Cole Paulline CIS 1199 Blogs

           For my post today I am going to talk about a small but popular game company called Re-Logic. Today I'll be going through the things that they have accomplished, failed, and all the good stuff. This company is based in Floyds Knobs, Indiana and composed of a small team of 11 employees that make their various games and updates.                Re-Logic was founded in 2011 by Andrew Spinks at the beginning of their first games development which is called Terraria. Terraria is a sandbox survival game where you survive and try to beat various different game bosses that range from a floating eye ball to a literal Wall of Flesh to Moon Lord. As the small character you are the idea is that you get different items and weapons to progress through the game in order to beat the final boss of the game. Their development of this game is what made them extremely popular as the game as been developed from 2011 to ...

           Rockstar Games is a big game company that fans and gamers alike have loved for years. There is good reason behind the fandom since they have made many different and unique game series that people adore. I myself have loved the Red Dead and Grand Theft Auto Series that they have created. This post will include some info about Rockstar to highlight the background of the company.           Rockstar games was founded in 1998 by Sam House, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King, and Gary Foreman in New York City, New York. The company is now owned by Take-Two Interactive and the head quarters are also in New York. The first game released by Rockstar was "Grand Theft Auto: Mission Pack 1 London 1969". Since then Rockstar has expanded and has many different game studios currently. These Studios are Rockstar Dundee, Rockstar India, Rockstar Leeds, Rockstar Lincoln, Rockstar London, Rockstar New England, Rockstar North, Rockst...

          I chose to go through an research a Game balancer. The reason I chose this is because it sounds interesting to me being able to go through the game and balancing the different aspects of it to make it fit just right the way the vision of the game is meant to be played. Especially since I have played games in the past where there are some aspects that didn't seem very balanced from my point of view.          The skillset for this specific position include knowing how to work with numbers and being familiar to analysis and AB tests, AB tests being user experience research where there are two variants being tested at a time. Being able to challenge game features from the perspective of the player. Have strong communication skills to communicate your design concepts. Be able to be open minded and a team player that is able to exchange knowledge with a team and be confident to work in a international, multicultural environ...

The game chosen is Valorant and is pretty big in the competitive scene currently. The game is a FPS based around the Search and Destroy game mode although there are other modes you can play all with there own little twist. The games unique feature really is that each Agent has their own abilities including flashes, smokes, grenades, heals. etc. The focus is for you to have the better combination of agents than the other team to try and win in a first to 13 win by 2 game for their competitive style.   Game Title: Valorant                                                                      Publisher: Riot Games Year: 2020                                        ...