The Gaudyspuds Blog

Well, this is my 10 time posting on my new blog, in only 6 days. Here are some stats, pretty amazing if you ask me. Totally unbelievable.

Hits In The Past 4 Days - 40

Unique Viewers Overall- 19(!)

Most Viewers On The Blog At One Time - 2

Comments - 16

As you can see from these graphs, our sales may grow… So, my blog’s getting more popular, but I have to say something real for a post, so get ready for improvements for Nintendo, Part 2!

I’ll start off with the Wii again, I just seem to have something for this system. I guess it’s because it was so revolutionary at the time, but now they need something new. I recently saw the Z Cam, and it seems like it could easily beat out the Wii. Sure, some may rather have a… stick for a controller instead of using their whole body like with webcam games, but when it’s much some accurate with some types of games, it should really be an accessory.  Buy up the rights Nintendo! I really like the boxing game with Wii Sports for some reason, but it would be so much better with this. Like I said yesterday, it seems like the independent programmers win again.

Okay, I don’t want this to get too boring, so I’ll leave it at that and start a more interesting and funny story about when I went to NYC.

- Gaudyspuds

As I said yesterday, my story water isn’t working anymore, seems like I drank too much. Though, this seems to be the time when a bunch of ideas are flowing out. Get ready for some new video game ideas to give the industry a boost.

It seems like the one complaint many people have made about the Wii and the other Nintendo systems is that they make great games for the systems, but they don’t make enough quickly enough. Sure, almost anyone would love  the lighthearted nature of Super Mario Galaxy and the great gameplay of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but those great breeds of games only come out like once a month. The other games that are just mediocre never bring anything new to the industry. Okay, I have to give it to them, the Internet access adds a lot of new ways to play online games, but for $5, that may not really count.

Okay, I’ve said a mouth load. Now, what to do about this problem? First off, so many great games come from independent programmers. How about have a collection of say the top 15 games for the IG festival, which you could buy online, and then use the Wii remote to control, it could produce some nice things. Or, just redo the controls. You would both have some brilliant minds working on some amazingly creative games, and later you may just have some of the best future developers. I’ve played a few of the best games, including the old version of Crayon Physics Deluxe, “Crayon Physics”, and that game alone would be in my library if it was for the Wii. Using the remote could cause magic. It just seems like some games were meant for certain systems, and this one is the killer application of freeware games for the Wii. Other top games were also fantastic. Just being able to play a few online for a few bucks apiece would be great!

Now, I’ve talked about the Wii enough, time to go onto the Nintendo DS, so I cover the two systems I have. Seems like Nintendo wants you to have more control over your movements with their systems…

I really like handheld systems, if there could just be one that had amazing graphics and steller gameplay, I bet that could win the championship for the DS over the PSP once again. I’ve found that some games that have great graphics on the top screen, but just flub it up on the bottom. A game might even have just the same image on the bottom screen. Seriously, there doesn’t seem to be much going on down there. Like with some other games on other systems like the XBox 360, how about use the Wi-Fi to say, have sports stats when you’re playing a sports game float on the bottom. I know it would be great to have chat rooms online with Pictochat, and that actually wouldn’t be that hard. If you would mix that with some other things like say the TV Tuner that was famed in Japan, you could have yourselves a DS bundle package to get people buying.

So, those are just a few ideas that I came up with in a flash to get the Nintendo truck moving a little quicker with orders, if you have any ideas or even have any comments or suggestions at any time, just say something in the comments section, I’ll try to respond.

- Gaudyspuds

Hey, I seem to have become more popular, I’ve added a hit counter which is invisible to all but me, and even a counter for how many people are on at what time. So far the maximum is 1 person on at the same time! Wow, that sounds really weird. Even though that may be some juicy information, other than that, I don’t really have any stories to tell. Though, I do have a lot going on in my mind.

It seems like most students don’t really do much with writing. Sure, you might write a report once and a while, but it never seems like students really have the motive to write what their opinions on different topics are. While, on the other side, teachers always seem to stress how much the writing section of all the standardized tests counts, while they don’t spend all of that time working on that. So, I was thinking that it would be so genius to come up with a program to get students blogging. Some might think that this might mean that there should be boundaries set, but I think that they would be more creative if they could do whatever they wanted. They would just say what’s on their mind.

I think this could also help those who have social boundaries or  problems. They would be able to meet others like them. The students would be able to interact, and meet others without discrimination. Everyone would be the same, and learn.

Maybe you would think that this would mean another costly project for the schools, but it isn’t that hard. Either they could use www.wordpress.com, which would work great for their purposes, or they could try to use their own hosting, and use the free open-source software of Wordpress or say MovableType.

Now, wordpress.com would be great because it’s free, and there is no limit to the number of blogs you can have, great if even a whole classroom wants to get into it. It would almost be as good as having a school buy a server for the whole school to have privately owned domains and blogs. It wouln’t cost that much, and the students could have their own slice of the web.

Even though this all sounds great, even fantastic on paper,  getting it out there and able to be up and running could be more challenging. So, I guess this would mean that I should try to take it into my own hands. I know most teachers or instructors would be iffy or concerned about this technology. A good way is if my idea was to become more popular, I could have guest “editors” post stories or articles. It would be a great way for new bloggers to become more well know. Comment about what you think about, tell me if you could help. Thanks!

- Gaudyspuds