Hello and welcome
back to the confetti website for my tenth and final blog for confetti this
year, what better way to hit my tenth by blogging Game City Nights!!!!!
After emerging from Ronnie Renton’s session full of
enthusiasm, I was shot down as I braced the cold for a few minutes whilst I
walked round to Antenna, I was secretly excited for Game City Nights, with the
King of the Iron Fist’s second annual tournament being held right in our own
back yard, GS11 have previously done well in this tournament with John Frain
taking the title last year.
Game City started off with the announcement of a few games
that were going on throughout the night, and the massive announcement of Sims
City Nights, with a few developers gracing us with their presence one Thursday
evening!
You could possibly say I was an outcast for about 30
minutes, whilst I completed the other blogs for the day, because I really
didn’t want to get home late and have to stay up all night to complete the
blogs! After this I began socialising, and being a student. I finally got to
see some action from one of my favourite games, Tekken tag. By this time, my
pick for the tournament was still in, thankfully.
We got all the way to the end of the tournament, and we
still had a representative of GS11 in one of the teams in the Semi-finals, they
had won, now meaning that they had to face each other for a 3 bout route to the
shiny gold at the end of the road. Who won? Not us, after a close fight, Renato
sadly went out of the tournament being piped by his team mate Alex. However was
still a winner in our eyes!
During the rounds, tutors were offering exhibition matches
for prizes, if you could beat the tutor selected at random, you would go
against them. Now, I was totally surprised anybody would trust me with a
microphone, but it happened, and I think I did a good job of it. I became
‘Special Guest’ commentator on two occasions. I’m not going to lie, I took it
with two hands and ran, I went crazy on the mic, in fact, and I even broke a
sweat, this was an amazing opportunity to work on my mic skills, I’m glad it
paid off.
Game City Nights received huge praise from students that I
spoke to as the night went on, Rhianne Murphy had this to say :“Brilliant night
whether you play Tekken or Not. Shows the true talents and passion of our
gaming course.
So, overall, the night was a blast, and I would recommend it
to anybody who is considering trying it out next year. Take your chances and
attend every session that is offered to you, so much knowledge is on offer all
because you are a Confetti student, although a few of the sessions on offer
this year weren’t really my taste, I made the most of it and in the end learnt
a lot and mostly I had a great time once again blogging.
Industry week in general has been much better than last year
from a gaming stand point, it built on a huge foundation, adding more to the
line-up for us, and thankfully increasing my work load. Now sadly, this is my
last Industry Week. For now. As I won’t be progressing onto the FdSc course
this year, but who’s to say that I won’t be back in the future?
“Take your opportunities and
run with them”
Thank you for reading
my blogs over the past 2 Industry weeks, I hope you enjoyed them.
By Nick Mason, Level 3
Games student
@MrNikosMason
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