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Katy Perry, Kanye West enter into mobile game world, like Kim Kardashian

 

 

Katy Perry also starts up her mobile game, developed from Glu, the game developer of the huge successful "Kim Kardashian: Hollywood". Glu Mobile announed the new game would be developed , however, the details are not revealed what the actual game would be.

 

Like Kardashian game, Katy Perry's voice will be featured and also the game will introduce the players to a digital world of global success and talent. The Kim Kardashian's game venture transformed the company, making 15 million dollars profit after the game released, and also the Kim Kardashian also earns huge money from the game.

 

Also, Kim Kardashian's husband Kanye West, famous rapper and music producer is working on the game about 6 months based on his song called 'Only One'. The song is for commemorating the memory of a deceased Kanye's mother in 2007, collaborting with Paul McCartney.





New Final Fantasy 15 game play released

 

 

Friday, the game play of Final Fantasy 15 live video presented in Japan. Director Hajime Tabata explained the development of the game and talked about detailed its upcoming demo.

 

Tabata told the game has been developened upto 60 percents, and it is on the 80 percents in the completion soon. The released a 45-minute gameplay video of the upcoming Final Fantas 15 Episode Duscae demo, which will be available on Xbox One and Play Station 4 , only for the player who buy Final Fantasy Type-0 HD.

 

The director also added that the upcoming Final Fantasy 15 will be about 10 or 20 times larger than what player will find in the demo, moreover, the game's title screen will change according to the real world time of day like weather effects. The final Fantasy demo will launch in March 17.

Crusaders Quest by NHN Ent, goes to global

Korean NHN Entertainment's Game  (Woo Jin Jung) "Crusaders Quest" gets popularity on the global market. The game begins one of the major works of the NHN Entertainment after it released on the last year.

 

The appeared on the global mobile game market, each in Google Play and Apple Appstore last November and December. The biggest advantage of the game is the unique pixel art graphic, which reminds of early famous console games on the 90s. Pixel art becomes differentiated trait of the game that compares to other 3D graphic mobile games.  

In the 150 counturies, the Crusaders Quest accumulates 500 millon downloads on the gobal market excluding in Japan and China. The game gains more popularity in other markets than domestic market. (in the ratio of 3:7)  Moreover, the company is ready for going to Japan and China market, making Mandarin version of the game, which might expect further sales revenue.

 

Two biggest Korean game companies established an alliance

 

NC Soft (Taek Jin Kim) and Net Marble Games (Young Sik Kwon), two biggest game companies in Korea, established a strategic alliance for going out for global game market.

 

Both companies opened board meeting on Feb 16 each and both companies made a contract to acquiring shares and joining business for global game market. With the alliance NC Soft and Net Marble Games, Both shares their On-line and Mobile games IP and contents. Net Marble would focus on the development of the moblie games via NC Soft's global IP, and NC Soft will develope on the current and further On-line games, making synergy effects.

 

Moreover, Both aggreed on the game marketing field too. They will publish their games on the their mutual net works for the cross marketings, and they will make one joint company to research and develop for mobile games too. 

Rigid Body!

Marion Cotillard joins on Assassin's Creed movie

 

Assain's Creed is a historical fiction action adventrure, open world stealth video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the first major installment in the Assassin's Creed series. The game was first released on the Xbox 360 and later to the Play Station 3 in November 2007, also available on Microsoft Windows in April 2008.

 

Last week, the Assassin's Creed movie officialy entered to production and should start shooting soon, and it is produced by New Regency and 20th Century Fox will be on the theaters on December 21, 2016.

 

French actress Marion Cotillard (who is well-known for her role as singer Edith Piaf in La vie en Rose ) has signed on the movie, and the productions have yet to reaveal her role in the movie. She and her co-star Michael Fassbender acted together in an upcoming adaptaion of Macbeth, which the director of the Assassin's Creed movie, Justin Kurzel also directed.

 

 

PrePro PPT: The Inferno Racing Track

https://docs.google.com/a/c.ringling.edu/presentation/d/18iLqs1-dK6r1Vwq7cw-0E5rp-OW_UsNxBdV-UQVb6Kg/edit?usp=sharing

Sony's PSN still having a hardtime, multiple blackouts

 

Sony is still struggling on normalizing their "Play Station Network"'s service disabilities. There was a hacking incident previously, moreover, the service disabilities are still ongoing.

 

On Sunday, the PlayStation Network went down yet again. this time not allowing people to sign in and play games or watch movies.

 

Sony keeps posting the notices of disrupting the network or routine maintenance, and there was malfuction of the system four times; Jan 7, Jan 14, Feb 2, Feb 12.

 

This is becoming a repetitive and tiring experience for the 56 million people who actively use the gaming and media network. Thousands took to Internet forums to complain, castigating Sony Computer Entertainment for being unreliable and insecure. And Sony only says that the company is "investigating" on the reason of frequent blackouts.

 

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Get rid of stress through games !

 

Are you streesed out due to hard works, over loading assignments, and parent's nitpicking?

Let's get off the streess through games!

 

One of the recommendation is "Evolve" by Tuttlerock studio, the game is FPS can be played on PC/Xbox one/Playstation 4, the theme is the  hunters verses monster, 4 to 1. The major contents of the game is five fights throughout whole mapes and modes which is so-called "Evacuation" mode.

The object of the four hunters is to evacuate from alienated planet by overcoming the attacks of the monsters. As becoming a hunter or monster, by enjoying hide-and-seek, you will experience the adrenalin pumps up.

 

The other game "World of Tank" is combat figh MMO game, which is serviced in North America, Euroupe to 90 million players. The point of the game is that the player can ride on the tank selecting among 350 types of 7 counturies, and the detailed graphics make the player watch one realistic war movie. Check the hompage for ongoing events.

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Google tries to gain lost App market in China

Google opens "Google Developer's Channel" in China.

 

According to the press, Google introduces new Google developer's channel which is seviced in Chinese, trying to induce moblie developers in China to Android platform.

Google has agreed on November 2014, allowing Chinese developers to sale through Android, and new Youtube channel would make Chinese developers access to the new resource and information more and more. 

 

However, one who wants to access and upload the contents to the channel must use China VPN, or the contents might be delated by Chinese authorities. Videos includes mandarin and subtitled contents. Baidu wokrs as third party app store now in China instead of Google Play Store and the company earns 19 billion dollars on the sales in 2013.

Rough 1st pass Isometric "paper map."

Rough 1st pass stunt designs

Research Theme

1. Time of the Day

In the future on daytime. Futurism is the theme. 

2. Terrain

Racing Track. The spectators can watch the game, but the track is not the normal track that we know, more like futuristic Colosseum and modern racing track. (Death Match)

3. Color Scheme

Grey tone is the major color, for spectators watching the race and making a focus on the colorful cars itself, and also the accidents. 

Researching Stunts

1. Real / Movies / Games

Big Hero 6 :
(Drift / Jump)

Smokey the Bandit:
(Jump Bridge)


2. Games

Kart Rider :
(Fast Acceleration)

GTA 4:
(Various Stunts)

Core mechanic is unexpected fast acceleration points in the level.

Anaylzing Racing Game : RivalS

https://docs.google.com/a/c.ringling.edu/presentation/d/1HxbgyO2QPveTyUI27J5sJv8fcv3x21eMjTvQ9PqG4jE/edit?usp=sharing


Anaylzing Racing Game :  RivalS

1pg
Overview
-The lastest game of "Need For Speed" series by Electronic Arts
-The engine is "Frost Bite" making the game
-The theme is the rivalry between the polices and the riders
-The Player can be in either side, the riders enjoy ride itself, and the polices is the chasers
-There are lots of the "arcades style" such as weapons

2pg
Set up / Environment / Landmarks
-The game is "Open world" looking like some islands
-The mood and lightening change depending on the weather
-The weather is random setting, when I played this level,it was sunny and normal sunshine.
-The weather is random setting, when I played this level,it was sunny and normal sunshine.
-The set up seems to happen in current times, also most of the car models are up-to-date
-There is no building as a landmark, but there are several drift corners and a gas station
-Gas station heals the car and weapon

3pg
Game play (level Mechanics)
- The major mechanics are: drift and turbo booster
- When the player succeed in drift, charging time of the booster reduces
-Thus, It is good to make the drift as many as possible, to win the level
-There are several weapons in the level, "EMP" and "Shock Wave" can knock down others
-Every car has "HP" (health point), when it drops to zero the game is over !
-There are police points in the level, and starting to chase the riders which makes the play more harder
-The level design has the drift points and unexpected suprising points during the game play, especially police points make the tension of the game