Voice Double Double Voice

Couldnt get this one on youtube cause copyright. Here it is on blogger, hopefully it doesn't get deleted

Remix Your Own Music Video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhaXM1bnPo&feature=youtu.be

This is my music video using Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zero's song Home

Inspire! Motivate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7AGf0KcGM&feature=youtu.be

Worked on this project with David Diller

Hey! Its a Podcast!

https://soundcloud.com/derek-kruk/creative-project-podcast

Thats the link to the podcast me Derek Kruk and Phill Burdyn made!

What Is This Sorcery? New Game: Deep Space

Zach James

Dr. Eric Williams

MDIA 1020

4, April 2014

                This interactive storytelling game is called Deep Space. The story for this game begins much like another, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… Seriously, that’s where it starts. You are a member of a highly advanced civilization in a galaxy that is light years away from our own. Your planet has been exhausted of all its resources, and is literally falling apart. Your character is a space explorer, sent out on the task to find Krotonium, a rare element found on certain meteors. This element is one that your people use for space travel and they have exhausted the rest of it on getting your ship to fly. With sufficient amounts of this material, your planet can be evacuated, and a new planet can be colonized. This is also one of your tasks, to find a suitable planet for your species to thrive on.

                The gameplay revolves around traveling from galaxy to galaxy, doing various missions to get Krotonium, and of course to find a massive source of this element. As you travel from solar system to solar system, there are various planets that you must scan. Certain planets have nothing, others contain Krotonium, but are dangerous planets, or inhabited by hostile creatures. As captain of the ship, you decide whether to send in crews to mine the Krotonium. Your ship has probes that can help analyze the planet and its potential dangers, but unexpected surprises can pop up anywhere. Each planet takes time to scan, probe and mine, so the user will have to wait often.

When something important happens, dialogue will arise and the captain must choose what decisions to make. Your ship has armor, a certain number of crew members and probes, as well as Krotonium levels. All of these can be affected by external forces and ones decisions. Krotonium depletes as travel, so finding it is necessary to stay flying. Your crew members can die on dangerous mining missions, or your ships armor can be damaged by space debris and other factors. Probes and armor will regenerate with time, but crew members will not. New crew members can be found on planets with intelligent life, but they will require certain things to get. For example, you may discover a planet with life on it, they are willing to help your cause, but first you must retrieve a lost artifact from another planet.

Obviously there are some decisions that can be made which will result in one’s destruction. Maybe the user flew too close to a black hole trying to save fuel on a shorter route, or the ship runs out of fuel with no potential Krotonium sources nearby. These choices result in the death of your crew and you. The player will respawn back at the last wormhole they visited. Wormholes act as save points because they can transcend time and allow you and your ship to respawn.

                This game will take place in on an obviously massive sized map, and add in the time it takes to travel, its clear players will not be finishing the game very quickly. That being said, it can be beaten by finding and taking over a new planet and finding the source of all Krotonium. The goal of the game is be challenging so new users are expected to die often for not choosing their options carefully.

Think You Know my Avatar? Again????

The character seen the left is known as Charles Feng. He is from China, and in his late 30's. He is supposed to be an antagonistic character. Feng has a deep seated hatred from America. His father was a wealthy Chinese buisiness man, who gained his profits through some illegal money transaction fraud. The American Economy was one victim to his crimes, and the United States revealed his illegal actions to the Chinese government. He spent his life in jail and left Charles at a young age.
Feng spent his life working his life with one of his fathers ex buisness partners, who gave him a fairly wealthy life. As he grew older he used his wealth to become owner of an advanced robotics corporation. His company grew in size and so did his power and influence.  He gained powerful political connections and along with the robotics industry he owned, turned China's army into a formitable opponent. Feng then drives China to attack America.
This character is obviously the villian in a game, and he sets up the backstory for what could be a very interesting futurastic shooter. Imagine the deadly robot soldiers one could create, and the plot would circle around the US military fighting back the Chinese death machines to save America and the world. Feng would of course get destroyed in the end, but he is still a very crucial character to the game.

Think You Know my Avatar?

(The Voki website wouldn't let me publish this avatar without purchasing something, so I just took a screenshot!)

The character seen above is Jack Swanson. He is the member of some form of crime investigation agency. Jack is a cold-hearted and pragmatic man. He's not the easiest to get a long with, but his ruthless nature makes him an incredible crime-scene investigator. While to the other people in his unit believe him to be emotionless, he takes every case personally.
As his story develops in whatever game he could be placed in, we would find out why he does what he does. One night in Jack's freshman year of high school, he came home from a friends house only to discover both parents brutally murdered. The investigation that followed found the man responsible, however through some error in the justice system, he was let free. Using the money his parents left him, Jack entered crime scene investigating school and took a personal vendetta to never let this happen to anyone else. His past experiences combined with the rough nature of his job has hardened him over the years, but Jack still feels a deep emotional connection to solving the mysteries he is presented with.
Clearly this character belongs in a mature game. I picture him being effectively inserted into a game similar to Heavy Rain where the game isn't necessarily about shooting, but more about solving a mystery. His character has lots of room to develop and he has a past that can be brought up. These values make a story driven game ideal for Jack Swanson.