Workshop One Increasing the innovation of games is a constant and difficult struggle. As games become more and more advanced, the range of possibilities also increases, but with that advancement comes the sheer volume of previous creations. Developing games that are unique and innovative, yet fun, can be very difficult. In the case of our…

Stage 3: Proving Your Core Experience As our game concept has developed into a large scale cooperative experience in public spaces, we have considered in what direction to take the visuals. As our game is intended to be open for anyone to play, we must strike a delicate balance between drawing in current gamers through…

Stage 2: Building the Conceptual Foundation As we proceed with the idea of a “massively multiplayer local game”, we now begin to explore what games are already present in this space. Our game, when complete, will be able to be played on nearly any screen in a public or private space. With its wide range…

As a project we were tasked with working in pairs to emulate the 1985 game Spacewar in XNA. We had to maintain all of the core gameplay of Spacewar, although were were told to specifically not include a few aspects. Overall, Lou and I did a pretty good job. My previous project in Networking already…