Game Analysis and Design Interest Group

GADIG Update

gadiggmu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:38:45 +0000

Hey everyone, this is Jason, one of the officers of GADIG, and I’ll be taking over blogging responsibility (if it’s cool w/ the other officers).

I don’t know if anyone reads this anymore, but I’ll post blogs as if people do.

Our next event will be held on Friday, Feb. 5th in the Piedmont Multipurpose Room, from 5-9 pm. The list of games that will be featured hasn’t been decided yet. Perhaps Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Gears of War 2, or maybe an Xbox Live Arcade game. OR some Wii or PS3 (obviously I don’t play the latter two as much).

Feel free to leave comments about which games you would like to see at the next event.

General Gaming Event Oct 30

gadiggmu — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:51:27 +0000

Piedmont Multipurpose Room

Friday, October 30th

7:30PM – 11:30PM

Games Included:

Super Smash Bros Brawl

Beatles Rock Band

Halo 3

Left 4 Dead

Free Pizza and Drink for all attendees.

Please feel free to bring controllers and friends.

Halo: ODST Event Pics

gadiggmu — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:31:43 +0000

Thanks to everyone who could make it out to our Halo: ODST event!

Pics…

Halo ODST Launch Party Sep 25th

gadiggmu — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:25:00 +0000

Come Join GADIG for their first event of the Fall 2009 semester with Halo ODST!

Halo: ODST Launch Party

Friday, September 25th 2009

Piedmont Multipurpose Room in Chesapeake

5:00PM to 9:00PM

Pizza and drink available for all attendees

Questions? Concerns? Contact President Sean Banks (sbanks3@gmu.edu).

Canabalt

gadiggmu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:35:52 +0000

Simple. Minimalistic. Entertaining

Keeping single button platformers interesting…

Canabalt

GADIG Tournament Apr 16th

gadiggmu — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:15:16 +0000

GADIG GAMING EVENT!

Thursday, April 16th
Student Union Building 1 Lobby, 6PM – 10PM
Join GADIG for their Left 4 Dead (Xbox 360) event.

Pizza and Drink available for all attendees.

Feel free to bring your own friends as well as controllers (labeled please!), since we might be short a few.

Special Note
Turns out we don’t have enough copies of Left 4 Dead to go around. Anyone willing to lend their Xbox 360 copies will be highly exalted and should contact us ASAP. Thanks.

Questions? Concerns? Contact President Sean Banks (sbanks3@gmu.edu).

OnLive: Raising the Bar, Lowering the Requirements

gadiggmu — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:22:54 +0000

The website <http://www.onlive.com> finally reached zero on its countdown, unveiling a gorgeous, yet simple website (although it was a good 15 minutes more before I could actually view it). OnLive says, “after years of development in stealth mode, we finally expose ourselves to the world.” But maybe you’re asking, just what is OnLive?

OnLive will be an online service that plans to revolutionize the way games are played. In its simplest form, it is a casual gamer’s dream come true. Many students go to school every year with their brand new laptops, only to find that they need a GPU to play just about any game they want. Although older computers may not work with OnLive as well, they claim that any entry-level PC or Mac (yes, that’s right, Mac) will be able to use their service, as long as your internet connection is good enough. There will even be an option to buy a small machine that can hook up to an HDTV, changing the way game consoles may be viewed in the future.

So how does it work? OnLive has the ultimate gaming machines, so you don’t have to. The service streams what’s going on in the game to you, and when you input the controls, it sends them via broadband internet to their servers, which calculate the next move, and send the feedback to you again, and so forth. So basically, you’re playing through their computers. OnLive boasts that you will be able to play on the highest graphics, because their machines can take it. For an HDTV, if you want 720p high definition, you’re going to need at least a 5Mbps connection, whereas at least a 1.5 Mbps connection is needed for standard definition.

There will most likely be a monthly service charged involved, and each game to buy will cost extra (although you can demo them to try them out, or rent them, if you prefer), but it sounds like it could be worth it, since you would not have to spend all your money on a gaming machine. OnLive also promises online gameplay, as well as special features, such as replays. The service is set to launch in Winter 2009, and this summer they will begin choosing for the open beta, so sign up now if you want to try it!

Interview #1

Interview#2

Behemoth’s Third Game

gadiggmu — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:07:06 +0000

With the initial success of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers, Behemoth games is not one to rest lightly on their laurels. Trailer below is from their new game, which bears no title but will satisfy lovers of epic opera music.

The Behemoth – Game #3 Trailer from The Behemoth on Vimeo.

Animated Cooperative Platformer…Niceeeeee

Minimalist Design: 4k Java games!

gadiggmu — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:38:12 +0000

Found these while perusing some gaming stories over at Kotaku. It’s quite intriguing what people can make when they are given constraints instead of limitless possibilities. Below is Left 4k Dead, which is surprisingly a good rendition of it’s beefier and prettier cousin.

Java4k.com

Poll Time!

gadiggmu — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:46:36 +0000