SHIFT

Shift is a puzzle game that requires some strategies to reach the door first. There are some obstacles in between that obstruct you to get into the door. There are keys too to unlock certain path that is obstructing you on the way to the door. There are some buttons to help you along the way. Space bar to jump and shift to shift you from black world to white world.

I find this game interesting as it helps to train my brain. I am satisified with their interesting game design and how they instruct the player to play. Although sometimes, I'm quite confused with the jump button and shift button. Overall, I find this game is good for gamer who prefer simple and yet strategic game.

Exercise 2 for DM2232

I have chosen RollerCoaster Creator as the game to do for GameBoy DS platform.

RollerCoaster is a game whereby you have to create RollerCoaster tracks which allow the roller coaster to travel from the beginning of the track to the end of it and you have to collect There are 6 tools to help you to draw the tracks. There are 5 fixed pattern shape tool with 1 "free-hand" tool which means you can draw the tracks freely using your mouse. In the next paragraph, I will talk about how I would adapt the game for the Nintendo DS platform.

For the menu page of  RollerCoaster Creator, I would like the bottom screen to be the screen of levels that the players have attained and have not attained. This will help the players to keep track of their progress. The design of the levels page will be something like Super Mario Game whereby there are a lot of levels and small kings in a World. There will be different levels in different 3 big world. The first world would probably the easier mode and follow up. There will be some hints that lead the player to complete the mission. For example, the tools that should be used to reach the final destination. There will be no more hints in World2 and World3 so that player can think creatively how to create the tracks of the roller coaster.

GameBoy DS has 2 screens. The top one we can control the game using stylus while the bottom screen is for buttons-controlling only. In my view, I would put the 6 tools of the game below the screen for the player to choose using buttons and I would prefer the gameplay on top screen because player will draw the tracks easier. 

This would be the end of my views on adapting RollerCoaster Creator into GameBoy DS.

Fishy!

Fishy is a flash game that is easy to play.This is not a fantastic game but it is fun enough to kill your boredom. Therefore, I will only play this game when I'm bored.

The game will start out as a mini fish and you can only eat the fishes which are smaller than you. As you eat the fishes, you will grow . Thus, you will have more fishes to eat when you grow bigger. When your fish is so big that, it fits the entire frame of the game and you are able to eat all the fishes. Congratulation!

This is not a terrific game but there are still some thrills in the game such as swimming to the other sides of the screen to avoid bigger fishes. Moreover, it is difficult to control the fish using keyboard so the difficulty increase. Overall, this game is not bad.

Dragon Delta

The day before school holiday start, Olivia, Yan Ting, XinYee, Eugenia, Eileen and me went to the Settler's which is located in Clarke Quay. We went there so as to understand more about different types of board game which may help us in doing our 2nd assignment. =D

People are friendly there and one of them to suggest us to play Dragon Delta board game. It is a strategic game whereby players have to help each other to build a bridge so that they can go across the river to the other side of land. Although players are supposed to help each other to cross the river but there will be only 1 player who will win the game.

We are supposed to build bridge with rocks and plank to get us to move across the river. There are cards which indicate us what equipment we can use.There are also cards which are able to sabotage the other players by freezing their turns. This is the most fun part whereby the other player was near to victory but because we freeze her to move. She ends up losing her turn.

This game is suitable for family=) with minimum of 2 players to the maximum of 6 players . I realised I love to play those mini family game =).  In my point of view, this game is the first strategic board game that I ever  played and I find it FUNTASTIC! You get to laugh, chat and shout at your friend while playing. Moreover, you get to see your friend's expression when they win/lose the game.=D

I'm in love with board game. XD

Tower Bloxx

GAME DESCRIPTION
This is a PC and mobile game. This is a one thumb game which means you only have to control 1 key to play the game. The game is to build up an apartment for the residents to stay. You are required to stack up units in order to build up an apartment. The higher you stack, the faster the building sway which increase the difficulty for the player to stack properly.If the player did not place the units properly, it may fall and lose 1 unit. Player are given 3 chances to stack. If they dropped the units 3 times, the game is over.

Game Review

This is an easy game because its uses only one button (one thumb game) . Since its a one thumb game, this game can be played anytime and anywhere. The rules are easy to understand which is basically building up apartment in a given town. The building tends to sway as you stack the blocks higher which increases the difficulty to build the building higher. This game is one of my favourite mobile phone game because its convenient to play. There is a version in Facebook whereby you can challenge your friends to build a higher building. =D

Mario Kart DS

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

This is another game for Nintendo DS Lite. It is a racing game as you can see from the title of the game. Super Mario is a popular character which I believed it is well-known by the teenagers and children today. In the past, Super Mario is an adventure game whereby he has to save Princess Peach from Kuppa. However, for this series, there is no adventure game to save the princess. Instead, they go for racing game with each other characters that can be found in Mario Kart. This game is simply a racing game to unlock new characters and levels. Characters in Super Mario, eg. Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad, raced with each other in certain place. Moreover, in this game, 3 new characters are introduced in the game. They are Dry Bones, Shy Guy and ROB. Unfortunately, they are the locked characters. In order to see them, player had to race with minimum requirement to unlock them.While racing, some question marks box can be found along the road. They are the power items to help you to gain you speed or giving the other players more obstacles which allow them not to race smoothly.In this game, I played it using the buttons in DS Lite. You are able to play it with the stylus too. However, for me, I don't prefer using stylus. It's more difficult to control using stylus than buttons.

GAME MODE

In this game there is 3 modes:

Grand Prix: In this mode, there wil be 4 cups for the player to race. They are mushroom cup, flower cup, star cup and special cup. There are 8 racing tracks in 1 cup. However, only 6 tracks are unlocked to let the player play. If you get rank E at the 6th track, you are able to unlock the 7th track. This continues for the following tracks and cups. If you are able to get rank D for all the racing track in 1 cup, you are able to unlock new characters.

Time Trial: In this mode, you will race yourself and the computer will process the stopwatch to help you to count the time you finished the race. The faster you raced the higher rank you have.

Battle: In this mode, you will have a "war" with the other characters. There are balloon battle and Gold Battle. For the balloon battle, players are to burst the balloon of the opponents while, in the gold battle, you have to snatch each others gold. The one with the highest number of gold won the battle.

My Review:

This is 1 of my favourite games as it motivates me to unlock more levels and characters to try.

This game is not very difficult to play. It is suitable for children above 7 years old. I have a cousin who is 7 years old playing this game too. Therefore, I believed that this game is suitable to most of the young children and adults.

Cooking Mama

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Cooking Mama is a game for Nintendo DS Lite.

Cooking Mama is a cooking game as you can see from the title itself. It is the game for Nintendo DS Lite. You would have to use the stylus in the DS Lite to play. There are some procedures for you to do such as slicing vegetables, stirring eggs, chopping meat, mixing ingredients, and other cooking steps. There are specific time for you to finish the task. If you failed to do at the specific time, "Mama" will get angry but she will help you to do the rest of the stuffs. "Mama" will praised you if you success. The facial espressions will be as followed.

ContentAngry

"Mama" will marked your food based on what you have done. If you received 100% by "Mama", you will received a gold medal. If you received below 100% and above 83%, you will received a silver medal. If you have lower than 83%, you will received a bronze medal.

GAME MODES

Let's Cook-This is the main mode whereby players will start off by choosing dishes they wanted to cook. As they collected more gold medals, more dishes will be unlocked.

Let's Combine-In this mode, player can match 2 recipe together to create a new dish.

Use Skills- In this mode, there are many mini games such as slicing, chopping, grating, wrapping, stewing, tearing, mixing ingredients, etc. These games are time-based. If you managed to finish the given tasks within the time given you will be ranked accordingly.

My View

This game is popular among the girls. They are able to play the game and at the same time they are able to learn cooking from the recipes given. Overall, I find this game interesting and as I unlocked certain dishes. It gave me some contentment.