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http://changethis.com/
-David Rendall’s “FREAK FACTOR: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness”

Rendall discusses how everyone has weaknesses and strategies of how to overcome them. One suggestion I would say is valid is build on your strengths. By improving on your strengths you’re doing something you know you’re good at so there’s no downside. If you can’t improve your weaknesses, by improving your strengths at least you will have a specialized section of things that you can do. Another suggestion I think is quite valid is focus: you can’t do both. I believe this to be very true, because like he said we have too much to do. I would think that trying to improve both would be extremely stressful. Overall I would say stick to working on strengths because if you focus on weaknesses then it will be likely that your strengths will begin to lessen. I would also say that the power of uniqueness is a good suggestion. People in today’s modern society succeed because they stand out and are unique. Such as the music industry, most of the better known artists are the ones that grab your attention because they are different. For me as far as a strength goes, I’m not that sure what mine would be just yet. As far as a weakness in the creative process would probably be taking the time to actually try to be creative rather than rushing through things.

blog 9a

One thing about the presentation that we didn’t exactly come across was the background music. There was background in game sounds but not like the intense dramatic battle music. Another thing about the presentation would be we didn’t create our own images of what the game would look like, more so example of games that already had aspects like it. I personally think that goals would be the easiest concept to discuss with others. With goals there is a personal or premade goal that needs to be carried out. So this would be easier than having to do a certain objective to receive a certain outcome. Also it relies more on the player and how dedicated they are to reaching their goal.

blog 8b

Sam Golemboski did not have the hero/villain posted


Steven's hero/villain
http://steve342.blogspot.com/2011/06/8b-written-reflection-on-herovillain.html

The hero and villain contrast in their brightness, the hero is much brighter, whereas the villain is darker and cast in shadow. The hero contains brighter colors, red and green. The villain has much darker colors, dark red and dark green. The hero which looks like a clown would resemble a hero more because people’s subtext for clowns is happy or funny. The villain’s facial expressions even give the impression of evil or villainous, also the dark colors and shadow emphasis that it is indeed the villain.

William Blunenschein did not have the hero/villain posted

blog 8a

www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/superpowers

http://www.podsnack.com/my-playlists/details/00ec3c4ac43b88a793aa1334aa661493 - for some reason podsnack wouldnt upload it to my blog but the link should work