So I am going to be completely honest here. I spent a lot of time in class when our computers were unfrozen playing “Arteroids”.\u00a0 In my defense, it was the relevant topic of the day, and definitely expanded my knowledge of the application\/project.\u00a0 First of all, the game was fun. Who doesn’t like shooting at things on a screen, honestly? The words that they had programmed in were a little boring, depending on what mode of game play you are in, but when I found out that you could program your own words in I got a little mental “BINGO”! Honestly I put in an email from my bonehead ex-boyfriend and totally shot away at them, naturally with my name as the shooter. It was kind of justifying, not going to lie (what an honest blog post for class!).\u00a0 I think that “Arteroids” is an excellent example on a variation of an old game, and a good attempt at really ‘prosing it up’ (puns are fun).<\/p>\n
Second of all, aside from it being fun and an awesome tool for personal revenge, it got a little boring after awhile, sure I wanted to try and get to level 216, but my patience definitely ran out (as did class-time).\u00a0 I think that this project serves solely as an example of what the miracles of the internet can do, although maybe not utilizing them to their fullest potential or expanding on an existing idea to its fullest potential. I don’t have an exact idea of how this could be improved from its current state, so I’m not going to try and pretend to offer up some suggestions. All I’m saying is that I believe that somehow it could be made better. Maybe the color scheme could be adjusted somehow, or have the words fire back as you instead of needing to avoid them, or maybe when you get to a certain point there is some ultimate high-score list that is recorded on the internet forever (okay I lied here and really did offer some suggestions).\u00a0 Although this might be the most fun interactive media we have covered this semester, it also might be the most lacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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