Monday, December 16, 2013

New Entry for Game

Game Name:
Candy Crush Saga

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Characters & DesignTiffi , short for Toffee , is the main character of the game.The character design of this game is difference for other game. The overall character design is quite good. I like the layout design and cute graphics of this game because it very colorful design.

Rules:It is a variation on their browser game Candy Crush.Each level has a game board filled with differently colored candies, and might contain obstacles.The rule of this game is easy because  the basic move of this game is horizontally or vertically swapping the positions of two adjacent candies, to create sets of three (or more) candies of the same color.

Elements:Candy Crush Saga is extremely approachable visually, with cute characters, bright colors and satisfying fanfare. If makes the game extremely approachable for anyone.This is because everyone also loves candy!

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Game interactivity:The goal is to crush at least three candies of the same color, which can be done by switching the candies through a gentle swipe on the screen, if you’re using a touch phone. As the levels go higher, the target gets more complicated, especially with the appearance of candies locked inside jellies. Now players must remove the jellies by crushing them with candies of the same color. All the jellies must be wiped out before the level is complete. The challenge is that the user has a limited number of moves to wipe out all the jellies.Interactivity of this game is just swipe on the screen only if use from tablets, Iphone, Ipad and so on.. if use from laptop and computer is must click.

Moreover,those who do not have smart phones, on the other hand, can still enjoy the game through Facebook applications.




Experience:Candy Crush Saga is very enjoyable and easy to play.Candy Crush Saga is the best free puzzle game in the iOS app store right now. Looking at the platform of Candy Crush Saga, it may seem simple and easy to play.  There are just candies and jellies as the main characters in the game, unlike previous game sensations such as Plants vs. Zombies and Angry Birds. However, the game eventually reveals its complexity as you play more in the succeeding levels.


What’s good about this game is that it can be played using touch screen phones, tablets, and even laptops and desktops through Facebook

May be one week can understand the rules of the game.Yes, i'll ask my friends or classmates help me for sent life and keys.

Trailer:



Reference:
http://candycrushsagacheatsguide.com/about-us/

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

new create software by wee yen ling vivian(planning 1st)


“WE SHARE, WE SAVE”

Introduction



      I will like to create a software that I name it as “WE SHARE, WE SAVE”.
This software can be used to save many type of documents, file, movie, videos and so on. In this software, there are also have a space when the users can be using this software to share, add friend, can update status, and can chat with friend in our friend list.

This software can be using whether during online or offline. During online, we can use all the software system. But if we offline, we just can hear a song and save documents. In this software, the users will be able to find the assignments or projects that have be share by other users. In this case, it can help the user to finish his/her assignments faster.

My target user for this software is secondary school student and university student. They need to buy this software with a promotion price RM30 only. The users only need to pay one time to enable them to login and using this software. The users are given advantage to earn some profit when they introduce this software to other student. For one new introduce user the person will earn RM10. Mean that only RM20 will pay to me.


Teachers and university lecturers are given advantage to this software system with free cost. This is to ensure that no students make a whole copy on the assignments or projects that available in the system. 

Communicating Online




Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Virtual Reality Technologies (ENTRY 3)

How Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Help People Connect to Real Environment

According to See H. RheingoldVirtual Reality(VR) is computer-generated environment with and within which people can interact. The advantage of Virtual reality is that it can immerse people in an environment that would normally be unavailable due to cost, safety, or perception restrictions. A successful Virtual reality environment offers users immersion, navigation, and manipulation. Virtual reality encompasses a range of interactive computer environments, from text-oriented on-line forums and multiplayer games to complex simulations that combine audio and video, animation, or three-dimensional graphics and scent. 

Virtual Reality is used in some electronic games, in amusement-park attractions, in military exercises, and to simulate construction designs. Experimental and envisioned uses include education, industrial design, surgical training, and art.


How These Human Sense Have Allowed The Interaction  Between Human and Virtual Reality Technologies?

My opinion is Virtual Reality had been used by many organisation to create and help people to connect environment just by using machine that mean cost effective during the training session.

Below is the examples of VR technology:

Healthcare



Virtual Reality in healthcare is one of the reason why Virtual Reality is important nowadays.Healthcare is one of the biggest adopters of virtual reality which encompasses surgery simulation, phobia treatment, robotic surgery and skills training.

One of the advantages of this technology is that it allows healthcare professionals to learn new skills as well as refreshing existing ones in a safe environment. Moreover it allows this without causing any danger to the patients.

One example of this is the system which enables doctors, nurses and other medical personnel to interact with others in an interactive environment. They engage in training scenarios in which they have to interact with a patient but within a 3D environment only. For me,it is a huge part in weathering an immersive experience which measures the participant’s emotions via a series of sensors.


Military/headset



Specialized Virtual Reality tools have been around for a while now, training soldiers to shoot, pilots to fly, and disabled people to conquer their handicaps. 

Virtual Reality Pilot simulates radio-control flying in eye-popping 3D. We can hold a controller which has features and functions that are just like a professional-quality R/C transmitter. It's connected by an included cable to your PC's game port. Using the controller, we become the pilot of five strikingly rendered model aircraft that "fly" out of your computer screen.

Likewise,the flying fields you'll see on screen are also remarkably lifelike. They're created from actual photographs using a unique process called Photo Field technology.

Video games are being used by the military not just to recruit and train soldiers for conventional skills, but also to help soldiers to learn cultural sensitivity and to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder.








Education


Education is another area which has adopted virtual reality for teaching and learning situations. The advantage of this is that it enables large groups of students to interact with each other as well as within a three dimensional environment.

For example, astronomy students can learn about the solar system and how it works by physical engagement with the objects within. They can move planets, see around stars and track the progress of a comet. This also enables them to see how abstract concepts work in a three dimensional environment which makes them easier to understand and retain.





However,this is useful for students who have a particular learning style,for example creative or those who find it easier to learn using symbols, colours and textures.



we live in a technological society. So it makes sense to implement virtual reality as one of several forms of technology in order to educate tomorrow‘s technological elite. Education has moved on from books, pencils and pens to the use of interactive technologies to help impart knowledge and understanding.


Sports




Virtual Reality in sports also is one of the reason why Virtual Reality is important nowadays.Virtual reality is used as a training aid in many sports such as golf, athletics, skiing, cycling etc. It is used as an aid to measuring athletic performance as well as analysing technique and is designed to help with both of these. Sometime,It also used in clothing/equipment design and as part of the drive to improve the audience’s experience.Other that that, there are virtual reality games with a sports theme which allow the player to become part of the competition. One example is an interactive football game which projects this match onto a real world surface.






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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

GAME PLAY AND CRITICS (ENTRY 2)



There are many types of genres for games:
•casual game 
•racing video game 
•Role-playing video games 
•arcade game 
•Puzzle games
•Maze games
•sports game 
•strategy game 
•Shooter games 
•action game 
•adventure game 

            I would like to review and focus on the Puzzle genre. Puzzle games focus on logical and conceptual challenges, although occasionally the games add time-pressure or other action-elements. Although many action games and adventure games involve puzzles


           According to the source: Puzzle games is usually focus primarily on the players’ ability to figure out or memorize patterns and solve various forms of puzzles. Players enjoy the intellectual challenge of solving problems and answering riddles inside of games. Puzzle games are often included in many games at one point or another, but most games do not revolve around solving puzzles. Usually puzzle games are moderately low budget and very few have much of a wow factor. Puzzle games can be divided up into a few genres.

           This game is a variation of match-three games such as Candy Crush Saga, Bejeweled,and The Treasure of Montezuma 3.


Below are the games that I have review :


1.Candy Crush Saga


               According to San Francisco Chronicle, Candy Crush Saga is a game that was released on April 12, 2012 for Facebook, and then released on November 14, 2012 for smartphones. It was developed by KingIt is a variation on their browser game Candy Crush.Each level has a game board filled with differently colored candies, and might contain obstacles. The basic move of this game is horizontally or vertically swapping the positions of two adjacent candies, to create sets of three (or more) candies of the same color.


              My comment is Candy Crush Saga is one of the most widely-played app-based games.It’s been a big year for gaming. Not only were there many huge releases.Candy Crush Saga is very enjoyable.Candy Crush Saga is the best free puzzle game in the iOS app store right now. Looking at the platform of Candy Crush Saga, it may seem simple and easy to play.  There are just candies and jellies as the main characters in the game, unlike previous game sensations such as Plants vs. Zombies and Angry Birds. However, the game eventually reveals its complexity as you play more in the succeeding levels.

           My reaction is Candy Crush Saga = Crazy Popularity.Candy Crush Saga is one of the the most popular and most downloaded games of this generation. Moreover,those who do not have smart phones, on the other hand, can still enjoy the game through Facebook applications. What’s good about this game is that it can be played using touch screen phones, tablets, and even laptops and desktops through Facebook. Although the game requires specific versions of Android, a majority of the recent versions of the operating system are compatible with Candy Crush Saga.


                  Candy Crush Saga is a puzzle game that is easy to play. The goal is to crush at least three candies of the same color, which can be done by switching the candies through a gentle swipe on the screen, if you’re using a touch phone. As the levels go higher, the target gets more complicated, especially with the appearance of candies locked inside jellies. Now players must remove the jellies by crushing them with candies of the same color. All the jellies must be wiped out before the level is complete. The challenge is that the user has a limited number of moves to wipe out all the jellies.May be one week can understand the rules of the game.Yes, i'll ask my friends or classmates help me for sent life and keys.

Trailer:







2.Bejeweled



                 According to  Mark Ward, Bejeweled is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, first developed for browsers in 2001. Three follow-ups to this game have been released. More than 75 million copies of Bejeweled have been sold, and the game has been downloaded more than 150 million times.

Bejeweled              In this game,design and characteristic also same with candy crush saga. This Match Three element should be familiar to anyone who's played an addictive puzzle game. Howerever, if you like Bejeweled, then you might as well go ahead and play Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled Twist, Bejeweled Blitz and Bejeweled 3.

              Beside that, this game is to swap one gem with an adjacent gem to form a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more gems. Bejeweled is very enjoyable and easy because bonus points are given when chains of more than three identical gems are formed and when two chains are formed in one swap. Gems disappear when chains are formed and gems fall from the top to fill in gaps. Sometimes chain reactions, called cascades, are triggered, where chains are formed by the falling gems. Cascades are awarded with bonus points. There are two variations of the game to choose from.
              Although normally the player gets only three in a row for gems,the flow of the game is easy to sometimes they can get four or five in a row. And in rare conditions, they can get six, seven, and even eight in a row. But some versions of the engine do not register it. For me, I love this game because the player gets more points and sometimes special power ups from more than three gems in a row.The rules is just like other puzzle  games, Bejewed offeres a same game playing rules.
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3.The Treasure of Montezuma 3
 Treasures of Montezuma 3
              The Treasures of Montezuma 3! With over 200 levels, amazing visual effects, explosive audio and stunning backgrounds that shatter the boundaries of art in casual games, The Treasures of Montezuma 3 is a must-have game for match-three fans!The overall design of this game is not as good as Candy Crush saga.


              The Treasures of Montezuma 3 is very challenge and enjoyable.The Treasures of Montezuma 3 will challenge your skills as you try to rack up as many points as possible in one minute. The Magic Totems make a return, allowing players to pull off insane combos. By using the powers of the totems strategically, you can score high enough to earn the Magic Stars you need to upgrade your bonus items to the max! Don't miss out on playing the most spectacular match-three game in the award-winning Montezuma series!

The Treasures of Montezuma 3
            My comment is this game is especially challenging game of skill  where you have to solve diverse and interesting stage that can be solved by using the different tools you gets on each stage .That each level has a unique solution and you will have to find it by using previous and current stage clues . A correct solution will lead you to the next level and so on until getting to a complete solution and finishing the game.

                Moreover,the tribal culture provides the main visual backdrop for this colorful puzzler. The third game in this series of puzzlers is packed with power-up's that are sure to push you to a massive final score. The tight time limit will keep your fingers active, so go ahead and download this puzzler. Pay some respects to The Treasures of Montezuma 3.The rules is also just like other puzzle  games, The Treasures of Montezuma 3 offeres a sama game playing rules.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Introduction Of Media Interactive (ENTRY 1)

Definition of 'Interactive Media' is a method of communication in which the program's outputs depend on the user's inputs, and the user's inputs in turn affect the program's outputs. Interactive media engage the user and interact with him or her in a way that non-interactive media do not. Websites and video games are two common types of interactive media. Movies and most TV shows are generally not considered interactive media; however, shows that require audience participation could be considered interactive media.


By this Investopedia explains 'Interactive Media' is social networking websites are an example of interactive media. The sites use graphics and text to allow users to share photos and information about themselves, chat and play games. Video games are another type of interactive media. Players use controllers to respond to visual and sound cues on the screen that are generated by a computer program. 


Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, graphics, animation, video, audio, games and so on. Interactive Media Studies is an interdisciplinary program that brings together students and faculty throughout the university to investigate how interactive media informs and transforms their disciplinary perspective. Through this problem-based learning and team-oriented projects, students learn how to apply their theoretical knowledge to innovative digital solutions.

Advance Interactive Media said that "I believe that Interactive Media is the most wide range type of media possible. There is no limit to what you can do in interactive media. All types of avenues such as web design, web development World Wide Web, Internet forums, computer games, online games, interactive television, e-Mail and electronic literature and many other sources of media apply. One of the benefits of interactive media is that the technologies of it are always emerging. It does not stay at a stand still because there is no definite measure of interactive media. Many times, clients have changing views for what they want for their product and being the developer for the product as an interactive developer, this makes it that much more difficult. I assume that in other forms of media it is more clear cut in the sense that you have a need and without little trouble, the product is developed. In conclusion, if you crave to be creative in what you do or want to pursue, then interactive is the way to go!"So do you agree this statement??

Interactive media is related to the concepts interaction designnew mediainteractivityhuman computer interactioncyberculturedigital culture, and includes specific cases such as, for example, interactive televisioninteractive narrativeinteractive advertising, videogamessocial mediaambient intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality.

Topic that students study in Interactive Media course include Media Technologies, Interactive Media Communications, Digital Games, Interactive TV,   Social Media,  Interactive Advertising,  Virtual Reality (VR), and  Issues in Interactive Media.The course will also give students the opportunity to appreciate the work of other designers and to learn about associated professional practice.

Introduction to Interactive Media  is a practical, introductory course to the world of interactive and digital media. The focus will be on creating interactive experiences that are both functional and engaging. This will be approached from various points-of-view: design, usability, technique, and entertainment and gaming. 

Firstly,Interactive media design in the context of historical and contemporary trends and ideas. Drawing on digital humanities, critical design, philosophical, and cultural perspectives,moreover this can explore how relationships between human and machine, and society and technology, inform and inspire design strategies, and provide new ways to understand interactive media. Secondly,Interactive media design from the perspective of users as the purpose for the activity of designing. Touch on more advanced issues such as representation and interactivity by exploring the ways in which various fields such as human-computer interaction, computer games, and interactive art and entertainment view users and interactive media design.Thirdly, interactive media design through the process of creation and reflecting on what has been created.  Through hands-on design work, the study of related readings and works, and the writing of critical reflections, students will learn about relevant design issues that arise for different domains, platforms, and interface modalities. 

Other than that,Interactive Media Design and Usability can introduces students to the tools and concepts of user interface user interface design, combined with a method of project development utilizing an industry-proven production process. The course explores both behavioral and structural patterns of user interface design along with information architecture for interactive deployment, user navigation techniques, and page layout for the interactive medium. Students will gain an extensive knowledge of usability patterns as well as production methodologies as they implement project documentation for the milestones of a user interface design.

Moreover,the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association also was founded to foster cooperation between the online gaming industry and government at all levels, and to promote innovation, openness and freedom on the Internet.




"I love design and think in visuals". I am a radical creative individual, a big idea maker who wants to create smart work that moves and engages people. In this age of new media, i forward thinking and passionate about all the latest in art, culture and technology. Breathe life into your ideas and make them come alive through compelling graphics, illustrations and typography. 










Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_media