Video Games and Other Stories

Video Games and Other Stories

By: Gene Brockoff

Video Games And Other Stories

By: Gene Brockoff

HCRS Publishing Huntsville, Arkansas 5/10/2013

Table of Contents Part I – Video Games Minecraft Slender: The Arrival Train Mystery FPS The Player

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Part II – Life Stories Joining Band LOtF mixed with HALO and Minecraft The Best Day Boat Story (Castaway) Log for 10/2/1952

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Part III – Misc.

Halo Why we wear masks What I represent

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Dedicated to:

I dedicate this EBook to my “cuzin” Tabitha. To Tobuscus, for making my life so interesting with his YouTube videos about video games.

To Notch, for making Minecraft. If it wasn’t for him, some of these stories wouldn’t be here. And, I dedicate this to my literacy teacher, Ms. Sullivan, for giving us this assignment.

Part I – Video Games

This section of the EBook is my stories about video games.

Two of them are what I think about video games, and two are stories with video games mentioned in them.

When I wrote the first two, I was really just writing about what I think of the game. The second two, well, you’re just going to have to read to find out. The first two are mostly Non-Fiction, because I use a lot of facts about the game.

Finally, the games/series mentioned are; Minecraft, Slender: The Arrival, Call of Duty, and Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a creative game for PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. The game came out in 2005 for the PC and for the Mac in 2006. The game consists of different blocks and materials used to create different things.

Mods There are over 100 mods for Minecraft, but I’m only going to talk about my favorites. The Herobrine mod is my 3rd place in favorite mods.

Although it is pretty cool, it lacks in some stuff. The Slender mod is my 2nd favorite, because Slender is my 2nd favorite game (First is Minecraft).

It adds slenderman into Minecraft and makes the game very fun. The best mod to me by far is Ferrulo’s gun mod. It adds guns to Minecraft from WWI and it adds modern guns, from game series like Call of Duty and other FPS’s.

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Slender: The Arrival

Slender: The Arrival is an ARPG game that came out March 26th, 2013. It has become a very popular game since then. At only $10.00, The game boomed in downloads the first couple of days. During this time, the site almost crashed four times! The first people to pre-order the game got it half off and got the beta version. The Beta had some bugs in it, including the 11 page bug. When this bug happened, the player would get a page and it wouldn’t go away. Then, when it finally went away from clicking it so much, the game would read “11 of 8 pages collected”.

Also, about 5 sec. after you win the game, Slenderman catches you and it’s “game over” for your character. Now, let’s talk about Full Version. The full version has 6 Maps that you unlock by beating each level, plus the extras you get for completing the game. The levels include Slenderman and The Rake. I don’t know how the game ends so you’re just going to have to play it yourself to find out.

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Train Mystery FPS I didn’t know exactly where the train was going. After paying my fare, I simply stood on the platform waiting for it to whisk me away to somewhere, anywhere but here. And that’s when it happened. The train slowly transformed into a beat up old bus, and the driver turned into a robot. The people in the seats slowly melted into piles of wax, and I suddenly felt myself holding what looked to be an M1911 pistol. I thought “where have I seen this before?” and looked at where we stopped. It seemed to be a bus depot with people standing around it. I went to ask where we are; “Excuse me, where are we?” I ask. I looked closer to notice that the man I was talking to was a zombie! “That’s where I’ve seen this place!” I said aloud. I was at the bus depot from the game: Call of Duty: Black Ops II. I started to knife the zombies, and then looked for a beam in the sky. In the game, a beam in the sky indicates a mystery box, which gives you a random weapon. “Dang it!” I said. The box was at the town. Almost everybody knows about the town being after the power plant, which is 3 stops after the start. “Guess I’m just going to have to wait.” I said. So I warded off zombies until I couldn’t fight any more.

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The Player

My friend Wesley is a great player at FPS games like Call of Duty: Black Ops II. I would like to learn these skills. He has to know that I can’t practice all day, because I don’t have the game. I know he would probably tell me that practice makes perfect. He would probably tell me to play the game with real people instead of bots. If that failed, then we would have to work hard and practice every day. Maybe then I could prestige a weapon. Pretty soon, I will get the game, so I can play it all afternoon. After that I would truly be awesome at games like Call of Duty and other FPS (First Person Shooters).

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Part II – Life Stories

This section is about some “Life Stories”. It is one story longer than the first Part I and one less than Part III. I can’t really tell about this section, because I could sum it up in two sentences. So, please read on. P.S. Some of the stories aren’t about me, nor are real.

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LOtF Mixed with Halo and Minecraft “Wow,” I said “This is a lot like Lord of The Flies.” We went down the side of the island to see if we could find any pigs or chicken to eat. “Nothing.” Steve said as he walked out of the cave. The chat was going crazy with “Help me” and “Where am I?” comments. All I say is, “our coordinates are x:500 y:100 and z:300.” They curse at me as I kill each pig for food. If I would have stopped, I would have gotten killed by one of them, the savages. So, I built a shelter out of trees and leaves and hid, rapidly typing on the keyboard to my suit. I type my coordinates and send them to one of my friends so he can give me some guns and a pickaxe.

“Hey, I’ve been looking everywhere for you!” he says.

“I know but where’s the stuff?” I ask.

“Where are my diamonds?”

“Right here.”

We traded and I turned my radar and chat off, so I didn’t have to hear the other people screaming. “Wow,” I say as we sit down to eat. I started to wonder why our MJOLNIR Mk.VI armor hasn’t given off our position to the UNSC. “What are we going to do now?” I ask.

“I guess we are just going to have to wait.” He tells me.

“For what?”

“Them” He point to the other side of the island at a giant space ship. I turn my chat back on.

“UNSC is back!” I yell.

“Gene B-115 do you read?” I hear over the chat.

“Yes I do Sgt. Johnson, but you are breaking up.”

“Ready to go home?”

“Sir, yes sir” As I get on the Forward Unto Dawn, I sit in my Cryo Chamber for a long nap. My AI and my suit OS shut down and I’m off to “Sleep.”

To Be Continued…

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The Best Day I couldn’t have asked for a better day. Here I was cheering on Wesley, to beat Jordan at a game of Free-for-All on Call of Duty: Black Ops. What better way to spend an afternoon? There they were neck and neck, each of them with 14 kills, or 14000 points. I didn’t know who was going to win. They were one on one, Cody and I already out of the game. They both only had one live left, the person to die loses, and the person to live wins. Sixty seconds on the clock, and each of them are on either side of the map. Thirty seconds and they are closing in. Twenty and they are right by each other… CRACK! There goes Jordan, Wesley wins with 15000 points and one life left. “Dude, I knew you could do it!” I shouted.

“I know.” He said.

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Boat Story (castaway) Tons of people get stranded on islands every day. Most of them survive, but some don’t. One boy, who did survive, survived for 2 years. He left the US on a ship called the Manoa Loa. When they landed on the island, the boy got off to look for bugs for his insect collection. When he got back to the dock, the ship was gone. He went back into the woods to get a stick to make a spear. When he made the spear, he went hunting. He walked very slowly to make sure he didn’t step on any leaves or twigs. He made one last step and drove the spear into the pig and instantly killed it. He went on doing the same thing for two years before he got rescued by some German tourists in 1941.

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Log for 10-2-1952 Oct. 2 1952 I think it’s still following me, but I can’t be too sure. I know that if I turn around He will get me. I’ve got seven of the eight pages, and the battery of my flashlight is getting low. If I use it any longer, then it might die, I might die. I know that if I collect all eight pages, then I go home. ‘Either come back with all of the pages, or don’t come back at all’ they told me. Oh god, I think I heard something.

I’m going to go check. There it is again! I’m . . .

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Part III – Misc.

This section is just miscellaneous stories that were really good. Some of them would fit into other categories but I didn’t have room. Stuff included are video game stories and stuff like that.

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Halo “There she is again!” said Johnson as the earth shook. “God she’s really killing us this time!” They advanced. Chief led them into the force of action where I was. I urged the covenant out with another earthquake, then another. If they didn’t come out soon, then chief would get to the command center and shut down Halo.

I had to shop him. I drew out a lightning storm and struck him with lightning. The force didn’t stop him! Just went through his armor and to the ground. I was furious! He had made it. If I didn’t get to another place, the flood would get out and kill him. If he died with that information, then the covenant would use the Halo to destroy all other worlds.

To Be Continued…

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Why we wear masks We usually wear masks on Halloween, but some people wear them at other times.

People have them on at football games, like team mascots. We wear masks for multiple reasons. Three of them are; playing sports, sponsoring a team, and Halloween. So, the main purpose of this is to tell you that we really don’t have to have a reason to wear a mask.

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What I represent I think that I would represent order. Every time I see a fight, I want to stop it. I know what you are thinking, everyone wants to stop fights. Well, when I said any, I meant ANY. Even the UFC or WWE fights we watch on TV. Even an argument. An argument can turn into a fight in a split second. So, I try to stop it before it becomes a fight. If it becomes a fight, I feel bad that I didn’t stop it.

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