Explosions, Apples to Apples and Free Cake

During the week of February 24, game studies was very weird. This week was more weird than the week we were playing a game and about half the class was drawing penises. I don't remember Tuesday that much but I believed we reiterated the definition of play, voluntary movement fixed in rigid rules. Then we broke up into our groups to try and make up a new Olympic game. Me and my partner, because everybody else in my group didn't show up, came up with a sport called Durgjoog. I believe it was called that. In this sport two athletes would be in a big hamster ball, that has holes in it so they can breathe. The goal is to make it up a snow covered hill as fast as possible. This was were my partner and I, not in a relationship, had disagreements. He liked it just the way it was, but I wanted girls in bikinis and explosions. The viewership would increase because of the bikinis, the athletes might not like it because of the risk of hypothermia and frostbite but it would be a part of the sport. I also wanted it so they would have to dodge explosions because explosions are awesome and would also increase the viewership. Apparently exploding or dying in a sport causes the sport to not be in the Olympics.

Thursday was when the class became weird. So class started and Smalls walks in eating a piece of cake. So I ask him if I can have the cake, because I haven't eaten for like six hours, and he gives me the cake. It was awesome, I don't even care if he spat or ruffied the cake because food is food. Then him and Jew Fro, I believe his name is Jeremy, felt up my mustache.

Then we played Apples to Apples, it is similar to Dixit, but I thought it sucked. Maybe because my cards sucked, there was to many people or nobody received funny cards. The best part apart the game was when Werewolf, because I don't know her name, was yelling out obscenities: such as penis, anal beads and vagina. This class might be unusual but it is awesome.

The history of Games, what is Art and the worst game ever created?

During the week of February 17 we discussed the history of video games, what games are art and played some classic games. We discussed video games from 1950 to the present day, the time periods were broken up by ten years each. We had the classics like The Legend of Zelda, and broken games, including Sonic '06 and ET. Everyone in the class had to think of a game that is considered art. It has to have good graphics, music, sound effects, story, gameplay and it must have been memorable. I said Dark Souls, it might not be the best game ever made, or the most evolutionary game but it is a fun masochistic game and it is one of my favorites. Sure the music is wonderful even though I play with the music off. The story is different because you have to search for it. The reason I love the game so much is because the infinite re-playability you can beat the game only using daggers, a shield, a bow, claws, great swords or magic. I beat this game like ten times but I am still playing it because it is fun and addicting.

On Thursday we were playing and watching people play classic games on the Odyssey, Atari, NES and SNES. The first game ever created Space War was the most reliable to play. The next reliable game to run was ET although the game itself is not reliable to play. Most of the games were not reliable to run or play on the emulator. I tried three separate games but none of them would let me actually play. So I gave up and made someone play ET. He beat Dark Souls multiple times but raged quit ET.

The homework for this week was horrible, I had to play games and blog about it. I decided I wanted to try ET myself. The game isn't that bad except in my first and only playthrough the pedophile in the overcoat glitched and he was just having a seizure. When I fell into the hole for like the 7^th time, every time I tried to travel up I would fall back into the hole no matter where I was when I started to elevate. The third thing that makes this game suck besides the graphics is the fact that I have no idea what I am supposed to do. I think I am supposed to collect black pixels and escape the pedophile. But I also picked up a spring looking thing and then all my pixel counter disappeared. So I gave up with that game and tried something else I tried Final Fantasy VI. It was my first experience at Final Fantasy, even though I love role-playing games. The music was nice and I liked the graphics, they are dated but still good to look at. There was one down side that I didn't like, the game was in Japanese so I had no idea what was going on and once I died to a giant snail I stopped playing.

Rules, Fiasco and sticking coins up your bum

    During the week of February 2^nd we discussed making quality rules and played some Fiasco. We didn't finish the game yet. The characteristics of rules are rules limit player action, rules are explicit and unambiguous, rules are shared by all players, rules are fixed, rules are binding and rules are repeatable. These characteristics all seem self explanatory. A game can have a thirty page rule book or a simple two sentence explanation. How to play Fiasco or flipping a coin are total opposites in the amount of rules.

     So we split up into groups to make flipping a coin more exciting. Many groups made it into a drinking game or having to flip it on the other person. The group I was in had a completely different idea. Apparently you have to put it in your bum and fart it out and if it is a head the other person picks it up with their mouth and burps it out if it is tails you have to pick it up with your bum. The last person to throw up wins. Yeah it probably is not a winning game but it would be entertaining to watch other people play.

     We also started to play Fiasco, I believe that my group again is a winner. So two people known as Bitch Tits and Sparkle Anus had a gay one night stand behind a sex shop and now both of them have gonorrhea. While Cricket and me, Dirty Sanchez, are a pair of messy and high functioning addicts that just want to get high on the good stuff just once. We have a suitcase full of cut product, half as pure as advertised and we are at the peep show. As one can see this story should be very entertaining since the story is about as messed up and as perfect as one can hope for.