Art Institute

During the presentation for the Art Institute, I was amazed at some of the classes that they offered.  They showd fashion and cooking, and even game design.  Though I am not very interested in those classes I was simply fascinated by how successful the students had become.
There are many schools all across the country that have the same results for people.  When  I think about how the students were able to do all of that because of the school I have to wonder if I go would I be able to succeed in those classes.

Thinking about game design and creation

     In my free time I play video games which has helped me with certain ideas for my game to create.  Many of the ideas are based on action/strategy games which is one of the most played type of games.  Though I play many action games I am a huge fan of survival/horror games such as Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, and the Resident Evil series.  The survival/horror games are my favorite for several reasons based on the game.
     Dead Space is one of my favorite games because of the upgradeable weapons, and the darkness and sudden appearence of the monsters.  I enjoy Left 4 Dead because of how you must cooperate with your teammates to survive and how that you can play the same campaign and have different weapon and item spawn locations.  Finally, I love the Resident Evil games because of the suspense and action that seems to blend in together perfectly and the enemies on higher levels are extremely organized and intelligent.

The Mini Game Project has given me a new perspective on playing video games.  I believe that I pay more attention to the characters and even the levels.  When I play a new game now I find myself wondering how long it took to draw the characters and how much the people went through to have every single detail perfect.  Finally, I have started to appreciate how people go through so much frustration to give people a few hours of enertainment.

I have learned many things during my time with Globaloria, but the most important is that child abuse happens mostly at the child's house.  There are several forms of child abuse that follow under physical and mental abuse.  There are few cases of child abuse in organizations and schools.  Neglect, and child sexual abuse are other formas of child abuse.

An interesting fact that I learned while looking at Child Abuse is that 54% of child abuse is neglect, 22% is physical abuse, 8% is sexual abuse,  4% is emotional maltreatment, and 12% is other forms of maltreatment.  Child neglect is where you can not provide medical, food, and attention to your child/children.  In one year there was 90,000  cases of  child neglect.

So far the games I have played have been enjoyable, but some are rather difficult to understand at first.  I have tried many games, so it is not easy to pick out the best one.  I think that Ayiti: The Cost of Life was the best because it shows all of the challenges that is presented in third world countries.  It requires great focus to and strategy to win.  If anyone enjoys strategy games then this is highly recommended for you.  The game does stay on topic about the hardships and achievements of a rural family.

I think that people should be careful about giving out their personal information because people can steal your identity.  There are many ways to keep from bieng robbed in such a manner.  One way is to do not give out any information about your social security.  Another way is to not give out your phone number.  Finally, you should never use your last name.
First if you give out any information on social security then you are an easy target for thieves.  If you give out your phone number then people could call and persuade you to give out private information.  Finally, if you use your last name then people could harasses you by phone from looking up your last name.

Alex's Wiki page

Globaloria is one of the best classes that I have ever had.  There are so many experiences to enjoy in this class.  When has there actually been a class that is fun and educational?  This is one class that I could over and over again.  I can not wait for the actual game design!
First our teacher from last year told us about this class, but we were still not prepared for some of the things we encountered in this class.  Our teacher is one of the coolest teachers ever and is very patient and helpful for us.  Whenever we have questions she answers them so no one is ever left behind.
Next there was the work on the Wiki page which was extremely fun and then there was the uploading pictures which took forever.  When everyone had tose we started on something new that no one had expected.
Last week we started designing our blog and that was extremely hard for some people because it took us quite a while. I was done with mine in the first few days but I had to edit more of the page because of not being able to put all of the things on the profile. Finally we had to wait for a while to start our blog.