Monday, 31 March 2014
The Guild
I thought that 'The Guild' was actually pretty funny. The characters are obviously fictional but I felt that it was pretty realistic that even Zaboo's exaggerated stalker character probably actually exists in real life. As of my personal experience, Academically, I appreciated the good relationship with my fellow group members Mack, Eva, Sanjana and Waj. I felt that we all worked together well and there weren't any conflicts--no chasing each other down to do work, no person not actually contributing, all in all for a 4th year class, I was pleased to have them as group members. Socially, I felt that we also got along, there were no personality conflicts and each person brought their own touch to the group which helped us move forward smoothly throughout the semester.
In terms of gameplay, in comparison to The Guild, mine (and my group's) experience was nothing like theirs. For starters, we all met in person BEFORE we played the game. Also, it was not a game that we all chose, we all kind of had different games in mind to play and just ended up settling on Minecraft as the easiest game to play. For the characters in the series, they were all already avid gamers who met playing the game. It was funny to see the different array of characters and how awkward they were when they first met each other. I think it was actually the other way around for us, we were more awkward playing together than in person, just because sometimes we don't know what to do next.
It's SUPER funny that they call and introduce each other by their gamer names, I think that's what my group tried to do to make it feel like we're real gamers... we frequently referred to each other by our Minecraft avatar names while we played. I had a lot of fun doing that!
Watching The Guild was entertaining, I might actually keep watching it. One thing that my group does well like The Guild ended up doing when they were trying to kick out Zaboo but ended up keeping him for his skills is using each other's strengths for the group's benefit. For example, Eva was really good at keeping track of things we can map, we put her on that duty. During gameplay, Mack and Waj had more experience they showed us what we should do based on their knowledge.
Reaching the end of the term now I'm sad that class is over. As a fourth year student graduating, it's a bittersweet feeling to finally be moving on. BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS AHEAD! thank you CCT 495 and all the things you taught!
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Motivation During Play
In class, we spoke of play motivations related to achievement, combat, completionism, and competition, and some associated information behaviors. Your task in this blog post is to document your information behaviors/practices related to these play motivations. Think about how/why you are motivated to achieve things during play, compete against others, fight, solve problems, or collect things. Describe these behaviors (including any non-human entities that play a role in them), and how they link to your personal achievement motivations.
I think the main motivation for me to have achievements while playing Minecraft is to show others that I'm actually getting better at this game. From time to time I will get achievements for even just being able to build a house or something...and I cherish those achievements even when they are small ones. In the beginning, I used to get much more achievements than I do playing the game now. The server also seems a lot quieter. Not a lot of players are on this server so the PvP achievements are harder to get.
I think the main motivation for me to have achievements while playing Minecraft is to show others that I'm actually getting better at this game. From time to time I will get achievements for even just being able to build a house or something...and I cherish those achievements even when they are small ones. In the beginning, I used to get much more achievements than I do playing the game now. The server also seems a lot quieter. Not a lot of players are on this server so the PvP achievements are harder to get.
In the beginning however, I remember getting something like this:
(Picture via YouTube.com http://tinyurl.com/o2jmued)
Even though there aren't any achievements for having a load of mined objects and crafted things, it does bring me joy to find things such as gold, iron, redstone etc. and have them in my inventory. Most of the time, I have no idea how to use them (#n00bprobz) Occasionally, I wonder what to do with them as they just fill up my whole inventory and I only really need my sword because it's the only thing I use...
( Picture via Funnyjunk.com http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/2276693/minecraft/)
Since I usually play with my group and we are in a building server, there aren't many fights that happen except with zombies. However the need of survival always overcomes and that has become the biggest motivation for my gameplay. I kill animals and try to survive zombie attacks because I need to stay alive. Collecting objects and such has not entirely shaped my gameplay only because I am still learning how to play and most of the time, I don't know what I can make with the things I collect. Using forums and apps that help me craft items is in a way helping my building skills but at the same time, it is not my main objective.
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- Nikka
- Born in '92. Annoyingly a morning person. Communications, Culture and Information Technology and Professional Writing double major. Always moving on.