This is my character, she is a druid for Worgen race. Worgen is the new race in the Cataclysm, and another one is Goblin. I choose this race cuz I love the wild and handsome outside, of course their debauched aristocratic temperament attracted me. And Druids are shape-shifters with an affinity for the plant and animal kingdoms. They have three types, Balance, Feral and Restoration. They can be turned into a variety of animal forms to attack, heal or travel in the world. So I choose this amazing occupation.XD

my WOW character is a female Undead and she is a Mage. i think "Undead" is a cool race because they can't dead?! lol~
i choose Mage as my occupation caz i am not good at fighting but i still want my character can has so cool and  magnificent moves so i choose Mage.
and~i wanna it is a girl that can represent me ^^

Draw comparisons between Mark Zuckberg and Steve Jobs



Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer scientist, software developer and philanthropist best known for creating the social networking site Facebook.he is CEO and president.


Steven Paul Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple.

The purpose of forming a game focus group is to find out the out come of a particular game. Our focus group members are Jenny, Arial, Denise, Viviane, Anita…and we’re focusing on the game-Bayonetta with 20 questions to interview.
During the discussion we’ve interviewed 8 people. These 8 people are around age 18-30. 8 of them are males, and all of them are full times student, some have a part time job.
The game seems to have a positive outcome. In general, they all enjoy this game, they know this game from internet and friends. During the discussion they all agreed the main character Bayonetta is the centre selling point of the game. Bayonetta appears to the audience that she has a fantastic body shape, fancy movement, attractive and cool. Bayonetta is very dynamic; the focus group has demonstrated that she never bored them. A great example quoted by Chris: “Her hair transforms to a wolf when she does special tricks….she looks cool in that form”. And in addition, Choi also made a comment: “when she gets necked I see it as a player reward.”
The result finalized that it is a very successful characteristic game.
Neverless the world in the game is unique. The whole environment is a godly world. The focus group thinks they’re greatly influenced by the environment and surrounding during the game play.
The group also indicated they like the style of the game a lot, including the fancy movements, environment design, background music and graphics. Quotes form Michal “I even download its background music, because it is awesome! I love it”. It became quite obvious that the graphic has reached a high standard of audience’s expectation, 8 of them gave a 10/10 for the graphic.
The game play is quite simple. Knowing what to do in the game play is easy to understand. Audiences can easily find out their missions by simple hints or notice by the NPC. They reckon there’s no need to look at the instruction booklet; instead they preferred the tutorial during game play. E.g., help page.
The interviewees have diverse opinions, some people think the buttons combinations are a lot bit complex not easy to master while some of them think it is easy to remember the controls. They all agreed that the control id vary handy and has a fast reaction during game play. It’s easy to get used to the buttons, however they reckon it is going to cost time for them to master the control and performs perfect moments on the character-Bayonetta.
The group also comment on the loading page, they liked the idea of having a trial play on the character while loading, for the purpose of getting used to the buttons, the reactions before the game starts. Michal says “it’s cool to practice”
The music has been applied in the game has also gave the audience a good taste about the game. The sound effects are excellent; the background music draws the players in even more, easy to get into playing and the character. It in includes rocky and classic style music, very unique component and interesting to experience.

However on the other hand, there are also a few suggestions in a subjective view. The focus group thinks the game should have a partner; it may not have to be a second primary character, but a guider or a helper, to allow players fight easier and have a character to corporate with, other than just Bayonette herself.
The instruction book needs to be more appealing to the player or else it can be eliminated, due to all the tutorials are already included in the game, there is no need for a paper document tutorial.
The player thinks there are too many monsters/enemies appearing all at once. It was a bit hard for the player to handle, at the same time challengeable.
Some player from the focus group also comments on Bayonetta’s personality, her movements and attitude are sometimes overacting. May offence some players in someway, however this is another subjective point that can be discussed.

Bill G. vs Mark Z.

There are countless games released since microsoft create MS-DOS OS system. Games keep developing
alongside with the improvement of microsoft OS platform. From DOS to Windows 3 then Windows 95,98,... until Windows 7,
right now games on windows have incredible graphic. They are look so real. Beside, microsoft released directX which
give game developers power to create more powerful graphic. Even the game console, best gaming platform nowaday is
XBOX360 from Microsoft.

But for Mark Z. who created facebook. Games on facebook is quite simple and may can be addicted by non-hardcore gamer.
Graphics on facebook also really simple and cannot put much more contents inside it because it is web-base game.
Sociallizing from facebook game may look silly when compare to "Real" PC/Console online games.

In my opinion, facebook games are great for casual gamers who doesn't like to play more complicate games.
While PC/console games are for hardcore gamers who like to see impressive quality of graphics, novel level of storyline
and EPIC soundtrack. And hardcore gamers are the group of people who drive the developing of gaming industry nowaday.
So Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft is way moreeeee important than Mark Z.

Bill Gates is a founder of Microsoft. He served as CEO and chief software architect for the Microsoft. In 1970, Bill Gates and his companions are designed computer programming language, Microsoft BASIC. It is also was based on MS-DOS operating system. Because of the emergence of this system, it led to the development of DOS games. Thus it derived a number of different computer games now. It is can be said that computer games were born from the computer program that he created. Without these epoch-making invention of the computer programming language to be created, I am afraid there are not have such a wide variety of computer games.

Mark Zuckerburg is the CEO and chairman for the well-known social networking site Facebook. He was dubbed "Gates II" in the world by people. Because when they were 19, they established a company and started their business. They also born and educated in middle-class families. They were also a Harvard dropout and the same young people to gain respect. If Microsoft is a milestone in computer programs, then FACEBOOK is the leader of the world network. Microsoft is allow people to get a better understanding of the computer and FACEBOOK is allow people to get better understand the world from computer. It reforms and promote the Development and application of the Internet. It also makes the online game increasing emphasis on user experience as well as exchanges and cooperation between people. We can be said that Mark and his predecessors Bill Gates have made great contributions on IT industry and gaming industry.

Bill Gates:

Bill has never designed a game or not exactly like a gamer, but he and his platform has always been the strongest  supportive backing in all time. From the earliest days, Microsoft has started to support PC game and publish game, they brought out bunch of famous known game engines and publishers, also provides game developers a  platform to free their minds on creating genres and being innovative on game design.
Through these years, bill was always there point game design community a right direction and giving them encouragement, meanwhile, making continuous changes on the MS-DOS and windows operating system to adapt to the fresh needs from game industry. therefore bill with his Microsoft has never stop to contain the new technologies into the operating system and keep conquest all sorts of difficulties all together with the most of game developers.
Nowadays, console industry is amazingly developed and grown up become ever strong, bill and his company never fall behind of the evolution, they launched xbox and xbox 360 console which helped a lot of PC user or gamer to smoothly jump from PC platform to a console platform.
All along the journey, i think bill made these investigation on gaming just because of he likes game, and his recognition on the gaming history reinforced its growth, and bill with his trustworthy system could never be neglected as the most important part of gaming development history.

Mark Z:

Mark is a genius hacker and understands what people likes his age needs the most. Differ from Bill Gates, Mark has planted a social network platform on gaming industry, it seems tiny small and can be totally submerged among the whole strongly developed game industry, however, nobody ever dare to not to integrate Facebook based game in game industry, and nobody ever stop playing those games on Facebook.
Obiviously, Mark established a world wide net socialized community, the Facebook, so just the game published inside is socialized as well. instead of leaving message, publish photos or sharing information, Facebook game became another way to social and convinced people to be connected from everywhere. Because of Mark's contribution, increasingly numbers of people gets to play web-based free game, large scale of game designer comes to endeavor in the design of web-based game.
Mark is a smart guy to earn money not only from the website he creates but also from the potential of web-based game developing.

Bill Gates and  Mark Zuckerberg are all make huge impacts on gaming industry that nobody could exceed, thanks to their contribution, we can have so much fun in our daily life.

Mark Zuckerburg vs Steve Jobs

Based on what was shown in the two movies, there's certainly a good deal of similarities between the two people beyond the fact that they each own a multi-billion-dollar entity that is a household name for anyone even remotely literate with computers. The most obvious is their means of rising to their high status, precisely the drama that both movies clearly intended to highlight and showcase: dropping their closest friends and allies, especially those who supported them and were a very great help in their projects from the very beginning. Related to this is the personality change that both people undergo; from happy-go-lucky fun people who do their projects to prove something to the world, to self-centered pricks who are more than willing to step on everyone around them in order to keep their business going, starting with using someone else's ideas as their own. Admirable raw talent notwithstanding, the two movies seem to make it a moral lesson to "steal someone else's ideas instead of making your own", and "forget being a nice guy, I'm rich and famous!". The only difference between the two seems to be the targets and strength of their bad attitude. Steve Jobs is VERY nice to customers and when there's a lot of people around, but VERY offensive to co-workers when no one else is looking. Mark Zuckerburg is only mildly offensive, but he's mildly offensive to everyone.
Note, this observation is based only on the two movies. As to how much of it is truth, and how much of it is a massive exaggeration to help sell the movies, is anyone's guess.

Who is more important to gaming, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates?

Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both are important to gaming.
In my opinion, Mark Zuckerberg is more important to gaming. Because Zuckerberg is standing on the shoulders of giants. Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform on May 24, 2007. Facebook Platform is a development platform for programmers to create social application within Facebook. Facebook platform is a new platform in gaming. According to the statistics, as of January of 2011, there are more than 600 million active users on Facebook. Moreover, the applications ssuch as FarmVille and CityVille are very popular online games besed on facebook today. They are probably the future canon games.

I think Mark Zuckerberg is more potential and innocative to gaming in the future.

Draw comparisons between Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs

 Zuck and Jobs are both Genius and leader in the industry. Jobs was the inventor of many ideas which completely changed the computer world. Zuck did kind of same thing but in the social network part. There are so many similarity of both of them, but the most important one is their business sense. That's why they could do such a good job. They both have special personality. Zuck found the great method to deal with the social connection. Jobs has many brilliant ideas on the personal computer.
The biggest difference between them is that Jobs is good at presentation and selling ideas. But Zuck is not that good in presentation stuff, he is a more technique guy. He even rejected a meeting with Microsoft company just because the meeting is at 8am, which is too early for him to get up.- - Although I think it is a great chance for him and he wasted it, I still want to say I like him, because I can not get up that early either.

Draw comparisons between Mark Zuckerverg and Steve Jobs

Steve Z:

* Genius Coder + Hacker + Computer Geek
* Ideas inventor (social web-facebook)
* Has brilliant business ideas
*CEO of his own company
* Knows what people want/need/desire
* Invented a new platform to play games on
*Has great guts

Steve Z knows what the people need for social. Through out many issues between friendships, partnerships,  law, and money. He finally developed a social site named Facebook. 
This social web is smartly amazing. People who sign up for a facebook account (free) can access to photos, status, videos, information, even relationship status of their friends, as long as you're connected to your friend. It becomes a new platform where people play web games, including interacting with friends on friends list. You could connect/find people easily simply type in their full name or email address. You can even find your kindergarten friends as long as they've signed up for a facebook account. People are surprised how easy and magical it is.
The idea stared simply form a breaking up with his girl friend. Wanting to tell the whole world has inspired him to have this brilliant idea. Girls are the main ingredient/purpose when he first stared. Targeting on students mainly then slowly spread out to worldwide use.
Games company are crazy on making facebook game. It is a huge pooptunity for company to expend by making web game on facebook, according on the number of users on facebook:

Statistics

Bill Gates is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft. He and Paul Allen founded Microsoft Corporation and he has been CEO and chief software architect in Microsoft.
Microsoft are global leaders in the personal computing and business computing in software, services and internet technologies. For game industry Microsoft is definitely very important.
Microsoft has created Xbox 360 game console, the handheld Zune media player, and the television-based Internet appliance MSN TV. Microsoft also offers computer hardware including mouse, keyboards, and various game controllers such as joysticks and gamepads.

Mark Zuckerberg is founder of U.S. social networking website Facebook, who had been called "Gates II" in the world. Facebook is a platform which allows user can easy to find friends, communicate with people and make new friend. In facebook, user can play facebook game with friends. Facebook has been publish many famous game such as, Farmville which has millions users.

Overall, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are all very important in game industry. In my opinion, Bill Gates who created Microsoft is more important for gaming. Because Microsoft involves more game area compare with Facebook which just offer online mini games Microsoft creates many game and also sell hardware which are necessary for gaming.

Who is more important to gaming Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates?
Mark Zuckerberg, founder, CEO, and president of the social networking site Facebook. There is a lot of applications, one of categories is “game applications”. It allows user play many different types of games with their friends. Facebook has more than 600 million users.The mos popular game application on Facebook is FarmVillion, it has over 62 million users.

Bill Gates, founder, chairman of Microsoft. Their softwares dominate the PC operating system. Microsoft, the company that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. In 2002, they released XBOX which is video game console. Xbox 360 sold more than 50 million worldwide

From above we can see Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and their companies are all very important in game industry. But personally, I think Bill gates is more important to gaming, first, his company developer XBOX and many games. Second, most of the games(here we are talking about computer game and video game) in the world use computer or related devices to play. So Microsoft in this part has greater contributed. And you also need computing devices to entry Facebook. Therefore I think Bill Gates and his company is more important in gaming, but we can’t deny Facebook is powerful platform for gaming.

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I just know these two online game this semester. I have playing them for two weeks. now I gonna talking about my feeling.

what's different？

cityville's system is more complex.
farmville focus on farm such as feed animl and harvest plant in the field.
cityville need to build many kinds of building such as shop road community and house.
you need to care your people's happiness level, population and achievement that mean
you are manage a city.

SIMILITIES

FarmVille and CityVille are all free online games which are developed and published by Zynga. They are all a browser based simulation games and aviable as an application on the social-networking website Facebook. They are all very simple and easy game. They have beautiful graphics.

DIFFERENCES

FarmVille is a game where you can farm with your friends. The game allows members of Facebook to manage a virtual farm by plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting virtual crops, harvesting trees and bushes, and by raising livestock.

CityVille allows Facebook members to become the mayor of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. Players can perform tasks, which include farming, construction, and tax collection in their city using energy points. The amount of energy available increases as the user gains in experience levels. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate.

PLAY EXPERIENCE

FarmVille and CityVille become so popular because these games are very interesting. I feel relax and have a lot of fun when I play these games. In my opinion, I am more interested in the CityVille. Because CityVille has more beautiful interface than FarmVille. The sound effect and background music is beautiful. Although sometimes I think the background is anoying, I can close it. This is vevy nice.

 Cityville is a construction and management simulation (CMS) genre game, it is web-based and requires the interactions between single player and multiple player, therefore, facebook seems to be the best social platform to provide a solid social network and evolve social relationship in the virtual world.

CityVille is a webpage based online game produced by Zynga, the same company which produced farmwille. It was realeasd on November 2010. It is the most popular web game at present. The game is ralated with Facebook so it has a very convinent channel of getting players. It attracts 2.9 millon players on the very first day of releasing,  in 12 days, the number grows to 26 millon and the players reach a peak of 70 millon in a mouth. It is an amazing achievement in game history.

I think the game is popular because it's really interactive with other players. The players can become neighbours with their frinds on facebook. You can visit your frinds city and do some thing to it.
Playing this game makes the player feel they can control the world, they look their city in god's view and have to be responsible for their citizens. Players have to build more housees and shops. And players also need to take care of their neighbours situation.

CityVille is from the classic game SimCity. Zynga is the company that made this game, they made a lot of great browser-based games. The one before CItyVille is FarmVille. Farmville used to be the number 1 popular game until Cityville released. They are hoping to ern money from these "free" web games.

The main compectitor is FarmVilly and a lots games all over the internet.

FarmVille is a web based game developed by Zynga.
Through out a personal experiencing of the game,
I was slowly getting over it once I hit Lv 13.
It's not because it is a bad game or anything...
but this type of game just doesn't suit my taste,
it doesn't interest me.
Harvest fruits, plants, veges, animals and gain FarmVille gold makes the player enjoy doing,
feels like they're actually gaining something from the game by spending sometime planting and harvesting..
in order to get better in the game, the player either be rich in real-life and purchase gold,
or you can invite as many friends as you could and gain easy gold simply just by visiting their farm and gain exp.
The only way to be awesome in the game without spending cash is to invite billions of friends.
To me it's like spreading a disease all over the world like the movie" 28 days after". People who has being "sucked" or bitten will transform to a zombie playing the same thing over and over again.
harvesting...watering...fertilizing...sending item gifts...receiving gifts...send a gift back....purchasing plants, seeds....wait...harvesting...watering....fertilizing...sending items...receiving gifts...send a gift back....purchasing plants, seeds...wait.....Over and Over again.

FarmVill may had the right intention to the people who loves playing web game. Providing a land and allows the player to build up their own world starting from scratch does make a big difference.
It is a lot more competitive, challenging.... and of course,  it takes a lot of time to do that,
therefore the player is even more proud of themselves when they view/reviews the world they've built. 

I understand the basic concept of social networking.
Engaging the game with friends from facebook friend list,
interacting with each other, communicating by sending invitations, gifts, and leaving messages.
by playing it daily levels you up and allows the player to be competitive with friends.
(to show and proves yourself). It also involves confidence in the game,
people who may not be awesome in real-life maybe super awesome in social web games,
spreading the news of your farm has got bigger, and making heaps of money in farmville. 
this brings them a little more confident to people and makes them enjoy spending time in real time web game. This doesn't only apply to farmville, may also apply to other online web games as well.
FarmVille then becomes a little virtual Farm world that provides a second entertainment life for people.  People who enjoy building up their little virtual world and to be competitive may enjoy this type of game a lot.

I, personally don't like the fact that I could only gain some particular items by asking friends (without spending real cash). If there was another way to gain something by doing some quests would make it more fun. Clciking friend's requests and invites is annoying me A LOT. At the same time I don't want to send any invites or requests to any of my friends, simply because ME, MYSELF & I hate those endless requests so much. If you really do count how many invites I get per day, I would say I will need to click my mouse for more than 1000 times a day just by replying those annoying requests. Even my mouse is complaining by being clicked so many times.  So I guess I'm one of those who has anti-various blood and will not be transform to a zombie in 28 days after.
Maybe I could save the world by sharing my blood sample : p

The graphic is actually not bad, could be better. In fact I was paying a lot of attention on the graphics,
I did one of a facebook game icon assets before as well, pretty hard. so i assume they've spent a lot of time on the graphic, especially when there are a huge number of types of items in the game.

The population of FarmVille is super amazing. I now know how powerful social networking is.
No wonder all the companies is trying to develop a good game to be played on facebook by spending a huge amount of money.


Same Idea to Cityville, Fishbowl, RestaurantCity...ect.
some of the graphics or game might be better than the other,
but all of them have the same intention of making profit by spreading the disease. And I totally understand the powerfulness of game industry. If I was the one who's wanting to make loads of money by making games, i would probably to the same and be super successful in web game.