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    SpinBowlers second prototype

    By richardmurray,


    BGEprototypes
    Spinbowlers is a concept I derived out of a deviantart invitational called Three EMoji challenge
    The characters are in the gallery immediately linked below. The prototype game is afterward, tell me what you think 
    Three EMoji Invitational Gallery
     
    HEre are the rules
    Seven cards are shuffled out, negative six to positive six with two zeros, two RO cards, meaning roll out and one GG card meaning GalaGyro every time you shuffle the shift value goes to zero and five multiple the times you shuffle is taken from the final score every time you shift, the shift value increments and the sum of shifts is taken from your final score shifting changes the position of cards in ashuffle which can be advantageous The bowling starting point influences the final value as the starting point is given a value of seven points if not RO , all positions from the starting position are given nan incremental less value The spinbowl is seven values emitting numbers zero to six.  The game is a match game. Seven spinbowl cards matching seven shuffled cards. if a shuffled card is an RO it is an automatic zero points for that space. If a shuffled card is a GG. Fourteen points if the value spinbowled equals the position of the spinbowled card. Seven points otherwise. If a spinbowl card is [0 to 6] and a shuffled card is [-6 to +6] the sum of the cards is taken. if the sum is between or equaling [0 to 6] the value is the sum, else the value is zero.  Bowl positions 2|3|4  USe the status line to see what is going on ENjoy

     
    First prototype arcade entry
     
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    PRofessional Bootcamp

    By richardmurray,


    Gaming Craft
    Learn More & Register Join us for our second-annual Professional Bootcamp, presented by the*gameHERs and Belong Gaming Arenas! Sign up for 3-days of informative events including panels, educational webinars, and roundtable discussions with gaming industry experts. Plus, you’ll be able to join the conversation, connect with industry professionals, and directly speak with them in RitualMotion GUILD!

    This event is the perfect opportunity to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes in various parts of the gaming industry, including cosplay, streaming, esports, community management, game design, and more. And... your registration automatically enters you for a chance to win a Respawn 200 gaming chair!   Just a few of our exciting sessions include: Professional Bootcamp Kickoff with Belong Gaming Arenas with Mary Antieul – VP, Customer and Strategy at Belong Gaming Arenas Goddess Gab: The Gamer without the Girl with Emi Vener – Executive Director at The Athena Alliance CLT Content Creator and Organizational Influence with Ashley "MiDNiTE" Glassel – Director of Content at Version 1 Our Lived Experiences: Non-Binary in the Gaming Industry with Raffy Regulus – President & Co-founder of NYC Gaymers How to Identify Your Personal Brand with Chibith0t – Event Curator, Fashion Consultant, Stylist at Noir Network/LanPartyStudios Along with panels on: Contemporary Issues & Solutions in Esports featuring
    *Ahman Green, ESports Head Coach at Lakeland University
    *Halina Malik, Director of Content at eFuse
    *Freya Marquardt, VP of Marketing at Vite Kitchens

    Women Building the Metaverse & Beyond featuring
    *Ahna Boley, Chief Experience Officer at Double A Labs
    *Keisha Howard, Founder of Sugar Gamers

    Streaming 101 featuring
    *Morgan Biemiller, Head of Design at Streamlabs
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    Let's Talk College Esports featuring
    *Kyla Kennedy, Director of Esports at LevelNext
    *Sari Kitelyn, Executive Director, Esports and Project Development at Full Sail University
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    Get Inspired: A Conversation with Industry Game Changers featuring
    *Britanni Johnson, CEO & Founder of TVRN
    *Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo, VP of Events at VP of Events at Dignitas & Raidiant
    *CtrlAltQuin (Quin Martin), Twitch Partner and Social Media Influencer 
    And more!   Thank you to our incredible sponsor! Belong Gaming Arenas is home to a growing community which welcomes all gamers - from professional and casual, to those who are new to the world of gaming! Creating unforgettable grassroots experiences for gamers across the nation starts by bringing together people who share a commitment and passion for gaming. Our mission is to deliver inclusive gaming environments for all who love to watch, play, and compete together. Our vision is to provide a home for every gamer and gaming community - a place to Belong. Everyone can feel like they’re part of something bigger at Belong Arenas!    Thank you to our partners! Ritual Motion was formed in 2018 with the mission to develop content, products, services and experiences FOR THE GOOD OF GAMERS. Since launching, the brand has reached an audience of millions across its website, media promotions, social platforms, events and campaigns. With its latest product, Ritual Motion GUILD, the brand aims to support the growing creator economy for gamers. This innovative social sharing and collaboration platform allows gamers to create, collaborate, and share content with a more deliberate and enhanced audience experience. Founded on the belief that we want to help creators make a living doing what they love, Streamlabs provides a robust suite of features to help creators grow their audience, increase engagement with viewers, and improve monetization. At Streamlabs, people can be open and ourselves, where ideas and innovation can thrive and where driven individuals can come together to build. We are a team that is deeply passionate about the creator industry, building products for streamers and creators. iFOLIO® helps companies grow with a digital marketing platform for the mobile world. Enhance digital presence with web sites and landing pages that are easy to build and update. Ditch old school business cards, presentations, and emails for modern digital presentations and text message campaigns. Engage clients with QR codes and e-signatures. Speed sales cycles and target customer engagement with patented analytics. Make work easier with all the tools you need to grow! Contact us today at www.ifolio.cloud/home and @iFOLIO.   Register to Win! Sign Up Now!






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    Spin Bowlers Prototype

    By richardmurray,


    BGEprototypes
    Spin Bowlers was thought up as a concept after a deviantart three emoji contest- links are below
    For the prototype I thought of bowling with spinning objects on an axis only. I didn't embed it like the others in the arcade cause it is a prototype, not a version. This is meant for users to play with it and tell me what you think, what values you used. ANy issues, whatsoever.
    Well have fun!:)
     
    THE PROTOTYPE
    http://houyhnhnm.github.io/BlackGamesElite/GameRoom/SpinBowlers/index.html
     
    THREE EMOJI CONTEST
    DEVIANTART folder
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/82421031/three-emoji-s-challenge-2022
     
    Spin Bowlers
    Snake Blossom
    Id- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Snake-Blossom-id-card-911245998

    Pose- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Snake-Blossom-three-emoji-911246082

    Bowling Move- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Snake-Blossom-bowling-gif-911245738
     
    Branch Popper
    Id- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Branch-Popper-id-card-911245502

    Pose- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Branch-Popper-three-emoji-911245619

    Bowling Move- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Branch-Popper-bowling-gif-911245334
     
    The Slice Twins
    Id- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Slice-Twins-id-card-911246659

    Pose- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Slice-Twins-three-emoji-911246710

    Bowling Move- https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Slice-Twins-bowling-gif-911246382
     
    Cover image
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Spin-Bowlers-cover-image-911245115

    Cover Gif
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Spin-Bowlers-gif-911246265

    Snake Blossom coloring page
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Snake-Blossom-coloring-page-911245814

    Branch Popper coloring page
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Branch-Popper-coloring-page-911245432

    The Slive Twins coloring page
    https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Slice-Twins-coloring-page-911246527
     

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    Fear and Respect... midway?

    By richardmurray,


    industrial review
    great share, I have always wondered how many great franchises in media are owned and literally sat on by big firms cause to use them is either too costly or the firm isn't inteesting in utilizing their fanbase... rampage and psyhunter... I never knew about the john singleton written game starting snoop dogg in production. The question is what about revisiting fear and respect , in black games elite?  
    PHOTOS TO FEAR AND RESPECT:) the video game:)
     


     
    IN AMENDMENT
    The biggest tragedy to arcade games is midway, the arcade king missed out on connecting the home market to the arcade market. Nintendo/Sega/SOny/ et cetera don't or didn't have as strong an arcade presence. Midway spent millions on developing games  that they didn't finish developing. But it never occured to them, with all that money being spent, millions. in the 80s or 90s that they needed to focus on their main market which was the arcade. They needed to develop games that could be played at home but could also be played at the arcade. Like many firms , when they see a new industry they are so focused on being part of the new industry they miss out on focusing on their main business. 
     
     
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    50,000 games for 40 dollars

    By richardmurray,


    industrial review
    interesting, you can connect to a cathode ray tube, very much for the international world. Starts at $40 . They use a faux nintendo shaped base for the system or ports, like an nes mini. They use a faux playstation controller.
    the systems when you power it on,
    super nintendo, sega cd, sega 3ds, turbo grafx, odyssey2, neo geo, nintendo hacks, nes, nintendo 64, sega genesis, intellivision, gambe oy bolor, gambe gear, game and watch, famicom disk system, atari , lynx, atari 7800, amstrad, commadore, amiga, all games, sinclair
    wonderswan, virtual boy, vectrex, and more
    He tested, playstation portable/dreamcast/ neogeo/neogeo cd/lynx/MAME/Game boy advance/snes/n64/ds/virtual boy/genesis/nes/neogeo pocket color/intellivision/odyssey 2/2600/5200/7800
     
    Shared from MErgirldunne of BlackGamesElite https://mewe.com/i/mergirlwhitedunne
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    FarCry Bande Dessinee

    By richardmurray,


    game news from somewhere
    Far Cry the tears of hope - for fans of the game , here is a bande desinee
    Video announcement
    EXCERPT 
    Far Cry
    The Glenat and Ubisoft collection
    https://www.glenat.com/bd/collections/ubisoft?at_medium=email&at_emailtype=retention&at_campaign=newsletter_glenat_BD&at_creation=&at_send_date=20211221
     
     
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    The Designer Of The NES Dishes The Dirt On Nintendo's Early Days

    Masayuki Uemura demonstrates a Famicom at Nintendo's Kyoto headquarters on July 1, 1985.
    Photo: The Asahi Shimbun (Getty Images) 
    By Matt Alt 7/07/20 5:00PM 

    When discussing Nintendo’s rise as a digital dreamsmith in the ‘80s, game designers like Shigeru Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi get most of the limelight. But it was the hardware designed by Masayuki Uemura that served up their fantasies to millions around the globe.
    I spent 2019 criss-crossing Japan researching my book Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World, in search of the country’s architects of cool. In March of that year I came face-to-face with a true legend: Masayuki Uemura, the engineer who designed Nintendo’s first cartridge-based game system, the Family Computer, aka the Famicom, aka the Nintendo Entertainment System.
    With a design based on the arcade hardware that powered Donkey Kong, the Famicom quickly revolutionized home gaming in Japan when it was released in 1983. As the NES, it revitalized the home video game market in the United States after the Atari market crashed. From then on, it proceeded to deliver a steady stream of Japanese fantasies into the hearts and minds of people around the world. It’s hard to imagine a world today without Uemura’s machine.
    Masayuki Uemura joined Nintendo in 1972. Gunpei Yokoi, the inventor and toy designer whose products like the Ultra Hand had transformed Nintendo from a humble maker of hanafuda, Japanese playing cards, into a well-known toy and game company, recruited Uemura away from his previous employer, the electronics company Hayakawa Electric, known today as Sharp. Uemura retired from Nintendo in 2004, and currently serves as the director for the Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. The university’s leaf-covered Kinugasa campus is a quiet oasis in what is—or was, before COVID-19—a bustling and tourist-packed city. It is also a 10-minute walk from the ancient Zen rock garden of Ryoan-ji temple, whose evocatively arranged boulders and artfully raked gravel seem to me one of Japan’s earliest “virtual realities.”

    Departments that teach students how to make video games abound in higher education today, but the Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies is one of only a handful of academic efforts specifically designed to preserve home video gaming equipment and ephemera. Its archives contain everything from early home versions of Pong to the latest consoles, every controller variation under the sun, and an ever-expanding library of software on tapes, cartridges, and discs. The packed shelves of its climate-controlled storage facility look like something out of a kid’s dream, organized with the obsessive rigor of the Library of Congress. The scent in the air is that paper from countless magazines and strategy guides, tinged with the nostalgic ozone smell of vintage electronics.
    Uemura was 75 years old at the time of our interview, but seemed much younger. A benefit of a life spent making playthings for the world? Whatever the case, there is no mistaking the amusement and restless curiosity in Uemura’s eyes as we sit down over a round of Famicom Donkey Kong to talk about the little beige and burgundy machine that touched so many lives.
     
    < Interview> 
     
    Kotaku: What was Nintendo like when you joined the company?
     
    Masayuki Uemura: One of the things that surprised me when I moved from Sharp to Nintendo was that, while they didn’t have a development division, they had this kind of development warehouse full of toys, almost all of them American.
     
    Kotaku: What were your impressions of Nintendo’s former president Hiroshi Yamauchi, who ran the firm from 1949 to 2002?
     
    Uemura: He loved hanafuda and card games. I remember once, early on, a birthday party for an employee and he showed up and got right into hanafuda with everyone.
    He was a Kyotoite. It’s a city with a lot of long-running businesses, some maybe five or even six hundred years old. In the hierarchy of the city, traditional craftspeople rank at the top. Nintendo, as a purveyor of playthings like hanafuda or Western playing cards, originally ranked down at the very bottom. Doing business in that environment made him very open to new ventures. He wasn’t interested in specializing. He was keenly interested in new trends.
    Here’s an example of what I mean. In 1978, he bought around 10 tabletop versions of Space Invaders and placed them in headquarters and our factory. The idea was that we’d playtest them as a form of research. But what ended up happening was the entire company got so obsessed playing it that we couldn’t get a turn in. It was like a fever. Everyone abandoned their posts and stopped working. I was just bummed out that we hadn’t made it ourselves. Shocked and annoyed [laughs].
     
    Kotaku: Did you feel behind the curve compared to other game companies back then? 
     
    Uemura: In the 70s, we had no idea what was going on with companies like Namco or Atari because we were here in Kyoto. If you lived in Tokyo, you’d probably pick up lots of things about companies like Taito or Sega or Namco or even what was happening in America. But none of that filtered down to Kyoto at all. That’s Kyoto for you—a little standoffish, going its own way, and proud of it. To a certain degree, not even caring about the outside world. A little conservative when it comes to new things. When I worked for Sharp, I took many business trips to Tokyo. But when I started working for Nintendo, that completely stopped. It’s pretty shocking when I think back on it, but Kyoto has always been kind of closed off that way. So no, there wasn’t any sense of us being behind.
     
    Kotaku: I’ve heard that the atmosphere inside the company was very competitive, with a big rivalry between Nintendo’s two R&D divisions.
     
    Uemura: There wasn’t really any R&D 1 and 2! It was just Yokoi and Uemura. There wasn’t any rivalry! Yokoi found me and recruited me to Nintendo; he was my senpai. It was Yamauchi who set us up as rivals. It was symbolic, which is important in any corporate organization. That’s why he created R&D 1 and 2.
     
    Kotaku: How did the Famicom project come about?
     
    Uemura: It started with a phone call in 1981. President Yamauchi told me to make a video game system, one that could play games on cartridges. He always liked to call me after he’d had a few drinks, so I didn’t think much of it. I just said, “Sure thing, boss,” and hung up. It wasn’t until the next morning when he came up to me, sober, and said, “That thing we talked about—you’re on it?” that it hit me: He was serious.
     
    Kotaku: Were you influenced by other companies’ machines?
     
    Uemura: No. I mean, after I got the order I bought every single one, took them apart, analyzed them piece by piece. I looked at the chipsets, saw what CPUs they used, checked out the patents, all of it. That took about six months. Most of it I did myself, but I did have some help from outside resources, people who worked at semiconductor companies. I looked into Atari’s [2600] machine, of course—it was the biggest—and the Magnavox machine. Because those two were the biggest hits, and Atari’s biggest of all.
     
    Kotaku: How did you analyze rivals’ game consoles?
     
    Uemura: I had a semiconductor manufacturer dissolve the plastic covering on the chips to expose the wiring underneath. I took pictures, blew them up, and looked at the circuitry to understand it. I had some experience with arcade games, and right away I knew that none of what I was looking at would be any help in designing a new home system. They simply didn’t have expressive enough graphics. They had a monopoly on patents for them, circuit structures and features such as scrolling. And they were simply old-fashioned. That’s why I couldn’t use anything from them.
     
    Kotaku: Did America’s game industry crash scare you?
     
    Uemura: Japan didn’t really experience a video game industry crash like America did. What we had was an LCD game crash. They stopped selling at right around the same time—Christmas of 1983.
     
    Kotaku: In US the crash made the very concept of games taboo in the industry for a while. What about Japan?
     
    Uemura: In Japan, the issue was that toy stores didn’t know how to carry them. Toy stores didn’t carry televisions. So they didn’t see game systems as things they should carry, either. That’s why a lot of companies tried positioning their products as educational products, with keyboards, more like PCs than game systems. The thinking in the industry was that was the only way to go, back then. The only way to sell a video game was showing it on a screen, and it was a big ask of toy stores, making them purchase TVs. LCD games had their own screens; you could just put them out and they’d sell themselves.
     
    Kotaku: Is that why you chose to style the Famicom more like a toy?
     
    Uemura: It was less of a choice and more that this was the way it had to be.
     
    Kotaku: Why is that?
     
    Uemura: Because that was the cheapest way to do it [laughs]. The colors were based on a scarf Yamauchi liked. True story. There was also a product from a company called DX Antenna, a set-top TV antenna, that used the color scheme. I recall riding with Yamauchi on the Hanshin expressway outside of Osaka and seeing a billboard for it, and Yamauchi saying, “That’s it! Those are our colors!” Just like the scarf. We’d struggled with the color scheme. We knew what the shape would be, but couldn’t figure out what colors to make it. Then the DX Antenna’s colors decided it. So while it ended up looking very toy-like, that wasn’t the intent. The idea was making it stand out.
     
    Kotaku: And it did. Were you surprised when it became a societal phenomenon?
     
    Uemura: I didn’t have time to be surprised! When it really took off, I was totally focused on making the NES for the American market, and also on making the Disk System. I had my hands full. And we were swamped with defective returns. At first we had a very high percentage of defective machines being returned to us. We were just getting so many returns, far more than anything we’d ever seen before. That’s when I realized just how many people out there were playing with them; there hadn’t ever been a system this popular before. That was about the time Super Mario Bros. came out, 1985. Everyone in the company realized we were going to be swamped. Super Mario was fuel on the fire of the fad.
     
    Kotaku: Mario arguably became even more of a phenomenon than the Famicom itself.
     
    Uemura: Super Mario Bros. was the first to really bring a kawaii perspective to game characters. Actually, Donkey Kong was first to do it, in the arcades, and it established that unique sense of design. Until that point, most games followed the arcade style of shooting game design. Super Mario is often cited as the very first game to connect that style of cute character and cute music together. I’m not sure who specifically on Miyamoto’s team connected the dots, but that’s what happened. Probably Miyamoto himself.
     
    Kotaku: After Nintendo went from 3rd or 4th place to 1st in the ‘80s, was there a sense things changed, among people inside the company?
     
    Uemura: No! We’re in Kyoto [laughs].
    Well, my salary went up. That’s a fact. So I was getting paid more, but the flip side was my job got a lot harder. President Yamauchi’s attitude played a big part in this, but my feeling was one of “seize the day.” Just go for it. You have to remember, there was a time, after Donkey Kong, that we really didn’t make another game for about two years. Well, not exactly, but pretty much. That’s the period Super Mario Bros. was being developed. That game basically ended up including everything and the kitchen sink, gameplay-wise.
     
    Kotaku: What led to the decision to export the Famicom abroad?
     
    Uemura: There’s a rule in the game industry that fads last for three years. That’s why President Yamauchi targeted America—to get around that. The prevailing sense at the time was that television games would fade into history as they were replaced by personal computers. So we were shocked that the fad kept going. It was Kudo-san, the president of a company named Hudson, one of the Famicom’s first licensees, who said to Yamauchi, “this is a culture.” Yamauchi was like, “What are you talking about?”
     
    Kotaku: Japanese games swept the globe starting in the late 70s: Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong. Why do you think this made-in-Japan culture resonated with people all over the world?
     
    Uemura: Actually, that’s what I want to ask you [laughs].
    Super Mario Bros. isn’t set in Japan, but the character’s Japanese. The name Mario sounds Italian, but he isn’t Italian. They were really able to capture that ambiguity. The number of dots you could use to draw the characters was extremely limited, so Miyamoto was forced to use colors to differentiate them. He spent a lot of time working on the colors. In the end, it became the template for how a designer might express themselves through a game. It was a whole new world.
    Until video games became able to portray characters, they were nothing more than strategy games like shogi or chess. Once hardware developed to the point where you could actually draw characters, designers had to figure out what to make. Subconsciously they turned to things they’d absorbed from anime and manga. We were sort of blessed in the sense that foreigners hadn’t seen the things we were basing our ideas on.
     
    The Designer Of The NES Dishes The Dirt On Nintendo's Early Days (kotaku.com)
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    Hacking Nintendo Punch-Out To Control It With Actual Punches

    By Ian Charnas November 17th, 2021
    I recently adopted a kitten I found on the street, and every morning we play with the laser pointer. She gets a lot of fun and exercise out of this single-pixel video game, and it got me thinking I should make a video game where I get exercise too!
    Fast forward 3 months and I’ve hacked a Nintendo Punch-Out boxing game so that you control it with actual punches instead of a controller. It gives you the feeling of actually being inside the video game! You can watch me build and test the game on my youtube video.
    VIDEO

     
    The hardest part of the project was hacking the game to slow the opponents. You see, punching into the air is much slower than pressing a button on a control pad. So, the opponents were moving too fast, relatively, and it wasn’t a fair fight. I had to reverse engineer the source code (a process called “disassembly”) and slow each opponent down one by one.
    The result is a very fun and playable game that you can try yourself — entirely in your browser —  by visiting RealLifePunchout.com
    ARTICLE LINK
    https://makezine.com/2021/11/17/hacking-nintendo-punch-out-to-control-it-with-actual-punches/
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    3D printing to aid Gamers

    By richardmurray,


    Gaming Craft
    Caleb KRaft is a great maker, this is a video with examples on how to aid gamers with disabilities.
     
    The Controller Project
    This site is a place where you can find documentation on how to modify game controllers for people with physical disabilities. Most of my mods have been used for assistance muscular dystrophy, but the library is an ongoing process and people may find the modifications and accessories helpful for other physical needs.
    I will be adding other modifications from around the web as I find them.
    If you need a controller modified, or want to share a modification tutorial or 3d printable files, contact me at Hello(at)calebkraft.com
    http://thecontrollerproject.com/
     
     
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    What's up fam of BGE
    I was having a conversation early today with two young brothas talking bout video games..... One of these bros mentioned that he did not know one black female gamer. (Till he saw me rocking my RE2 GRAPHIC T-SHIRT) I'm like
    We are out there but unfortunately we don't get the same recognition as the bro's.
    😔
    My questions to BGE..... How many black female gamers do you know personally....And Why the exclusion 
    From Mergirl Dunne of Black Games Elite
    BGE mewe page
    https://mewe.com/group/5f6a6b1e9bfa191d3a68cc0c/profile/5c3e37f67f857d550f1d9eea
    Mergirl Dunne Mewe page
    https://mewe.com/i/mergirlwhitedunne
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    A Video Game industrial history

    By richardmurray,


    industrial review
    Didn't know magnavox was bought out in 1974 , they were making versions of their game system until 1978. interesting.
    Didn't know coleco meant the conneticut leather company:) 
    Photo information in 1977, magnavox/atari/coleco all USA based companies dominated the gaming market. A telling thing that all three corporations are gone.

    in 1982, Atari was the distanced leader, while three other usa based makers , mattel had joined, aside japan's nintendo were all equal as second. Atari is an interesting story.
    1985, all the usa makers plans with their systems all were negative,in comparison to nintendo's vision. this is the key year. all four  Atari/Coleco/Magnavox/MAttel needed to come together and make one system or at least rethink their strategy together as they are all based in the usa and are losing significantly to a non statian firm. 

    1987, when you look at Sega or NEC they came in as Nintendo had an unrivaled competitor. the usa firms for various reasons were mismanaged in their strategy or finance and wasn't competing and thus it opened the market for more japanese firms to get involved.

    1992, this has been very helpful to see the industrial change. in 1992 by console sales, Atari was still the third biggest maker in the gaming industry... A firm based in NYC. Born in the west coast but by now, owned by a firm in nyc. 

    1994, when you look at the video gaming industry today and you realize that Magnavox/Coleco/Mattel/Atari ,all are usa based and all are losing to a group of japanese led firms in Nintendo/Sega/NEC and Sony starting that year, it says alot about industrial management. Why couldn't they come together to try something, something. wow! The owners quit on the idea didn't they?

    1996, Nintendo/Sega/Sony all japanese dominate the video gaming market. Atari is  still 4th. Hell, Atari join with NEC. I have real problem with the 4th biggest firm in a market , not having any sort of viable plan. 

    2002, microsoft came in, but I am looking at Atari/Coleco/Mattel/Magnavox/NEC , I don't recall Microfot involving them at all. 4 usa based firms, with properties, video game properties, Microsoft didn't think they warranted getting their properties or working with them or former engineers developers from their time. I even include NEC, why not. you are the last entry, coming real later. Consider that Microsoft was founded in 1975. So they were founded in an era when usa gaming companies was at the top. It took them a long time to want to join the video gaming industry? odd and explains with their lack of interest in aligning with older competitors the fact that they have not made a dollar on consoles. 

    2006 Sony accepted selling playstation three with a lose of 240 dollars per console, that is over half the price of the system. Very bad business model in my view. And I think sony has never stopped trying to make some high priced system be worth so much even the affordable buyer risks getting it

    2019, a great lesson in industrial history here, 
    thanks to MErgirl Dunne of Black Games ELite

     
  15. richardmurray
    I can't recall any video games made from a movie mostly involving black people. A black film I define as a film which is produced or financed, written, directed, and mostly acted by black people. Every other film where black actors are mostly utilized is a non black film that mostly involves black people, ala Black PAnther. With definitions out of the way, will you want to see a Candy man video game? the way most black people love the horror genre, especially in the usa, plus the way most black gamers seem to love the horror video games, I think the candyman video game is... inevitable? thoughts?   #blackgameselite
  18. richardmurray

    MSinChe - the 365 game a day project

    By richardmurray,


    MSinChe-365 game a day
    Hello to the late readers,
    Yes mind reading... In the year 2020, I said to myself, I will make a video game. It is not a hard task in all earnest. It is also not an easy task. The greatest challenge is... fun. Yes, the greatest challenge in making a video game is fun. When I was in college I made games few , excluding me, could master or have fun playing. I took the Will Wright masterclass on Video Game design. The best idea I garnered from it was the 365 game a day challenge. I thought to myself cool. But, I hit the snag I had in college.
    What is that snag you say?!
    I started on intricate, complicated games, absent an idea of fun. Who will have fun with the games I had begun developing. Then, 24 hours before this post was created, I realized I was making the same error, as in the past. So, I rebooted my structure.
    What if I went for simplicity. 365 simple games to test the waters, what people like. This will allow the BlackGamesElite group to engage better. At least I hope so:)
    ... Without further rambling, I introduce the MSinChe project. 365 games in 365 days. The goal of the project is to
    Engage the BlackGamesElite members on creating games ourselves Find out what games we actually like to design as a group or individually Create a code base for the future for the group to use Have fun!  
    I will add a forum entry for the MSinChe project , but this post will hold the simple list of games per day. I hope all the members have fun and those not members, I hope are inspired to create.
     
    1.  KumRan playable link  Comment link
    2. NyoKuun Playable link   Comment link
    3. HazMin Playable Link
    4. MoyoSaa Playable Link
    5. VuaKal Playable Link
    6. ?
  19. richardmurray
    Click Anza to start the game, Maliza to end it.
    Listen to the music of Scott Joplin, the Ragtime dance, while you wait for the beats.
    A Red beat is a date so great it is valued twice.
    A green is a date that went well.
    A pink is a date that is going poorly.
    Click the red or green, don't click the pink, if you click anywhere inside the heart or outside the heart the game is over.
    Do you have the patience to wait for love? Is love always at the end of the journey?
    Play MoyoSaa! and find out

     
  23. richardmurray
    December Solstice art or text craft parade 
     The December Solstice is December 21st 11:19 pm EST or UTC-5 , it is the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere, summer in the southern hemisphere 
     share photos of art OR text of fiction 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo or any craft depicting Black people in summer in the southern hemisphere, any country <south america/caribbean/africa/south asia/australia> OR  Black people in winter in the northern hemisphere, any country <north america/europe/northern asia> 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Black person or peoples at the first day or summer or winter  
       STORY 1 : https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-december-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=963
    Story 2: https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-december-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=964
     
    November 28th  
    Native American Harvest Art 
     Thanksgiving is November 28th , share photos of art OR text of fiction 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo concerning Native Americans enjoying food only -can include Black seminoles- no colonists from europe 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Native Americans communities around harvest - black seminoles allowed- no colonist from europe  
       https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-native-american-harvest-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=961
     
    November 11  
    Veterans day is November 11th, share photos of art OR test of fiction, guest comments are allowed 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo concerning Black Veterans, any country any time, any army 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Black Soldiers who fought against the USA for the british/ Black soldiers during the Haitian Freeing/ Black Seminoles during the time of osceola/jonas caballo/Black soldiers who fought for Menelik II in the first Abyssinian-italo war 
    story 1
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-veterans-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=959
    story 2
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-veterans-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=960
     
    October 31st Halloween, Oct 31st to Nov 1st is Samhain, mid september equinox to december solstice
    The time of final main harvest before the winter. look at this dog, the ghost:) https://0512-97.tumblr.com/post/631277935457878016
     Story 1
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-halloween-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=957
    Story 2
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-halloween-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=958
     
     
    October 12th indigenous peoples day - present a story of text or images that reflect Black Indigenous people of the USA or the greater american continent
     
    September Equinox- it is september 22nd 13:31 UTC equate to 8:31 utc-5, it is the beginning of fall  in the northern hemisphere, spring in the southern hemisphere < http://www.astropixels.com/ephemeris/soleq2001.html  >  
     share photos of art OR text of fiction 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo or any craft depicting Black people in spring in the southern hemisphere, any country <south america/caribbean/africa/south asia/australia> OR  Black people in fall in the northern hemisphere, any country <north america/europe/northern asia> 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Black person or peoples at the first day of spring or fall 
     Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-september-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=948
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-september-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=949
     
    September 21st international day of peace- a story of peace 
     https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-september-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=947
     
    September 7th – Mrs. moses, born 1860 was a painter from new york state, began painting at 78,a story of an older person painting 
     
    Statian LAbor Day- First monday of September-a story of john henry in the usa 
     
    Ray Bradbury birthday August 22nd- I quote him: "Libraries raised me... I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years" Submit a story using three random things, solid/liquid/gas/eectromagnetic in the room where you sleep, utilizing a book in some fashion in the story. 
     
    Cat Nights begin on August 17th - display any text or art concerning cats. <Cat Nights begin on August 17. This term harks back to the days when people believed in witches. A rather obscure old Irish legend said that a witch could turn herself into a cat eight times, but on the ninth time (August 17), she couldn’t regain her human form. This bit of folklore also gives us the saying, “A cat has nine lives.” Because August is a yowly time for cats, this may have prompted the speculation about witches on the prowl in the first place. Also, nights continue to get longer. Cats, crepuscular creatures, are nocturnal hunters. Their superior night vision means that the nights belong to them. citing>  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-black-cowboy-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=943  
       
    Mid June Solstice to september equinox, Midsummer eve < equal distant days between the June Solstice and the September Equinox, august 6th or 7th in 2020, ? 2021 >  Usually celebrated August 1st , also called Lammas
    This is a free subject time, think of your dreams or compose any art or prose to any subject.  
       
    Black Cowboy day- In the USA , National Cowboy day is july 25th so I say, give this day to art, text full of imagination for the black cowboy  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-saint-mary-magdalene-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=938  
       
    Saint Mary MAgdalene- the catholic saint day is the 22nd of july, i say she warrant better, what is your craft to her?  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=936  
       
    Aphelion is July 4th 11:04pm in 2020, the Aphelion for earth is when the earth is farthest from the sun, in its eliptical orbit. If you consider the Perihelion the beginning of a year, then the Aphelion is the trust midyear point. Every planet around the sun has an aphelion. Earth's moon like all other moons has a similar action, called an apogee to a planet, where a moon is farthest from the planet it rotates around, by having an elliptical orbit.  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=923  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=924  
         
     Midsummer day June 24th - summer in europe or other places was culturally started in May and ended at the end of august. Thus late july was called midsummer. Usually between June19th and june 25th. What dream did you have?  
       
    Father's day is june 21st  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-june-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=911  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-fathers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=912  
       
    The June Solstice , in 2020, is on the 20th, it will be in the moment 5:43 PM on Saturday 
     In the northern hemisphere summer begin, in the  southern hemisphere winter begin. 
     The sun will appear to be at its highest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere, the lowest point in the sky in the southern hemisphere. 
     In parallel, during the December solstice, in the northern hemisphere it begins winter, in the southern hemipshere summer 
     The sun will appear to be at its lowest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere , while the highest in the southern hemisphere  
    EQuinox, the path of the sun crosses the equator of earth extended out into space or the celestial equator.  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-june-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=909  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-june-solstice-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=910  
       
    Juneteenth is July 19th , a day celebrated as the day when all black people in the usa knew that the slave system had been destroyed, not legally abolished, which is the 13th amendment.  State text or graphics depicting Juneteenth to you.  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-juneteenth-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=908  
       
    Flag Day <june 14th , June 14, 1777 the usa flag was adopted : "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.">- commemorating the Flag of the usa. IT is not a federal holiday. But, what does the USA flag mean to you? I ask for various text or graphics depicting that feeling. Here is some trivia. When is a star supposed to be added when a state is added to the union?  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-flag-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=905  
       
    Memorial Day <last monday of may originally may 30th, originally called decoration day> - create writing or art that involve the the death of Black soldiers who died serving on the battlefield for the us military or others. I ask a query? https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=914  
       
    Joan or Arc canonized <may 16th>+ Jumping Frog Jubilee <every third weekend in may, honoring MArk Twain's first published work>  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=901  
       
    Mother's Day is May 10th , Photos or text involving art /live model/stories involving black mothers  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=897  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=899  
       
    May 1st, Floralia or festival of Flora/ hellenistic Chloris or Communists/socialists international workers day for incident involving a workers march on may day, make a story concerning flowers and labor across flag borders, excluding the usa , also called May Eve ,  or MidSpring or Mid march equinox to june solstice
     
    Earth Day, is april 22nd, show art or text or fiction involving the earth  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=894  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-earth-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=895  
       
    Eostre  
    Easter is April 12th in the year 2020, the name is derived from Ēostre the real or unreal germanic goddess but the date and most modern traditions refer to Pascha which roughly translates to passover, the Jewish holiday. But, I want to focus on  Ēostre. For easter, include the real or unreal traditions attributed to Eostre, like rabbits, or make your own.You can show photos of art OR text of fiction 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo or any craft depicting Eostra real or unreal traditions 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Real or unreal traditons of Eostre. Orthodox catholic easter comes a week after roman catholic easter.  
    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=892  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=893  
       
    April Fool's day April 1st  
    http://houyhnhnm.github.io/aprilfool/index.html  
       
    March Equinox art or text craft parade 
     The March Equinox is March 19th 11:49 pm EST UTC -5 , it is the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, fall in the southern hemisphere 
     share photos of art OR text of fiction 
     The photos can be to->sculpture/knitting or sewing/graffiti/tattoo or any craft depicting Black people in fall in the southern hemisphere, any country <south america/caribbean/africa/south asia/australia> OR  Black people in spring in the northern hemisphere, any country <north america/europe/northern asia> 
     The text can only be fiction based on the following: Black person or peoples at the first day of spring or fall  
    AALBC STORY  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-march-equinox-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=878  
    Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=890   
    Story 3 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=891  
       
    Saint PAtrick day  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=889  
       
    Mardi Gras is February 25th in the year 2020. I ask you to make a journal of your day in New Orleans during mardi using photos from wherever you like to paruse  
    Story 1 :  https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=885  
    Story 2 : https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-eostre-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=886  
         
    Black Hearts Day or Valentine's Day good news - 
     Any Love , story or image stating Black love, any language, any geography, any religion. Love is meant to be shared everyday,but giving it a day in the year to itself is not an evil or bad thing. Enjoy Black people together. 
     In the usa it is feb 14th  
    Richard Murray Valentines day album 2020 LINK  
    Mid dec solstice to march equinox,  Midwinter day in the northern hemisphere- called imbolc , ussally celebrated on february 2nd , which is also groundhog day in the usa
    ?
    Martin Luther King junior Day -  
    His actual birthday is the fifteenth of january but the federal holiday is in a monday for three day weekends, like others. It is celebrated on the third monday in the month of january in every year since its inception in the Statian Empire. I ask you to share , historical fictions/prose/graphical artwork in any style concerning MArtin Luther King jr....I do wonder why Blacks in the U.S.A. can not come together and demand a true day off for this federal notice. And also share, officials days in a country outside the usa for a black person in history?  
    In Amendment  
    Why the holiday is on his the third monday and not his true birthday?  
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Monday_Holiday_Act  
    MLK jr's views on Financial Accountability  
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnKP__N7MNI 
     MY 2020 speech  
    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/194-richard-murray-creative-table/page/7/?tab=comments#comment-820  
       Marcus Garvey Birthday Jan 17th
    January Perihelion  
    The perihelion is the moment in the path the Earth make about the Sun ,elliptical orbit, where the Earth's position is closest to the sun. It will occur : January 5, 2020 2:47 am EST or UTC-5. The June Aphelion is when the earth is farthest away. Please provide any art or text concerning  a sun coming closer, and don't try the twilight zone episode.  
       
    YEAR MARK  
       
    EXTRA  
    A Day, and Most Night, At The Uffizi  
    Daylight savings time 2020  
    Arcane Idol 2020  
     
  24. richardmurray

    Welcome to BlackGamesElite

    By richardmurray,


    groupmessage
    BlackGamesElite is a online club which I started to do two thing
    1. Have a community considering Black people, a human community based on the auniversally accepted phenotypical range of skin,  in relation to all elements of the video game industry, from developers to culture to characters in games or any other factor in said industry.
    2. To have fun:)
    Rules
    1. Have fun
    2. All phenotypes are welcome, but if you can't handle Black empowerment, whether you be black or not, please go somewhere else online.
  25. richardmurray

    BlackGamesElite

    By richardmurray,


    groupproject
    BlackGamesElite is the name of a group or a project I initiated to do the following, in no order
    Create and maintain a gaming group , pan phenotypical in composure, with a purpose to have positive dialog/communication/debate/design of games involving Black people aside assessing all things games; Black people is defined as those of a certain phenotype, skin tone range, gardless of their geographic based lineage/heritage/culture/gender/age/language or other racial factor Start a Black Owned Gaming company Have FUN  
    The Group Page that will serve as the totally public depository for member development concerning game development projects- it has a newsletter for those interested in following the journey
    https://aalbc.com/tc/clubs/5-blackgameselite/
    The frontpage to the games developed in the group
    http://houyhnhnm.github.io/BlackGamesElite/
    Companion books to the games- for fun or interest
    Coming soon
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