It has already been a few weeks since I started this class. It was totally new to me, and I was worried about the path I wanted to choose. Now, I’m here writing a post where I’m at a point where the project is beginning. Since it’s a project that I navigate myself, I’m really looking forward to the result, and I’m ready to take full responsibility of it.

So the first product that I want to achieve was influenced and supported by the network that has reached all around the world (although I don’t really have a full communication with many people). Just a tweet, saying that I’m looking for some suggestions on games that I can make fun of, whynot88, a person from twitter sent me a link to an online-game website that had many funny elements in it.

I was excited, so I followed the link. As whynot88 had mentioned, it looked funny, but it wasn’t exactly the game I was looking for; it seemed to broad to make fun of to me. (a student)

However, that one depressing result had an influence that I never expected. Fortunately, I did not stop there, and thought about what I could do (A plan B). So after some time of researching, I found about “the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)”. It was funny as heck, and it had really good reviewing factor in it too. But the language in it was too explicit for me to set it as my role model.

That was a frustration TWO IN A ROW. I thought I needed some rest, or ‘chilling’ (which wasn’t exactly a part of my plan). So I went to Youtube, and typed in “Dave Chappelle” who is my favorite comedian. I love his shows. I was surfing through the list of his skits and BOOM I found the treasure. “GTA – Chappelle’s show”. GTA is an abbreviation for a game called Grand Theft Auto, and due to its inappropriate contents, it was target to many criticisms. Just like I was thinking, it was exactly what I wanted to have a look at. So strangely, my little ‘chilling time’ put a comma to my whole navigation of my project.

This is my final thought on how my first product will be looking like.

1. It would be a review, a game review. A written media, maybe with a podcast of my voice, to keep the topic on track.

2. The review will look just like the professional ones, unbiased based on facts.

3. Once I do that, the second product will be a video, just like what Dave Chappelle did.

I never knew I would actually be writing this kind of post, because I really felt like I was in the middle of nowhere, helpless when I was given an opportunity to carry on my own project of my interest (personally I think this is what school does to us). But, since I am now onto this stage where it’s all set for me to act on, I will not let myself down. Also, I think chilling time is good too, since you never know where the opportunities are around you :D

(This is the “GTA – Dave Chappelle” I was talking about)

So now that I have looked at how “pros” do it, it seems like it is now my turn to get something done. Here are the lists of the games I’d like to review for sure (although I have to say there might be changes as my whole project proceeds)

1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City [the game Chappelle reviewed, using a mime form]

2. Starcraft

3. Metal Slug X

4. K.O.F 97

The list will be pretty firm through the whole project, since confusion might occur if I make any drastic changes. However, those are the ‘video’ reviews I’m planning to do. Writing materials are completely a different matter; meaning that it might pop up anywhere in between the videos, adding additional hands to the audiences understanding.

So stay tuned for my first product coming up- analysis on what makes the pros so popular and known to the world. :)

Photo Credits to Macwagen & hunterseakerhk