Video Game: The Movie

1.What are some of the reasons video games were successful? What makes a game popular?
Video games are a way to people get out of their reality and experience a brand new world. It has such unique elements like stories that you get involved, characters, art, gameplay, etc. You can enjoy a totally different experience in each new game that you play, better than that, you can do that with your friends.
2. What are some of the reasons why the video game industry crashed in the 1980s?
The game industry crashed because there were dozens of poorly games that had been released because they weren't finished, such as E.T which is known as the "Worst Game Ever Made".
Beyond that, a lot of game console producers went out of business.
3.Do you think video games are a form of art? Why or why not?
Of course I do. Video games exist as a mix of many forms of traditional art, where the player is no longer merely an observer, the player is an active participant in the emergence of the form. Those games which can touch you deeply, that are capable of expressing the full breadth of human experience are just pure art. Music, art, dialogues, narratives, all mixed together make one of the best forms of art that humanity has ever experienced.
4. What is the next evolution in video games? What are the challenges that need to be solved in the next generation of games?
The next step is the evolution of VR(Virtual Reality), this idea of putting the player inside the game, without a screen or keyboard is really crazy. In the future we'll probably won't need to use even the VR Controller, just our body itself, one proof of that is that project from IBM Japan that consists in the creation of a VR Game based on Sword Art Online(MMORPG Anime), some people tested the game, and their body were basically scanned  and that made their character looks like them and they could use their hand instead of a controller just like SAO. Will the technology evolve enough to make this experience such good as we think it will be?

Kodu - Intro

1. Did you have any difficulties with your programming? What was the issue? How did you solve it?

Actually it was pretty easy, Kodu is really simple to understand and to program so I didn`t really have a problem when I was programming.

2. Did the student who played your game have any suggestions for your game that you implemented?

He said that one of the apples was really hard to grab so I changed a little bit and that the robot that I used to chase the Kodu was way faster than the Kodu itself and it was not fair so I changed from that robot to a octopus.

Animated Pixel Art

PSD File

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6jh_-kPzdEXOWVCeDhDSHg5LWs