Week 1 - -Blogging

Week 1 – Blogging

I’ve decided to look at a second year game, art and designs students blog. He goes by the name of John. A, from what I have seen form his blog, I was blown away with his writing techniques. He comes across funny but also getting the point across. He also doesn’t seem to hold back with what he wants to say, that’s a sign of a good writer.

It’s as almost instead of carry out the allotted task at hand, he would make the task his own and write it in his own unique style i.e.

‘This is probably quite a psychologically unhealthy thing to do, and has led to many situations where I'm playing a game I'm no longer enjoying or, at worst, that I don't even want to be playing anymore, simply because I've been “set a challenge” and I need to beat it. It's like a game of chess where the designer has moved his Queen and left me staring at a board that looks like checkmate, but he didn't say “checkmate”, he said “check”, which means he knows there's a way out of it but I just can't see it. It's an interesting kind of “social relationship” and once I'd realised it was there I wanted to have a go at it from the other side of the table’.

In terms of personalising his blog, he has certainly done that purely through his writing. His blog is almost updated everyday from how much content that is on there, running back into early 2006. In terms of content, it’s mainly based on his personality of a game artist, although task have been obviously completed but it almost seems as if you are reading a dairy.