Other non-games:

Alien Garden
I, Robot
Psychedelia
SimCity
Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training
Wii Fit
Korg DS-10

REDICULOUS VIOLENCE IN ALREADY EXISTING GAMES

Postal 2 (2003)

Grand Theft Auto3

Manhunt (2003)

I guess if I was to make an exaggerated violence non-game, where the user has to be violent to it, then it would work in a similar principle to these two examples. But instead of light hand/finger strokes, it would be hard punches or slaps or something. If I was to go into this direction, then the end result would probably resemble a Wii game. I'm not sure if I would want to do that. It would be quite amusing if the content would be a webcam image of another person. For example, in order to be able to play the game, the user must take a picture of themselves. So when they play it, the database has an ever growing amount of pictures. Then an animated image of another person comes up (possibly the user is able to pick a portrait), and the aim is to hit and punch the face until the 'person' dies. And the only way to progress is to move onto another picture. It would be interesting to find out how many people would actually be willing to do that to a picture of a friend, for example.

THE ART OF PHO - MOTION COMIC

Research

It doesn't feel very interactive when watching at first. However when I was analysing it, I realised there was a mini game in every scene. However the game outsomes do not influence the story in any way. It moves on if you fail to interact. It is very linear and the only actual choise you have is to pick which episode to watch, however you would go in natural order anyway.

The whole game (Johnsson) is moving along the gardens in the suburbs (bird's eye view), mowing the lawnm occasionally find a flag. Once the lawn mower reaches the flag, a YouTube clip comes up, showing something banal happening, for example a dog in the garden. And then you move on. Nothing else happens. You can move the lawn mower any way you want which changes the order of the clips you see. It's boring but that's the point.

Punch 'Em! is an application for iPhone where you take a picture of someone and punch them. Features include camera mode, zoom in/out, hit sounds, hit effects, fighting apparel, screenshot ability.


This game is exactly what I had in mind. However, looking at it, fully realised. I don't know if I like it enough to want to improve it. I think I'll be thinking about something else.

JOHNSSON >>>

CINDERELLA

opensukey.org

Using this, I could either make a game where protesters have to run around London, on an actual map or have a virtual space where you click on people to find out information and try to avoid the police. In the later case, I could use tweets for making stories.

But what is the purpose of my game then? What am I trying to say?

Final Essay Points:

1.Narrative is omnipresent. However the relationship between the narrator and the audience is imposing.

2.Interactivity in a game makes you think you are in control. But, in fact, it is still biased. The user is the main character.

3.Game systems include subjective interpretations of the world. This poses a problem in game design, as someone who doesn’t have the same ideas as the game designer may not understand how to play.

it could be like Pacman!

So the authorship would be expressed through game limitations. Illusion of control would be limiting the user that they can move where they want. Subjective interpretation of the world would be the simplified London. However how do I make it meaningful? This kind of game would say that the police are bad that they are trying to catch the protesters. However that is exactly what is going on with Sukey.org. So I think that is what I will do.

I could also use Flash.

Cinderella's side of the story:

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl, who's father married another woman after her mother died. Then her father died and she was left with her stepmother and two ugly stepsisters. They were horrible to her, made her do all sorts of chores and made her sleep next to the fireplace, next to the cinders. They called her Cinderella.

One day, their family were invited to a ball, by the Prince, but Cinderella's stepmother forbid her from going. Then, on the night of the ball, a fairy-godmother appeared and gave Cinderella a beautiful dress and a carriage with horses, so she could go to the ball. She also gave her magical crystal slippers and said she must come back home by midnight. Cinderella was so beautiful that her stepsisters didn't recognise her. She danced with the Prince all night. At midnight, Cinderella ran away and left one of her crystal slippers by accident. The Prince found it and started looking for Cinderella all over town by having all the women try on the shoe. He eventually found her and they got married, and lived happily ever after.

Stepmother's side of the story:

Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who's husband died in war and she was left alone with two young daughters. She found work in a tavern as a hostess. She worked there for many years so she could support her family. Then, one time, she met a very nice, rich widower whom she fell in love with. They got married and the woman could finally live a comfortable life with her daughters.

However, her new husband died from Tuberculosis, leaving her with his daughter, Cinderella, from a previous marriage to look after.

Money was running out quickly, and the woman couldn't afford help anymore. So she, and her children, had to take turns helping around the house. But her spoilt stepdaughter was very unhappy about this. She would throw tantrums and wouldn't do it, when the woman was only trying to make her a better person. So she had no choice but punish Cinderella by making her sleep next to the fireplace.

The woman decided that the best way to stabilize the whole family's finantial situation was to marry off her daughters to rich men. Afterall, they were old enough already, and she herself was too old. Then, luckily, one day, an invitation to a ball at the castle was posted to them. This was an amazing opportunity to realise her plans. However, her spoilt stepdaughter would never help her out if she married well, and she needed to be grounded for the horrible behaviour. Therefore, she forbid Cinderella from going. She gave her lots of chores to do on the night. However, Cinderella was extremely unhappy about this.

On the night of the ball, Cinderella snuck upon the poor old woman and axed her head off.

Stepsisters' side of the story:

Once upon a time, there were two girls who have had a hard life, with their mother being the soul bread winner.

Once, their mother got married to a rich man and they could finally be happy. However, their stepdad got ill and died after a few years and they were running out of money again. Their mother told them that they should get married, now that they are old enough, and they agreed that it was a good idea.

One day, they were invited to the ball at the castle, because the Prince was looking for a wife. If one of them got married to him, then all their troubles would be gone. And if not, then surely they would find other rich men they could marry at the ball. Their spoilt, bitchy stepsister, Cinderella was also invited. However, their mother forbid Cinderella from going as she never helped out with the chores, so she was grounded.

On the night of the ball, as the sisters were getting ready to go out, Cinderella entered their room with a bloody axe and chopped both of their heads off. Then, she ran into the woods and burried the axe there. After that, she went back to the house and got changed into a fancy dress. At that time, the hired carriage arrived, so Cinderella took some chloroform from the medicine cupboard, dampened a cloth with it, and hid it in her purse. When she arrived at the castle, Cinderella took the cloth in her hand, and as the driver was helping her out of the carriage, she pressed it on his face by force. So he, all surprised, fell unconscious. Cinderella didn't want any witnesses that she went to the ball, so she dragged his body to the moat and dropped it in. Then she freshned up and went to the ball. She managed to seduce the Prince, who fell in love with her that very night. But Cinderella couldn't stay because she needed an alibi. She ran home at midnight, got changed into her rags and called the officers. She lied that she was working in the fields all day and when she got back home, found her family all killed. She cried.

After a few weeks, the Prince found Cinderella and married her. Her dream came true.

The Interactive Story About Cinderella

click on the house to meet the characters

Cinderella's stepsisters

Cinderella's Stepmother

Cinderella

clicking on Cinderella's stepsisters to experience the story from their point of view

Cinderella didn't get on with their mother, as she would refuse to do the chores, now that their family couldn't afford a housekeeper. So she always used to get grounded, and made to sleep next to the cedars.

One day, their family were invited to the ball at the castle, because the Prince was looking for a wife. If one of them got married to him, then all their troubles would be gone. And if not, then surely they would find other rich men they could marry at the ball. Their spoilt, bitchy stepsister, Cinderella was also invited. However, their mother forbid Cinderella from going as she never helped out with the chores, so she was grounded.

On the night of the ball, as the sisters were getting ready to go out, Cinderella entered their room with a bloody axe and chopped both of their heads off.

Then, she ran into the woods and burried the axe there.

After that, she went back to the house and got changed into a fancy dress. At that time, the hired carriage arrived, so Cinderella took some chloroform from the medicine cupboard, dampened a cloth with it, and hid it in her purse.

When she arrived at the castle, Cinderella took the cloth in her hand, and as the driver was helping her out of the carriage, she pressed it on his face by force. So he, all surprised, fell unconscious. Cinderella didn't want any witnesses that she went to the ball, so she dragged his body to the moat and dropped it in.

Then she freshned up and went to the ball. She managed to seduce the Prince, who fell in love with her that very night. But Cinderella couldn't stay because she needed an alibi. She ran home at midnight, got changed into her rags and called the officers.

She lied that she was working in the fields all day and when she got back home, found her family all killed. She cried.

After a few weeks, the Prince found Cinderella and married her. Her dream came true.

The most useful part of Sukey is their Twitter. This feed is from NUS Demonstration 2012. It tells a slightly abstract story of the protest, with significant parts of data missing if you are a participant.

It seems to me that the protesters were gathering to shame Tories, however at the end they ended up shaming the Student Union.

<<< This book reminds me of Camp. 22 in North Korea

"Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Kaechon #14, one of the world's harshest labor camps. His parents were political prisoners, declared enemies of the state for having committed minor offenses against the North Korean regime. Shin was routinely subjected to torture and knew nothing of the outside world until his escape at the age of 23."

They were brainwashed that turning eachother in is the right thing to do, and he told on his parents to the guards thinking he'll get a reward, but he had to watch them be prosecuted.

Real Life Super Heroes (RLSH)

They do:
Helping the homeless
Domestic violence
Raising money for charity
Assaults
Vandalism
Neighbourhood watch
Helping people get off drugs

The RLSHs who film themselves and walk around with a group of people are an example of sousveillance. They are not only patroling around and reporting to the police, but also trying to stop the crimes from happening without breaking the law.

Batman hacks into the bank's security to try and find out about the robbery, but is also spying on this woman he's in love with. This is showing both sides of the arguement, that surveillance can be used for good things and for bad things.

Later on, during the climax of of the story, Batman develops a machine that uses the same technology as submarines, but using mobile phones as sources of data to create imagery of the entire city, effectively spying on absolutely everyone. He justifies this as a means to find out where Joker is. Morgan Freeman's character is asked to operate this

machine, but he says that this is too much
power for one man and that it is unethical to spy on everyone. However he still agrees to help Batman this one time. At the end, Batman redeems himself, but telling Freeman's character to type in his name and after that, the machine is destroyed. This shows an extreme case of sousveillance, but someone who thinks is doing the right thing.

a game where the player creates their own superhero, is confined to one city and earns points by helping the homeless, rescuing assault victims, raising money for charity, stopping vandalism, going on neighbourhood watch and helping people stop dealing and using drugs.
Except it's never ending. The superhero starts off as a normal person in a superhero costume, and then by reaching more levels gains more skills and superpowers. However the crimes and situations wouldn't change, it would always be the same. The same homeless people would be homeless and the drug dealers would still be dealing. The schools would always need to collect charity for something. The only difference would be that identities would change.

This is quite a nice idea for the first part of my game, when you create a character. What was rediculous about this one is that it had 3 body shapes to choose from, a big muscly man, a skinny man and a thin busty woman. So I am definitely including more realistic choices: overweight man/woman, average man/woman and skinny man/woman. Because in my game they would have to work hard to gain those muscles.
In terms of choices, no sexist bikinis etc., no jewelry, no high heels, no flip flops, no weapons, no alien attachments, just clothes and protective gear. They would have to choose between pepperspray, a shield or personal alarm. They would also be forced to carry a mobile phone.

THE KIND OF GAME I'M DESIGNING

Instead of some kind of evil lair to move about in, I would have a city/town. It would have to be fictional, generic kind.

The city would include:
Church
Mosque
Supermarket
Primary/Secondary school
Corner shop
Gas station
Residential area
High street
Market
Police station
Fire station
Hospital
Park
Council flats
Homeless shelter
Bank
Bar

Actions available:
Chase away vandals
Chase away vandals
Stop shoplifters, vandals, buy food for homeless
Raise money for school trip
Stop shoplifters, vandals
Stop a robbery, buy food for homeless, stop drug dealers
Join neighbourhood watch, stop an assault
Stop pickpockets
Stop pickpockets
Get arrested, turn in criminals, report crimes
Report fire
Heel after getting beaten up, raise money fo sick children
Help the homeless, stop vandals
Help people get off drugs, stop an assault
Help the homeless
Report a robbery, stop a robbery
Stop an assault, help people get off drugs, stop drug dealers, stop vandalism

Codes for a platform game:
(Character)

onClipEvent (load) {
var ground:MovieClip = _root.ground;
var grav:Number = 0;
var gravity:Number = 2;
var speed:Number = 7;
var maxJump:Number = -12;
var touchingGround:Boolean = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_y += grav;
grav += gravity;
while (ground.hitTest(_x, _y, true)) {
_y -= gravity;
grav = 0;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y+5, true)) {
touchingGround = true;
} else {
touchingGround = false;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_x += speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_x -= speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && touchingGround) {
grav = maxJump;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x+(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x -= speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x-(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x += speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y-(height), true)) {
grav = 3;
}
}

(VCam download link)

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zdgyzwmiixw

(VCAM Code)

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_y += (_root.char._y-_y)/4;
_x += (_root.char._x-_x)/4;
}

(Reset Symbol)

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.char.hitTest(this)) {
_root.char._x = charX
_root.char._y = charY
}
}

Learning Flash

<<<Colouring objects

Adding the clothes and making them draggable>>>

the code for this is:
on (press) {
startDrag ("")
dragging = true
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
stopDrag ()
dragging = false
}

<<< Colouring objects

areas to be coloured: convert to movie clip,
code:
on(release){
icolor=new Color (this);
icolor.setRGB(_rootfillcolor);
delete icolor
}
then select all of them and convert to movieclip again.
colour fills:
convert to buttons and add code:
on(release){
fillcolor=(0x660099)
}

this is an extension on how to make a platform game & how to make a game from start to finish, in adobe flash CS5. how to make a main menu a rules menu and level one, and in the other parts everything els.

Action codes

char

onClipEvent (load) {
var ground:MovieClip = _root.ground;
var grav:Number = 0;
var gravity:Number = 2;
var speed:Number = 7;
var maxJump:Number = -12;
var touchingGround:Boolean = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_y += grav;
grav += gravity;
while (ground.hitTest(_x, _y, true)) {
_y -= gravity;
grav = 0;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y+5, true)) {
touchingGround = true;
} else {
touchingGround = false;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_x += speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_x -= speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && touchingGround) {
grav = maxJump;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x+(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x -= speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x-(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x += speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y-(height), true)) {
grav = 3;
}
}

restart box

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.char.hitTest(this)) {
_root.char._x = charX =
_root.char._y = charY =
}
}

portal

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.char))
{
_root.gotoAndStop();
}
}

button

on (release) {
gotoAndStop();
}

how to animate your character real quickly.

updated char codes:

onClipEvent (load) {
var ground:MovieClip = _root.ground;
var grav:Number = 0;
var gravity:Number = 2;
var speed:Number = 7;
var maxJump:Number = -16;
var touchingGround:Boolean = false;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_y += grav;
grav += gravity;
while (ground.hitTest(_x, _y, true)) {
_y -= gravity;
grav = 0;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y+6, true)) {
touchingGround = true;
} else {
touchingGround = false;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
_x += speed;
_xscale = 100
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
_x -= speed;
_xscale = -100
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.UP) && touchingGround) {
grav = maxJump;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x+(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x -= speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x-(_width/2), _y-(_height/2), true)) {
_x += speed;
}
if (ground.hitTest(_x, _y-(height), true)) {
grav = 3;
}
}