Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Review of The Mana World

Hey there! I am back with a review for a beta MMORPG that I have been testing. It is The Mana World, it is a 2d open source MMORPG, which in itself is pretty decent. The major grand features about the game is: It's magic, controls, and interesting story.
Selecting a server

Choosing your character
Sand, sand, sand, and more sand
Ol' McDonald had a farm..
The game is fun, even though the world is under developed. There is a huge spread of monsters that are huge levels away from each other, and at the beginning after level 10 it gets tougher to get higher. The graphics are nice and clean, and the game ideas are pretty revolutionary. To use magic, you actually have magic keywords you type (they normally start with a #). Another great thing about the game is that it is an open source MMO, which means that there is not only the base servers, but other ones that other people set up that are different.

Good:

  • Interesting and intuitive systems for magic and other things
  • Good flow in the controls
  • Nice clean graphics
  • User created servers

Bad:

  • Needs to work on balancing the character and the monsters, so that there is either more monsters at lower level intervals or what.
  • The world needs to be developed a bit more

Overall this game gets a 9/10 in its beta stage! Go TMW!

Your Fellow Technomancer,

Interrupt your tech news: Fandoms Rating

     Earlier today I got into  a good discussions about fandoms, and what are 'good ones' and 'bad ones'. This is mostly about ones opinions, but it did get me thinking; what if there was a system to actually rate a fandom for people. Certain area's of interest if you will, so that one could check out all of the merits of a fandom. The only bad thing about a system, as with all ratings are that they tend to be much more bias since people will flood it full of their own opinions when dealing with a favorite, or not so favorite, fandom. 

     Some of the ones I, and a friend of mine have come up with are:
  • Loyalty: Which is how loyal are they to the particular fandom, what do they do to show their worth. As in pokemon, do they buy all the products and watch/read all of the literature.
  • Synergy: How does everyone mix in with everyone else, do they feed of each others energy, or are they normally more separate. Is there different sides to the fandom that in constant 'war' with each other?
  • Level of contemplation: How deep does the fanfiction, or other fan communication, go? Does it only hit on levels that are shallow to the viewer and focus on only small things; Or does it try and attempt to answer certain aspects about life.
  • Friendliness: How accepting of new members is the fandom? Can a new person come and feel accepted, or do you have to be there from the beginning for people to accept you.
  • Age: This is a secondary aspect to judge, since really it has nothing to do with how the fandom is in ones opinion, but it is something one should take note of when working on judging a fandom, since older fandoms tend to be a bit more complex and widespread.
      If you notice, these topics can also count on judging fan. This is because judging a fandom, is judging a group of people. Judging a group of people is taking the averages, or the norms, of the group and commenting on it.
    This is by no means a complete work, this is just a few of the initial ideas of such. What do you think? Is this list a good list to start from?
Your Fellow Technomancer,

Monday, July 9, 2012

YFTechno

YFTechno: My new facebook page that is focusing on the quick and social aspect of some of the things this blog, as well as a notifier for some of you all so that when I update people can know a bit quicker.

'via Blog this'

Your Fellow Technomancer,

Sunday, July 8, 2012

The ARMSmasters Project

     Good afternoon everyone! I am here today as a favor for a friend to help spread the word about something he is supporting: The ARMSmasters project. The project is a animation with inspiration from games, action anime, and all that. It looks interesting, I suggest taking like 10  mins just to check it out and see what you think, if you got a dollar then give a little. If not, then perhaps just help spread the word. 
Your Fellow Technomancer, 

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Redo my crew, revamp my camp, recreate the wave

     Hey, me here. Been a while, hasn't it? I am writting this partially about news on the site and goal of it, also a reminder and reason to do it.
     I have been doing a lot of soul searching and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life and be able to truly say exact to the bone. I have come up with I want to become The Reason, not be a professor, a software engineer, or a robotics researcher. I want to be true to what my heart tells me, to better technology. Not here or there but everywhere.

Getting that out of the way, my to do list for this year shall be the following:
1) Get my own server/domain for this site.
2) Start getting people together on working up a good technology news, forum, and all of that (for people who knows of my old projects, think of CompileCrazy but bigger).
3) Start a working on building up the community here in my home town of Terre Haute, this being by trying to get funding to create a hackerspace.

For now that is my main goals for everything. As well as trying to keep everyone updated and do some postings.

One thing I am going to attempt to do, make my posts more visually appealing, and maybe even add some videos when I can. Well, good night for now and everyone have a fun evening!

Your Fellow Technomancer,