10/18 FoE blog post

This was my second time logging into my account and playing the game “Forge of Empires”. Outside of this class, I am not much of a gamer. Additionally, while growing up, I was never interested in playing video games or interacting with online games. Thus, playing FoE is truly a novel experience for me. It took me a while to find where the avatars are in the game. The avatar that has been automatically selected for me is a woman, in the Bronze Age, who looks like she is wearing a unique head-piece and gold necklace. When I click on my current character, I am given the choice to select another avatar. The various avatars portrayed have distinct stereotypic female and male characteristics. Nevertheless, the clothing of each avatar varies. For example, there are some avatar’s wearing “modern day clothing” — a polo shirt or a zip-up sweater. Moreover, based off of the avatars’ facial features, it is apparent that some are older (in age) than others. There are four pages of avatars that a gamer could choose from, which I think is great because it allows the user to pick the avatar he/she identifies with most. The game menu is not too difficult to navigate. I think this is because the menu is clearly portrayed on the bottom left side of the screen and each time you hover over one of the buttons there is a text that pops up and tells you what the button represents. To be honest, I am still not too sure of the game’s objective. I realize that coins sporadically appear on top of the buildings I have created, but I do not understand how I am gaining these coins/under what circumstances these coins appear.