Sorry Blog!
Oh blog, I’m so sorry I’ve been neglecting you! I have been too busy playing games and studying – honestly! Currently I’m playing Bayonetta and LocoRoco. I might have more to say a bit later…
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
Hmm… some developments since my last casual post. Let’s see – I have started and completed Eternal Sonata, started and completed Lego Harry Potter, continued Big Bang Mini, finished Age of Mythology, and started Neverwinter…
Computer Games Assignment: Game Sounds
Introduction The use of audio in games is integral in creating atmosphere, emotion, tension and ambience, as well story progression (Bridgett, 2010; Whitmore, 2003). Using the Wii game Okami (2008) as our case study, we…
Computer Games Assignment: Games Genres
Genres Genre is a classification or categorisation term that essentially describes different types of various entertainment media (Oxland, 2004, p. 24-43). For example, book genres include romance, western, thriller, mystery, horror, or fantasy; and movies…
Computer Games assignment – Dragon Age: Origins (review)
As promised in my previous post, here is my assignment – I got 14.5/15 but have a tendency to be long-winded and a bit pompous! Must be an academic in the making 😉 Rationale I…
Studying computer games
Have started my long-awaited elective for my BA (Internet Communications)… Computer Games at RMIT. We are at week 3 and I’m really enjoying the content and assignments. This really just feels like a nice break…
Grindfest FFV-style
As you may have guessed, if you’ve been reading my sporadic blog postings, I have finished God of War. In fact, I have also started and finished God of War 2. I am officially God…
God of War
Have been wanting to play God of War 3 on PS3, but as I hadn’t played any of the others, I figured that was a bit silly. So last night, after deciding to shelve Endless…
In love with Alistair
On the behest of my sister-in-law, I have gotten strongly back into playing Dragon Age: Origins (thanks also to the return of my LCD TV after months of it being at the shop). She was…
Assassin’s Prose
The time: the early hours of the morning. The place: a dusty alley way in a middle eastern province. The city is already awake and bustling with morning market stalls and people going about their…