Game Review [02-09-2012]

[Review]

Today, we spend all the class period on review on game concept in the class [only the people who complete all 9 gets review] which my games did not place on the review. I don't exactly remember which game are more interesting to me. but after the review I defiantly gain some new idea from other's game. [subconsciously]

Even though i have my 6 game concept ready but I did not like any of the game that I created, maybe it is still a concept that needs more development. or maybe it's just not a good starting point. one that I really thinks is a great Idea is, Chinese Chess vs. International Chess. but it's been done 5 years ago. I am now having trouble to make my game for the presentation.

[Thinking]

During the review  when someone present an idea of different way to play chess, but the concept is unclear. Jimmy said we have many different ways of playing poker card, and we can make different way of playing chess.

I realized to Create a totally unique game is very difficult, especially something brilliant in this short among of time. So I decided to change my focus on how to create a new way of playing "chess" or "connect 5" <-- I played around 3-4thousand games.

Game Time ! [02-07-2010]

[Game]

In the beginning of today's class, we play "games".

this is our assignment last week, to bring game on Tuesday to play. we spend the first two hour playing games, different games with different person. First I played Chess [a fun game, but in the end I lost]. the second game that I played is monopoly, an educational game of capitalism. for some reason I get so <passionate> or <serious> when playing those two games. even though it's only a game but it will <engage> people.

[Creating a Game]

Our "HomePlay" is trying to create 9 game concept

It's all making sense for Me [02-02-2012]

[I need to work on my story telling]

In the beginning of the class, we post up the "mapping" homework that we did for the last class on the wall. than we go around to see everyone's work. there is saw one that has a very clean drawing. it's like a comic that deliver clear message of how to get an "A" also gives a sense of hummer which at the end the Character[student] kick off the boss[possible final project] and stand on top of the letter "A". This is something I am missing,

[Communication]

[Sir Ken Robinson]

Jimmy shows us a video from you tube, it is a lecture by Sir Ken Robinson. he is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. he talks about, how the education system is killing the creative mind out of everyone. The education system right now is trying to unify everyone, and forces them to learn the same way. but the truth is people are at their best when learning things that they love the most. also different people learns differently, some are better in small group, large group, some might be better along.

One of the idea he talks about is divergent thinking. it is different from creativity but is is a essentially element of creativity. As we get more education, we are much more limited to our knowledge. life seems to be only one possible answer to everything that around us, but that is not true at all.

[this should be why a lot of creative people are seem crazy, because they are able to break out of the system]

Mapping [01-31-2012]

Today's class starts from a word "mapping" on the board.

Jimmy than ask the class "what is mapping" some other students starting to build on the idea of geographical map, or chart. but for me the first thing I think of "mapping" is brainstorming and developing. there are many more possibility of a mapping can be. later we are giving an assignment "Mapping of how to get an "A" in this class" on a 9 x 12 paper. The interesting thing is ,there is no instruction on how to do it. only instruction is to be communicate visually. the whole class is been left in the class for about an hour to work on this assignment.

This assignment later become a homework, for us to spend more time to develop.

In this class, everything seems to have only given little instruction on how to do a specific thing, so each of us can create different possible solution to a same question.

Brain Dead [01-26-12]

[Concept, Craftsmanship, Characters are equality important ]

At the beginning of the class, our professor brings out some magazines [cmyk] featuring students artworks. A lot of them has wonderful ideas and powerful images. I felt refreshing after looking at the images. but later during the discussion of "words/phrase that gives different meaning to the image" I felt completely brain dead, I don't have much to say to each image. I think part of the reason is because the language, and another is because I don't use them constantly. I realized that is my weakness, which is using language. I am too heavily focus on the image, and ignores the words. and I am also aware that I did not include the [adjectives] in my post. I really need to start build some vocab.

[The more you know the more is limited]

"Raise Your Hand If You're Not Here" [01-24-2012]

The title does not reflect what happen in the class, but I will raise my hand if I can. [I'm not There]

[Katsuya Terada]

Japanese illustrator and cartoonist.

This guy had the greatest impact in my life as an artist. but for some reason I have stop looking at other's art for a long time. I guess writing this blog is a chance for me to bring back what's been lost from me.

here are some image that I find online.
also there is one great blog post about his exhibition "Terra's Black Marker"
Link --> http://art-eater.com/2011/05/terras-black-marker-2/ <-- I hope there is no legal issue here..

 

Comic [01-19-2012]

Today's class is about sharing our homework "My Life as a Graphic Novel : How I Made it to College". Than we have to ranked them from the best to the worse without a scoring guild. So everyone will pick from what they think is best either from quality of the drawing, how well the story is put together, or how much effort they put in. and because people are more concern from one thing to the other, it is really hard to have a ranking that everyone all agree on, so for the first 20 minute there is really no progress. later we decided to vote, by taking rounds of voting to decide the ranking. at the end I am not really happy with the outcome, since I believe most of the people is voting on how well the story is and the effort they put in, but for me all that I care is the quality of the drawing.