If you were fortunate growing up, you have a Wii. And if you did, you most likely remember the game that came with the console: Wii Sports. The 2006 game featured five sports simulations, tennis, boxing, baseball, golf, and my personal favorite, bowling.

While Nintendo likely created this game with the intention of increasing physical activity among video game users, most of us can agree that we favored the least physically active sport of the five: bowling.

I played so much Wii Bowling, that I acquired the golden bowling bowl TWICE (the first time on our original Wii and the second time after our Wii malfunctioned and deleted all of its data). My friends and I used to see how far away from the console you could get and still have a connection to the game. We would play “long-distance bowling”, and we were pretty good at it.

Since I feel like most people played the least active game on Wii Sports, I decided to add a little something extra to the game’s cover. You know, just to get our expectations here clear.

I put the image into a Word document, placed a white square over the original icons of the sports, and using a downloaded Wii font package, I put my mind to work. I choose to use Word because it is a surprisingly good graphic design tool for quick and simple projects. Without further ado, here is the final product:

The DragonQuest series is one of my favorite game series of all time. The assignment, Honest Game Cover, wanted me to make an honest game title for the game’s cover. So for this assignment, I chose DragonQuest 11 which is a game that I’m currently playing. Now if you’re a DQ fan then you know that the majority of the game consists of grinding (which means the playing time spent doing repetitive tasks to either obtain an item or to build experience) and the quickest way to grind in DQ is to kill metal slimes. They have the most experience out of the game so killing them is very rewarding. The problem is… they’re very rare, have a strong defense, and are known to run away from a battle. So for the title, I basically explained the true objective of DQ games. Every DQ player can relate am I right?

For this assignment, I went back to Pixlr and used the Retouch tool. This tool allows blurring objects and that’s what I did to blur the title as you can see in the right photo. Once I felt satisfied with my result I added a text block and then wrote the new title. I fixed the text block so it could look balanced, align, and about the same size as the original cover. Color also mattered so I changed it to black so it was readable.

The goal of this assignment was to create an honest title for a video game. This assignment was worth 2 stars. I used DigiWidgets to edit my photo. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/honest-game-cover/

Every mom loves a good game of just dance! The moves are right in their area of expertise.

Honest Game Trailer – 2 Points

God of War is the ultimate revenge game. The premise is a spartan solider, Kratos, who got tricked by the god of war, Ares into killing his own family and is forced to live with the shame of his crime. Kratos spends his entire life to get revenge on Ares and the rest of the gods of Olympus. He struggles, gets beaten, tortured, but continues to tread on until his goal achieved.

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/honest-game-cover/

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/honest-game-cover/ (2 Stars)

When trying to decide what I was going to do this week in relation to my character Detective Longs, I remembered this game that a child I had babysat had played and it was perfect. I changed the name of this game to “People vs Longs” because even though Longs is a detective and supposed to do good in the world, he does end up always getting himself in a little bit of trouble, always leading us to wonder if he is good or bad. In this action packed game we get to explore a little bit more into the life of Longs and what his real motives of life are.