Story for my storyboard

This is a story I came up with and wrote for my storyboard.

In a Peaceful Village known as "Normere" , People go about their daily life growing crops and crafting, the children playing and laughing. The villagers could hear a slight rumble in the air sounding from a distance, the villagers started to act cautiously to what the noise was, When In the far distance they could see a pack of riders on horses heading there direction, The Villagers started to panic trying to find their children and to hide their valuables as the riders drew closer and closer. 

The villagers hiding in their hut's in hope the riders were just passing through, as the riders got closer they could see the riders with weapons and torches; they could tell the riders weren't just passing through as a arrow covered in flames launched and landed in the straw roof of one of the hut's as the fire quickly spread along the roof, more and more arrows  landing in there village quickly setting it ablaze, The villagers picked up whatever they could to defend themselves for what was soon about to happen.

The Riders arrived, attacking, killing all that got in their way, Women, children the men put up a fight but were soon killed, One boy started running toward the forest barely managing to escape, he hid behind a tree watching at the horrors that was happening in his village, his mother being killed while searching for him; his father holding on for his life attacking back but was soon overwhelmed by the riders beheading him and holding it up as a trophy of a glorious victory, The boy started crying; the leader of the riders heard him and spotted him and commanded his men to kill him, the boy started running for his life; he ran and ran until he passed out, the riders could not find the boy and gave up their search.

The boy woke to find himself in a dark cave, surrounded by wolves watching him; the boy was scarred and started to cower and edge away in fear he will be eaten; A wolf slowly walks up to the boy, Fear was in his eyes as the wolf was right up close to him; and moved his head to the boy sniffing him then licks the boy and let out a gentle whimper of friendship.

As time passes the boy grew close to wolves; never leaving the cave for fear what was out there; the wolves bought him food from their hunts for him to eat.

As the boy got older the wolves started to take the boy out on their night hunts showing the boy how to stalk his prey, how move quickly silently, how to smell and sense his surroundings; The boy could feel his sense's, his movement  improving to a incredible degree he could move and sense the same as the wolves.

One night when the boy and the wolves were out on their hunt, the boy sensed a man and went to investigate, he could see the man wielding a sword, swinging it as if he and the sword were one, attacks strong and straight, Fierce blows The boy was totally mesmerized by this man's skill with a blade; The man noticed the boy and starred; the boy was scarred and couldn't move.

The man slowly approached the boy sheathing his sword and holding his hand out in kindness and says "Don't be afraid I'm Balrock", the boy was hesitant, he could sense this man was trustworthy he slowly moved his hand to reach out to the man's they shook hands, the wolves ran over to the boy to see if he was in danger and snarled at the man; the boy looked at the wolves and shook his head, the wolves nodded and approached Balrock in a friendly manner and licked him to show their friendship; they looked at the boy in a way to say farewell as they knew they had found the boy a true home with a man who could teach the boy how to be normal; the boy pats the wolves and says "thank you, I will always remember you" The man looked at the boy and said "I will call you Grey Wolf" the boy smiled.

Balrock took Grey Wolf back to his hut, and said "you better get some rest, we will be training early in the morning", Grey Wolf smiled and said "I will be as good as you someday".

Grey Wolf woke up and opened his eyes and screamed in agony, he was not used to light being in a cave for such a long time he's eyes were permanently adapted to night time; Balrock woke up immediately he saw Grey Wolf in pain and knew what was wrong he ripped his shirt and put it around Grey Wolfs eyes as a blind fold. They Started their training.

10years passed, Balrock taught Grey Wolf everything he knew from learning parts of the sword, wielding a sword to advanced stances and techniques; Balrock said "It's time you set of on your own, to seek your destiny and to set yourself at peace with your demon's; I've taught you everything I know and your even surpassed me with your natural talents, your much faster, agile than I could ever be" , Grey wolf looks at his master and kneels down on one knee and say "Thank your for everything you have done for me, master I will never forget you and I will hope one day we will meet again".

Grey Wolf sets off to find Zorrgaroth, He searched all over the continent; asking every city and village he came across with no one daring to speak a word about Zorrgaroth; A travelling merchant over hears Grey wolf asking and tells him where he might be able to find him in a castle to the north; He sets off to the north to find this castle the merchant spoke off.  

After some travelling Grey Wolf finds the castle, it was a desolate castle which was starting to crumble; he entered inside to find some of Zorrgaraths men which he easily deposed off with his sword; he kept making his way up through the castle killing the guards, till he reached the top and their stood Zorrgarath the man he had wanted to kill all those years ago for what he did to his people; he ran towards him with anger being careless Zorrgarath drew his blade clashed swords with grey wolf they fought and fought; but grey wolf got careless he wanted his revenge so badly; Zorrgarath stuck a blow which dropped Grey wolf to his knee's.

Zorrgarath said "so this is the Grey Wolf I've been hearing about searching for me, I've heard many tales about you, and you did not disappoint me" walking towards grey wolf slowly taking off his helmet, he takes grey wolfs hand and move it on his face and say's do you recognise me grey wolf, do you know my scent, Grey wolf starts to shake and say's It Cannot be, you cant be!!"

After talking to a female gamer friend of mine.

Recently I spoke to a friend of mine who is a female gamer, She was saying how "girl" games are very stereotypical of women, "girl" games mainly consist of cooking, household chores, looking after animals or really cute games;Why female gamers can't be allowed to enjoy games such as Left for Dead, Halo and Dead Rising etc, She also finds it annoying that guys are apparently the only people who are allowed to enjoy those games as that's who it is marketed to, and that if a guy went to buy a "girl" game he would get alot of stick for it and be labeled as "gay".
They also find how women are portrayed in games is kinda wrong aswell, They are set to be really hard ass women, but they wear skimpy clothes and have tiny waists with big boobs, which again is aimed more for the male gamer than the female, and that there isn't any "normal" looking women like bigger sized women only super model types, but when there is a larger women in a game they are usually the villian or there for comedy reasons.

Cakemania 2 Review

We got asked to play and review a "game for girls" , Rob (Kurtas) recomendation was for a game called Cakemania 2.

Cakemania is a game which is meant to be aimed for girls, the basis of the game is to fufil customers needs,
The game starts off with a very bright and colourful title screen, cartoon looking, which leads to the menu screen its laid out easy to navigate with 3 buttons a play button, a download cakemania (full version) and a options button.

The options menu is very basic with a sound volume slider which controls the music and sound, and high detail button for the graphics.

When you click the play button you are taking to a comic style introduction with the story for the game, after your gone through the story introduction you are presented a choice to how to start your game, either choice you make its still the same game with a different background.
There isn't any music for the game, just some basic sounds for instance, oven baking cakes and pinging and money jingling.

The gameplay is that you make the cakes put icing on them then give them to the customer, in return they give you money, you do this till you hit your money goal for the level and the level end's, you then get a choice of buying new equipment such as new icing's, cake shapes, a tray to display cakes and other things. There is a map for choosing level's these unlock as your progress through the game.

Overall - I Think the game isn't specifically for girls, I think anyone interested in micro-managerment would enjoy playing it, I think Kids would enjoy playing it for the bright colourful graphics, I think it would turn off most teen and older males as it's not really a style most males that age play, I also Think the game gets very repeatative for a older audience mostly males, It tends to get boring very fast, although a older female audience would enjoy playing it to pass sometime.

Absent for too long.

So I noticed I haven't posted here in a looooooooong time, I kind of forgot about my blog during the xmas holidays, But I'm back now and Hopefully keep up to date with my blog with lots of posts over the coming few weeks, I have alot to talk about during my absence :D