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We've wanted to dabble in the world of infographics for a long long time now
We've seen a few beautiful examples of video games related infographics and really wanted to have a go ourselves.
One of the things that we were stuck on, was.....
"What Would Be A Good Subject To Make An Infographic On?"
Well today we got our inspiration from a pic we saw of Call Of Duty Ghosts and its review scores.......
That got us thing about RetroGaming classics.....
Then it struck us HALF LIFE 2!
HL2 is easily one of our favourite games of all time and most of our days are spent dreaming of Half Life 3....
So we went to our trusty friend, Metacritic , to dig out the raft of amazing review scores for Half Life 2 and plot them into our infographic....
It's our first attempt so be gentle with your comments.
We've tried to keep to the Games Freezer styling and keep it simple for our first attempt.
We Used Pik To Chart to create our very first masterpiece and we have now got the bug to create more!
Take A Look at Our Handy Work Below And Let Us Know What You Think ...
Let Us know What You Think Of Our First Attempt....
What subjects would you like us to cover in the future?
What Infographic software do you use?
Here at Games Freezer we don't normally
get involved with the latest casual time-killer fad type game, but we
couldn't help but pay attention to the ultra trending, ultra newsworthy
(for some reason) "best worst" game that we have ever encountered that
goes by the name of "Flappy Bird"
Think of Badlands gameplay crossed with Mario Bros styling and you are not far off what it looks / plays like.
We downloaded the game in the name of scientific research and we were confronted with a game that doesn't work in the traditional game-play sense of the way we envisage our games to work.
This game is a prime example ,in our opinion, of something
that has been downloaded and played because of social media rather than
favourable reviews.
We could say it's fun to play but it isn't really, it's a pain in the Ice Box!
What amuses us with this game though is
the way it has entered the global psyche and that such a poor game could
get people so involved that they cause an online outcry when it was
recently announced by its gamedev, Dong Nguyen, the game is being "pulled" from the App Store and
Google Play!
The saving grace of the game is its retro
style, which made us look at the game in the first place and with that
in mind that's really why we thought it was worth a comment.
Obviously there was also the reputed
figure that it was making per day from ad revenue of $50,000 dollars
that made us think WHY? HOW?
But hey fair play to this guy he's put an
app out there that's caught people's imagination and piqued their
interest to a point whereby it is seen as COOL to play this frustratingly difficult and annoying game!
It seems to us though that this Game Dev
is a clever cookie as the story of the game being pulled has probably
earned him more publicity than he could of ever imagined and now you can
bet that his next game (no matter how poor it may turn out to be) will
be an instant success.
Not sure how that makes other Game Dev's
feel who pour their heart and soul into games only to see them do
moderately well and yet a casual game such as this can turn into a money making
machine.
But hey, we guess it depends how you measure success? $ or Reviews.....
To us it feels like a "Gangnam Style" one hit wonder of the Video Games world.....
A sort of social phenomenon for all the wrong reasons, but hey what do we know?
The Flappy Bird Timeline
- Went "viral" JANUARY 2014 >>>
- Pulled From App Store & Google Play FEBRUARY 2014 >>>
You Can Also Check Out Dong Nguyen's Other Games At GEARS STUDIOS
Let us know what you think of "Flappy Bird" And All The Madness That Surrounds This Story!!
