Tuesday, April 19, 2011

New Summer Video Gaming

Forensic Psychology student wow gold Archibald Leung will carry out the study that "focuses on analysing how male subjects aged 16+ relate to games and what feelings they experience whilst playing." We're working on a game called Smuggle Truck. It's an over the top physics-based driving game for iOS, Mac and PC, which was created to poke fun at the woefully inadequate legal immigration system in place in the United States. You can choose to wait 19 years for your visa in the "Legal Immigration Mode," or you can take the truck and try to deliver all passengers safely over the border. The main gameplay involves stunt driving, tilting, rocketing, catching babies, and collecting medals to unlock future levels.

It gets weirder, "Aiming to investigate violence, aggression and individual differences in performance in video games, Leung is particularly curious about sensational interests, which involves interests in the macabre violence, including use of guns, martial arts and the paranormal." The sequel to what was originally simply a side-game to the Half-Life series of shooters, Portal 2 is a first-person puzzle game where the player uses a gun to create holes in space and time to get from place to place, all while being mocked by a computer intelligence.

Myself and co-founder http://webboar.com/www/flywowgold.com Yilmaz attended college together and had blabbed for a long while about making games together as a full-time endeavor. I was working at a salaried triple-A gig while Yilmaz was jumping around from contract to contract. The catalyst that kicked our asses into gear was the weekend prototype of Smuggle Truck, created at a Boston Indies game jam. With an idea to work off of and it being a prime opportunity in our careers, we decided to kick our jobs and form Owlchemy Labs together. Thus began the 60-plus hour work weeks, not due to publisher deadlines or external pressures, but for the passion of creating games. Once the data has been analysed a report of the findings is likely to be submitted to a psychological journal for publication. In accordance with the British Psychological Society, all personal information will be kept strictly confidential.

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