Impromptu Game Design

One day I saw the word "Tetris", and then the word "Cannon".

This is what happened next (Click for big):



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The LASIK experience

Warning: This post has virtually nothing to do with video games. Some time around the age of 10, it was decided for me that I had to wear glasses. Between that time and today, I decided getting my eyes fixed via laser was a good idea. I finally went through with it and I figured it would make an interesting blog post. Glasses are a mild annoyance; they're fairly un-invasive, but they start getting in the way as soon as you start doing anything physical, anything involving water or anything that can end with you getting punched in the face. The idea of contacts never appealed to me; something about sticking a piece of plastic onto  your eyeball freaked me out. Getting bits of your eye burned off by a laser seemed like a much more palatable solution. I liked that it was a permanent solution; glasses break, contacts get lost, but it's very hard to undo laser surgery. I also liked that it removed a material dependancy; suddenly I didn't rely on a tiny piece of plastic t...
Read more

Rez

I recently wrote an 8-page analysis on Rez as part of my Video Game History class. Rez, for those who are new here, is my favorite game ever made and is a rail-shooter from the dreamcast era with trippy graphics and trance music, with more trance music instead of sound effects. The game is basically a sensory spectacle and very short - you can watch the whole game here . It is one hour long. Writing the analysis was a fun job, which involved watching a lot of footage of Rez HD. I learned a few things about the game in the process, namely that Rez is the missing link between games and movies. Looking at the entirety of Area 5, the game completely controls the pacing of the player's experience - the player does not get to decide when something happens. He is completely railroaded into scripted events, always moving to the next level on schedule. And yet no one would say that Rez is not a game. Rez basically exploits the mandatory movement of the rail shooter genre to turn the game in...
Read more

The reality of living with scoliosis.

Image
DISCLAIMER: Everything I talk about here is my experience. It may not apply to everyone who suffers from scoliosis. I am only describing my own experience. In the past I've talked about my scoliosis. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here's a picture of my x-rays. Yes, that is my spine. That is what it looks like when I'm standing perfectly straight. If this picture makes you feel uncomfortable, imagine having to live with it. It was discovered late in my life, at 25. At that age, it is too late for correction. If discovered during childhood, it can be corrected via bracing. At my age, nothing other than surgery can fix it. The surgery is called spinal fusion . Here's a brief description: "Spinal fusion is a surgical procedure used to correct problems with the small bones of the spine (vertebrae). It is essentially a "welding" process. The basic idea is to fuse together the painful vertebrae so that they heal into a sing...
Read more