Modernism In Games

Modernism is an art that is simplistic to be seen from a different point of perspective.


Post Modernism is different from modernism in terms of like beliefs of oneself which is subjected to change depending on the environment and time. Games now are trying to capture human conditons through mediums.

For games to be unique it has to be interactive. It has to be fun. It means we get to make choices and take responsibility of our choices whether be it good or bad.
Since we can find PostModernism in games does that means it is a form of art? Well i think games can be a great source of entertainment in life. Like how we change life from no fun to so much fun now? Like how we get to kill people without killing them in real life? hmm it maybe a bad thing but really, its just fun and most importantly it's Interactive.

From this i learned that we can really bring post modernism in games in a creative way which lets the user have fun and learn things as well. I feel that many people lack the ability to make decision themselves. Therefore they should play more games and make more decision =D

Pictures taken from:
http://michaelnewberry.com/av/post/post.html
http://www.sawse.com/2008/02/06/solace-in-the-seemingly-obscure/

Modern Art movements

Cubism artwork breaks up object and is being re assembled with multiple viewpoint.

There are 2 types of cubism. Analtic and Synthetic.

Analytic cubism is the first phrase of cubism that simplify objects in to shapes. Synthetic cubism is the same as first phrase but colors are added in and not just a single object but several objects place together. One very interesting thing about cubism is even after simplifying the objects it still has its original form.





Futurism is the love for speed, noise, mchine and pollution. From the picture above i can see that it is a picture of a battle horse well why is it a battle horse? Because of the spear i see around it so i guess there must be a person riding this horse moving forward in high speed. Well there seems to be alot of enemies around it as well but the horse just wasn't afraid. It symbolises courage and with the color schemes used it feel as though the horse is in victory and it looks as though the surrounding time has been stopped.


Surrealism is like drawing of dreams, imagination that explores one person's inner and outer self. In order to draw surrealism one has to have alot of imagination and dreams.

Movie of Surrealism like Alice in the Wonderland and Inception movie settings is place in dreams and yet this dreams become so realistic. It kind of brings a sense of mystery and well it definately looks interesting and cool.

Well we haven't really tried doing any of this art before basically because we wasn't teach and well i would say that i would like to try it because it looks so weird yet it looks nice =D



Other than just using one method to do art. We can also combine both theory into one like this painting above mixing cubism with surrealism.

Pictures taken from:
http://dark.pozadia.org/wallpaper/Artist-Surrealism/
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/italian/italianclubbepfall2000.html
http://www.160grams.com/magazine/2010-2011/february-issue/futuristic-icons.php
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/cubism.html
http://t1.gstatic.com/

Understanding emotions and Games

Emotion is something everyone has, well even the animals. Emotion is complex in a way that it involves feelings.

Anger- I feel guilty after doing it which is when i'm frustrated at something i'm working on and my mum came in and nags at me so, well i flare at her and i feel guilty after that.

Grief- When i had a fight with my love ones, i get upset. Or when i'm hurt by my friends i feel strong betrayal and i feel upset.

Laughter- This happens all the time when i'm watching TV/playing games/chatting with a friend. It's the sound of happiness.

Happiness- Happiness is very important as they always says happiness is the cure of illness. Well you never know maybe you can get cured because you're happy~ But seriously, happiness depends on how the person's sees life. If the person sees like as pessimistic den the world will be Negative, however if one sees like as vabriant, full of wonders, positive then the world will be a beautiful place.

Envy- Envy for me comes in many forms, like Envy on other people's face/body/work etc. But i think Envy can become a good thing and a bad thing. It is good if one archieve to be like the person they envy but one is bad if they go on a diet without eating just to slim down and look preety. I feel that confident is kind of related to envy because when one is told that he/she is ugly that person will feel sad and therefore lose confident that leads to using unhealthy way to become some one better.

Fear- It is the most dangerous emotion because it can really make a person's mental mind go crazy. The thing is Every one has fear. Fear of death/Fear to fail/Fear of lonliness. We all have many different types of fear and it is always true that inorder for one to over come fear, they must face fear themself but still how many people will dare to face it?

I feel that emotions is very interesting thing. Like people play pranks on other people one the street just to see their reaction? Well we all laugh at the people they played pranks on and this is called the Superiority theory. But i guess it isn't so funny when we're the ones being pranked.

Emotions can be read through body language, speech as well as facial expression. I know that some people is good at hiding some emotions like sadness or fear but is it really possible to hide them all?

Pictures taken from:
http://nuovatradizione.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/thoughts-feelings-or-logic/
http://waa.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/fall01/emotional1.html

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology is the exploration of the inner mind. Like how we remember, think, speak and solve problems. We basically use our brain for everything, when we use or speak or think we use our brains and its the thing that makes human special. Different from other species.

Inside our human brains there are attention, association, perception and memory which are all link together.

There are 5 different types of Attention like Focused attention where one is able to respond discretely to the speaker, Sustained attention where one maintain a consistent response during communicating, selective attention where one chooses the freedom to react, Alternating Attention where by one has the ability to shift their focus of attention between task and lastly divided Attention where one is able to respond simultaneously to multiple task/demands.

Memory is very important to a human being. Without memory it's like waking up every morning and yet don't remember anyone around me and repeat my life again and again every single day like the movie 50 First dates. Research says that human can only remember 10 things in sequence, well i feel that it may not be entirely true because the reason why i pass my history in secondary school is through memorizing and trust me it's ALOT of work to do so and well i should say memorizing is easier that math sinces i dont have to do calculations and stuff.

Associaton is the repeated paring of 2 concepts which cause one to lead to the other. Like an anticipation before an action.

I feel that the more we think the more our thoughts becomes matured. Like how we manage to make our life better because of the inventions we make? Like how we look at things differently when something happens? This is a process of living and there's no doubt about it.

Pictures taken from:
http://www.elements4health.com/earlier-memory-decline-for-carriers-of-alzheimers-genetic-risk-factor.html
http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/behavioral-economics-revisited-face-economic-crisis/

Behavioural games and humanistic psychology

In Humanistic Phychology, it is said that the core belief of humans are good. well i do agree because every human being learn from young on what is right and what is wrong. We all believe that the pressent is more important than the past and the future. The second core is that every human takes responsibility for their own actions. Third belief is the equally worthy of respect from other beings. I believe that each and every one of the human beings deserve the right to be respected. Be it race, religion etc. There's a saying "If you respect the others, they will do the same to you."

Motivation is important in life. Well it is important to me because whenever i see something that really motivates me, it makes me want to work harder to archieve it and excel. Motivation changes the way i do things and improve my moral.

In games, When do we know that something is about to happen? Well there should be a few things that is quite obvious like music/ change of environment and perhaps even some popups from game to remind you what you need to do. Every games we played is a Behavioral games. Because we behave in a certain way when we are being put to the test.


People play games to archieve Eudaimonia (Happiness). Some says that it is to escape from reality and some just played casually for time to pass. Games has to have achievements because it is something that every human being yearns. Well my mum used to nag at me when i'm stuck on my chair playing computer games everyday and recently she's been given a PSP and guess what. She stopped nagging =D Its a good thing right? haha well she told my dad that games are very addictive and it's not easy to stop.

Games can also train people in a way that it can be educational as well. Like Stimulation games that are used in the Army to train soldiers to drive a car before making him drive the actual thing? Other than that researches found out that games can make people learn things more easier and it could be fun at the same time.

Well there are chances where by players become more voilent when playing games as well so is the addiction a good thing or a bad thing?

Pictures taken from:
http://forums.gametrailers.com/thread/need-a-sweet-gaming-related-wa/696751
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Gaming-Zone-Duty-Calls-Posters_i4324660_.htm
http://pcgamingcorner.com/wordpress/?p=1168

Daimonic Realities, Alchemy of the Soul & Modern Root Metaphors

DeJaVu is something that i experience before. Quite a few times actually and researched says that people experiencing DeJaVu could mean that this is not the first time they lived. Could be the first time or even 100 times.

Near Death Experience i heard from my friend that he will see flashbacks of his life with a white background. Our mind records thethings we do and therefore we gets playback when we are encountering near death experience. According to Raymond Moody's research he says that there are actually a total of 9 traits in Near Death Experience.

Human consciousness is split into 2. One is Daemon and the other called Eidolon. Our current self is called the Eidolon and our inner self is called Daemon. There are ways for Eidolon to communicate with Daemon through Injection/Brain operated/Hypnotism/Dreams/Migraine and it is said that when Eidolon is able to communicate with the Daemon, they are usually called Daemonic Man.

Eidolon is our everyday self. The Lower self and Eidolon recieve the message by a hunch, dream or even a voice. Eidolon is located at the Left hemisphere of the brain.

Daemon is our higher everyday self. Communicates with Eidolon by sending it a message not verbally. It is a reflection of god and it's located at the Right hemisphere of the brain. Some may hear the Daemon's voice as it serve as a guardian, council, archangels, heavenly twin, angelic spirit, etc. Daemon guides the Eidolon and helps makes Eidolon's life better. However if one doesn't listen to their daemon they always ends up dead.

In Religion terms we called Daemon as Hun, the yang-like and Masculine while we called Eidolon as P'o, the yin-like and Feminine. In Ancient Persia times daemon and Eidolon is called Urvan and Daena. In Christianity, they banish daemon because there can only be one god in mankind.

Doesn't you feel that life is like a game? It is made up of alot of events, Like game we make decision and we choose the path we want to go and therefore triggers another event. Each decision we make lie the seeds of a different life, like a different course of event. We are responsible for our decision and we take control of our life ourself.

There's a movie about daemon made called the golden compass is a very interesting movie where by the eidolon's daemon takes form of animals and be able to understand daemon and communicate with it. How i wish i had one daemon as pets =D

Well i did a Quiz on which Daemon i am and here's the result:
Multi-Faceted Soul

In a way, you are a truly balanced person. You have a good sense of self, but you have periods of worry and self doubt. You don't like to be alone a lot, but you don't like being constantly surrounded, either. You can be shy in some situations and bold in others. You can tell people how you feel, but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve. You aren't "TOO" anything: You aren't too shy, you aren't too aggressive, you aren't too extroverted, you aren't too introverted. However at any one time you can be any combination of these things.

You tend to adapt yourself to match the situations in which you find yourself. You may be quiet and sensitive with some people, or joking and loud with others. These are all facets of your personality. People tend to perceive you as they want to perceive you. They may even tend to idealize you a bit. Then, when you do something that doesn't fit their concept of who you are (like have an outburst of anger, or a fit of shyness, or make an insensitive joke)they can be shocked and surprised. Does anyone know the real you?

Your daemon would represent your multi-faceted and ever-changing personality, as well as people's tendency to idealize you. He or she would get angry when you did not, be calm and poised when you felt ruffled and anxious, and always be the voice of emotion and reason in your ear.

Suggested forms: Swan, Elephant, Koala, Panda, Chameleon, Wolf.

Daemon Quiz Website:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-golden-compass-daemon-test

Pictures taken from:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/70457651/
http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/new-full-length-golden-compass-trailer/

The Unconscious

Unconscious is a word that we know but yet we didn't really understand. It's an interesting part of ourselves. It's our inner self that we didn't get to see it. To me it feels like its another personality of me. A different me inside me.

Freud's is a phychologist and a psychatrist. He is proud of his own work. Jung has the same occupation as Freud but he is a great thinker and came up with extrovert and introvert. Well it is said that we have 2 personality, an extrovert side and an introvert side.

Well both couldn't agree with each other's theory anyway because Jung finds human are more complicated and Freud emphasize almost on the dark side of humans. Well Jung Emphasizes on both side.

Dreams is something we all do. I feel that it's not really important to have dreams because i heard that when one dreams he/she uses his energy to dream. Well it's the other case for the movie Inception because they need to dream and it's very important to them.

Oneself is different from Ego(I), like self is a whole soul, a full soul. We have a whole personality which involved both conscious and the Unconscious and we are born with it. To Jung we have many different layers of Unconscious.

Persona is something we created, something that we use to hide our true nature. It's like a belief and something that tells us whether this is right or wrong. It's like a personal point of view and what you believe in as we tends to build our own belief since we are young.

One example from me is that i used to think that my family is loving and everyone is nice however only when i'm older that i am opened to the ugly truth. Well it looks loving from the outside but the inside is always ugly. Well my sister had an abortion. As we all know abortion is wrong and that is what i believe. The worse thing is she had abortion 3 times. Just what in the world is she thinking? Isn't this wrong? It is true that every foetus is a life but i feel that if my sister actually gave birth they will suffer even more. Even now, my sister just give birth to my niece and yet she say that she didn't want the baby and ask her never to be husband to take her instead. IS this what a mother should say? I really don't know and i feel its very irresponsible of her to do that. The thing my niece is still young and haven't started calling people. Well i guess this kind of stuff kind of made me see life differently

Problems caused us not to be convince by people and eventually we tend to be afraid to take risky decisions.

Shadow is something like a desire. Its not wrong for everyone but some may feel it's wrong. Inorder for one to archieve something he/she has to confront it's fear, shadow. Shadow is like a bad habit that we are trying to get rid of.

Inception is one of the movie that i find it weird yet interesting. It's something that i have never seen before and it's real. Dreams can be real? Like how it will affect the original user when one gets hurt in dreams. Well if i have a chance i definately will want to experience dream in a dream though coz it's cool =D


Well i once played a game called Persona 3 on Psp. It's about the main character who are suppose to defeat the shadows. There is a total of 12 boss if i'm not wrong and main character is suppose to kill the last boss which is actually a part of the main character. This is so cool isn't it?

Well i did a personality test and here's the result.
Ta-dah, your personality type is ISFJ!

Introverted (I) 57% Extraverted (E) 43%
Sensing (S) 73% Intuitive (N) 27%
Feeling (F) 60% Thinking (T) 40%
Judging (J) 59% Perceiving (P) 41%

Here's the webside i did my test on.
http://kisa.ca/personality/

Pictures taken from:
http://www.josephinewall.co.uk/stairway.html
http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Inception_Wiki
http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/Karinth
http://ultimatemind.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/3-powerful-ways-to-program-your-unconscious-mind-for-success/