Where do I even begin with this game. As a kid (which wasn't that long ago) I played through Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64 and once I started playing Odyssey it seemed like it immediately belonged in the same group as those games. This game's ideas are just so fun, imaginative, and expansive that on your first run through, you are likely not going to experience even half of what this game offers.
The main objective of Odyssey is to chase down Peach, like in any other Mario game, but this game has you travelling through different kingdoms that Bowser visits along the way. In each kingdom, you must obtain a certain amount of "Power Moons" that are hidden across the kingdoms and bring them back to your ship to power it up and advance in the game. To complete the game with the minimum moons, you will need 124 moons to get to the Moon and defeat Bowser. You can obtain 539 before you finish the game and the other 327 are unlocked after you beat the game. I have been playing this game for 60+ hours and still need around 200 more moons to get them all. The best part about this game is that getting all the moons isn't some lame chore that you need to do, it's just pure fun to explore and find all these hidden secrets around the map that you had no clue were there the first time you visited. The other part of this game i want to mention is the movement and functions of Cappy. There are so many ways to get around even though the only things you can do are jump, dive, roll, and throw your cap. These four movement options can create combinations of movement like the a triple jump into cap throw to dive onto the cap to give yourself another jump then throw your cap again and dive to it again. There are endless combinations of things you can do and it makes just moving around each kingdom fun in in of itself. Of course you can also "possess" different things with Cappy like a fish, a chain chomp, a dinosaur, etc. Each of the things you can possess has different abilities and you need these abilities to possess in the game and get certain power moons along the way. Most of them aren't even required to beat the game though and thanks to some fun speed running tricks people have found, the minimum captures the game requires to beat it on the 1.0 version is 15 captures, including some that the game forces you to get in the beginning and end of the game. Overall, Super Mario Odyssey is my favorite Mario game of my lifetime by far and rightfully deserves all the praise it gets from review companies like IGN.
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Recently we began learning about UVW mapping which is where you can apply a bitmap onto an object, but you can unwrap the texture as well and edit it however you please and wrap it back onto the object. The first assignment we got with this was where we had to start out by following a tutorial in texturing a box that was something like you would find in a video game. Basically we made six different materials (one for each side of the box) and put those six materials onto a multi-sub object material and put that onto the box. You put the bitmaps for each side onto the corresponding side of the box and it starts to look like a box. Some of the faces might not be facing the right way so you have to go to the material editor and change some of the values for the U, V, or W. In the end it looked like this: This part of the assignment wasn't very hard because it was just following a tutorial, but the next part was the tricky one. We had to find a box from Mr. B and take pictures of it on each of the six sides. You would then put each of the pictures into Photoshop and crop them so that only the box was showing. After that, all I had to do was do what the tutorial taught me to do and put it onto the box and make it look like the real thing. After all was said and done it looked like this:
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AuthorMy name is Jonathan Eller, and I am 15 years old and I go to Durham School of the Arts as a 10th grader. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Durham School of the Arts or Durham Public Schools. Archives
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