Week 1

Just getting to grips with blogging and using blogger. Did start a wordpress blog but found it so confusing- hopefully the tutorials will shed some light on it. Quite happy this week as the group has come up with a promising idea for our group project which can be developed further. Feeling quite optimistic about it... at the moment. The calm before the storm if you like. Before next week, going to try and aim to organize ourselves so we have a solid proposal/ idea and work towards getting an ample amount of work for the group presentation. The proposal for our exciting group project will be printed here next week... Brownie promise! At this point our idea is based on games, the focus being games through the decades (each level representing a game) and the iconography that these games represent (e.g. graphics/pixels, sounds etc), it also reflects the advancement of technology. Took on Rod's point of having a narrative structure. Having a group discussion tomorrow so will develop this idea more- currently thinking about getting from a to b journey scenario but with a bit of zing. Hopefully, when the project is complete, the user will gain pleasure of recognition of the games we decide to choose as the format we intend to use is quite unconventional- i.e. using video instead of animation. The project should also hopefully take the user on an historical journey from say the game pong through to second life/ The Sims franchise. Not decided on this being interactive yet as it doesn't really need to be, but could develop as active participation but we shall see!

Found some links which are quite amusing, apt, quite clever and shows the possibilities of technology of the present day... exciting yet quite scary, hoping to gain some inspiration and creativity from!

-http://games.uk.msn.com/gaming/photos/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=155849610

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ue16ryYqM

Until next time :)