Thursday, April 19, 2012

Halo 4 or Black Ops 2?

In case you didn't know or you aren't following the game. Halo 4 has confirmed that they will be releasing the game November 6th 2012. The guess for the release for Black Ops 2 is also November 6th of 2012. So this means if you love both games you are going to have to choose between the two. This is of course if you are not  super rich. This will be easy to decided between both games. Here is a list of pros and cons for each title.
Halo 4
Art Credit by DANYVADERDAY

Pros:
It is bringing back Master Chief into the game again and continuing his story.
There will be more talking from Master Chief than the previous games.
Cons:
This game is not made by Bungie since they sold the name of the game to 343 Industries.
Everyone was sort of pleased with the ending of Master Chief being lost in space.
Some people don't think that they can pull it of since the story with Master Chief had ended already.

Black Ops 2
Art Credit by JSWoodhams

Pros:
The game mode Nazi Zombies will be back.
A lot is being improved to the game since the last game by Treyarch.
Cons:
Nobody knows how they are going to implement characters from Black Ops since Black Ops wasn't really seen as having a sequel.
There has been no information released about Nazi Zombies on Black Ops 2.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Yoyogame - Putting you in the game

     Yoyogame literally puts you in the game ... by letting you make one through their amazing game development software called Game Maker. Game Maker is the world's most widely used game development software with 10 million downloads and 5,000 more downloads each day. The software's focus is to provide a program that does not require a lot of coding in order to create a quality game. It allows developers to concentrate more on the design of the game and not the coding of it. That's why anyone, even ones who do not have a background in game development, can use it after following the tutorials provided by the communities. Don't underestimate this software just because it is easy to use. It have created award winning games like Karoshi, They Need to Be Fed, and Simply Solitaire HD.
Yoyogames' logo by Nha Nguyen
     Yoyogames does not just provide a tool for creating game it also have two other divisions. One is its amazing community where anyone can upload and share their creations. The community is composed of more than 1 million developers that created over 300,000 games. So if you don't want to create video games, you can just head over to Yoyogames Sandbox and enjoy tons of fun games. In my personal experience, all the games I have played on Yoyogames are very enjoyable. I recommend that you should check out Caveman Craig, Death Worm, and Ancient Ants Adventure.
    The other divison is called Publishing. Yoyogames will publish the best content out of the community to the Apple Store, Android Play Store, and even on Sony's PlayStation® Network.

Monday, April 16, 2012

the sandbox shooter


A while back I started playing a game called ace of spades. It was a fun game with a few maps, one game mode, and three guns. It was a bit like a combination of Minecraft and Call of Duty. You could use blocks to build elaborate structures like in Minecraft it was mainly a first person shooter. So it wasn't like Minecraft where you can just build but it also wasn't just Cod because you could make shelter instead of having to find it. I quickly learned the basics of the game. The rifle was good for far range but not so good for close up encounters and could be countered from a distance. The SMG was good for both long and short range encounters but the recoil made it hard to aim. Shotguns are a lot easier to use at close range but doesn't go that far. If you got six kills then you got an airstrike. That was fun to use. There weren't many maps but my favorite was one called pinpoint. It was fun; I started a new strategy for the map that is now used a bunch.


The map of Pinpoint. It’s entirely flat but that's just part of the 
Challenge

The game got old pretty quick so I stopped playing. Recently though, I started playing again. I found out that not only were there a bunch of new maps but there were grenades and a new game mode. You could now fight to capture checkpoints. It was also harder to get an airstrike. These new features were a fun surprise and I had fun playing with them. After a while I got bored with the game again and was going to stop playing until I saw this on the server list:

look for the highlighted box


I checked it out on the wiki and it looks amazing. Basically, the zombies can jump super high but can’t shoot or build so they have to use spades to kill. The humans can quick build and the guns are strong from a distance but the closer the humans are to the zombie, the less damage his weapon does. I tried it out before I looked it up on the wiki, (playing as a zombie of course) but couldn't kill anyone because I was just trying to snipe the humans. I want to try it again and I hope you guys will give it a shot too. I’m even going to try to create my own server. If you want to learn more about the game read the wiki.
The server will be accessible at aos://grosoon once I get it up. Right now it’s just a normal map but I’m going to make it zombies. I like this game because it’s easy to play and get involved in. 


go build and shoot,
grosoon


all photos by me