#diary2017

I went to the school earlier for the scholarship. I was already on my way, and way too far from our house already when I realized that I forgot my Certificate of Grades and my Good Moral. I was so pissed, man. But then I found a solution, which is pumila ulit sa admin to pay for my good moral again and kukuha ulit ako ng COG. I don’t want to put everything here in detail. Basta in the end, checklist and pre-reg lang nakuha ko. Because wala yung mga prof. I wasted money, woke up early and bumiyahe ako for hours, for nothing but a photocopy. But hey, on the bright side, may napala rin naman kahit papaano.

And this is when the highlight of my day happened: I was hit by a jeepney. I didn’t manage to remember the driver’s face. I don’t even think I would still recognize him once I see him again. And di ko rin nakuha yung plate number!!! Now, the left side of my body was injured and I can feel the pain on my left leg. Magpapax-ray ako bukas and magpapacheck-up, without anyone in the house knowing about the incident. I don’t want to be their burden. And I have my own money din naman. Please include me in your prayers. I am hoping that my current condition or injury is nothing serious na dadating sa point na may bone fracture na pala or something. Please take care of yourselves. Do not be careless and be extra aware of your surroundings.

The arrangement of everything that appears in the framing……Mise-en-scène, a French term that means “placing on stage.” The frame and camerawork are also considered part of the mise-en-scène of a movie.

From Mise-en-scène - Elements of Cinema

From Cambridge dictionary

The Trailer is from The Behemoth‘s YouTube channel.

BattleBlock Theater is The Behemoth’s 2D platformer game which was released in 2013. I have purchased the game in 2015 yet still cannot get myself off from it. This game always can magically keep its freshness and never let me down. The players are allowed to share their edited level to others, this feature is great enough to keep its playability and what’s more, the developers still updated the game such as giving new special characters etc. It has already stolen my 95+ hours so far, but surely it will steal more.

BattleBlock Theater maintains the art style as Castle Crashers which was cute, funny and crazy. This time, the player is not saving the kingdom anymore. You are on a ship full of friends ( which is a cool way to present friendship), unfortunately, the ship crashes onto an island. The kitties run a theatre on the island, however, the theatre is actually like a jail, they kidnap people, treat them as criminal and throw them into a theatre to challenge stages for their entertainments. In order to leave this island, the player needs to finish 80+ of platform levels. Doesn’t make sense? It’s alright. Nothing is logical, then everything is logical.

We got homework of doing some changes to the game Battleships for a game design class. Before talking about the changes, let’s see the detail of the original version.

Battle Ships (original version)

Space: A piece of paper Goal: Winning the game (destroying all of the opponent’s ships) Component: Two players, a piece of paper and pen/pencil Mechanics: Choose the gird Outcome: Win, lose and draw Conflict: Man vs. man Rules: (1) Placing all of the ships on the grids, either horizontal or vertical. (2) Must placing all of the ships. (3) Guessing a grid that might be the place the opponent’s ship. (4) A ship is destroyed when the opponent knows all the grids of the ship. (5)  A player must guess one time in his turn. If a player guesses right, he gets a chance to keep guessing until he makes a miss. If a player guesses wrong, his turn is finished. (6) A game is finished when all of a player’s ships are destroyed.

Starting Changing Battle Ships

I had invited my mother to help me this work as Player B and I was Player A. In each changing version, there is only one adding elements, but as we learned in class, it might make a big change comparing to the original version.

I will list all of the elements of the new version and highlight the part which is different to the original version. After that, I will talk about how the new thing changes the game and how did the player feel about the game.

Montage Montage was introduced by Sergei Eisenstein and were used in 1920s in Soviet Russia.

Montage is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information. The term has been used in various contexts. It was introduced to cinema primarily by Sergei Eisenstein, and early Soviet directors used it as a synonym for creative editing.

From Montage (filmmaking), Wikipedia

Montage is a juxtaposition of different shots, therefore the audience must watch until the last shot, or they won’t know the meaning of this video.

Montage doesn’t tell a linear story (which means a series of events in which one follow another one directly).

Juxtaposition: Putting the things that are not similar next to each other.