March 2012
3 posts
Emotional experiences through gestures
Emotions can be transferred by gestures. Through the gesture recognition of the Wii controller computers can understand human body-language. It makes it possible to interact naturally with the machine. A gesture like moving up makes the green point of your gun in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2009) move on the screen. This marks your shot. Now it is important to keep the gun steady while...
Me and a First Person Shooter... OMG!!!
So, luckily in Left For Dead 2 you can be the zombie. Which means you have to jump on a person to kill him. That’s fun!
But this is not the only game I recently played. Deus Ex Human Revolution for the Playstation 3 was waiting already quite a time for me to play. And this game presents you with a interesting choice at the start of the game which presents the easy, normal or hard mode of...
Justice in Minecraft
While you can built on your own in the creative mode of the game in which you have all the materials the game has already in your possession from the start and start building what you want to build, for example a digital replica of the ITU. The multi-player mode is where the community of gamers playing minecraft talk about. In the multi-player mode people start building their own houses. BUT, when...
February 2012
7 posts
Only hands, getting lost and big show-off
After my second play-session in minecraft I came to the conclusion that I have a hard time imagining myself being a builder. Also the total lack of seeing the avatar while on the field makes me feel awkward. You only see the builder’s hands. Of course the game is about crafting and the hands makes it more visible that you are actually doing handcraft work. Still not that immersive for me....
Stuck and free, stuck and Free!
Playing minecraft for the first time can be a bit frustrating. Especially when you do it by just hammering around like I did. I thought, yes I will start by digging into the ground and make some flat surface so that from that I can build my own building or statue. But before I knew it I was lost in a endless maze. I saw some mushrooms gold and finally earth. When I came to the surface I felt like...
In love with a virtual Lady
As can be seen in my previous post’s I am not playing alone. In fact I have two friends always hanging around at my place and playing games on my PlayStation 3. This has changed my perspective from a player to an observer. A lot can be seen when playing against each other or looking at the interaction between these two players.
One of the games they play is the fighting game Tekken 6. And...
Time travelling is nice!
Playing Final Fantasy XIII-2. While Final Fantasy XIII felt more like a movie because of the realistic images and the linearity of the story, this second part has totally changed that! Still the photorealistic images but with the possibility to travel back and forth in time you can get a complete different story for each play-session because of the change of topics you want to talk about.
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First publish!
For now a first publish on my new blog which will update you on all the in- and outs of computer games and the theory that surrounds them.
To be honest, my weekend was very enjoyable by just watching two people playing against each other in the old SEGA game SONIC 2 on the PS3. One finishes the level fast and thinks to win! Unfortunately for that player the system is more complicated then that....
