March 29, 2006
Wizard Island Sketch
As you may know, GD3 Team has multiple game concepts, here is one called Wizard Island. Two players play as dueling wizards on an island, they pick up lands and turns them into magic. Eventually one of the two will fall into water.
Wizard in duel
The player on the left lifted two chunks of land and is going to convert them into magical beasts. The player down on the ground is doing nothing...
Meditation
During the meditation, the world's altered. Player can gain far sight.
As I google "wizard island", there is actually an island with that name. Here are some reference photos of this legendary island.
photo1, photo2, photo3
March 27, 2006
Video game as Dream Machines
Having seen Will's speak for more than 7 times, I am amazed by his brilliance. Every time he spoke, I could always find inspirations from him.
In this issue of Wired magazine. Will Wright explains how games are unleashing the human imagination.
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/wright.html
March 15, 2006
"flOw" gallery
In three days, "flOw" got more than 100,000 visits from all over the world. Fans started posting screenshots about their creatures, which turns out to be a very artistic collection.
March 10, 2006
The Video Game Revolution on PBS
Not only has a well done website documenting the history of video games, this is going to be on TV this month. I don't have a TV, but I want to see it. -_-"http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/index.html
March 8, 2006
"flOw" is online...
"flOw" is a simplistic game created as a practice of "player oriented flow adjustment", methodology defined through my thesis research - "Flow in games". (WIP)
Your play experience and feedback will be a huge contribution to my research, meanwhile, it will be fun =).
March 6, 2006
Thesis Exhibition Model
Since I haven't heard of the detailed designs from all of the students or the actual size of the Stage, the model is still not finalized yet.