Online Gaming

1.       How does the tool relate to the topic of the week?

The topic of the week is online gaming.  The tool we used to experience online gaming was Dungeon Blitz. It allowed the gamer to chat with other players while playing alone or you could invite people to join your group to play with you. It relates to the topic of the week as it involves interaction between players.

2.       What function does the tool serve?

This tool serves its users by allowing them to interact with each other to solve the games challenges together and fight off the different monsters. While doing all this they can join forces and fight together, and be able to chat with them about the game.

3.       What did you find most interesting about the tool?

The thing I found most interesting about Dungeon Blitz was that I am normally not into fighting games, but it made it more interesting when they actually told you what to do unlike other games these days like Halo or COD where it’s just walking around and shooting people. Time went by really fast when I was playing which can be a bad thing, but it means that I liked it.

4.       What did you find most challenging?

The most challenging thing for me was that I kept getting lost. I would go to the “home” and then when I tried to leave I couldn’t figure out how to get back so I would just close the game and restart it. Also when Kelly and I were trying to find each other on the game to invite each other to be a part of our group we could never see each other online so that was kind of confusing as we would both be in the same spot and never see each other.

5.       How does the tool improve or complicate communication?

I think the tool would improve communication within the game as gamers could talk to each other instantly and let them know about different enemies ahead or just different secrets of the game a new user would not know about. I wish it would notify you better though when you had users talking directly to you as it would only be seen in the bottom right corner in a small box. It also could complicate communication as anyone could chat in there and sometimes I would not know what they were talking about.

6.       What is your critique of your experience?

Overall I enjoyed playing the game, but I think I liked playing it more alone than with a group as I invited someone to be a part of mine and I feel like he doesn’t even do anything but follow me around. Also I think players should be notified more clearly if someone is instant messaging you because the box for chat is so small I wasn’t really paying attention to it when I was battling.