Paper+3+Story+Telling,+Analysis+and+Creative+Game+Design

This project, I must admit was harder then I had expected. The first part, which consisted of annotating an article was fairly easy because it was self explanatory. The most difficult part of the project for me was coming up with an idea for a video game script. I think a lot of the blame can be put on the fact that I am not a very creative person. This is also why I found the research based article annotation easy because I do well with being able to find answers rather then completing a task with no real set guidelines. The world that i created, which was formed from my blog about "minecraft" also further exemplified this point. Since their are no limits to what you can do in the game, I find myself being lost a lot, because I don't know where to start. My process for creating the video game script was somewhat of a long process because I could not think of an idea for a video game. I first though of activities I like to do then I came up with the "dorm basketball" idea. Once I came up with the idea, it wasn't to hard from then on out. I basically just thought of the main points I would try and get across and then filled the script n with quotes and detatils. If I had to give advice on how to write a video game script is to write about something that you are interested in, if it is an option because your final product will probably be better. Sometimes when I am having a metal block with these types of things I like to do something for a few minutes to take my mind off the task and then come back to it with a refreshed mind. My advice for annotating articles is to just acknowledge what seems to work and what doesn't.