That's It

This class was pretty cool. I think if I had a more updated computer I would have enjoyed it more. SL is a great place to hold online classes, if you meet in the right places. This class defiantly got me more computer savvy and taught me the basics of computer graphics and imaging. I had a great time with Tim, Ges and Stew and Aaron thanks or your patience with me and for all the time and effort. Thanks again to everyone and good luck. Hope to see you guys down the road some where.

Meet and Greet

It was pretty easy meeting people in SL. Everyone I talked to was pretty friendly and had no problem talking to me. I was laughing at myself because if someone outside our class tried to talk to me on SL, I'd immediately assume their creepiness, but here I was trying to talk to people I'd never met before and it was just the opposite. The shoe on the other foot I guess.

Virtual Hallucination

The VH was a weird experience. When I first heard the voices I thought there was something wrong with the settings or there was someone around me trying to talk to me. It took me a second to figure out it was the Hallucination. The repetitive suicidal sayings, over and over again in my headset began to get creep when there was more then one going at a time. Some of the things in the building itself were weird like the floor disappearing and re-appearing. The tour made me realize being a schizophrenic isn't a joke really.

FPS

I've alays been a fan o FPS games. I usually lean more towards the more realistic shooters like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty so I figured I'd give the furturistic side of FPS a try. Halo was one of the only ones I knew of so I figure I'd give it a shot. After taking some time to get used to the feel of the game and getting used to how different it was from Call of Duty I began to enjoy it. It's a totally different feel when your playing but its a cool 2nd genre of FPS.

Class 03/22/09

Spore

Downloading Spore was a big problem for both of the computers I have access to. My laptop gave me and error message every time I tried to open the program and my family's desktop kept telling me to install the latest version of DirectX even though I already had the most recent version. I was forced to go use the town library computers which allowed me to create my creatures, but I couldn't post any of the snapshots for my blog here as these computers had restrictions on them that for some reason didn't allow it. At least I got the idea of it though.

3/15/09

We met in second life and were talking about first person shooters and the progression of video games over the last decade. We were then told to go and play the World of Warcraft demo and get used to playing in a virtual world. Thanks to TimR for letting me borrow the photo above.