Fortnite is a game that came out in early 2017 with it's original game mode "Save The World" where you are one of the few survivors left on Earth. Your mission is to rescue people that are still alive and to protect them from the storm. Although this game mode came out first, the reason Fortnite took off in 2017 was because Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, added a battle royale game mode in October 2017. A battle royale is a lobby with a certain amount of players and if you die you do not respawn, you are forced to start a new game and the last player alive wins. This game mode caused the game to instantly blow up and after two months, everyone had either heard about it or played it. While at this point Epic Games had made themselves known, the game continued to grow. While Epic Games is doing their best, many players complain about updates and weapons that make the game unbalanced, such as changing the amount of materials gained, this is a huge problem for Epic Games because players are not playing the game anymore because of the new material updates claiming that it is making the skill gap smaller and trying to make new players feel better than they actually are. Epic Games have not backtracked on any of their changes so far and has caused for people to stop playing Fortnite. While many players are leaving Fortnite behind, there are just as many new players to come in but these players, generally having just started playing are much worse, making players who have been playing for a long time feel like the game has gotten too easy for them so they start to leave too. This is causing a cycle of people leaving, then coming back and so on. Overall Fortnite is still extremely popular and probably will be for a long time.
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Rocket League has many different colors that it uses. This is because you can customize your car so you can change the color of your car. While this is true there are some colors that are used more frequently throughout the game such as blue and orange, these are the colors of the wo teams during a match. These colors are the most used throughout the game. Other highly used colors are black, white, and gray. These colors are the colors that make up the rest of the stadium that you are in, and the ball. The last color that I want to talk about is green, this color is used for the grass on the floor of the stadium but that is shown a lot more than you think because even when you are waiting for your game to start your car is on grass so in almost every situation you will see green. Blue and orange were probably chosen because they are two colors that are very different so they decided to use those colors for the two teams. I believe green was chosen because grass generally is green and they wanted to accurately represent grass. I also believe that black, gray, and white were chosen because they were colors that when used to fill in the empty areas, looked good and therefore were good choices for filling in the uncolored areas. Lastly I think another reason blue and green were chosen is that those colors generally represent happiness which is what you want for a video game opposed to red which represents hunger.
“Play for Fun. Live to Play.” Nintendo of Europe GmbH, 16 Oct. 2018.
“Rocket League.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Oct. 2018. I believe that Photoshop is a tool that can be extremely useful in altering any image. I think it is a good tool and that there are more pros than cons of Photoshop. I feel that this is true because most people do not use Photoshop for advertising but to edit images and the whole problem about Photoshop is that it creates unrealistic ideals for men and women about how their body should look but almost everyone that uses Photoshop is just looking to edit 2D graphics. Another reason it is useful is because if someone needs to quickly change an image they can do so easily and this is especially useful if you need to do this within a certain time but you are almost out of time. This application is also very useful for DDA because it allows people to learn how to alter images in non-destructive ways which can prevent having to start over because you messed up. This can be very useful if you are working on a major project and you need to remove some parts to see if it looks better but if you do not like the new look you can just remove the layer mask and get what you made invisible instead of having to make what you removed again. Overall I think that Photoshop is a good application despite the unrealistic images that can be created by using this application because the vast majority of the people that use this application do not create unrealistic images of people.
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My name is Vinicio Maresca and my family is from Italy, however, I was born in the US. I will be adding to this blog page as time goes by.
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