Reading 09 - Doing

Hello and welcome to my blog :)

Today I am talking about this week's reading task! We had to review two other students' work and make any corrections and suggestions. We also got feedback from other students too and change it according to the feedback! When writing this blog I had only received feedback from one person, so I will change my work accordingly when I receive the second person's feedback.

So from the feedback I got, it was mostly to change any grammatical errors! It included commas missing and 'a' missing in front of some words. There were some other smaller errors too. It also included some words that weren't right or maybe sentences that didn't make sense! I'm glad I got this feedback as I wouldn't be the best when it comes to grammar or spelling so it really helped! 

I also had to change my H5P "Check your understanding" as I couldn't find the word search on either the .org or .com website! This was disappointing as I was excited to make a word search. In the end, I made a little fill-in-the-blank game! I hope it's helpful, obviously, it's not as fun as the word search would have been but it's something.

I went with these sentences below in the end!

Screenshot of my fill-in-the-blank sentences

Thanks for reading,

-Megan :)

Tech Task - Week 21 (09)

Hello, this is my blog post for my tech task for this week! I decided to make a Twitter list this week! I have used Twitter lists on my main Twitter only recently, I have one for the news (which is one I made for this account) and I have one to keep up with celebrities I follow! Here is a link to the list. 

A screenshot of my Twitter list.

I started by adding Richard Chambers and Zara King as I follow them and enjoy their posts/ news updates and then it suggest other people add and I added some of them!

Thanks for reading,

-Megan :) 

Twitter Task - Week 21 (09)

Hello for this week I decided to tweet a question to my followers! I decided to ask how everyone was getting on, it's a hard time for everyone and hopefully, everyone is relativity okay! Below is a screenshot of my tweet.

A screenshot of my tweet

Thanks for reading, 

-Megan :) 

Unity Tutorial 07 - Week 20

A screenshot of the final step in the unity tutorials. 

This post is about this week's unity tutorial. We had to do two final tutorials, one was shorter than usual so that was a bonus! The first tutorial was all about audio. We started off by adding background music to the game, which in my opinion really make a game. Another thing I had to do in the tutorial was adding an audio source to ruby, I have done this before but for some reason, it didn't work for me and I couldn't figure it out. After about 20 minutes of me being very confused, I realized I had a bit of the code wrong (typical). So I fixed that and then it was clear sailing from thereon. Another thing I had to do was add a 3D sound to the robot, this sounds really cool and really adds to the game.

For the second tutorial it's all about making your game into an actual game! So in the tutorial, it shows you how to put all the correct settings on then to build the game which basically puts all the files together and means you can send them to people and they can play it! I had my brother try it out and he was impressed!

And that’s it, the unity tutorials are finished!! Not going to lie I am delighted! One thing that’ll be off my shoulders for the rest of the semester.

Thanks for reading,

-Megan :)

Doing - Reading 08

A picture of male playing video games. Source

Hello!! This post is about this week's reading task.  I really struggled with this week's task. In theory, it didn't seem hard but I've never written an introduction or a conclusion so I wasn't sure where to start. I watched the videos linked on the task website and honestly it definitely confused me more. I know we are getting feedback on them next week so I hope that will make it clearer and I can get solid feedback on them and figure out how I can improve and move forward. 

We also had to draft a “Check your understanding”. I thought about this for a while and I think a word search would be really fun to do! I would include ten words.  The 10 words would be, 

1. Genre
2. Games
3. Preferences
4. Groupings
5. Personalities
6. Shooter
7. Simulation
8. Platform
9. Puzzle
10. MMORPG

I think those words would be the most fun and they're all to do with my chapter! I will create this next week as this is a part of that task! Hopefully, I will get better at the introduction and the conclusion next week too and my chapter will come across a lot better than it does at the moment.

Thanks for reading, see you next time!

-Megan

Twitter Task - Week 20

Hello and welcome to this week's Twitter
task! For this week I decided to embed my Twitter timeline into my sidebar on blogger. I had this done previously but due to me changing my blog layout/theme it didn't go into the new one so I thought it was the perfect time to update it :) Below is a screenshot of it.

A screenshot of my Twitter timeline embedded into my sidebar on blogger

Thanks for reading! 

-Megan :)

Tech Task - Weather Widget

Hello! This post is about this week's tech task. I decided this week to embed the weather into my sidebar on my blog. I was going in between putting Dublin or Roscommon as the location but had to stick with Roscommon! Below is a screenshot of the weather embedded into my sidebar!

Screenshot of the weather embedded on my blog

Thanks for reading, 

-Megan :)

Tutorial 06 - Week 19(07)

The photo is of the unity logo source.

This post is about this week's unity tutorial. In the two tutorials, we had to do the first one we added in UI or Heads up display which displays the health bar. It was a very cute little UI display with a photo of the character Ruby in it. It was really interesting to see this come to life. Though in the middle of doing this tutorial unity just stopped responding so I had to quit it in the end and start from scratch. That was very annoying but thankfully I wasn't too far into it, definitely would've been a lot worse if I had gotten further or was even finished and it stopped! 

In the second tutorial, we had to add another character called Jambi. We had to add a dialogue box to Jambi too in order for him to "talk" to Ruby! I just added in the text "Hey! Help me fix all the broken robots" like it said in the tutorial. I was surprised at how this worked easily enough for me and everything seemed to go fine! It's also a cool addition to make the game more interactive. 

I think it'll be interesting to see what the last two tutorials are like and what the game finishes like! Hopefully, they'll be easy enough.

Anyways, thanks for reading! 

-Megan :) 

Reading 07 - Doing

Photo of gaming set up for PC source

This week's reading task was to read two other students' paragraphs that were completed last week! We had to then give feedback on their paragraphs! I found this hard as I really didn't know what to correct people on or suggest! But hopefully the feedback I gave helped (I am sorry if it did not). 

In terms of the feedback I got, both of the bits of feedback I received were similar so which does help me a lot. The first bit was to take out the start of one sentence where I said "Papers I have read suggest" and honestly I'm not sure why I even put that in because I know you shouldn't use I in them but look we all make mistakes. So I took that out and changed it to "Different papers suggest". I hope that works better and makes more sense. Similar to that I was told to remove any she/he written in the paper as it was confusing so I also removed them. 

Another bit of feedback I got was to stick to the 5 sentence feedback structure. I used the 5 sentence structure while writing them, looking over them now I do have more than 5 sentences in most paragraphs but I did follow the structure but instead of say 1 sentence of meat I did 2 or 3 depending on the paragraph. 

Other than the changes I made, I am happy with my paragraphs and hope they come across well.

Thanks for reading! 

-Megan :)

Tech Task - Google Timer

 For this week's Tech Task I decided to the google timer. It was so handy I never knew you could do it on google. I'll definitely use it for taking breaks during this busy semester!! It might keep me working, fingers crossed!! haha 

A screenshot of the timer I created.

Thanks for reading!

-Megan :)

Twitter task - Week 7

 This week for the Twitter task I decided to tweet about what I'm currently working on. You can see the tweet below. 

A screenshot of my tweet.

Thanks for reading 

-Megan :) 

Reading 06 - Doing

A picture of a person sitting in front of a TV playing video games. Source

Link to my Google Doc with my annotated bibliography.

Hello and welcome back to my blog! This is a post for the reading tasks this week. For this week we had to read over what we highlighted last week and then rewrite them, so we have paragraphs that are definitely not plagiarised! I went in thinking this was going to be easy and I’d get it done in no time but that wasn’t the case. I sat down to do them Thursday, Friday, Saturday, AND Sunday? I’ve no idea why I just couldn’t do them, I was lacking motivation big time. I finally finished them just having to do the last paragraph today. I’m just hoping I did them correctly and they’re okay. I dread each week having to do the reading tasks, it’s just not my forte. Now don’t get me wrong it was definitely better than having to read papers and then write about them (because that was torture) but it was still bad (lol). Let's hope the commenting for next week isn't as bad as this! I think this really shows me I picked the right idea for a college course that’s (mostly) hands-on without the whole essays every other week. I definitely wouldn’t have lasted trying to do any of them. Anyways, I’m ranting on so thanks for reading!!

Hope you enjoyed me ranting.
-Megan

Tutorial 05 - Week 18(06)

Hello! This post is about the 5th unity tutorial for week 18(06). 

I thought this week's tutorial went grand, it was handy enough! Nothing extremely complicated. The only thing that got me was them just being like add "blank" into the enemy script and even worse when they were just like add one of those in. I didn't like how it didn't say exactly what to add to the code. I know this is obviously to get used to it but I still struggle, unfortunately. I am getting there though so look, any progress is enough for me! They also linked the wrong tutorial to go back and look at for slicing the particles up so I had to go back to find that which was a pain. It wasn't a big thing but I couldn't remember where it was.

Here are some screenshots of the game and how it's looking. I was surprised how easy it was to make the camera move with the player and expand the area where I can run.

A screenshot of my game

A screenshot of my game zoomed out.

I'm delighted now that the game jam is over that I don't have to make an actual game by myself now, I do think it took a lot of pressure off us which is great. That's all from me now! 

Thanks for reading,

-Megan :)

Tech Task - Blogger Template

For this week's tech tip, I decided to change up my blogger template! I really don't like any of the ones they have to offer so I searched the internet for some free ones to see if it was possible to bring it in with code and it was!! I found this website and I decided to use this template. I customized it too using my knowledge of HTML. I am really happy with how it came out, the only thing that annoys me is the image at the side is awful quality because the higher quality one was too big of a file but sure nothing I can do! I made a little header for the top left of my blog too as shown in the new pictures below of the new theme!

Here are before and after pictures:

A screenshot of before I changed my theme

A screenshot of after I changed my theme

A screenshot of after I changed my theme with the sidebar showing

Thanks for reading!!

-Megan :)

Twitter Task - Week 18 (06)

Hello!! For this week's Twitter task I decided to do:

TWITTER TASK 06
Post 2 tweets –
the first tweet should share two things you learned this week,
the second should highlight an area for improvement or further study

Below are the two tweets I posted:

A screenshot of my tweet

A screenshot of my tweet

Thanks for reading!!

-Megan :)