Game design concepts by me!

OK, something I like to do in my spare time, and yes this is rather petty and immensely geeky, is come up with interesting game designs in my head. This was sparked up when I just talked with +Carra Riley after she posted a funny comic about video games on Google+...

Me and Carra replied back and forth about how older people could play games, if they were made for them. Thing is with the Wii, that's already been done, seeing how titles like Wii Sports became a smash to pretty much any audience. Carra did mention how their could be a game about ironing, and I replied about that there's a game called Extreme Ironing, however that was more of a plaforming game, rather than a game about actual ironing. This Google+ post got me thinking again about game play design concepts that can work in this new age of technology, so I got my thinking cap on again and I thought of things...


Photography on Wii-U

The Wii-U, Nintendo's next console, rumoured to be release next year, or in 2013, takes on the craze of tablet computers and incorporates one into a controller. The controller not only has  Wii-Remote accelerometers, but has an azamoth meter. What's an azamoth meter? The iPhone and Android phones have them, they're digital compasses that use very precise sensors to know exactly where it's pointing, with this in mind it'll know what direction it's facing without the need of the Wii's sensor bar.

What I was thinking, as I'm getting into photography, wouldn't it be cool to have a Photography game where you use the Wii-U tablet controller as a faux digital camera? You don't need to actually point and take snaps of your room, rather it would simulate an environment on the Wii-U controller screen and as you turn and pan the controller around, like how you position a camera for a shot, and can look into a virtual environment where you can take pictures. It can be a rural environment with a mountain in the background, or maybe a urban town with lights and cars in the streets, you can be trying to take pictures of animals, or even take pictures of a model showing off a fashion. I think this would be a great idea for a game! I better Patent this before someone steals this! lol!


Real life Survival Horror on the 3DS and/or PSVita

The 3DS introduced Augmented reality into gaming. For those that might not know what augmented reality is, it's simply a way where a game uses a camera to see what you're looking at, but puts objects that are not there in real life, this is Augment Reality. Since Zombies appears to be an undying trend...  ah ha...  pun! :P I think it would be a great idea to simulated a zombie apocalypse through augmented reality. Games like Left 4 Dead were great games about a zombie apocalypse, but imagine what would happen if the zombie apocalypse was happening around you! The idea being is that you'd use a 3DS or a PSVita to find zombies around you, and you have to move out and actually hide from them! No using the direction pad or an analogue stick to move around, you need to literally run and get out of their way to survive!


Expanding Social Gaming

The 3DS was released with a really good in-built game called "Street Pass Quest". This is a game that uses the 3DS' always on wireless network feature to find other 3DS' around you and pull other people's Miis onto your 3DS, and then use them in a basic role playing game that uses the Miis that you collected to rescue your own Mii, who gets kidnapped at the beginning of the game. This got me thinking, they should go a lot deeper into this. Why not make a fully fledged role playing game with this feature?

What I was thinking was that, a "Street Pass Quest 2" would start as you're the king again and the King of the ghosts returns and invades your kingdom, you and your civilians  have been kicked out of your land and now you got to get it back! So you recruit knight by using the 3DS' street pass feature to pull other people's Miis from other 3DS' as they join you into the fight to reclaim your land. But this time when you play the game and add experience to the knights that you picked for battle, that experience goes back to the original person's 3DS and they can see their Mii become stronger as you put experience onto them. That and the internet can be used to hire the best players of the game when you become stuck at parts of the game, you hire them using the coins you collect from the 3DS' pedometer, and that Mii's player will receive those coins onto his 3DS. I think these would be great ways to evolve social gaming.

I read up on Official Nintendo Magazine Website that there's going to be a Street Pass Quest 2 on the next 3DS software update. The game will include new enemies, branching paths, and allows you to use 2 Miis at once in battle rather than one at a time in the first game, and includes a feature where you will do better in the game if you collect Miis from around your country rather than just the town you live in.

The Subject of Homosexuality

OK, let's put a few things into place before going "Oh my god he's talking about Homosexuality, he must be GAY!!! D:", firstly I am not homosexual, gay or whatever you want to call it, I prefer women, plain and simple. But this blog post is simply here to put my views about homosexuality and why it's not a bad thing...

With the internet being the internet, a tool for communication across countries and cultures, it's great to know that it's used to get along with like-minded people, however my experience with the internet for the last 5 or 6 years has been a bit of a shaky one. Back in 1994 when the internet started, it was believed that the internet would be a haven of free speech to many people, including those of countries that might not have as much as the western world has, unless you're from China were Twitter is banned and blocked, but during the rise of Youtube I started to notice the rise in hatred towards others, be cultural differences or something petty like not agreeing in someone's opinion. But there was a trend where people accuse others of homosexuality because of ridiculous reasons; that or racist remarks towards Jewish and Muslim people. But one subject that appears on Youtube, and the internet in general is homosexuality of other people and how it's either OK or a bad thing. If it's an article, a video, or a recording that against the subject it gets bad, and fundamental religion rears it's ugly face into the scene and spews hatred towards homosexuality.

The hatred is pretty much towards the idea that said religion says that since homosexuality is bad, the people think they need to protest the idea and make sure that people are heterosexual, to confirm to their beliefs. The best example to pick here is the Phelp's Family Westboro Church, a group of people who have gone as far as turning homophobia into misanthropy, I won't delve into the misanthropic part too much, but the family go around and picket funerals of homosexuals and try to stop events that have homosexuality in it. The problem being is that they go a bit too far in the sense that they send letters to families saying that their son/daughter is going to hell because of their homosexuality. Which is incredibly crass and not forgiveable at all.

Thing is, there needs to be a reason for why these people would think like this, and cause the hatred. It's pretty simple if you think to yourself as if you are a god. Lets take 4 people, 3 of which are men, and there's 1 women, all 4 of these people are over 18, virgin, clean, sexually active, and in love. One man picks the woman, and the remaining men pick each other in a moment of love and romance through their sexuality, fast forward to 9 months later, to heterosexual couple have a child, but the homosexual couple don't, now if you're a God, you'd want more people to worship you, so why allow homosexuality to happen when it doesn't reproduce? This is why most religions detest to homosexuality, because it doesn't increase the population for said religion, which back in ancient days made sense since it's guranteed the human race to continue with a low population and high chances of getting diseases, but in the modern world? This becomes a little flawed...

First off, the 20th century brought a lot of medical advances into the world, the child death rate dramatically reduced in the western world and life expectancy increased higher and higher. In 1900, it was recorded the the world population was 1 billion people, but 100 years later in 2000, it blew up 6 times to 6 billion! And yet somehow homophobia still exists...

The chances of homosexuality dropping the human population is pretty much non exist, and even to this day the world population still growing, if maybe it's too much, but I'll talk about that some other time. Just because homosexual people exist it doesn't mean that the population is going to drop. However that's not always the reason for why people are homophobic. From what I've observed in life, people don't really think about "God's need of population", more that people believe that it's "filthy" because of the act of homosexual sex between men. I mean yes, thinking about it does cause issues such as hygiene and disease, the irony is that what can be "filthy" about homosexual sex, heterosexual sex can be just as "filthy". I have heard plenty of men describing about how they have anal sex with their girlfriends; the funny thing about this is that a typical man believes that it's "filthy" for 2 men to enjoy anal sex, but somehow it's totally fine if it's between a man and a woman, despite the fact that it's the SAME ACT. I personally think it's hypocritical that men can think like that, sure not all men do, but I have witnessed males boasting about it and being tempted to call them a hypocrite.

In general, homosexuality isn't something to be scared of. It's not going to kill the world, and can be done in loving in clean ways just like how a heterosexual relationships can be. As long as we can prevent religion kicking in and/or spewing hatred towards others, we can realise that it's no different at all. I've met homosexual people and they're nothing different as a person, just their sexuality, they don't all dress up like the Village people, they're not all into cottaging, and they're not all into being campy. You might found out that they act pretty much the way you expect others to act and may even share interests with you, you don't need to worry about them trying to hit on you, they already know that you're straight, so they won't. Simple as that!

Just adding this in here because it's funny! heh!

Photos of Town

Ok, a Lazy blog today, and yes I'm aware that I haven't blogged for a while, naughty me, get over it! lol

Pretty much I'm going to put some photos that I took today when I went it town. I'm getting into photography after seeing a few people on Google+ posting really good photos onto their Google+ page. Now I have already posted these up on Google+ and Panoramio, but for those who don't use those sites I'll put it on my blog too!

Hope you like these, I enjoyed walking around town taking snaps. I'll promise you next time that I'll write a better blog! LOL