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Sunday, October 23, 2011

An experiment

I started a new twitter account called "unclekilTC" which stands for Uncle Kilvear's Training center.

I just started 31 years old 3 days ago from this post and I wonder how much have I slowed down in terms of reaction time, learning things etc. You know the general stuff about aging. I also like to test the idea that age doe not apply to video games since you are not using a lot of muscles save your arms.

So I decided that I would want to test this out by learning a fighting game that is not available here. Well I decided to learn 2 rather than 1. The 2 games are Chaos Code and Aquapazza. The character I will pick for Chaos Code is Kagari and Aquapazza is Tamaki.

The tweet feed I will use will have updates on what I learn and the notes about the characters and the videos I watched. So you can use and follow that.

All this updates and tweets will be on going till I go to Japan end of this year from 24th Dec 2012 to 2nd Jan 2012 which once I reach Japan I will post as much as possible regarding my progress, match descriptions and match outcomes.

So that's that. I thought I share a bit of the my gaming history so it can provide more background on the experiement.

I have been playing games since I was 9. I started fighting games around the time Street Fighter 2 first came out and did not get serious honestly until I hit my polytechnic days which was 17. Given the time I played I still consider myself by far slightly below average player (AKA scrub for those familiar with Fighting game terms).

I joined a couple of tournaments and also organized a couple myself. My tournament standing is pretty poor and probably only thing that I was like getting something was 2 Arcana Heart 2 tournament where I got second and first place respectively. This isn't a big deal as the tournament only had 9 entries and the best place was not in the tournament.

I have been to Japan a couple of times and I know the relative standard of players is pretty high compared to mine.

So the experiment begins.