Freshmen Work

There was very little of my freshman work that made me proud. I set impossible standards and criticized myself so harshly, it sometimes halted and even interrupted my work process. Freshman Year at Ringling was an extreme learning experience, on not just how to work well with the time allotted, but also disciplining oneself to get in the habit of finishing and turning in work.

That being said, I did have one work I was proud of, especially near the end of the year. It was around the time where much of the learning that I had done through the year really clicked with me.

The work was my Final for 3D for Game Art

A very fun project about creating a Grunt that allowed me to really work with the skills I had learned through the semester. It finally made me proud of what I had done, and really helped me realize my  love for 3D and creating cool and interesting textures. It was so satisfying and fulfilling, that I hope to continue to get the same feeling for the rest of the next 3 years here. 

Wildstar Trailer! (and why it is freakin' fantastic)

This is Wildstar, an MMO in progress by Carbine Studios, set to release around 2014. This, along with many of it's other videos you can find on it's website and it's YouTube Channel, is a major example as to why I think this game is going to be one of the best MMOs to hit the internet.

The trailer says it all. It convey's the game's epic scope, as well as the humor and fun that the game has to offer. It never once makes any attempt to take itself too seriously, or make itself out to be anything it's not. Wildstar is exactly what it wants to be, pure, unadulterated, silly, fantasy fun. It's Firefly, it's Star Wars, it's all that and more, rolled up into one experience that, as the video explains, "Will. Blow. Your. Mind."

It's rightfully many people's most anticipated MMO of 2013-14, and will be the next MMO I'll be calling home to, as soon as it comes out.

How to Play Ice-braker Backgammon

Hello! I'm Danny and this is my blog. I will be posting my work from my classes, as well as any progress I make in my journey to to becoming a full fledged Game Artist.

Most of this will consist of making posts on the things I make and do in my classes. The next content being an example!

HOW TO PLAY ICE-BREAKER BACKGAMMON

Ice-Breaker Backgammon (the name of which I just made up now) is a game that my Game Design class made for our first group assignment! The real assignment was to make a game whose goal was to learn each other's name, but since we all knew each other (to a relative point) we changed it slightly, to simply having to know each other's favorite games, which we had all just learned a few minutes before hand.

The game is simple. All you'll need is:

Apiece of Paper and Pencil:

A 12, or similarly even-sided dice:

A set of stairs: 

 and, not including yourself, 12 (Or similarly even numbered amount) of your closest new acquaintances:

The game plays similarly to Backgammon, where there is a "board" (Stairs) and "pieces" (teams of acquaintances) and an end goal, being the top of the stairs. Before the game starts, you should all say your names, at least once, and then start the game. 

Acting as the moderator, write all your friends names down on a piece of paper and number them from 1 to 12 or whatever even number you have. Then, have your friends split into two, even numbered teams, and have two of them face each other at the bottom of the stairs. 

Roll the dice, and match the number the dice lands, to the name on your paper! Call out that person's name, and the fastest of the two at the bottom of the stairs to point to the person whose name was called out, wins the round! The winner moves up on the stairs, replaced by the next person in their team! 

The goal is to have a team reach the top of the stairs, declaring them the winner! Hopefully by the end of this, all the names will have been called out and learned through pure competitive spirit. 

That's it! Whether or not there are prizes is all up to you- that's how you play Ice-Breaker Backgammon!

Happy Playing! 

-Danny