Tuesday 30 April 2013

Getting started with minecraft


The Lava Lamp

By Leevi, Antti and Joonas










So it is glass palace filled with lava and water with a pool and cow farm outside or simply lava lamp.

It started when I thought about making a huge water fountain.
When I had placed some pillars of wood Antti came and asked me what was I doing I told him I was building water fountain and he started to help me out. When the woodblocks were placed Joonas came up after problems with getting minecraft working and started working with us. After we got the water flowing correctly we thought that it looked bit dull so we decided to but glass around it so it would look more like a building. Then we decided to make it a lava lamp so we filled it with lava from within and made a spot to enter the lamp and see the lava inside within a little glass room. Then we just decorated it. Antti made a pool outside meanwhile I and Joonas decorated the surroundings and inside then we bred some cows outside and put up fences to keep them there and it was done.

Monday 29 April 2013

Baby steps

The first weeks of playing have been quite bumby to say the truth. The servers haven't worked on my computer and i've had to satisfy with the offline servers. On oflline servers on the other hand i have had plenty to do. I got to modern age on Civilization and dominated the world mainly with war, and in Minecraft I have been doing research on redstone and how it works. I have created many contraptions and hopefully in the future I'll get better at creating them. It's quite interesting since it's pretty similar to the way how electricity works.

Hopefully I'll get past my baby steps and get on track by getting to play online. Then I'll finally get on the bigger project.

Sunday 28 April 2013

Minecraft experience



> join server
> no creative
> walk two steps
> suddenly fall 100m into lava
> look up and see this
> cannot die
> great job guys
> call for help
> no answer
> trapped there for 3 weeks
> had to eat my left arm in order to survive
> giving up on hope
> water comes pouring down
> it's a miracle
> swim up like an otter running out of air
> get to the surface
> sun is blinding
> can't live this way
> jump back
10/10 game of the year

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Me no good with CIV

I have played Minecraft before, so I already knew how to play it, but I had never played Civilization games before. I tried learning it, but I don't quite get all the aspects of the game yet. I'm sure I'll learn it soon enough. I get the basic idea, but all the more difficult aspects of the game are still going over my head. I have never really been a fan of strategy games, so maybe that's why.  Also, I'm not so sure if the email thing that we use to play CIV is working correctly. I enjoy making all kinds of stuff in Minecraft, so I'm eager to see what our group project will be like in that game.

Monday 22 April 2013

Getting started with civilization.

I haven't played civilization before this course started. Now I have played few quick games I'm still bad at it especially in endgame. I have only played single player now but maybe we get started with the multiplayer soon enough.
I'm probably going to try be really peaceful with my neighbors (at least in start) but still going to do a lot of defense. I'm going to be Greek with Alexander as a leader in my first move I didn't even create my city yet because didn't like the spot I was at. I'm playing with two people who haven't played the game yet so no worries.

Sunday 21 April 2013

Getting started.

I haven't really played Civ or Minecraft properly. I have just tested both but I came to a conclusion that both of them sucks. When I really started to play those games I had to change my mind with Civ. In fact it is one of the best strategy games I have ever played. But Minecraft still sucks a**.

I have been playing Civ only in singleplayer because our group somehow managed to screw up with our multiplayer game so there isn't much to tell. I've been getting used to the game and that's all. Also our Minecraft server is currently offline so we just have to wait.

Starting out

Im not familiar with Civilisation or Minecraft so its been very hard trying to learn both of the games. I have heard something about Minecraft so it havent been so hard to learn Minecraft as learning Civilisation. First time I tried to play Civilisation i had no clue what I should do. I can see something common in Age Of Empires and Civilisation and I have played Age Of Empires few times and it was way easier than Civilisation. I still need some time learning basics of both of the games before I am starting to build things in both of the games.

Learning how to play

I have been able to play only little bit of minecraft becose we can oly connect to the server when we are at school. I have also practised the CIV but our game leader hasn't started the multiplayer or iven messeged me about the multiplayer game.CIV is been very nice game to play on singleplayer but it is pritty slow pase game so the multiplayer game will last for some time.

Saturday 20 April 2013

Familiar with the game


I have played civilization 4 before this course at home. So I am familiar with the game but I haven't played the game in multiplayer but I have played it in singleplayer many times. I like civilization very much because it's the best strategy game I have played so far. I usually win with domination victory because war is salt of the game.

We haven't played civilization in multiplayer so far because we can't get it work. I started our game but my starting position was bad because there was too few of productivity.

Friday 19 April 2013

Getting started

I am familiar of the CIV4 game but this time i will try a new way to win the game. I will start as German's ruler and i know that their special powers are attack power but I wont use it to win, only for defense. I have always won by destroying everybody else or winning the space race but now I am aiming for the political victory. I don't have much to say now because I have played only the first round but I know that i have a peaceful place to start.

Thursday 18 April 2013

Games in school

We haven't done much yet, because we had difficulties with the Civilizations' mailing system and Minecraft's 'real' servers wasn't online. I have played Minecraft since it came out in ~2009, so I'm very familiar with it. I was new to Civilization, so I had difficulties at the beginning not knowing what to do but I'm a fast learner.
I shall continue writing this blog thing when we get going with the games.

The first touch to the game

I have been playing CIV4 since we got it, the game is very good from my opinion and I have always liked to play strategy games. We haven't yet started to play the game in our group but we will soon start it.

But now to the point, so I like to play CIV4 by being the americans with the Lincoln. I have been developing my cities to higher levels and planning to research new technologies and expand my area.

When we get the game on with our group I think that its gonna be awesome.

First week

Its been quite silent so far, because the servers are offline. I have played Minecraft in single player and i also tried Civilization, but it was very hard to play since i'm not very conformable with strategy games. I'm still very eager to learn. We have couple of more experienced Civilization players in our group and I'm sure they help me out. Lets see if i get interested in playing strategy games.
           Ill be back next week when the games are up and running.

-Tukee

Monday 15 April 2013

Update April 17: The poll is broken, it resets every night (thanks a lot Blogger!), so I added another poll that should work below the post. Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Dear all,

We had some discussion on the Minecraft page, thanks for the active people, a big thumbs up!
You guys in a couple of weeks?

We had a couple of suggestions and I've comprised a poll of them, that you can see below this text.

Please give your vote and decide what we're going to build! See you on Thursday!

Friday 12 April 2013

Week one blog homework

This week was allaround great. The Games people play courses first group meating was this weeks Monday. At the meating we install the two games Minecraft and Civilation4 and we played tutorial map and learned to play minecraft though i allready knew how to play the game becose i have had the game two and half years now. The Civilation4 seemed very good stradegy game even though i didn´t get to play it very much.

Thursday 4 April 2013

Minecraft

Here's an introduction to one of the games we play during the course, Minecraft.

We're going to use Minecraft during the course for building projects. As you might (or might not) know, Minecraft is all about building using lego-like blocks. The blocks are harvested or mined from the world, so to build something, you need to gather the materials first. However, what we're going to build is up to you, the players. The projects will be selected by you, from suggestions that you're going to make. 

Additionally, in this blog, you will report your progress for example with videos, pictures and written reports, it's up to you! Also, the planning and decision making will take place in the blog.

If you're not familiar with the game yet, don't worry! We'll be going through the basics during the first lesson. Meanwhile, grab a headset, sit back and check out the following introduction video to get in the mood: