n, the Ninja Game.

Exploration
A company called Harvey Cartel (Metanet) has released a game on Xbox Live called N+, which is based on their amazing flash game, N, from 2005. In N, you command a ninja on his quest for gold, and encounter enemies, bombs, puzzles and incredible physics. The game is addictive and fisuaqlly different than most of the flash games currently in circulation. Although reminiscint of a classic platformer, the physics and level design more than make up for the spartan, though unique, graphics. The sound is minimalist and a little cheezy, but it gets the job done. The main draw for replay value is the user-created levels. This greatly augments and enhances replay value, with an infinate number of levels being availiable to the end user, with little trouble. The User Interfave uses Bitmapped fonts, which may look nice on a fixed-resolution screen, look less than stellar on a resizeable , primarily vector game.

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Pictures



N Website



Loading Screen



Menu



Level One

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Links

• the N website


• the Harvey Cartel website


• the Metanet website

This was Andy Steiner, infrared.radio is one of my older blogger accounts.

Artist Exploration - Nicolas Clauss

I found an interesting artist who made the transition from paint to pixels.

Here's a link to the artist's website

Some interesting samples of his work include: http://www.somnambules.net/english/menu.htm

Blogging Policies

Students are required to:

1. Remember that the purpose of the blog is academic and that they have a responsibility to contribute to the collective learning of the group. Posts should relate in some way to course content.
2. Post using their real name. Knowing that others will read their postings, students should not make comments that they would not make in person to another student's face.
3. Refrain from posting abusive or profane content.
4. Refrain from posting links to content or materials that they have not thoroughly reviewed.
5. Strive for the best writing (including grammar use) and analysis that they are capable of.
6. Include links to outside sites, sources, and reference materials, particularly resources that may be useful or interesting to other students, whenever possible.

Blogging Goals

Goals for the course blog include encouraging student exploration and contemplation of issues related to contemporary interactive media arts and the studios and artists making it. Students will explore the Web to find, share, and discuss compelling and cutting-edge examples of interactive media design. Students will further investigate and discuss issues and practices related to interactive media including technology use; design principles and techniques; creative, developmental and business processes; and critical/theoretical analysis.

Given that all of the students in the class will be searching and exploring the Internet for design studios, artists, projects, resources, and other information that relate to interactive media design, a collaborative course blog will allow each student (and the instructor) to be exposed to more (and higher quality) projects and resources than each may have found on their own. Beyond being exposed to a wider variety of content (and points of view) students will contribute to the "collective intelligence" of the course and play a role in shaping course content and their own experience with the course.