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PAST EXPERIENCES: The GameDC Competition
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Past experiences is a new segment that I will write on my blog that involves me retelling certain stories and events that have happened during my lifetime that involves me or other people in the reation of omputer games or other things. Just to make this place a tad bit more interesting. Read about my GameDC experience.
The GameDC competition was a competition for all those who wished to win a prize by creating a computer game using the computer game creation software Game Maker. As soon as I heard what the Game DC was all about I quickly registered and hoped to create a game so that I could win. Hence, the latter did not come true for me. As we had left entry to the competition so late, we could not finish the game quick enough so that we could send it in as our entry. The game was based off Legend of Zelda and from the moment we decided on creating a Zelda game I knew we would not have enough time to finish it. I had secretly started working on another game, which I entitled ‘Click!’ as just a cheap shot at a game entry (there was only about four days left before we had to send in our game entries).
Disaster struck when my friend’s computer shit itself and the game that we originally planned on entering had become corrupt (meaning that it was not working properly). To make matters worse, I had realized that my ‘Click!’ game was too short in terms of playability, and it was also too easy. As the time arrived to send in our work, we ended up sending nothing. Needless to say that my computing teacher was not very happy! I had originally planned on letting the readers here download my attempt at ‘Click!’ but alas, I must have deleted it as I cannot find it. Perhaps that was good in a way.
NOTE: The Game DC competition is a game creation competition that was run by the good people at Murdoch University. I am unsure as to if the competition is being run this year.
Current Project – ‘Remote Grey’
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The current project that I am working on at this point in time is to be named ‘Remote Grey’. I have compiled a couple of quotations, along with a simple summary underneath each quote, to show what the basic overview of the game is. Be aware that even though these quotes are from the draft of the script for this game, the script is subject to change and so are these quotations.
“Four months ago a student from my school went missing. I remember it fairly well; it was all over the news and each and every student was questioned about it, even me.”
Follow the story of a student at a popular private school who is accused of a variety of criminal activities against other students. In your adventure you must figure out who has committed these crimes and also you must clear your name from any mistaken wrong-doing. Remember, you are innocent.
“Apparently the Bogan Brats are having a good old fashioned fist fight with the Nerd Nines. This should be a good watch; the nerds don’t stand a chance. What do you think?”
Other side quests also stand in your way. To gain the best opportunities and equipment in Remote Grey you must help other groups of people complete their tasks. Certain tasks are advantageous to complete for inventory or tactical reasons, other tasks are required to follow the storyline and also to complete the game itself. Ceretain tasks do not have to be completed, although it would be of an advantage for you.
“It’s all your fault, stupid geek! We would have won that fight if you didn’t get involved!”
Change the storyline in many different ways by completing different tasks; the more tasks you complete, the closer you are to accomplishing your goals! Semi-childish humour from both playable to non-playable characters has also been included into the script.
Welcome To RANGAblog
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As the first web log entry of this website I would like to say hello and welcome to hopefully one of your many visits to RANGAblog. As some of you probably know me in real life (yet most of you probably don’t) the word ‘ranga’ is a term given to those who have red or orange coloured hair (in which I incidentally have). When I had first heard of the word I thought it was pretty silly, but as the years wore on I had gotten used to the name and had began to use it as my nick name. Hence, RANGAblog was born. Anyways, enough of that.
As a person who enjoys creating computer games and computer programs, a few years back I used to co-own a website that dealt with creating computer games and the like. With the help of a few friends of mine and also a few strangers from around the world, we created a website about creating computer games (CiC Productions as it was called back then) which had a semi-successful run. As the days grew on it was apparent that little-to-no work was being done by the members of the community, and the idea of a game creation community that was hoped to become successful was scrapped. Although a few resurrections had occurred between then and now, none of them became successful enough to keep them running (in terms of members, member’s input, etc).
After a few words from one of my friends, we have decided to give our game creation community another chance to hopefully become successful enough so that it can be kept running by both us and the members. But at this present time, I have decided to create a weblog so that I can list all my development ideas and my development successes so that others can read about them, and so that others may see the progress in which has been made to certain projects of mine and estimate the time it may take for them to be completed (although this can be difficult). I hope for you to check back on this weblog for all my development successes, information about my projects and also comments people may leave me. I would love for people who read this weblog to comment on my articles and hopefully ask questions in which I can answer with utmost respect in regards to the honesty and the question asked.
