Hidden Skill Value in Games

Many video games work with lots of numbers, as such with most computer programs. Usually in video games, you are presented with the important numerical values, like your health (HP), how much money you have, scores, and more. But there are also games where there is a hidden value that the game keeps track of that they don't show to you, and often times, this is your "Skill Value", or your proficiency at playing the game. Is there a reason for these "Skill Values" to be hidden from the players, or is it hidden because of its insignificance to the gameplay?

Deity Wars Giveaway?

So with Dark Summoner having expanded their monster limit to 150 monsters from the previous 120, I am working on building up more monsters for the 4th Giveaway. In the meantime, I am curious as to see how many people are interested in a Deity Wars Giveaway. The only thing is, the game's mechanics being as different as they are, I'm not entirely sure if I cam provide many good cards to give away for Deity Wars. I am, however, willing to if there is demand.

Street Pass Benefits

After having gotten tons of Street Passes on my 3DS at MegaCon, it made me think about how much of a benefit these Street Passes can have on your gaming experiences. A lot of times, you won't get anything very helpful, like a mediocre Coin Rush Mode score in New Super Mario Bros. 2, or some easy fight in Throwdown Mode in Dead or Alive: Dimensions. I got a pretty decent list of ProfiCards that I collected with Street Pass for Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy, but as far as I know, none of them really contained any Dark Notes that were worth mentioning; no great treasure drops from bosses, no Magic Pot encounters, etc. But there were a very few that contained some very helpful elements in some games.

MegaCon 2013

I took Saturday off from work this week so that I could go to MegaCon in Florida. The only other convention that I've been to was in New York, and back then I didn't have a job, so I went and came home with nearly empty hands due to a nearly empty wallet. I've seen some cool stuff at that convention though, so I told myself then that the next time I go to a convention would be when I have money to spend at the vending booths and/or if I have a costume for cosplaying at the event. Unfortunately, I didn't get to put together a costume for MegaCon either, but at least I've been working at my job for long enough to save up some spending money.

KoL - Avatar of Jarlsberg

It's kind of late for me to write about Avatar of Jarlsberg perhaps, but I thought I should share what I've learned about the run here. Especially considering how much I am enjoying it, partially due to its low turn-gen gameplay, with how busy I've been lately.

Poll - League of Legend Roles

Holy crap, it's March already! Here are the results for the latest poll!

What roles can you play on League of Legends?
Carry - 4 votes
Tank - 4 votes
Support - 4 votes
Fighter (Tanky, Melee) - 4 votes
Assassin - 3 votes
Caster - 2 votes
Jungler - 2 votes
Initiator - 2 votes
Other - 1 vote

Total votes: 9

50k Page Views!

Wow, the site has hit over 50,000 page views! Couldn't prepare anything special for it once again. ._.; It's crazy how quickly these milestones seem to hit me. It really does make me consider having another person to help me with updating things on this site, but it's hard finding someone who I can trust to be truthful in all the words that gets posted here on the site. I mean, that is the brand image that I'm going for with The Code of Truth after all.

Although, having an artist to create some simple works for me would be most appreciated at this point since that is a talent that I lack unfortunately... Especially not if I'm drawing with a mouse. I don't exactly have plans on picking up a tablet for drawing either, and the smartphone probably isn't big enough for that. If I get desperate to the point where I have to force myself to draw something myself though, I DO have a scanner available, and with some Photoshop touches, I could possibly make it... um... presentable, but the process will be time consuming. With there being so many things that I need to work on right now, I don't know whether if I have any more time to squeeze in another thing to do, at least at a regular schedule.

Regardless, I enjoy working on the blog, and I'm always looking for the next step in making it even better.