SIM Anime and Gaming Club

If you haven't guessed from the title, AMCC now has a facebook group! Blog readers, please join our facebook group. We'll update the group when new posts are made to our blog. We'll also be uploading some photos from our events and be making announcements there.

The link to the group can be found HERE.

~ Brandon

Game: Link’s Crossbow Training (Wii)
Date: 14th May 2009
Venue: Lt 3.11
Competition Timing: 11am – 4pm
Cost: Free
Prizes:
Highest Overall score – 3 Megabites food coupons
Highest Score on a Target shoot map – 1 Megabites food coupon
Highest Score on a Defender map – 1 Megabites food coupon
Highest Score on a Ranger map – 1 Megabites food coupon

Rules:
1) Players go through 6 fixed stages, 2 from each game type, chosen by the organizers (us).
2) Players may opt to either use the Wii Zapper peripheral or the Wii-mote and nunchuk alone.
3) Competitors may switch back and forth between the two control schemes at anytime between stages.
4) Players may adjust the sensitivity of the aiming reticule at anytime between stages.
5) The competition ends at 4pm and the winners will be notified by SMS.

About the game:
Set in the world of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, players assume the role of Link, the game’s protagonist. In order to perfect his crossbow skills, Link must pass a series of shooting tests against bullseye targets and a variety of enemies from the game. Hitting multiple targets without any misses results in a score multiplier effect.

There are 3 main game-play modes in Link’s Crossbow Training. These modes are:

Target shooting – Hitting either stationary or moving bullseye targets in several themed levels from the game. These levels are “on rails”, meaning that the screen will move gradually while targets pop up around the level.
Defender – Players remain stationary, but are able to rotate their view 360°. Enemies attack from all directions, and will cause the player to lose points if they get close enough to attack you.
Ranger – The player gains complete control over their characters movement and view. These levels typically task the player with killing a certain amount of enemies within a set time limit.



~ Brandon

Game: Geometry Wars 2 (Xbox 360)
Date: 13th May 2009
Venue: Lt 3.16
Competition Timing: 11am – 4pm
Cost: Free
Prizes:
1st place – 3 Megabites food coupons
2nd place – 2 Megabites food coupons
3rd place – 1 Megabites food coupon

Rules:
1) The game type will be “Deadline”, in which the player has 3 minutes to score as many points as possible.
2) Each player is given 2 tries and the highest score of the 2 attempts is recorded
3) Players have to wait for an hour if they would like to retry the game to attempt to get a higher score than previously.
4) For subsequent attempts, the new score will replace the old one
5) The Competition ends at 4pm, the highest scoring players will be notified by SMS.

About The Game:
The player controls a small, highly maneuverable ship that can move and fire independently in any direction. The objective of the game is to score points by destroying a variety of shapes and surviving by not touching them. If player's ship is destroyed, a life is lost.
In the “Deadline” game mode, the player has unlimited lives, and has 3 minutes to score as many points as possible. The game ends once the time is up.



~ Brandon

Time: 8 PM
Date: 19th June 2009
Venue: Singapore Indoor Stadium
Ticket prices: CAT 1 ($103.50), CAT 2 ($76.50), CAT 3 ($63) and CAT 4 ($49.50)

Synopsis lifted from SISTIC website:
Video Games Live (VGL) is the biggest and most sensational game concert featuring music from the most popular video games of all time. Performed to countless sold-out audiences in United States, Europe and North Asia, VGL is making its first Southeast Asian appearance in Singapore!

VGL integrates cutting-edge visuals and state-of-the-art technology with music arrangements and unique interactive segments, offering audiences an explosive one-of-a-kind entertainment experience.

Produced and performed live by world famous video game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, with our very own remarkable NUS Symphony Orchestra & Choir, VGL features music from the most popular video games - Pong, Mario, Sonic, Halo, Warcraft, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy and more.

Gamers & music lovers unite! Do not miss this opportunity to watch Video Games Live’s debut performance in Singapore!

Anyone interested? I'm personally thinking of booking the CAT 2 ($77) tickets. For those interested in booking other categories (prices) of tickets, what we can do is have everyone who wants to attend post in the comments with their email and ticket category (CAT1, CAT 2...) we will then group up the people according to their seating and make the booking. We can meet up on the day of the event and head over together, you will be sitting with people in the same CAT as you are, so there is no pressure to choose expensive tickets just because more people are picking the $104 tickets.

If you do not feel comfortable posting your email here in the comments section, you could also email us at amccsg@gmail.com

Please RSVP by the 17th of May (Sunday).

~ Brandon

Bryan here on the L4d Competition that was held recently. First off, as “Team Captain” for ‘Arrgh! Me CupCakes’ (AMCC), I would like to thank my teammates, Albert (President), Hui Ching (Secretary) and Jonathan (Member) for participating with me in the event. Also, a big thank you to Brandon (Video Game Head), his friends, and Kenneth (Member) for the help they gave us in training for the tourney in such a short time frame. Just to let you know how small the timeframe was, most of the team got the game about a week before the competition so again thanks for the training.

On to the competition itself. When we arrived, the judges informed us of a change in the format. No longer was it simple elimination. It would now be a league sort of game where they totaled each team’s win/loss ratio in Versus mode, where teams alternated between Survivors and Infected to see who could beat the other team. To make matters worse, they announced that the top four Singapore teams would be competing with us that day instead of the finals. Despite these changes, our team was determined to do its best though we knew it would be tough for an amateur team like ourselves to go against pros.

First up, we were placed against another casual team which called themselves [the same]. After a few minutes of banter, the match began in earnest. The first 2 maps of the campaign were a struggle as the other team’s Hunter teamwork was well synchronized and our team lost those. On the 3rd map however, we got the better of them as our adrenaline began to kick in.

Unfortunately, the AI director was miffed at our team in the 4th map and we were cheated of our Tank when it was spawned before the Survivors activated the lift so we were not able to reach them. Despite that, we fought on and in the final map, our teamwork managed to work around holes in their defenses and we took them down swiftly (despite Albert talking to the judges about the problem with our tank). On our turn, our teamwork proved too much to handle and we turned our luck around and emerged victorious. Best of all, we managed to get the other team to scream our names in anger. Unfortunately, we learnt that a player on the other team was having some problems with his team and had sometimes created problems. This combined with their eventual loss resulted in the team storming off from the competition, never to return.

The next two matches were fought against the 3rd and 2nd place winners of the previous competition, [HBK] and [Vertex II]. Needless to say, we had our asses handed to us on a platter by both teams. [HBK] however were very gracious in their victory and even told our team that we put up quite a fight over the other teams. [Vertex II] however, were not as sporting and played around with our team while taunting us as well as insulting our team before the match began. And thus, we were kicked out of the competition.

We also learned later that overall, our team provided the biggest challenge to the 2 pro teams as our matches lasted well into 1 ½ hours compared to the others they fought with our scores in the upper hundreds compared to the double digits of the other losing teams. Overall though, I guess our team managed to learn many tactics and much info that may prove useful in the future and for that I also thank all the teams we faced. Hopefully, we will do much better in the next competition and I hope to see more supporters.

Bryan, VP AMCC

This is the first update to out blog in 3 months. I know we haven't been treating the old gal properly, but from now on we're going to give it the attention that a blog like her deserves.

First off the club is alive and well, and has been in operation since the 27th of February. We've been quite busy too. We participated in the SIM open house held on the 13th and 14th of March, where AMCC was enlisted to help promote the day's events. By promote I mean we had Cosplay girls while some of us held up hand-written signs advertising the various talks. We also had a Wii set up in the changing room for those involved in the event to chillax while waiting for the next round of promotional walking-about. Overall, a good time was had by all.

We also sent in a team to the Zombie Mania Left 4 Dead competition held recently on the 25th of April. No, we didn't win in the end, but the team did very well and even gave one of the top teams in Singapore a good run for their money. I shan't (or rather can't) talk too much about the competition, because I wasn't there. So I'll leave it up to someone that was to fill in the rest of the sordid details.

The next event on the horizon will be a recruitment drive. We expect it to be a grand event, and will be booking a booth outside the canteen and a Lecture theater to hold a videogame competition. More details to follow. Watch this Space.

~ Brandon

The Exco would like to extend a hearty congratulations to our member, Seri, who won 1st prize in the Individual Female Category this year as well as garnering the most votes overall and decimating the other contestants. For those who weren't there, Seri's cosplay was of Yuuko from Clamp's xxxHolic series. If we can, I think we'll be able to put up her pics soon and the other photos we took. Also, a big thanks to those who came down to support.

The other results (if you're interested) were:

Individual (Male) - Cid

Team - Naruto (Good luck splitting the prize 47 ways)

Artist - Haruka...or was it Haruna I can't remember so someone has to correct me but I know she was Cosplaying as Gwendolyn from Odin Sphere.

Bryan

Sorry this is abit last minute. ><
Eoy08, now, this is going to be quite a huge cosplay competiton, so please try to go and have a look around.

It will be held at the Singapore Expo from
11am - 7pm
Admission fee is S$12

It will be an unofficial outing for club members;
We will be gathering at Expo MRT station:
10am and 2.45pm.
Then heading there together.
For those who are interested in going, please contact albert or send an email to amcc@gmail.com

The date is the 22nd and 23rd of November and we are extending a club wide invitation to join us on the 22nd of November in support of this event. Our objective is to gather everyone there and enjoy the festivities as a club. But in order to get in hassle free, please register for one or both days if your planning on showing up on the 23rd as well.

The website to go for the registration is http://animefestivalasia.com/ticketing.htm

Please remember that it will cost you $5 dollars if you go for 1 day and $8 dollars to go for both. And sadly we do not yet have funding from the school to subsidize this outing. But please do register and rsvp via the forums to let us know that your coming!

By the way the forum address is amccsg.forumotion.net

See you guys at AFA!