?

Well, guys, I just bought Naruto: Ultimate Ninja, and I will be bringing it to school every day for the next little while if you'd like to try it out. It's a different take on a fighter to be sure and I'd like to hold a tournament just for fun after school hours one night. If all goes well then we could organize our own mini-tournaments more frequently, still just for GD07.. games like SSBM, Starcraft, CS.. all the stuff that happens every few weeks Officially or maybe a different set altogether. Perhaps if we got a dedicated caste then we could practice together for the games being hosted Officially. GD07 > All. Let me know what you think, what days would be best, or whatever else you wanna say. Comments are friendly.
~Jono

Mailing Service

The Grades are finally in for scripting and the response from the storytelling prof. was quite detailed on the whole it gives me a good feeling of my standing.
Though just curious is anyone else having problems with the mailer? I was in school the whole day had my email open and checked it regularly and i get home to find what??? messages sent to me during lunch. I dunno about anyone else but, thats messed.

DDD Assigment 1 Due

Don't forget the first assignment for DDD is due this week Tuesday even though there is no class.

GD08 Welcome Party

Most likely to happen on MARCH 16.

Feel free to use this post to post information, especially you, Brian!

So far as Jono knows it...

We're still gathering items and donations for the next little while. Current money raised: $90 with another $90 so far to be matched by Tom.

The plan is to set up a bunch of video games, TVs, activities, foods, competitions, etc.

Competitions: "Beat the Geek" type trivia game.

Known Catagories:
Retro (Old-School)
General Gaming
Star Trek
Monty Python
perhaps a few others that I forget...

All this is likely to be altered. Please post COMMENTS to this post with suggestions, extra information, things you can donate, money you can still donate, whatever. Brian or I will likely add whatever you say to this main post if it is applicable and plausible.

Thank you for your attention.

~Jono so far

Possible Final Groups

Taken from the meeting with Dave.

Group names mean nothing, just a way to separate them... I did arrange them by current size, though.

Group Alpha:
Brian
Miko
Brennan
Gui
Adrian

Group Beta:
Stuart
Carl
Jon M
Anthony
Ameen

Group Delta:
Brock
Steve
Azlan
Alberto
Erik

Group Gamma:
Rael
James
Jon C
Benjamin
Rebeka

Group Omega:
Robbie
Paul

Of course not final. Enjoy.

Bloggus Maximus

Here we sit on the brink of something rather amazing.

More soon.

(Aren't I such a tease? Tee hee!)

Frank Black here, thanx for the invite.

GD07FTW!!!1!one!!wtfbbq!

Long live those with thumbs!

(Moderator: I believe... Carl by the email?)
(Moderator 2: It is, in fact, Carl.)

The Great Anime List

** UPDATED FOR ANIME NIGHTS

ANIME LIST FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 13

Eureka 7 Episodes 1 and 2

Outlaw Star Episodes 1 and 2


Anime Possibility List:

* = Liked Much-so by Hosts
!!! = Described on Blogspot

JAPANESE

Eureka 7 *!!!

RaXephon *

.Hack

School Rumble *

Mai Hime *

Mai Otome *

Bleach *

Saint Seiya

Getbackers

Ouran High School *!!!

Karas *

Macross 0

Gilgamesh





ENGLISH


Studio Ghibli Collection *

Trigun *!!!

Black Cat *

Outlaw Star *!!!

Cowboy Bebop + Moooovie *!!!

Fullmetal Alchemist *!!!

Last Exile

Key *!!!

Chobits *!!!

Love Hina *!!!

Gungrave

Berserk

Final Fantasy Unlimited

Chrono Crusade

Inuyasha

Death Note

Stand Alone Complex *

Escaflowne *

Gundam Wing *!!!

Hellsing + Hellsing Ultimate *!!!


Back to the list...


Here we have the ' Great Anime List ' ! Feel free to post your own, throw in an ' Anime' tag and maybe some others. Let me know if you need more information on any or perhaps a place to find them.

PLEASE TRIPLE-CLICK ON LINKS THAT MAY BE TOO LONG TO FIT IN YOUR BLOG WINDOW, YOU CAN THEN COPY / PASTE THOSE FULL LINKS INTO YOUR URL BAR.

In no real order, I have seen and would endorse all of these anime series and movies...

All Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli works! - 7(low end) - 9.8(high end) / 10

Eureka 7 - 9.6 / 10 - http://eurekaseven.bandai-ent.com/ - Drama/Sociality/Story / Adventure / Science Fiction / Action - Awesome story of adolescence, war and survival in a fully immersive world. Mechs included and done well, surprisingly. Good storyline, engaging characters, action... Not particularly adult although it does have some interesting sociopolitical themes.

Trigun - 8.8 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigun - Action / Adventure / Science Fiction / Story - A story of the world's new start and a character who is patronized far too much for being a hero. Disaster follows him, but he is a lover, always fighting but doing his best to never kill. He has his reasons... The story is fun, involving, deep and characteristic. Simply awesome.

Outlaw Star - 9.0 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_Star - Action / Adventure / Science Fiction - One of my favorite anime series of all time. I do love all of these, though... Anyway. Space, pirates, space pirates, conspiracy, treasure, cool characters, fun story and one HILARIOUS episode near the end. EDGE OF YOUR SEAT. Really good!

Cowboy Bebop - 9.5 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Bebop - Action / Adventure / Science Fiction / Story - Space. Bounty Hunters. An awesome story with an anime that can we watched in (almost) any order. There are several sets of continuation episodes and episodes 23-26 should not be watched out of order of the rest of the series. I still suggest following the given order. Awesome story, some of the best developed characters and... T.T... No more. The beautiful pain.

Fullmetal Alchemist - 8.8 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist - Action / Adventure / Alternate Reality / Social Commentary - Alchemy can create or destroy... With equivalent exchange. The dilemma of alchemy, however, is that it cannot create or alter life, which our protagonists find out in a horrible experiment. Two souls now seek to regain what was lost, through knowledge and power.

Gundam Wing & Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz - 8.7 / 10 - http://www.gundamofficial.com/www_ac/gw/index.htm - Action / Story / Science Fiction / Mecha - The best mecha-featured anime out there, IMO. Best of the Gundam series, also, IMO. Slightly old but not nearly outdated. Great character, as with all of my choices, an interesting and engaging story... Enjoy.

Love Hina - 8.8 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Hina - Comedy / Drama / Fighting? - Hilarity. A young man becomes the landlord of an all-girls dorm. Comedy and love ensue.

Ouran High School Host Club - 9.0 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouran_High_School_Host_Club - Comedy / Drama / Deep / Good Story for all of those ! - A young, very poor character wins a scholarship to go to the richest school ever imagined and is forced to join the Host Club, a club for boys to entertain girls in a fancy, rich environment. Almost a tea party for socialites with some very strange and evolvingly deep personalities. One of the most HILARIOUS animes that I have ever seen. Almost an opposite spectrum to Love Hina, but I won't ruin the fun.

Chobits - 9.0 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobits - Comedy / Adult Themes / Science Fiction / Awkward Moments, woo - Sexual comedy for the mostpart, quite funny and entertaining despite. Don't watch with your friends unless you're comfortable around them, haha. How does one young man who finds a female-bodied computer with no memory or common sense take care of her? Hilarity and awkward sexual tension ensues.

Hellsing - 8.3 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellsing_%28TV_series%29 - Action / Violence / Gore / Horror - Vampires, the Hellsing Organization that keeps them under check, and the Hellsing Organization's pet vampire, Alucard. With Dracula spelled backwards as a main or secondary character, this anime couldn't go wrong... BRITISH ACCENTS, TOO.

Key the Metal Idol - 8.0 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_the_metal_idol - Dark Drama / Science Fiction / Adult Themes - I don't know how to describe this. It's a mindbuster and perhaps many people won't like it. It touched me despite its awkwardness. It's very intellectual and a story of mankind and machine. What is humanity?

Common but good anime... Good introduction -

.hack - 8.4 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack

Bleach - 8.9 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleach_anime

Naruto - 8.8 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto

Inuyasha - 8.0 / 10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha

Let me know about.. stuff. Yeah. Enjoy!

~Jono

INFORMATION DATABASE

PLEASE post massive amounts of information on this blog. It can be an EXTREMELY useful, user-friendly GD database. I hope to be able to allow everyone to search this blog and find information when they are stuck, need inspiration, want information, or simply want to talk or share.

Note - Tags or Labels are extremely useful for searching the blog for information. A search toolbar exists at the top left of the Blog page.

Links 1

The figure pictured here inspires me simply due to the massive amount of work and detail that went into it. It is a beautiful mastery of craft and a show of overcoming adversity and tribulation. May all of our work be on such a grand scale, however small the task.

Now on to the links.

Links of all kinds. Feel free to comment your own or create your own blog. Please label it ' Links ' .

PLEASE TRIPLE-CLICK ON LINKS THAT MAY BE TOO LONG TO FIT IN YOUR BLOG WINDOW, YOU CAN THEN COPY / PASTE THOSE FULL LINKS INTO YOUR URL BAR.

Important:

http://www.uvlist.net/ - The Universal Videogame List - CHECK IF YOUR GAME NAME IS TAKEN

http://vfsvip.cust.nearlyfreespeech.net/phpBB2/index.php - The VFS VIP Forums



Intellectual Inspiration:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html - Pictures of deep space, views of the universe that you may never have seen before...


Gamasutra and other Game Design Articles and Exhibits:

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20041208/sigman_01.shtml - ' Given to us but still, Game Relativity and its Link to Design Innovation, Predicting Emergent Gameplay ' .

http://www.gameproducer.net/ - Game Producer . net... Yeah

http://www.jenovachen.com/flowingames/whatisthis.htm - Flow in Games

http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html - ' The Art of Computer Game Design ' .

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=27393 - ' Ultra-Realism in Gaming ' . A bad presentation (for our standards) but good media and quite intellectually provocative. "The Room"

http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6341 - ' White Knight Story ' . Damn awesome IMO, RPG and gaming relative

Audio Inspiration:

http://www.ocremix.org/index.php - OC Remix, awesome video game Remix site. It has some really good game audio edited and created from scratch. I suggest you check out some work by Star Salzman, especially his Chrono Trigger work

3D Inspiration:

http://mods.moddb.com/ - It may take some searching, but there is a lot of good information and there are many examples on this site.

Other:

http://www.transcon.info/index.php - Language lessons with audio clips to learn both spelling as well as pronunciation. Slightly useful and interesting

May be updated at any time... Feel free to throw me suggestions to link or post yourself.

Signing up to Blogspot

Most of you GD07s should have invites in your VFS emails, but...

Step one: visit http://www.blogger.com/start

Step two: click the big arrow that says 'create your blog now'

Step three: all you have to do is the first login step (if you use your gd07_@vfs.com email then you should be able to automatically post), you don't have to create your own blog if you don't want to

Step four: navigate back to http://gamedesign07.blogspot.com

Step five: log in if necessary

Step six: you should now see a 'New Post' button on the top right of your screen

If you don't see the 'New Post' button and you are logged in, you may not have permission to post. If you signed up with your VFS email then you should have permission. If you don't then please let me know and I will set your email access.

Tags or Labels are extremely useful for searching the blog for information. A search toolbar exists at the top left of the Blog page.

Thanks and happy posting,

~Jono

Single-Player Gaming Accomplishments

I know you all have them. SHARE! Here is one of mine. I managed to get absolutely every NPC character in the original Half-Life to the last point where they follow you to. Some glitched because they were supposed to die no matter what and just flinched and then disappeared... So I guess not all, but none died. Legit, too. As for the other picture... lol. Just a close-up... Maybe I didn't save them all :(

Old Gamer Days....

Ah, the good old days of pwnage and more pwnage and maybe a little more pwnage... Now I shall make the games where pwnerers pwn... pwned. (Anthony is Jerc and I, Jono, am Fortenc. It usually went this way, where his score would be higher than mine and my deaths would be less. Just me in the Halo pic, the other team mostly left by the end of the game...)

Deleting Posts

On the "New Post" screen you should have an option to Edit Posts. You can also go into your post and click the pencil "Edit Post" button. Here you will see a list of posts and will be able to delete your own posts if wanted.
If you have any confusions ask me, email me or blog.
Thanks,
~Jono

Tagging

Tags or Labels are extremely useful for searching the blog for information. A search toolbar exists at the top left of the Blog page. Please LABEL (Tag) your posts. For example, if Azlan is blogging away about Gears of War, Azlan would Label his post in such a format: GD07, Games, Xbox360, Gears of War, Blog, Review (etc. etc. etc. , whatever).

GET ACCEPTED TO GAME DESIGN 07 BLOG

IMPORTANT - For you to be able to post to the blog I need to set your email permission. Please talk to me or email me at gd07jonm@vfs.com or fortenchunter@msn.com to tell me your blogspot email so I can allow you to post. Thanks.
-Jono

Welcome

Welcome to the GD07 Game Design blog at Vancouver Film School. If you are a GD07 and wish to post a message or set something up, please email me at gd07jonm@vfs.com (school) or fortenchunter@msn.com (home).