Gaming development

This week I have finally finished my topics I have over 2,000 for my chapters my game design process has more words than my visual and audio elements but not by much I have learned a lot from writing these topics and have definitely improved my writing skills a lot, I have also learned a lot on each of my topics. Overall I feel like my topics are decent and that I have wrote some good information on both of them. I am really glad that I have finished and it is a huge weight of my shoulders I just have to do my reflection work. I feel like this week we have done a lot on fixing up the writing on most of the chapters which is really good and I feel like everyone has done good work overall. Below are some screenshots of my topics in my chapter.

For this weeks reading I looked at all my sources again to find more information on my topics I then began to write. For my first topic the game design process I talked about pre-production and production and what happens in these productions for the game design process I do feel like I need to talk more about the user experience as that is what my chapter is all about and feel like I am talking more about the design process but once I finish the production stages of the design process I will get back on track on talking about how the design process creates a user experience.  I have also talked about the e lements that make up the audio visual appearance which are dimensions, point of perception and visual outlook I went into dept about these elements one by one I do feel like I also need to talk more about the user experience when talking about visual and audio elements but so far I feel like I have done a good bit of work this week and have caught up a good bit. I have also...

Reading 6: additional writing of the body paragraph  For this weeks reading I have added additional writing to my body paragraph I looked through some more articles on my topics to add more information to my paragraphs so far I feel like I do have a good bit of information but I do still need to get more information and work on making my chapter longer. I do feel like these readings are getting easier each week I feel like the hardest part was the research and now that I have my research done it is helping me out a lot with writing information for my chapter. So far I have my introduction paragraph and paragraphs for my two topics done but there still needs to be information added to them but so far I am happy with my progress. I do think that the readings are also helping with my writing skills and feel that I am getting better at academic writing but hopefully my chapter turns out really well by the end of the semester. I have also added all my information to the google doc ...

Unity tutorial 06 I really enjoyed these unity tutorials this week I learned a lot from them especially the animation part I did find it a bit difficult but I did find it helpful I really enjoyed making the character jump over obstacles, getting the character to run, adjusting the jump of the character with animation. I also found the repeating background really helpful and fun I did find that the tutorials were a lot longer this week but they were really helpful as I did not know how to use animation before doing the tutorials. I did have some trouble with my code but I eventually got it working I did also really liked learning about getting the character to jump at different levels and how to slow down the character from jumping etc. So far I have enjoyed doing these unity tutorials and feel like they are very useful and I am having fun with them other than my code not working sometimes but the majority of the time it is just a small error but yeah I definitely feel like I am getti...

Reading 5: Writing the body paragraphs  For this weeks reading I will be writing the body paragraphs for my chapter which is creating the user experience I will also be writing about my sub topics which are the design process of a game and the visual and audio elements of a game. I will be adding paragraphs to my chapter as it will keep all my information organised I will also be reading through all my articles and the matrix to gather information for my chapter. I will be using the textbook below as an example of what I have to lay out my writing as. Example So far I have wrote out my introduction for my chapter I have also wrote out an introduction to both of my topics I looked over all my articles that I have read and re wrote them for my introduction and sub topics I still do need to write a lot more but so far I feel like I am getting on top of my work and hopefully my chapter and topics come out really good and professional I am getting the hang of the readings and ...

Unity tutorial 05 I really enjoyed doing these tutorials for the first tutorial i had to make the animals eat the food by using c # script and box colliders I found this tutorial very helpful and entertaining I did have a bit of trouble with the script but eventually figured it out I really enjoy these tutorials a lot more this semester than I did last semester. For the challenge 2 I found it a bit difficult but got the majority of it done I like the way it challenges me to hard code without looking at other coding even though I do find it difficult at least I am learning a lot more c # script than I did last semester. I do feel like my coding is improving a lot but I am finding the challenges a lot harder than the unity tutorials as I am still not the best at c # coding. For the first tutorial I really liked learning how to get the animal to eat the pizza I have great fun playing the games when I am finished with the tutorials. Anyway so far I feel like the tutorials are really help...

Reading 4 For this weeks reading I looked at all my sources for my topics which are the design process of a game and visual and audio elements I will be using the step by step to discursive writing to help me paraphrase and re write some of the material in the articles to create material that will be eligible for my topics on the chapter creating the user experience. So far I have looked at 10 readings I do need to do a lot more research before I begin writing but I do understand from this reading how to re write information from articles in a professional way I have also added a lot of my sources online to the matrix I have only added 7 of my readings but will add a lot more when I do more research I feel like now I know what I am doing I will fly through the research and once I start writing out all the material that I have researched I will get a better understanding of everything. Overall I feel like the research is helping a lot and so is the matrix the one thing I am findi...

Unity tutorial 4 Surprisingly I am actually enjoying doing these unity tutorials it's nice to actually know what your doing especially with coding as I was so bad at it last year and hadn't a clue but now following these tutorials I feel like the coding is not as bad as I taught. I enjoyed learning how to move the character from left to right without falling off the screen also learning how to get the pizza and animals to a certain speed with the disappearing without flying across the screen. The thing that I enjoyed the most about the tutorials this week was spawning in the animals I had great craic slamming down on me S key seeing a bunch of animals flying across me screen. Anyway I feel like these tutorials are really good and I am actually learning a lot about c# script a lot more than I did with Jimmy Vegas anyway I just feel that these tutorials are a lot easier to understand and I am actually typing out the code so I am learning a lot more by doing that which I probabl...

Unity tutorial 03 I enjoyed these unity tutorials I found the scripting on the tutorials helpful and useful but I did struggle with the challenge one as I am still a amateur at scripting and find it kind of confusing sometimes I struggled with the challenge but I did get it to fly forward other than the challenge I think it is good to try to do sum hard coding but I personally just do not think I am the best at c# script coding so did struggle a but. I did find the unity tutorials about moving the car backward, forward, side to side and rotation very useful and really enjoyed it I feel like I am enjoyed these tutorials a lot better than the other tutorials last semester and I feel like they are a lot easier to understand which is great. Even though I did not really finish the challenge because I am not the best at scripting and didn't really understand how to do some of it I did complete some parts of it and was good to challenge myself and learned a lot from these tutorials es...

Unity tutorial 02 I enjoyed doing these unity tutorials I found them useful but I did know the majority of stuff other than most of the coding already from past unity tutorials I do enjoy these tutorials a lot better then the Jimmy Vegas ones I feel like there a lot easier to follow. I think the scripting part of these tutorials are really helpful and interesting and it is good to learn more about scripting as I did struggle with it a lot last semester but I found the scripting in these tutorials very helpful I also really liked finding out about putting a play mode tint on the screen as it is helpful because sometimes you forget you are in play mode.  I also liked that he explained how to do some shortcuts around unity which was very helpful because sometimes I can't figure out how to get back to the front view or side view etc but now I know how to do shortcuts of the viewpoints I also found the rigidbody's helpful but I did learn that last semester so that the box woul...

Reading 3: Doing my research Before I started reading loads of articles for my research I learned how to fully engage in the readings and what is the best things to do when reading them and post-reading. I looked on google scholar but did not find any articles that were helpful on game design process or on visual and audio elements in a game but I did find some articles on google. So far I have scanned over one article for each topic which I taught were helpful towards my research. The first article that I looked at for the design process of a game was  Game design process  by Francois Dominic Laramee I found this article very helpful and useful so I took down notes that I taught would be beneficial to my research. The first article I looked at for  visual and audio elements  was  Visuals and audio elements  by Aki Järvinen which I scanned over to see if it was suitable for my research which it was so I took some notes. I feel like the matrix ...

Reading 2: planning my approach Hello, welcome back to my blog the two topics that I have chosen are design process also visual and audio elements which are from the chapter creating a user experience. To help with my research I wrote out a bunch of questions which would help with my research which were: 1)What is the design process of a game? 2)What is the process of a game? 3)How is the design process applied to a game? 4)What are the visual and audio elements in a game? 5)How are visual and audio elements applied to a game? The two questions that I feel would work best with my research would have to be what is the design process of a game? and how are visual and audio elements applied to a game? I feel like my research questions complete the research question checklist and that it will make research a lot easier. Keywords to help with my research: Design process visuals sound audio color texture lighting testing production research scale elements game desi...

Beta For my Beta of my game I added some dialogue and fixed up my terrain a little bit but for some reason when I play my game my cursor will not show up even though the dialogue is clickable which is strange but so far I think my game turned out well for a prototype I have struggled a little bit as I do not know much about games or c# script but I have a functional game so far in my game I have two characters, a pick up fruit object, main menu which needs a bit of fixing and dialogue and I have also put a lot of design into my game. I did not get everything I wanted in my game but I think my expectations were too high so I might have to change some things around for my game but overall I think everything worked out well other than some struggles with c# script. I am happy with how my prototype turned out and I now know what I can do to improve when I start my game. Main menu Main Menu clickable buttons. Terrain. Terrain. Terrain with character. Terrain...