After I declared in my previous vlog about my intention to provide new content each week, this week’s vlog highlights some of the stuff that has been done on the website and otherwise including the Nintendo 3DS unboxing article, DraconiCon gaming event and my design works on games offline.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.
Video Description
Nintendo 3DS unboxing gallery and first impression post: Gallery, Full Article
If you read Hebrew and wish to read more about the DroconiCon gaming event, the link below is for you. I’ll be covering this events in greater details and in English, so stay tuned.
Vote for Ro in King of the Web and help rise money for charity.
The game in the background is Unstoppable Gorg.
Video Transcription
Hello friends and viewers on the inter-web. I am Icel. This is my second vlog. If you watched the first vlog it was a catastrophe. The audio balance was crap, really. I really didn’t know what I was doing and it didn’t go very well. I hope this second vlog will go better. I’ve tested the audio balance this time, and I think everybody should hear me over the game audio. There shouldn’t be any problems with the audio this time.
The game I’m playing is the Unstoppable Gorg. It’s a tower defense game, influenced by ’50 B movies, Sci-Fi B movies. It’s the first time I played it actually. Like I said on my last vlog, my goal is to upload a new content each week, and this week I actually managed to do that. I uploaded several new posts to my website and to for both languages, English and Hebrew.
Oh I got achievements.
The major thing that happened this week is that I bought a Nintendo 3DS. I made an unboxing gallery of it, with plenty of pictures of both the box and the papers that came with it and the device itself, and some of its screen and so on.
You can see the device. I’m holding it now.
Later after that unboxing, I wrote a very detailed first impressions post. It wasn’t based on game experience as I didn’t have any games at the time, just downloaded some demo via the Nintendo E-Shop. It’s a really cool device and I really like it. It’s very comfortable to use and most of the time its user experience is great. Now I got my first game, Pokémon Platinum and I’m having a great time.
The other major thing that I wrote about this week is the upcoming Israeli gaming convention next month, called DroconiCon. It’s one of several gaming conventions held in Israeli each year. It’s a one day convention which focuses on Tabletop gaming, role playing games, board games, mutual games, card games and all of that stuff. I am going to attend this convention – I’m running three role playing sessions, two of which are going to be an introductory session to Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game, which is a really cool narrativist role playing system, that lets you play Marvel Heros, such as Iron Man, Wolverine and Thor, and all of that good stuff. I’m going to introduce it to a new player in the convention.
The third session I’m running, is also using Marvel Heroic role playing game, but not held in the Marvel Universe. It’s going to be a game based on the Mobile Suit Gundam Anime series. It’s not going to feature any of the actual Mobile Suit Gundam Universe’s characters. I’m going to create a Gundam universe of my own.
I think I’m going to lose this round, because I suck. Yeah I really suck.
Like I was saying, I’m going to run my own version of Mobile Suit Gundam. I call is Mobile Suit Gundam Wizard. The basic premise is that you’re playing genetically engineered soldiers that can control machines with your mind. You’re Uganda pilots, mobile suit pilots. You are kind of the underdog. You are the only hope of your faction. Your army is losing on all fronts and you need to save the world actually, from a tyrannical, biological computer. That’s the basic premise, and it’s going to be really fun.
The other thing I have done this week was sitting with a friend of mine on a new game concept. We are trying to develop it to be a computer game but the first thing we do is sit with the concept offline, not touching a computer. We print out game maps and try to play the game ourselves to see if it’s fun, if the mechanism works, and so on. The first thing we discovered is that the mechanic doesn’t work and it’s not fun at all, so we changed it. The second time around it was more fun, it worked better, and we’re going to keep trying and working on it until the concept makes sense. We will start trying to build it for real, on a real computer, using a development system called Unity, which is a cross platform system. You can develop games for the PC, for MacOS, the iPhone, for Android, all that stuff. But that’s a long way off. It’s only but the beginning. We need to make sure it’s a fun concept, a fun game. We need to test it and test it again, before we even start thinking about doing something more.
The last thing I want to talk about is the King of the Web contest. King of the Web is kind of a popularity contest that’s held every two weeks. People campaign for themselves to be the new King of the Web. I got involved in this contest because people from the game station are running every time for this content and most of the time, they donate the proceeds to charity and that’s really awesome. This time the game stations are running Ro to be queen of the web, and she is going to donate all the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity. She is just 100,000 votes away from the first place, and I really hope she wins. I pledged all my 150 something votes to her.
I’m losing really badly here. I really don’t know what I am doing in this game. I lost, yes. That’s it.
I just wanted to make you know so I put a link in the description, if you want to help donate $7,500 to Habitat for Humanity go and vote.
That’s it for this time. We will finish in this bog defeat screen. Have a nice week.
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