{"id":259,"date":"2025-10-07T01:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:11:00","slug":"game-design-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/game-design-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Design &amp; Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39421\/2025\/10\/Crackout-Catastrophe-Pitch-Deck.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Crackout-Catastrophe-Pitch-Deck<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a Pitch Deck created for a parody game demo I made called &#8220;Crackout Catastrophe.&#8221; The game was made with RPG maker and features parodies of iconic video game characters as cats. The game is complete with worldbuilding and lore to make it&#8217;s roughly 15-20 minutes of gameplay into an immersive story.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39421\/2025\/10\/Rhythm-of-Steel-slideshow-Nick-Cooper-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Rhythm-of-Steel-slideshow-Nick-Cooper-1<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a presentation for a board game I created called &#8220;Rhythm of Steel&#8221; for GAME333: Game Mechanics. The game is a tactical battle simulator in which players are given an equal number of pieces which are all categorized with unique abilities and a rock-paper-scissors system.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Xenoblade Chronicles 3\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iskG5P4Z-Yk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a video essay I was assigned to create for my GAME355 class. It is a rhetorical analysis of one of my favorite pieces of media, and how it demonstrates the power of togetherness through it&#8217;s gameplay, mechanics, and story.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skull Quest Video | Nick C\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3Ja-Zwrvw4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Above is a video of me playing through &#8220;Skull Quest&#8221; a short 2D platformer with gameplay and visual elements designed by be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a Pitch Deck created for a parody game demo I made called &#8220;Crackout Catastrophe.&#8221; The game was made with RPG maker and features parodies of iconic video game <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/game-design-rhetoric\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31277,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/ncooper-eportfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}