Planning

Hello and welcome back to my blog, this week for the reading it's all about planning! Not going to lie I am nervous about this reading task but I know if I put my mind to it I should do okay. I decided to go with the topic "What is a Genre". I went with this topic as I thought I already had some knowledge on genres and it would have a lot of academic papers on it. 

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Image of a brainstorm with different genres listed

In the lecture this week Lindsay from the Library came to talk to us about the services available which would very much be of use for this reading project. It was really useful as I really didn't know how to do any of it before she came in. She gave us lots of information which made me feel more confident that I would be able to do the reading to my full capability. I took notes and will definitely be using the majority if not all of the things she thought us.

I had a look at the Matrix Method and it looks a bit complicated for me, so instead, I plan on making a list on my laptop to keep track of anything I've read and any research I want to use. I use lists for just about everything so I am sure this method will work for me. I much prefer the simple, straightforward way. 

I then began to search for different keywords to use to find papers that will suit me, so far I have come up with "Gaming" "Genre" and " Video Games". I plan to create a brainstorm to find more and keep looking up various papers to see what I can find to help me. I will be using the library resources to find papers to research with. 

Tech Tip: Animated Gif

 I decided to go with the animated gif making this week for the tech tip and I picked pictures I took when I was actually in college with my friends :( sad times. I made the GIF using this website :) Check it out!

A GIF I made of 9 different photos of me and my friends 

This makes me miss spoons a lot (can u tell we went there a lot hahah)

-Megan :)

Week 2 - Twitter Task

 Hello!!

For this week's Twitter task I did Twitter task 3, which was to follow 5 people additional to classmates and lecturers! Below is a screenshot of who I followed :)

A screenshot of my following list on Twitter

-Megan

Unity Tutorial 01 - Week 14 (02)

Helloooooo!

New semester, same me lol.

This is a blog post about the unity tutorials, the first one of the semester and it actually went great? Apart from a minor detail of trying to figure out how to actually paint the scene everything else went great?? (Cheers Sean for the help). I'm shocked, especially considering how bad last semester went but hey this is the first week so it will definitely get harder, but hopefully, because it's 2d it might be a bit simpler? (I am probably completely wrong with that statement and will regret saying it in like 4 weeks haha). I'm excited to learn new things and to get stuck in and get bits done!

screenshot of my little world I painted in with tiles

It's much handier to read the tutorials rather than watch videos, I know he might go more in-depth in the videos but sometimes he was just as confusing (and annoying). So far it's been great and I can go at my own pace without having to pause the video or put it slower. I like the little GIFs they add in every now and then to show it happening, that's really helpful! Overall, the tutorial was really helpful and went through what different things meant and why we were doing them which I really liked!

Hopefully, the rest of the semester will go like this and I'll have no other at all (Fingers crossed)

Thanks for reading, 

Megan!!