80s Video Game Music and Their Legacy Into Today

80s Video Game Music and Their Legacy Into Today

by @V20Kai

| finalproject, Syndicated, week 14, WeeklySummary
April 22, 2020

During this time in COVID-19, what is one pastime that not only helps pass a significant amount of time, but also keeps you actively and mentally engaged while you can relax in your comfy couch or bed? Well, video games is one of them, and it’s definitely something that has helped me keep my sanity […]
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Preparing for the Big One

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 13, WeeklySummary
April 17, 2020

This week I dug deep to start the groundwork of my final project. Since mine is about video games in the 80s, my first step was research, research, research! Well, I won’t deny that I got almost all of my information from Wikipedia, but I was able to find the main points I was searching […]
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Mixing It Up

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 12, WeeklySummary
April 10, 2020

This week’s assignments have been interesting, and it definitely had me think a little more outside the box. That said, the assignments I worked on were a joy to do. My first mashup assignment was (unsurprisingly) a video game cover mashup (3.5 stars). I wanted to go back to 80s video games, and I decided […]
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A letter to my mom in another language

by @V20Kai

| Remix6, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments2556, Syndicated, week 12
April 9, 2020

I was originally going to do a remix of The End is for Everything with the In Another Language remix card using my daily create story, but I forgot to click the remix it button a second time to get the tags I needed, and the same combination won’t respond for me, so even though […]
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Venn Pop Culture, in the style of a kid’s aesthetic

by @V20Kai

| Remix9, RemixAssignments, RemixedAssignments1968, Syndicated, week 12
April 9, 2020

Considering that I did a character description of Zuko and a character evolution of Mulan, I found myself still on this side of nostalgia to create a venn pop culture for Zuko because he was the easiest to come up with characters similar to him (for me, at least). However, I remixed this assignment to […]
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Mulan: A Legend Spanning the Centuries

by @V20Kai

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments2039, Syndicated, week 12
April 9, 2020

If there is one well known legend that has been retold again and again, it is the legend of Mulan. What started as an anonymous ballad that appeared in 568 CE has undergone numerous renditions in the forms of plays, films, television shows, and literature. That’s why I thought doing the Character Evolution mashup assignment […]
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The Legend of Zelda: Final Fantasy

by @V20Kai

| #MashupAssignments, MashupAssignments1492, Syndicated, week 12
April 7, 2020

While looking through the list of mashup assignments, something that caught my attention (unsurprisingly) was the video game cover mashup (3.5 stars). Though not required, I thought I would tie this back to our 80s theme and bring in two well known franchises that originated in the 80s: The Legend of Zelda (1986) and Final […]
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And here ends another week

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 11, WeeklySummary
April 3, 2020

Personally, this week has been a little tamer than last week, which served as a little breather for me. I started my week off with my first daily create, which asked us to show the first five songs that plays on shuffle, and I can’t deny how extremely exposed I felt to show my k-pop […]
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Project Ideas (again 2.0)

by @V20Kai

| ideaspart2, Syndicated, week 11
April 2, 2020

While looking through everyone’s ideas for the final project, there were a number of ideas that I thought I could bounce off of. Though to be honest, I’m still pretty solid on my own project ideas. The idea of working in a group would be a great way to maintain that connectedness while we’re all […]
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The ABC’s of Zuko!

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1542, week 11
April 1, 2020

When you hear the word “honor,” what person or character comes to mind? For me, it’s Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender, my childhood show. For some reason, I’ve been going down memory lane a lot lately. As I was looking for another video assignment to do, I went along with Character Description (originally 3 […]
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“Guardian: The Lonely and Great God” in Less than 16 minutes

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2380, week 11
March 29, 2020

For my first video assignment, I chose Discuss A Films Plot (3 stars). However, I did my own twist to it and decided to discuss the plot of a South Korean drama that I had the pleasure of rewatching recently. The drama is none other than Guardian: The Great and Lonely God (2016), more widely […]
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Aaaaaaaand Action!

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 10, WeeklySummary
March 26, 2020

Week 2 of quarantine and I’m still going strong! I know many other people are struggling with it, but thankfully this DS106 this week has been a great way to keep busy and get our creative juices flowing. Despite how easily my laptop dies editing videos, I do have to say that this week has […]
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Jeanie and the Boy

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, videoessay, week 10
March 26, 2020

After watching a few “Every Frame a Painting” videos, I have to say, I find them very insightful and addicting to watch! It made me see movie and show scenes differently. Especially as someone who likes to edit videos, they gave a lot of insight and advice into what makes good editing. For the video […]
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Simple, Everyday Makeup

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments1687, week 10
March 26, 2020

For my third and last video assignment for the week, I decided to do the Show Me How! assignment (3 stars), which prompts me to time lapse anything. One of the examples was how someone does their makeup, and I thought–since I already have to do a formal video for something else–I figured I might […]
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A Day in Quarantine with Kaitlin

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments1177, week 10
March 25, 2020

For my second video assignment, I decided on doing the 60 Second Day video assignment (4 stars). I thought this would be a little fun to show what my typical day in quarantine looks like. As a super introvert, I personally am thriving, but how about those of you who are extroverts? Because I forgot […]
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Story Through Lyrics

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, VideoAssignments, videoassignments1498, week 9
March 25, 2020

Recently, I watched a playthrough of NieR (2010), and the soundtrack is out of this world amazing! I especially love the ending credit song “Ashes of Dreams” because it captures the bittersweet and somber tone of the story. When I initially decided to do the lyric video assignment (4.5 stars), I wanted to do “Don’t […]
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Hectic is an Understatement

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 9, WeeklySummary
March 20, 2020

How is everyone holding up? I’m a mess. Ever since we got the news that we would be continuing online classes until the end of the semester, my heart broke at the thought of all my “lasts” as a senior being taken away. Packing up and driving back home was pretty emotional, and because it’s […]
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Let’s Get to Brainstorming (Again!)

by @V20Kai

| projectideas, Syndicated, week 9
March 20, 2020

As far as brainstorming is concerned, there are a couple things I still want to pursue that were part of my brainstorming for radio show ideas: Video Games in the 80s: I’m still a bit hung up on this topic, and just like last time, there are three things I’d like to focus on: (1) […]
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Just Another Day…

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 9
March 20, 2020

For the connected Daily Creates, I decided to use the two ones I made last week and one of this week. The reason for the ones I decided on is because I recently finished a post-apocalyptic / dystopian game called NieR:Automata, and as I’m listening to it’s amazing soundtrack, I wanted to write a short […]
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Give It Another Go: “Feelings Are Prohibited” Edition

by @V20Kai

| ds106rework, Syndicated, week 9
March 19, 2020

To be honest, I wasn’t sure what assignment banks I wanted to revise or redo because I personally am satisfied with my previous works. Of course, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try to challenge and improve myself. For my first rework, I redid an honest game cover. Last time I did Legend of Zelda, but […]
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I’m Listening

by @V20Kai

| radiolisten, Syndicated, week 9
March 19, 2020

Monday, March 16 and Tuesday, March 17, I was able to listen in on different groups’ radio shows on DS106 radio (sadly, I was preoccupied on Wednesday and couldn’t tune in that night). There were a few comments I made on some of the shows, but one that I want to reflect on is When […]
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It’s Been a Week

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 8, WeeklySummary
March 13, 2020

It’s been a week, what with the coronavirus shutting down in-person classes and figuring out whether or not I would be able to stay on campus to get my internship hours for my major. Thankfully, I am able to stay on campus, but now my internship has been suspended. That said, I’ll be staying on […]
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It’s Show Time!

by @V20Kai

| radioshowweek2, Syndicated, week 8
March 13, 2020

At long last, the radio show has been completed! Over the past few weeks my group and I discussed how we wanted to approach our radio show via our text group chat, and we eventually decided to meet in person to solidify what we wanted to do and do our recordings. On Tuesday, Sterling reserved […]
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Before Break Begins

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, week 7, WeeklySummary
February 28, 2020

This week was all about getting our radio show groups together and bringing in our ideas. However, before that, I did my daily creates. The first one I did asked us to say what kind of storm we would be and why, and I said that I would be a thunderstorm. In my second daily […]
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Production Planning

by @V20Kai

| radioshowweek1, Syndicated, week 7
February 28, 2020

It’s been quite the week, hasn’t it? At the start, I was so anxious about who I would form a group with, but thankfully, one of my friends reached out to me first. After that, another person asked if I wanted to join them to make a group of four, to which my friend and […]
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Commercial Break!

by @V20Kai

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments1907, Syndicated, week 7
February 27, 2020

For my third and final audio assignment for this week, I made my own radio show commercial. More specifically, I made a LinkedIn radio show commercial (because it was the first company I came up with after recently starting up my own account). I wrote up the script and used some of their catchphrases at […]
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Groovin’ to Japanese 80s Music

by @V20Kai

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2074, Syndicated, week 7
February 27, 2020

For my second audio assignment, I made a mixtape for Japanese 80s music. This is also potential content for our “Around the World: 80s Style” radio show. I simply searched for music in the 80s and found the songs that were listed on my Google search on Spotify, and added a variety into a Japanese […]
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Around the World: 80s Style Bumper!

by @V20Kai

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments36, Syndicated, week 7
February 27, 2020

Today I got to do a radio show bumper as my audio assignment to contribute to our radio show: “Around the World: 80s Style.” Because we’re essentially traveling around the world, I decided to make it sound like the listeners were in a plane, and I–the flight attendant–am announcing our itinerary. Then I close it […]
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Tune in to “Around the World: 80s Style”

by @V20Kai

| radioshowpromo, Syndicated, week 7
February 27, 2020

Yesterday, I finally worked on a promo poster for my group’s radio show: “Around the World: 80s Style”. After seeing some amazing designs from other students, I decided to make this poster, I decided to using Canva. I picked one of the Save-the-Plant-type designs, and changed the colors to give it more of an 80s […]
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Designer Dilemma

by @V20Kai

| Syndicated, Week 6, WeeklySummary
February 21, 2020

Week 6 was one of those weeks where, in hindsight it wasn’t that bad, but during the week it was a struggle. I started my week with a daily create where I drew (and colored via the photo editing app on my phone) a big hear hugging a little heart. This was a cute and […]
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