Personal Narrative: My Interest In Video Game Programing

Four, maybe five German soldiers surrounded me. They were moving in faster than a pack of starving wolves, and I was their downed prey. There were flying bullets, dark smoke, and explosions everywhere. I was oppressed and knew that this was finally it. All my hard work was about to disappear into a plume of smoke. I commenced raising my rifle, and then in the midst of this chaotic scene there was this ever so subtle giggle over the headset. I look upwards dumbfounded to see a firestorm of bombs hailing all around me, and enveloping my entire section of the battlefield obliterating everything. It was my brother Chase piloting this monstrous desert-sand colored beast of a bomber, which just unleashed utter devastation on the opposing

The man’s attire consisted of red overalls, a matching red hat, and a blue shirt. I watched him soundlessly as he rocketed overhead, trying to grasp the golden coin. At the instant he grabbed the shining money, the number at the top left of my screen transfigured from a 99 to a 00. The digits above that number additionally transformed from a 05 to a 06.

December 17th, that is my birthday. Having switched school counties in middle school my birthdays always had to find the best of both worlds between two different groups of friends. Well, I had recently discovered the magic of social storytelling in games like Dungeons & Dragons. At this point three of my friends and I would meet up every two weeks for a late night session of fantasy tabletop role-playing. These nights were the high points of our social lives; it only made sense that I wanted ALL of my friends to experience this awesome game. So, I invited everyone asking them to come over around 6:00 p.m. and expect to be there until around midnight. I loaded up on snacks, came up with an adventure for us all to go through, and actually cleaned a little. Everything was set up for everyone to have fun, eat snacks, stay up late, and hopefully find a new hobby. Unfortunately that is not at all what happened.

During my first trimester, I took a course on computer programming, which heavily focused on coding games. It was a wonderful introduction to the field, and it was something that I found to thoroughly enjoy. It was also during senior year that I designed my own game. It wasn’t incredible, in fact, it was rather terrible. I designed a poorly functioning version of Pong in python; and while it didn’t work as it should have, I did manage to make user controlled graphics. It was also during this time that I learned that programming isn’t necessarily for me; but, I did learn that game design was a great career for me if I focus on the graphics portion. Which, of course, was always my favorite part. It would be amazing to see something that I designed impress millions of people in 1080p, which is precisely why I would love to study game

When I watched my first Pixar movie and bought my first Nintendo DS, I was amazed by the creativity and entranced by the "new worlds" created by programmers. I want to learn computer programming because I believe that computer programming creates innovation and dreams into realities. Today, technology amazingly connects people through virtual realities, social media, and many more programs which is what I dream of being apart of.

The week one Gamescape Simulation was very helpful to me. I wont lie, I was feeling somewhat overwhelmed as to how to approach each ressource provided by the University. I am very glad that we will have these simuations every week. Each resource was explained to me very clearly, but to me the most valuable one would definitely be the University's library. The library will provide me with peer reviewed articles. These articles are written by scholars,and by other respected proffessors. In turn, it will facilitate my academic growth in the University of Phoenix.

So, I’m going to change things a bit. Instead of just talking about dates and numbers, which can be boring; I’m going to give this a little casual twist. So, in order to start the history let’s get a few facts out of the way. Let’s talk about gamers, mainly because I’ll be using the term a lot; gamers are people who spent a lot of time playing videogames. The Average gamer playing video games has spent twelve years playing them. Adult gamers have an average of fourteen years of playing videogames, guys have an average of sixteen years, and girls have an average twelve years. Speaking of girls did you know that 47% of gamers are girls? I would have never guessed that, but it’s a fact. So, as of 2013 49% of all people who live in The United States owns a console. All of them that own a console have at least two of them. Me, I own eleven… I think I may have a problem. Anyway, now that some of the facts are out of the way let’s start, THE HISTORY OF VIDEOGAMES! Now before I start I want to talk about all the most important events in the history of videogames, as I call them eras. Each era is very important because they shaped the videogames we know and love today.

Stepping on to the scratched up ice, however still gleaming in all the light. I remember shaking of fright and of the cold atmosphere surrounding me. Not knowing what was coming next. Will I fall?, Miss a step? Forget my program? Soon enough my music would start and I would be off. Thinking about my program, hoping I wouldn't mess anything up. It was all a big blur, nothing was clear to me. The audience was filled with parents and skaters from all parts of the COS (Central Ontario Section). The judges seemed to be staring me down, trying not to look at their mean, cold eyes, I stepped on the ice. Everyone staring at me, it made me very uncomfortable, and I felt pretty awkward being there. I tried not to show my fear, however I don't think I did that very well. There was this little girl at her first skating competition, and the first one to go, how will she do?

It was the end of a busy day, the sun was going down, but I still had one thing on my mind. I want to play some of the game League of Legends. Ever since I logged on to play for the first time, I have been in love with the game. It gives me a wonderful joy of winning, but at the same time crushes me with losses. Even though it is an extremely fun activity, it has an equally extreme competitive or ranked system. This system attracts those looking to show off their skill with League of Legends after the account they use is at a certain point. I attempted to try this style as soon as it was available to me. This was proven to be immensely difficult. The level of skill that I had obtained in my couple months of playing

This writing assignment is how I won a competitive cs go game.Cs go is a video game on the pc, It involves skill and hand-eye coordination even for the competitive side.The competitive side of us go is where the (MLG) Major League Gaming is at if you're good enough you could make it into a team.It's a team vs team based game where you have to plant the bomb and or defend it on the other team to win.

Other kids had books or dolls, but I clung to my purple GameBoy Color with its handful of games. This entailed hours of losing at Centipede, wishing I was as talented as my mother at Frogger, and trying my hardest to “catch ‘em all” in Pokémon. When I felt lonely, pressing the power button opened up worlds of characters and storylines. This GameBoy changed my life in ways my seven-year old self could hardly know - it introduced me to video games. Without this exposure to the digital world, I would have never found my true passion for programming.

Ever since I was seven years old, I have loved video games of all kinds. I remember me

It was just a mock business presentation assigment in highschool but now it became a goal to achieve. I have a keen interest in technology, music, games, and business. As time goes by, I realized that I can incorporate all of my interest into video games. Before, I never thought that I will even try to develop games and yet now I am leading a very small game development team of three people including myself. Developing a game is a difficult feat, there are an abundance of factor that must be considered. Moreover, many problems arise and hinder development, from inactive members, unfeasible ideas, and low morale which ultimately causes development hell, a state where development of a game is stuck and not moving forward. Not only that, many

Video games were first created for the sole purpose of entertainment. We found that people loved to play video games and started to play them as much as they watched TV. Educators and game developers decided to use that to their advantage by implementing facts and details to help teach and fuel learning in video games. Even video games that have a sole purpose of entertainment have historically accurate stories. In this new age of gaming, video games are now able to provide entertainment and knowledge.

I really liked and still do like playing video games but they didn’t really make me the person I am today, but I do remember on snow days me and my friends would play all day and sometimes my