Friday 31 May 2013

Feedback about the course and everything

Hey everyone!

I think this course was a success at the end. At the beginning things were all messy but after the beginning everything got organized and clear and everyone learned how to play these two games. Next year, if you do the course again, play games that are newer so people will get more excited. One thing with these two games was that if you hadn´t played them before, it was hard to learn by ourselves and it took a while. Another tip for the next year is that make up more meetings so people will get to know faster how to play the games.
About teachers and the mentors we had i would have two words. I was really amazed how professional they all were playing these games (except Sanna) haha :D (just kidding lol). I wish a great summer for you all who are reading this, enjoy your time and party hard!!

Best regars,

Aleksi the King

Feedback about the course

On my opinion this course has been fun. I think this course was way easier to the people who had played these games before. We also had some problems with both of the games so at the beginning it wasnt so easy to start because I had no clue what to do and how because I had to do everything by myself. In school grades this course would be 8. Without problems and maybe by changing games to something else it would be better.
In civilization I still dont have my own empire because everytime I start new one it gets ruined by other empires. Maybe I should have been played with easy difficulty!
In Minecraft I learned a lot pf different things. Before the course started I tought that Minecraft is not a good game. But after I had played it for a while I found it really funny.

Civilization: The Fall of Legendary Tokugawa

So I advanced a little bit, and I decided I'd start a war with my dear neighbour.
I don't have any troops, so I'm in a lot of trouble.
I don't really like this game, and I don't really know how to play it.
But I think I did pretty good.

Thursday 30 May 2013

Civilization: The Legend of Tokugawa

So I’m playing as Japan at 825 BC and I've got a pretty good start. I'm still learning, but I think I’ll do quite well.
As far as my plans go:
1.   Expand and evolve my civilization.
2.   Be friendly to everyone.
3.   After they think that I am their friend, kill them.
I guess we will see how that turns out.

Final words...

This road is about to end. It was a different experiment and almost fun. We had some difficulties with game programs and to be honest anything didn't work. At least we had something to do at other classes if we didn't feel like studying. The positive things about the course was that it didn't take as much work as the other courses. But there was a lot more bad things than good. We didn't get the chance to play CIV 4 online at all and minecraft missions weren't the best possible choices. Maybe with some time and more improvement it can be a fun time for the next group that tries this course.

Endgame

So the course was refreshing. Writing the blog wasn't bad since its posts didn't have to be so long. And it was nice to get to play Minecraft with people even if it didn't work at home and Civilization was a nice change as a homework even if we got to play single player only. Even the meetings were nice because time passed on quickly during them.

So it was a nice course for a change. Maybe next time the games will work properly. If there will be a next time.
Feedback about the course.
Gaming thing was something new and refreshing to school, but unfortunately due some technical difficulties and human errors, its full potential couldn't be used. I didn't like Civilization so it didn't quite catch up with me but Minecraft was something I've played before so it was nice. Problem with that, was that you could only play it in school and after creative mode was changed to survival, I kind of lost my motivation to build.
All in all it was 4/5, would recommend ( after the difficulties have been fixed).
Kthxbye

Wednesday 29 May 2013

Civ IV

this is where i am at now. Almost there! I am almost won the scenario this is awsome.

civilisation IV

right now doing custum scenario with only one rule for the victory. It is defeat all opponents.

Monday 27 May 2013

So, I kept pressing buttons and now I'm at 1395AD and I think I have the most powerful empire at the moment. Expansions are proceeding and partnering with other empires has gone well. I still have no idea what I'm doing.
Civilization IV
I started as the English empire, but I still have no clue what i'm doing...
I would have liked to get some kind of introduction before we started, because I haven't played Civilization before and it's feels a bit difficult at first. I'll try to push on and post my about my campaign more later.

Thursday 23 May 2013

CIV whit lvl noble




















So we tried to play the multiplayer version by emailing the game to each others but it has failed... So our ''mission'' was to get a screen capture and play the game to little further. I played it whit single player and this is what I managed to do. Well I didn't get to do anything... I tried a little harder lvl and playing peaceful but I didnt get anything done because of the barbarians. I made about ten villages but all of them was destroyed by them. So I got mad and stopped playing. It's a shame that we weren't able to play the multiplayer version but singlepalyer version is pretty fun too.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

Back with Civilization

Back again in civilization. Had to start a new game but played bit longer now. I'm still playing as Greek with Alexander as a leader.



So I had a good start with more experience than before and had an excellent starting position. I quickly expanded with my second city in couple of minutes and kept expanding quickly. I researched all leading to machinery and other things. Only religion was researched later because I didn't think religion is so important in start. I adopted Christianity when I founded it. 
I'm playing the map Terra and I have discovered all of my opponents. I'm not really trading with them just focusing to achieve weapon superiority and possibly rushing to nukes and take down at least most of them. But I'm not sure if I will nuke them because it will take much more time and slow my process otherwise. So maybe I will just try win space race because I'm already bit superior with my army having gunpowder and grenades at my disposal. I'm even more advanced with my science experiences so it is looking quite good. Maybe I'm playing with bit too easy difficulty but oh well...

Monday 20 May 2013

Mediamaailmat-survey

Thanks for the gaming session today, it was interesting to try something a bit different this time! It's all valuable research data, too.

As I mentioned, I'd kindly ask you to fill the following short survey. The data is processed anonymously, so feel free to be honest ;)

Here's the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JT3PFPN

Thanks in advance!
Fresh winds on our gaming course

Today, we tried something different on the course, by playing objectively. We were supposed to collect resources to launch a spaces shuttle. I have had previous experience on these types of game modes and this was also inspiring compared to the normal block destroying. We didn't proceed that much but we got a good start. I should get into Civilization more before the course ends.

Sunday 19 May 2013

Civilization life

Hello everybody!

The world where I play is called "Terra" and the civilization which I chose was the Japanese empire and their leader is Tokugawa.


This is my village, I´ve built a couple of boats (trireme), workers, warriors and a lighthouse is coming up fast. Also I´ve trained alot of skills like mining and construction, mysticism, etc. I think it´s the classical era where I´m living with my japanese people. I think this game is really challenging for the guys who hasn´t played any games like this before because you don´t really know where to start and what to do first and what should you start training. I just tried everything and learned from that way. I hope the multiplayer thing would have worked because single player mode is kind of boring comparing to multiplayer :( I´m really excited to see where you guys are going on this game and how great your empires are comparing to mine.

Thanks,

Aleksi

Thursday 16 May 2013

Last contact lesson

Hey,

I've been really amazed by the quality of your buildings and the lack of English in communication. Take it how ever you will :)

On Monday 20th, we will have our last session. We'll play through a scenario this time, so there will be more structured game-play this time around. Our scenario will take place in a post-Apocalyptic world, and we will try to salvage what can be salvaged.

Thanks for the pictures, some of them have been featured in a couple of conferences. The lava-lamp by Leevi, Antti and Joonas, for example, was shown to a group of American game-designers.

We'll update your game clients too, to a more recent version of Minecraft on Monday.

Have a nice weekend!

Wednesday 15 May 2013

Working hard

Hey all!

We have had some server problems with Minecraft. I have built a very simple house where I can sleep and a warehouse where I can keep my stuffs. Its been very very fun learning how to craft different things in Minecraft. Like I told you at my first post I have never before played Minecraft. I have died few times after I came from underground where I was mining and lost lot of iron and coal. But today I found my first diamonds! It may sound stupid but im proud I have found diamonds! Now i can do something fun with my diamonds.

In civilisation I havent been so active because we have some problems with there too. But I have learned something in CIV too. On my opinion Minecraft is much more better game than CIV. Its been fun in this course playing with friends and alone.

Here is my small house and warehouse in the background.





Sunday 12 May 2013

server problems

this week i had alot problems connecting to the server at school and  so i really didn't do much on minecraft. I have played little civ4 and thinked about stradegys for the e-mail game if it would start soon.

Friday 10 May 2013

Connection problems?

Hey everyone!

I think we have some kind of problems with the minecraft server system? It´s not working at school at all, it wont connect to the server, so I´ve been playing in different server and I finished with a nice but simple house. I think I´ve learned the basics quite fast and I´m getting better everytime I play. With Civilization our group have quite big issues, I think the turn is still stuck on Teemu, and I haven´t even played the first round so I´m getting annoyed with the whole thing with Civ. It seems to be a nice game tho. Maybe we should have another meeting soon with the group so we could get things moving on? However, things are going great with minecraft without counting the connection problems on school server. So teachers, please make up a meeting soon, so we can get things organized!


-Aleksi 
(Im playing with my own computer, and i changed the texture pack so it looks different than playing with the school laptop)

Wednesday 8 May 2013

Week 3

First I have to complain about the Minecraft server system. It's is not working (yet?) at home, and I don't have time to play it at school. However i have builded two scale models; Burj Khalifa, the highest building in the world, located i Dubai, And the replica of the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Both are quite small buildings, but since the server doesn't work outside the school, I haven't had much time to play.
Our Civilization game is stuck on Valtteri, and I haven't even played the first round... Im getting real frustrated right now. But here is the screenshots:

No progress

Things haven't advanced with the games, since Minecraft's server doesn't work at home and Civilization's save hasn't been sent forward, thanks to Valtteri.
I've been playing on another server since the school's server is inaccessible at home.
Civilization has turned out to be a bit of a fail, because the emailing system.

Saturday 4 May 2013

More minecraft

Last week  I haven't got a clue what I was going to build. I was thinking of building a ship that would have been on water but instead I started to help Leevi in his project and in the end I was helping him to make it complete. You can see the picture of the building we made from Leevi's own Minecraft post from last week. We made a building which had water walls and we thought that it was a bit boring so we cowered the whole thing whit glass and putted some lava inside it. So basically it is a huge house whit water falls and inside it, there is a lot of lava. We made a little farm outside the house where there are some cows and next to them is a diamond covered swimming poll. So that's it from this week and next week we will build something new!

Friday 3 May 2013

Dear classmates, teachers and bloggers

Hi all!

So I finally got into this blog and saw your amazing posts and buildings you´ve built in Minecraft. I´m just a rookie player in Minecraft and I really dont have a clue how to play it but I´m learning fast! Couple times I´ve tried to play the game in our multiplayer server but it comes up with a big error. I got in yesterday and started with some basics (walking around, digging, etc). It seems to be a little bit different game than the games I´ve played before but I like it alot! Next post of mine will be nice, you´ll be amazed for sure!

Feel free to comment and give me some tips for the later challenges I will face on Minecraft! About Civilization, I´m trying to learn the basics and build some kind of village but it is a kind of hard game if you haven´t played it before!

Best regards,

Aleksi