Infographic update

I decided to polish up some of the issues with my infographic piece from earlier on in the year, these were as follows:

• Gaping hole between road and pavement following the transition from previous scene.
• Mario curtain ('video games can be healthy') entering too earlier - causing confusion.
• Asteroids too static, explosions too subtle.
• Pong SFX timed with animation clashes with music tempo.

I've sorted all these things out as well as adjusted the volume of some of the SFX which I felt were perhaps a little too overpowering. The one issue that remains unchanged is the animated polevault, i'm happy to leave it as it is but in the future I will definately take a different approach to doing things in this way as it didn't feel right at the time either.....at the time it was a case of producing something that worked.

Let me know what you think. Also I now have a profile on Behance where there are some ideas gen scribbles for this on there, take a look!

http://www.behance.net/TokyoBob

If you're on Behance yourself then let me know.

Top-up failage

I've been having a little shufty around the video games courses offered by MMU and Salford University over the last few days, and i'm a bit concerned at this stage to be honest. I've e-mailed the course leader of the MMU course to ask for some general advice and offered a little bit of information regarding my situation that he might be able to comment on, the concern is regarding a top-up year.

Based on the information provided on both university's websites, it seems that whilst the first year of the 3 year course covers the general principles of design they also teach a basic grounding in programming. So i'm assuming that they wouldn't accept any foundation students bypassing this and going straight onto the 2nd year.....but i'm not sure which is why i've enquired about it.

I've been looking at some profiles of people on LinkedIn who work in games though and quite a few seem to have come through via other pathways, so it's still all out in the open.

The main concern is that the media courses seem to be focused more towards television broadcasting....a bit too detached from where i'm wanting to be.