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Bully 1 Discussion / A New Movie I Made With Bully

« on: November 26, 2006, 09:16:07 PM »

It's already been said, but great job with the music.  I think my favorite scene was the fight with the vending machine.  It's disturbing how funny that was.

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Bully 1 Discussion / Bully Research - Looking for Participants

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:15:20 PM »

Sorry about the confusion.  We are particularly interested in talking to teenagers because of all of the controversy and because the game takes place in a high school, but if you are interested in talking, definitely contact me.

Note: we can't promise fame.  In fact, we are obligated to keep what you say confidential.  But, we hope that you all will still want to tell us your thoughts.

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Bully 1 Discussion / Some follow up

« on: October 29, 2006, 11:56:36 PM »

Hey all,
I have been offline for most of the last day.  Great questions here.
1) The interview would be about an hour, I think, though we could split it up over a couple of sessions.
2) As for posting some general questions to the site, that's also a great idea.  I will post some soon.  However, I am not really doing a survey where I expect everyone to give the same type of answer so, I may want to follow up on an individual basis to make it a bit more conversational.
3) An email conversation is fine as well, though I think that you'll find it easier to do something over instant messenger.  Send me a message or an email (dperkel AT sims DOT berkeley DOT edu) and we can discuss further.

Thanks,
Dan

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Bully 1 Discussion / Bully Research - Looking for Participants

« on: October 28, 2006, 07:25:18 PM »

Hey all,
My name is Dan Perkel, username berkperk on the bully-board website.  I am a graduate student at the University of California in Berkeley California and a member of a team of people who are interested in how kids, teenagers, and young adults use different kinds of technology outside of schools.  You can check out the website at: http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu.

Games are obviously a big deal and Bully seems like it has been a huge deal ever since the announcement about its release was made last year.  One of the things our group is interested is in all of the activity around games, not just what goes on in the game itself.  We are more interested in what people do with games and not that interested in what games do to people (such as "how games make kids kill people").  I can see that you all have had a lot of discussions on this site about this kind of stuff and have been frustrated with how the game has been talked about even though know one had ever played it until the last couple of weeks (well almost no one...).  

We want to take a much different look at games than anything that has been done before.  Bully is a great game to look at because its about teenagers in school and this is one of the reasons that people in the news really seem to be freaking out.  

We are trying to present other ways to think about games and give people who play them a voice in all of the debate.  If we do our jobs well, our research could be seen by a lot of people.  One of the guys I am working with on the project is this guy: http://www.mattscape.com/, who has written some pretty interesting stuff about video games and culture.

We are looking people to interview about this research project on two main topics: your use of this website and your opinions about the game (so even if you haven't played yet, we'd still like to talk to you).  If you are interested, please email me at dperkel AT sims DOT berkeley DOT edu, or send me a private message on the board.  Depending on where you live, we could do the interview in person, over the phone, Skype, or instant messenger.  

Please put "Bully Research" in the subject line of your email.

Thanks everyone!  We think this will be a really fun and interesting experience.

Dan

Playing Bully project

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Bully 1 Questions / Problem with camera?

« on: October 22, 2006, 07:38:35 PM »

Man, please answer my question, is the bad camera destroying the fun in Bully or can you live with it?

I think I can live with it.  (see below)

ive only had a few missions which it troubled me

Good to know I wasn't the only one...

I think I know exactly what your problem is, and the good news is there is sort of a fix.  I had this exact same problem in the early missions -- I kept running into things because the camera would switch to the rear view.  What I eventually figured out is that my controller's L3 button is very sensitive, and when I would push hard in one direction, it would often trigger L3, which is the look-behind button.  Once I realized the problem, I was able to be more careful about hitting it.  It still happens sometimes when I get carried away, but the key is to be gentle on the analog stick.  Hope that solves it for you.

Ah!  Great tip there.  Even before I saw this I was trying to go easy on the analog stick and hit helped.  I'll post back if this doesn't make my life - er, Jimmy's life - a bit easier.

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Bully 1 Questions / Problem with camera?

« on: October 21, 2006, 05:09:40 PM »

Huh... What I have been seeing has been really annoying, almost has been "game changing."  For example in one of the really early tasks (chasing this guy around the school) the camera keeps switching from behind Jimmy to in front of Jimmy (and then sometimes to a view where I don't see Jimmy at all).

Maybe my controller is sending some weird signals out.  Thanks for directing me to the reviews.  I'll see what they say.

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Bully 1 Questions / Problem with camera?

« on: October 20, 2006, 09:52:10 PM »

The camera angle changes on me all the time when I am running around.  Sometimes I can see why, but other times (when I am chasing people) it is making it impossible to get around (and do things that should be easy like complete early missions). Anyone else have a similar problem?

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Bully 1 Questions / Problem with camera?

« on: October 20, 2006, 09:45:30 PM »

Sorry, think i posted in the wrong place.  Moved it to the questions forum.