i'm used to snow i've been born and raised here so but not this much in one day that thirty hours fifty three inches and here it comes again so and they said this storm isn't over till tomorrow afternoon so i can only imagine what we'll get again tonight i could do was laugh. you know it's a little ridiculous but i keep economically at it we'll get it clear. however the dogs of erie seem to be enjoying the white outs. and they will have plenty of time to do so more snow is forecast for today. all right thanks so much for watching the news continues at the top of the out.

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animation kind enough to st kitts but fast games design has become a modern dream job and the industry is booming at this year's german computer game awards the best were recognized two awards in the category concept by young talents went to teams from ballin universities. the highest. virtual space force came third in the newcomer category in this game players get to build their own space station which they then have to defend against approaching enemies t.-mo fight is one of the developers. of info finish what i find super fascinating about virtual reality is that it offers so much potential for innovative games i see a lot of room for creativity and that's why i find game design so intriguing. it.

that's exactly what he's studying at the linz university of applied science and he and his team want to explore all the possibilities offered by virtual space. they want players to be able to look at a space station from all angles and use the controller as if they were there in an era. when there can always been into games all kinds of games ever since i was a kid. so much that i wanted to make my own or change others but i started making cartoon board games with my friends and eventually moved on to digital components and programming. video games has become a ubiquitous part of life since the one nine hundred seventy s. this year alone the booming industry is expected to make between seventy five and one hundred million euros. is one of more than two hundred game developers in berlin. was head of the company intel the main just some of the mobile game cherry

splash it's been down they did more than seventy million times games designers have become increasingly professional over the past few years. there used to be a lot of people from other fields. but now the game design is a degree course at university and the industry has established itself there are more and more specialists who have grown up in the games industry. specializes in social and mobile games which is a rapidly growing sector alongside more traditional computer and video games. so there's plenty of work for game designers. game design has already been in. eight years only forty applicants are accepted into the coveted degree program annually. teaching methods are not traditional. students

work on projects in teams so they can share their ideas and skills. game design doesn't pass game design is the whole area of game development on the form that incompetence design aspects visual aspects system design of programming and technical implementation and. experimentation is a prime min amount to jump and run game dio uses a new kind of split screen the game till come first prize at the twenty seven thousand german video games awards the winners got forty five thousand euro's cash and access to more opportunities. to come to. the award gives us a chance to continue making games along the same lines as dio and to gain a foothold in the games industry. and who sits with us on games and most moved. in and introduce we're going to make the most of the attention the award is giving us and use the prize money to start our own company those with. a few months.

to begin with they want to remain independent and be their own bosses that'll make it easier for them to follow their creative instincts. shifts as a playful way to make money. time now for the. shift ranking this time we have the best selling video games of two thousand and seventeen in fifth place come on sun and moon it's all two point six million times a british data analysis company has looked into this year's most successful video games once again the latest adventure is about collecting poker moms and battling your rivals child's play. involved places manlio cart a deluxe another nintendo hit the japanese game developers about dated their cult

racing game it's got razor sharp super fast gameplay and novel combat options three point four million buyers a tearing up the road. a rise in zero dawn sold three point six million times and is this year's third favorite stone age tribes meet cyberpunks this game has won numerous awards but will the huntress alloy really be able to save humankind. what is it the end. in second place is the legend of zelda a breath of the wild it's the latest version of the one thousand nine hundred six counts classic that it sold four million times link the protagonist can roam vast and endless spaces. at the top is fee for eighty this latest installment of the football series boasts realistically animated players thanks to motion capture technologies it sold six point two million copies making it this year's most successful game. that was this week's ranking.

the british artist howard lee is a master of optical illusions he's garnered many online fans with his clips and hyper realistic drawings but he's also confounded a lot of them deliberately. which object is real and which is a trolling. these are the. so standard everyday objects that they're not as real as they seem. cowardly challenges his view is to spot the difference testing their preconceptions. he wants people to question reality. what makes a video great is the moment which becomes something you didn't expect it to be so whether it's that you were looking at a drawing and you didn't realize it was

a drawing or whether you were looking at a drawing that then started moving and becomes an animation and mixes with reality . draws the objects but he also films themselves as he's drawing and he regards the final video as the work of us and he often posts the result on instagram when he already has almost one hundred seventy five thousand followers it's not elitist in any way it doesn't require somebody to endorse it or to put money behind it it doesn't matter how old you are or how experienced you are how qualified you are anybody can draw video painting an artwork or video creation or anything online and it's judged purely on its own merits. fanbase is growing by the minute and so is this bank account he's not only selling his prints and drawings he's also making commercials.

how it used to teach art in new castle in northern england but has been devoting most of his time to making videos since twenty fifteen his learnt a lot of the techniques online. it's been through other people demonstrating it in their videos on instagram or on youtube into toils if i need to learn something the first place i go as you tube to try and find somebody to teach me how to do it normally i can. he's also trying his hand at animation. as models are starting to appear in some of his video. games characters from hollywood films. is it real is it fake how it can make you wonder if only for a second. shift

is mind boggling. and now short and sweet the shift shot. there are some twenty thousand homeless youths on the streets of germany. used to be one of them but now he's one of the developers behind. and now for helping young people in need. the moment in the month when you land on the streets alone you lose your points of contact but the app can help you find out where you can sleep where you can eat. it helps you to become more independent. most young people living on the street do at least have a smartphone it's often their last link to a seemingly normal world. with moakley they can use words to chat they can find out about where to eat sleep healthcare and also about three thousand drop in centers across germany which are easy to find wired google maps now the developing team

hopes to expand the op so that it eventually covers all of europe. that was the upshot do you want to find out more about the digital world then check out our facebook page w digital there you'll find all the latest news and trends as well as interesting apps exciting gadgets and even tutorials and of course all the shift reports are there for you to see. like us post your comments give us your opinion is that d w digital. as always we leave shifting through the exit. for internet find of the week the rocky road to rock stardom. to harvest neil mendoza creator the rock band of his own but not in traditional rock band with a lead singer a drummer and a guitarist his band is made of rocks member plays electro mechanical music here it

is playing the beatles classic here comes the sun. and next time on sheriff to prove a syrian refugee camp in jordan here refugees can now pay for their grocery shopping via iris scanning the world food program initiative uses this block change technology transparency in humanitarian aid programs next time on shift. charged up and ready to hit the road with an e-car across europe those people are.

from italy all the way to norway. whether innovative compact or sporty it's got to be emissions free across europe a fire electric car is it possible. europe goes electric made in germany next. we sell it and you clicked it. next on facebook. which many is for your favorites and twenty seven seems. it's the cream of the crowd. our ranking of the twenty five most popular. of the countdown continues. to romance in sixty minutes on d w.

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