Moral Combat

We watched a documentary called Moral Combat which focused on violence in video games and compared and looked at both sides of the argument, it compared games like Grand theft auto and manhunt and talked about whether they influence children to become more violent in their nature. I dont agree with what was stated in the documentary about violent games influencing children to a level where they will commit crimes based on games they have played. The documentary did show however people who have claimed that they were influenced by games to commit crimes as their defence, i think that if someone is influenced by a game to commit a crime or violence then it is in that persons nature to act like that anyway as from personal eperience I have played tonnes of violent video games and i am not a violent person at all.

Here are my notes on the video.

Moral Combat - Realistically violent

Video games - storytellers

Abes Odysee - Deeper understanding, change in motives.
                      - A man actually didnt commit suicide because the game had that much of an impact on his life.

GTA - Huge landmark in game history - ability to make choices

Postal2 - Whats the point of violence in this game?

Sex and violence sell £££

We are getting closer to a world where a virtual world is real.

Diablo 3 Artwork Competition

As a personal study and interest (and with a little encouragement from tutors) i decided to enter an artwork competition, this is one of the few competitions i have ever entered. I am finding that when it comes to work like this i am never happy and anything i do never feels finished, i have actually finally finished the work now (6 weeks since i started it) spending a total of about 20 hours staring staring at this same image. When the entries to the competition start I will be sure to keep checking wether my work has gotten anywhere and will be looking at the other work that is being entered and what wins to see how mine compares. Here are also a few 'in development' stages my work went through over the weeks. Enjoy

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3746479/The_Portrait_of_a_Champion_Contest_is_Coming_-21_02_2012#blog