Scratch is a nifty piece of software that can be downloaded from http://scratch.mit.edu/ or used online on the same website, also check my best game, Earth Defender at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/12218011/. You can use scratch to make videos, visual art and games. You code your piece through blocks which can be dragged from a convenient bar in the middle of the screen. You use the blocks in certain combinations to script the movements of your sprites which can be designed in a not-incredibly intuitive interface. The blocks are relatively easy to undertand and use correctly, a bit of practice and you’ll be  coding like a pro. The online version makes it easy to share your project and each project gets its own web page. The blocks are rather variable and each has many possible uses. You can use variables and operators to bring elements of chance into games and this allows for a wide variety of options, the world of scratch is definitely one worth investigating.

8/10

Technic Launcher is a program that can be downloaded from http://www.technicpack.net/. This program includes a number of initial modpacks (You will need minecraft downloaded in order to use these) which include Hack/Mine, Yogbox, Technic and a few others as well as hundreds more available for download on the website. I intend to review a number of these here;

Hexxit;

Hexxit is a modpack focused on adventure, it includes Battletowers, Better Dungeons, Falling Meteors and many other adventure focused mods. I like it because of the real satisfaction you get from clearing a dungeon or a Battletower, I also love some of the items included in these mods, favourite 5.

1. Cloud Boots, Boots, Allow five blocks of jump, bad durability and armour bars.

2. Frezarite Leggings, freeze water beneath you as you walk over it, moderate durability bad armour.

3. Ender Giant Sword, high damage, complete damage immunity on block, limit to length of block.

4. Backpacks/Big Backpacks, extra inventory space.

5. Enchanted Book Soul Tether, not the book strictly just the enchant but its a top five items, Soul Tether can be used on any gear and means you respawn with it.

Yogbox

Yogbox is another modpack from the technic launcher that I have played a lot of, pretty similar to Hexxit but not as adventure focused it includes Milennaire and better dungeons among many many other mods. In this adventure is a possibility as well as being able to go off on the Milennaire mod creation quest or settle down and ingratiate yourself into a village. Battletowers are there for you to loot and it is easy to amass a sizeable collection, the villagers of mine colony mod are there for you to exploit. This is a mod worth playing but personally I prefer Hexxit or Hack/Mine.

More to come!

Terraria Gameplay Trailer (1) from Lucas Moura on Vimeo.

Terraria is a wonderful game. The variety of items is dazzling with everything the Blade of Grass to a Mega Shark, weapons range broadly from swords to bows and even guns, shurikens, bombs and grenades. I like the weapons systems because, though unrealistic bows are in many cases preferable to guns. Onto gameplay, to play terraria you move with a W,S,D controls system (No W) with space to jump, S is used to fall through platforms and other objects. You have 10 inventory slots, switched between by 1 through 0. The combat isn’t really amazing but its pretty and not excessively difficult, you can fight bosses which yield great rewards and allow you to progress further through the game. A major boss in the game is the Wall of Flesh, which, after being defeated transfers the player to HardMode. At the start of the game you make a decision between the originally named Softcore, Mediumcore and Hardcore, in Softcore at death you drop only your coins, in Mediumcore it is both coins and items (TIP; if you exit to main then your items will disappear) and in Hardcore mode you have PermaDeath. In terms of my personal preferences I like to play Mediumcore because in Softcore I feel you aren’t punished enough for dying (coins are not incredibly important) and i’m not really Hardcore enough at the other end of the spectrum. My preferred weapon is usually my pickaxe, which has decent damage and very high speed or my bow at longer range. Underground I find that their are too many mobs to really focus on mining which does make me more grateful when I get back to the surface with decent loot.

My top five games for the iPad (Games that I own) would have to be;

1) Clash of Clans

2) Infinity Blade 2

3) Mini Warriors

4) CoM Double Shot

5) Heroes of Order and Chaos

Reviews;

Clash of Clans, I love this game. The game is built around upgrading your buildings, with the two primary resources being Elixir and Gold, gold is used for most defences and buildings and is used to upgrade your elixir collectors and storages. Elixir is used to upgrade gold mines and storages as well as pretty much anything to do with troops, its probably a good idea to get a balance between them. The other big part of this game is trophies, you can gain them from raiding and defending and they allow you to join the more prestigious clans, with trophy requirements. It ius a good idea not to focus to much on either raiding or defending because that can lead to severe deficiencies in the other section.

9/10

Infinity Blade 2, A good game the combat is brilliant, the combat is incredibly real, you swipe to attack and can swipe along the paths of enemy’s blades to parry, your character grunts his part. In terms of item collection you can look around and there are bags of coins and chests around, killing enemy’s can also yield gear as well as coins and EXP. The story  is not brilliant, there isn’t really much of it and it is not this games strength. A good game ,with great game-play, overall.

8/10

Mini Warriors, this is a good game, I like how in this game unlike some others it actually makes a difference where you place your men in formation, it isn’t just a slugfest. I also like how you can equip each unit individually with weapons, great game.

8/10

CoM (Call of Mini) Double Shot, this is a fun game and the combat is good, some levels are intensely difficult so you are frequently pushed to your limit, hard but fun. I also like that there is both Co-Op and PvP in this game so you can work with players or fight it out.

7/10

Heroes of order and chaos is a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) similar to League of Legends or LoL. You are put into a 3v3 or 5v5 arena and you try to take down your enemy buildings while levelling your character and upgrading your skills. You lose all levelling after exiting the arena so high level characters dont simply join the game and murder everyone, everyone starts out equal and the game focusses on skill.

6/10

First of all let me apologise for being away for so long. I had a long holiday away during such time I was unable to continue on this site. Now lets go into Torchlight. Recently I have acquired a copy of this game and have been pulled into it. This game is brilliant I have been stuck behind my computer for hours on end. The story of the town of torchlight is brilliant and this game should suit many people as you progress through the ember mines into a crypt then estherian ruins and caverns of the Tutaras collecting superior weapons and armour, companions and quests accrue levels, powers and fame, your ever faithful pet progressing with you ferrying items and money between you and merchants, you can give him spells to increase his strength.

MORE MINECRAFT

Yes everyone we will be looking at the new minecraft update THE PRETTY SCARY UPDATE on the day before it comes out, featuring the Wither boss, witches, better AIs and SO much more it will be coming out TOMORROW i am SO EXCITED. I will be getting it tomorrow to trial and blog about it to u guys. In  other minecraft news i am in another minecraft related EYT (as far as i know, i have not been yet because i was sick, and the picture i have been given is pretty blurry) right now i am building a jungle biome one, will finish up soon.

<Iphone 5>

New Features

• Passbook
• Larger screen
• New apps

AND LOTS MORE TO BE PUT UP LATER

Anyway  PassBook, a program created by apple and cooperating companys such as Virgin Australia. You will be able to store purchases, tickets and boarding passes on this extremely useful feature.

First of all for any android tablet viewers i will be getting an android tablet soon as well! So you will get your fair share as well, but don’ hold your breath!YAY!

<Device on the whole>

A well set up tablet, with the menus having nice  large finger size buttons for the most part, however someimes this can get annoying combined with the amount of sensitivity the device has! The people at apple have done us all a favour by combing a nice portable computer with the ipod, itunes and appstore systems and the iphone allowing easy manipulation of many programs simultaniously and music, one useful function there is that you can play music even while playing a game or using an app in general!

<Apps>

First of all a list of apps i have and reccomend! (five only cause i could go on FOREVER)

1.Castle Kingdoms

2.Clash Of The Clans

3.BRR or Battle Bears Royale

4.Heroes VS Monsters

5.SF Tycoon or Street Food Tycoon

All reviews to be revised and/or finished eventually!

Okay first of all castle kingdoms. A game where you run a restaurant, we’ve all played one before however… this one has a bot of a twist on it in Castle Kingdoms you are required to hire MONSTERS as your employees rather than the usual BORING humans

Clash of the clans, a classic “build your kingdom” type game wherein you build a village to hold strong against the goblins and other players, join clans and battle for the top of the leader board. This game in awesome an unbeatably fun game, upgrading things for more access to other units, competing for victory! A MUST HAVE.

B.R.R. a multiplayer shoot em up where every player being a bear (some of these personas are rather questionable!) armed with gloves bats and bombs go round trying to kill each other, a fun though sometimes funny game!

Heroes VS Montsers a game where like so many others you collect a party and try to build up your equipments, in this game you defeat stange and cooky bad guys to reign supreme over enemy and leader board, however this game like a lot of others recently has added a P.V.P. arena. (see games for you paragraph 3.)

Street Food Tycoon, in this ADDICTIVE game you watch the screen and are riveted to it foe looking away for even a second can mean losing customer satisfaction or not moving to the suburbs!

Torpia

A game like this was never going to be massive on a scale like minecraft but that does not mean you should not play it, a small game with as far as i know around 5000 players it is not overly popular but still a game worth a try. Torpia is a mmorpg that is available for free online with as far as i know no dowload version. The main idea of the game is to build up your empire to ridiculous proportions, start a brotherhood and collect amulets with which to create srolls! When a brotherhood possess all of the scrolls it wins the game and the world (w1, w2 or w3) is restarted. So here is how the game works, and some of my greater regrets about it. Okay first and foremost on the “regrets” factor, there is no DO ALL button, you have to go into every building individually and select the amount you want and click PRODUCE! (on the plus side this is a real time game so production seems to go quickly if you play another game at the same time) i find it gets INTENSLY annoying when you start to build up a city, secondly how hard i is to build up to and unlock new weapons, needing so much warehouse space it took me weeksw to build up to a simple handbow (using a 2 hour per week program). Anyway now i am going to describe one way to get good weapons FAST. COINS. Get 2 accounts start one evil and start one good in your good account have as many defensive things as possible also gold mints and foundrys.

Gamers abroad thank you SO  much for looking at this blog, created simply for school you are making me feel so cool about this whole thing, plz leave some comments so that i can know what to change though because i would love my blog to be as good  as it possibly can, and advice on other games to review also, will follow up any requests for information weekly!

Regards

Owen