Top stories published by TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021 in December of 2021

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Top Stories published by TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021 in December of 2021

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Julia Meehan in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 1, 2021

Sims 4 November 2021 Update Review

Although the Sims 4 is more than eight years old, the November 2021 update to the game is only just introducing some key features that players loved in past titles. These new additions have created quite a stir in the community and prompted me to come back to the game…

Alex Lubeck in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 15, 2021

Game Review #5: Luigi’s Mansion

Luigi’s Mansion was a GameCube launch title game. Upon arrival it didn’t get too much praise as people…

Gregory Wong in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 2, 2021

Game Review #4

The game I decided to review this week is called Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Created as an expansion to the already popular game Hearthstone, this game is an 8 player auto battler card game where there can only be one winner. What drew me to this game when contemplating a game to review is the…

Julia Meehan in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 1, 2021

Pokemon Shining Pearl Review

Pokemon Shining Pearl and its counterpart, Brilliant Diamond, are Nintendo Switch remakes of the original Pokemon Pearl and Diamond which was released for the Nintendo DS in 2006. The remakes feature a new art style, some new gameplay mechanics, and remastered audio tracks.

Hakan Hatipoglu in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 3, 2021

Game Review#4

Per Professor DiMatteo’s idea my game review this time will instead be a comparison between two chronologically different games. As in, an over a decade old rpg vs a recent 2020 release triple A patented one. The games in question being Betheda’s Elder Scrolls 3, Morrowind, and CD Projekt Red’s…

Alex Lubeck in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 2, 2021

Game Review #4

Super Mario Galaxy is a game that came out on the Nintendo Wii in 2007. Pretty much every Nintendo console since the Nintendo 64 had…

Giovanna Gallina in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Nov 30, 2021

Game Review #4: Guitar Hero Aerosmith

Guitar Hero Aerosmith was a game I got for Christmas when I was about 8 or 9 years old. It stood out to me at the time because I had seen my older cousins play it before. Though I didn’t play with the guitar-shaped controller (I didn’t know how to hook it up)…

Josh Eppolito in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 14, 2021

Reflection #4

For my fourth game I decided to continue building off of my previous game which was a volleyball trading card game. I thought based off of watching others playing my game that it was so close to being a completed and fun game. As I said in my previous reflection, I noticed that the game cards were too…

Hakan Hatipoglu in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 16, 2021

Reflection #4

So for this last play session I changed the core rules and even the map layout for the game. I decided to ditch the cumbersome and slow movement options and the weirdly explained “tiles” and opted to go for a mario party approach where players are going on the board to get “buffs” while the mastermind…

Josh Eppolito in TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Dec 13, 2021

Reflection #3

For my third game I decided to go back to a physical game. For my game I wanted to design a card game that is similar to the old card game Topps Attax, but also have unique features to the game that weren’t in Topps Attax. There has never been a volleyball trading card game and I thought that the fast…

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These were the top 10 stories published by TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021 in December of 2021. You can also dive into daily archives for December of 2021 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

A collection of game reviews and reflections on design challenges from the students of IMM 270–02: Game Studies and Design, part of the Design and Creative Technology (formerly Interactive Multimedia) program at The College of New Jersey (Fall 2021 semester)

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