Review: Destiny 2 and live service vs single player games

This game review was an especially hard choice because I’ve recently been playing games I haven’t touched in a while that are primarily live service games. Essentially, I was stepping into familiar games with all new content…

Undertale Review

After the recent release of Deltarune chapter two, I decided to revisit the original game by Toby Fox. Although the game has become a bit of a meme, upon revisiting the recent classic, I was left feeling accomplished and nostalgic.

Game Review #2: Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption is a 3rd-person western themed adventure game. Set in 1911, you play John Marston, a rancher and former gang member. Marston is blackmailed into searching for and eliminating his old gang members, in order to see his family again. The player must…

Game Review 2

Cuphead is a run and gun game that came out in 2017. This game focuses heavily on boss battles with a few run and gun levels. This…

Game Review #2

When people think of strategy games, their minds usually go to two types: Real Time Strategy (RTS) or Turn Based Strategy (TBS). Examples of popular games which fall into these categories are Starcraft or Age of Empires for Real Time Strategy, and Civilization or Risk for Turn Based Strategy. Each…

Reflection #2

My prompt was “Color”, which inspired me to make a digital game using Game Maker 2. Essentially, there are several grayed-out pictures made out of squares, like pixel art. Each grayed-out square is labeled with a number that corresponds to a color. For example, gray squares with the number one would be…

Game Review #2

Sports games can become repetitive for the simple fact that you cannot change the rules to the game or add in unique features that’ll impact how the game is played. One of the most popular multiplayer games right now is based off of a real life sport, except it has a unique twist to it. Rocket League…

Reflection #2

Last week, I created a game in Unity that revolved around controlling a cannon in order to take down small forts. As I mentioned in the video, my dad is my primary tester, and he gave me feedback on it throughout the entire process. Early on, my dad tested it and said that some of the information, such…

Game Review #2

The game I chose to review is Grand Theft Auto 5. Grand Theft Auto 5 is an action-adventure game that has a story mode and online multiplayer. In story-mode you follow three protagonists, Franklin, a street gangster, Trevor, a drug dealer, and Michael, a retired bank robber. You can play in either the…

Reflection #2

The game I created was a physical 1 on 1 game called PolyVolley. I was able to playtest this game with my roommate and another friend who lives on my floor. Overall both friends provided positive feedback after listening to my concept pitch as well as being able to play the game against me. The rules were very…