TCNJ Game Studies and Design Fall 2021

Reflection #4

The game I created was my second and improved iteration on my original game called PolyVolley. Initially, when I created the game, it was a head-on-head paddle modular game where the player who dropped the “ball” lost. However, with my second iteration of the game and changes to the mechanics of the…

Reflection #4- Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Yakuza: Like a Dragon has to be, in my opinion, one of the best RPGs that came out of 2020. It was a great addition to the Yakuza series, keeping the dramatic and overtop comedy elements of its predecessor’s — while also being a fantastic edition to the RPG genre…

Game Review #5

For this game review I am choosing Apex Legends. This game is a battle royale shooter game that can be played on pc, consoles, and phones. In a way, it’s similar to Fortinite, which people are more familiar with, in the sense that there is a certain amount of people who drop onto a map and they battle…

Design Challenge #1 Reflection

My game is a 2D digital shooter game. I had my friend playtest it and found that the game controls were not as obvious as I thought. I have played PC games before so I am used to WASD being the movement controls but my friend immediately went to the arrow keys. When that did…

Game Reflection #4

My prompt was “Many Missiles”. I used p5.js again to make a digital game. In the game, you play as an army tank and can only move left and right by using the right and left arrow keys. From above, there are incoming missiles and you must dodge them or shoot them with your own tank bullets by…

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…

Animal Crossing New Horizons Review

In anticipation of the new Animal Crossing update coming out on November 5, 2021, I reset my island to start with a clean slate. Erasing the 130 hours of effort put into my original island was daunting, but I was hoping to recapture the wonder and drive I felt the…

Design Challenge 4 Reflection

For my last game challenge, I used Bitsy to create a simple digital game. The idea of the game is to get through the Christmas tree maze and to the angel at the top.

I had never used Bitsy before and while it was easy to use, it had some frustrating…

Reflection #4

For my fourth Design Challenge, I decided to use the game that I’ve been working on as my thesis project, which was a 2D Turn-Based Strategy game. As a result, this was the result of a lot more work than the games submitted in previous design challenges, and there is far more that I can discuss. When I…