Personal Narrative: Text Game Design

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I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I can write well according to some of my peers; though this could just be from the fact that I seem like the quiet, studious, type who has spent most of her time with the straight "A" nerds who went on to top tier schools such as Stanford. Sometimes I am not too sure of my own writing abilities. On most essays, I get a little bit above average grades and every once in a while I get a few more points than usual. I have noticed that my writing is better when I have to write about a topic I am passionate or know a lot about. The more I have to work with the better. Otherwise, my writing seems poor, forced, and somewhat bland. It usually follows a poor or basic thesis statement and lazy paragraphs. I believe motivation helps me to write better,

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

Many people enjoy and have fun writing, but then again, many people dislike having to write, including me. Writing has always been something I was never really interested on for many reasons.

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.

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.

Al, Alde, de, shon, deshon, and Al’Deshon my name takes on many forms. Kind of like my writing in a sense. I have never been a strong writing also being the reason, I took this class first semester I think. If I get it out of the way maybe I’ll have an easier chance of reaching the finish line happening to be graduation.

As a kid I was always fond of donating clothes, or helping out at my local food bank, because reaching out made me feel good and put a smile upon the ones I was giving a helping hand to and myself. Growing up, my parents have instilled within me to always give aid to those who are in hardship, because if we are fortunate enough to have everything we have ever needed, then why can’t others have the same. My drive for assisting others expanded when I joined the Interact club. I have been in Interact Club for two years, and now I am treasurer of this group which gives back to the community and other communities as well. In the Interact Club, we have donated countless of items, ranging from food to clothes to books and much more. Through the Interact

Everyday, in one place or another in the world, people have crazy experiences. Those experiences contain different emotions for different people. One person may express the feeling of sadness, while another may view the same experience with joy, e.g. school. Glancing back at this specific memory in my sophomore year, one word appears to mind that would summarize the senses I felt that day, “exciting”. Who would have thought that an act so bad, would feel so exhilarating? Despite the fact that I was a thief for that singular day, I perceived myself as a modern Robin Hood.

( Before I decide to dive in on my blog post sharing my experiences with animals or anything else. There is a very important post I need to put out. This post covers probably the biggest aspect of my life, Autism ).

You know one day my friend hit me up to play some Minecraft. And you know I was an oldie and was a veteran so I was like "you know what? ok on for the road," SOOOOOO I played some Minecraft on your wonderful server being like wow, this is SOOOOO FUN I LOVE MINECRAFT AGAIN bu then my bad internet messed up and I started lagging in the game :( I got bored in bridges and decided to build up as HIGGHH AS THE EYE CAN SEE!!!!! since I was lagging there was no height limit. Then I SUDDENLY GOT BANNED, I WASD LIKE

As I sit in the chair at my desk, I listen to the music from library. I have many thoughts in my head, and I decide I want to draw something. As I get ideas, I pick up a utensil, and then I start to create shapes. It takes multiple tries to get it to the way I want it to look, so I keep trying. But then I compare both drawings, which one looks better? Should I choose this one?

For my informational interview I interviewed a game designer. I selected this because I wanted to explore more into the field so I can decide what type of career I want to have. On the interview I learned a lot of different things such as the skills you need to succeed in this field, all the different job positions, and the software they use. The thing that surprised me was he has a remote office and he can take his work anywhere to get his job done. He told me some ideas that can help me throughout on trying to become a game designer.

Beginning mainly in Japan itself, the now vast games industry has flourished across the world. Since the 1970’s most games have been developed in Japan and America and continue to expand. Naturally, with this expansion comes the need for translation and such. This is what is known as localization – the systematic process by which a game is translated into other languages for use around the world. Games localization encompasses a wide scope of alterations beyond linguistic and cultural factors, such as the appropriateness of game difficulty in light of the target audience, design aspects and even the coding (O’Hagan, M., 2009). Because of these various elements such as the imperative language barrier, localization of Japanese games

Guided by the functionalist theory, this report attempts to explore the feasible strategies and practical methods of the localization in video games, by conducting a case study on the localization of the video game Grandpa. It is hopeful that this report shall help with the actual translation on video games and inspire further researches referring to the field.