Unity Tutorial 4

Hello and welcome to my blog post about my fourth unity tutorial :) To start off the tutorial was going great, I was working away and really enjoying it. I found it very easy to follow it along. I loved the fact it was spread over different weeks too it left me feeling excited to see what was to come...

Game Vision Statement

Introduction:To start off my game is called “Drive Baby Drive!” I came up with the idea during brainstorming a few weeks ago. It suddenly came to my head as I don’t have much gaming experience and the ones I do are mostly simple games that I played when I was younger or games available on the app store!...

Unity Tutorial 03

This is my blog post about our third tutorial in Unity3D!This tutorial went great, it was super easy to follow and everything went well. After how last week’s went and I having to go onto YouTube on how to do the second half of it I was not looking forward to doing this weeks. But, alas it was great!...

Games MDA

This week as a part of the reading task I read Design, Dynamics, Experience (DDE): An Adventure of the MDA Framework for Game Design and I watched Explaining the MDA Design Framework | Video Game Design.After reading the paper Design, Dynamics, Experience (DDE): An Adventure of the MDA Framework for...

Feedback Strategies

Image SourceImage caption: two animated people with feedback written on top This week we had to read two articles about giving feedback! I chose to read Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" and How to Give Bad Feedback Without Being a Jerk.I first read Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good...

Game Idea Research

Image sourceImage caption: Unity logoThis blog post is about my game idea! I decided to go with my game idea called "Drive Baby Drive!". I picked this game as I thought it would be the easiest one to achieve and upon doing further research, there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube to follow and to help...

Unity Tutorial 02

Hello!! This is my blog about the 2nd tutorial on Unity 3D! The tutorial started off great, I found it very easy to follow along. The tutorials are proving really helpful and I would like to think I am learning. I really liked how by the end that the car was able to actually swerve around the boxes...

Feedback Thoughts

Feedback is something that has scared me throughout my life. The idea of getting negative or even constructive criticism never sat right with me. This almost sounds like I'm full of myself but I most definitely am not. I think it's down to me actually trying my best and not being great at it. Throughout...

Game Brainstorm

Jump!My first game idea is based on games I have played in the past. I have stated many times I'm not much of a gamer but I would dabble in various iPhone games. They were all pretty simple, I don't remember a specific game like this but some others sort of like it. So you are playing as a ball and...

Unity Tutorial 01

 Hello! I have just finished my first unity tutorial and although I have said previously how nervous I was to start this, it was actually fine. I know it's only the start but I actually really enjoyed it. I've stated I have made a game before in my PLC, well turns out I used unity, it was...

Game Design

What is a Game, Anyway?After reading the paper What is a Game, Anyway? by Ian Schreiber, it is evident that he identifies many interesting points throughout the paper including the definition of a game, the weakness of the definition of a game and how simple it is to actually make a game. In this blog,...

Time Strategies

 You know it's bad when you procrastinate writing this blog post on time management... Not my best thing but hey, look at me... Who would've thought? Not me.Welcome welcome! I need to work on how I start these things, make them more interesting. Put some spice into them. Anyways, I'm okay with...

Technology Tools and Me!

Hello!! Welcome back to my blog! This post is going to be about technology tools we’re using in this module and my thoughts on them. So, we’re nearly at the end of week 2 and so far, I’m feeling good. We haven’t gotten too many assignments to do so not sure how long this feeling will last for....