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.

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

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!

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.

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: