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Festival Favourites – Board Game Design Dossier
As a part of my coursework for BCM 300 – Game Experience Design, I was tasked to compose a dossier of everything that went into the process of developing my tabletop game, Festival Favourites. I was so happy to take the direction I did, it was a uni assessment turned passion project (which I tend…
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The Deep End – Music Festivals in 2050
2050, it’s a bit far away. Before I know it, I’ll be 47 years old reading back on this, judging my predictions and if they were correct, had some truth to them, or were completely off base. So, Kai in 2050 if you’re reading this, hope I did you proud and you’re doing alright mate.…
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How Did We End Up Here? – AI and Music Festivals in 2040
Picture this, it’s 2040, you don’t know where the time went. For old times’ sake, you wrangle up your mates from Uni and collectively decide to hit up a music festival. You enter the gates, and what do you see? Maybe a weathered Ocean Alley on stage finally playing their farewell show, or an ultra-elaborate…
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Making A Special Interest Into a Card Game
I would just like to preface this; the title of the game is still a work in progress. So without further ado, here is a rundown of the development of my game, Festivities! Theme The theme of Festivities is building a festival line-up, using international and familiar Australian acts, to sell the most tickets, while…
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Autoethnography Hero: Legends of Twitch
Image created by Midjourney using prompt: university of Wollongong if it were a music festival Throughout this semester as apart of BCM 241, I’ve been exploring the media niche of hardcore and metal music video games, and the investigating commonalities participants share with fans of hardcore and metal music. To do this, my DA consisted…
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Yo Bro This Remix (Proliferation) is FIRE
Cover image created using Midjourney using prompt: gamer at computer, flames surrounding From the ideation of my DA, I knew what I wanted to do, but not necessarily what I was getting myself into. Throughout this phase of proliferation, I’ve implemented ethnographic skills and identified areas of concern that need alteration in my content. By…
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The Kai from Twitch Era
Cover image created by Midjourney using prompt: twitch gaming livesteam set up, graffit art style This week marked my first ever livestream on Twitch! Overall, I had a really enjoyable experience playing and chatting with strangers and friends, I discussed my research and received some hot tips from viewers on the game and how to…
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Hold Up, Lets Run it Back
Cover image created with Midjourney using prompt: doom, video game After submitting my pitch for BCM215 I was feeling quite confident. But as this week’s task was to peer review my classmates’ pitches, I had to get nit-picky. I provided feedback on Tanise and Riley’s posts, both who have stand out topics and helped me…
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Making it Pitch Perfect
Cover image created using Midjourney using prompt: hardcore rock, graffiti art style Now that our pitch is done, what do we do now? Provide critical feedback on other students’ pitches of course! I’ve provided feedback on Coby and Julia’s pitches with the aim of self-reflecting upon my pitch in an autoethnographic approach. Julia’s Pitch What…
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Ready to Rock ‘n’ Roll
Cover image created by Midjourney using prompt: guitar hero facing off against mario, stylised like a UFC poster Hardcore music in video games is a fairly recent topic of convergence in contemporary history. Peripheral-based music games were rarely commercially successful until Guitar Hero and games alike came along. Guitar Hero reunited bands such as Motorhead and The Sex…