Assignment and Ouya

Today we wrapped up assigning issues for phase one to one another, as well as decide our team roles. For the first trimester, I got assigned the issue about connecting to school servers and looking into creating an Mozilla Open Badge allotment system.

Near the end of the day, I got to playtest the Ouya Android Gaming System.

I got some valuable gametesting experience from playing the following games:

A Bit of a Fist of Awesome - A side scrolling 8-bit street fighting game, where you a lumberjack possessed by the fist of awesome to save the world from an army time-traveling woodland creatures. Great Story!

Garnatron - A Shoot 'em up game with a variety of superpowers, and in which if multiple controllers are plugged in, they all can control the same spaceship

Flashout 3d - A Racing game featuring boosts, hovercars with guns and missles, all in a futuristic locale.

Final Fantasy III - The Third game in the final fantasy series. A solid RPG, I didn't play long enough to grasp the story.

Polarity - A platformer puzzle game reminiscent of portal, due to the lab it takes place in. One has to switch their polarity as they run through a first-person maze of lasers, jump ramps, and charged platforms.

God of Blades - A side scrolling hack'n'slash, where the player is always moving forward and needs only to time their moves in sequence to defeat the opponents that constantly rush you. Also featured a sweet story.

Monocle Man - A puzzling 3d platformer where the player plays as a cube in a finely tailored suit complete with a top hat and monacle. Each level takes place in an hourglass, and sand is filling up from the middle outward, always threatening to make you restart the level if you touch it.