The Art Of Gaming

Hi everyone! This week I started on making my level and I have to say I'm very satisfied with the layout that I've created. I was brainstorming on how I was going to go about it and I wrote some things down on a piece of paper as well as drawing out my path. I decided to give up on my search of working jump and speed pads even though I spent a long time trying different codes. I'm pretty sure I watched every single youtube video there is as well as searching it up on google. Every single page is outlined in purple when I search up "Jump pad Unity".  I tried my best with the camera movements. I wanted to implement rotation with the arrow / WASD keys because when I was doing the previous unity challenge with the footballs the camera mechanics were exactly what I wanted. I put in the scripts on my player and on the camera but nothing really worked. The camera was inside my sphere half the time and I didn't know how to fix it, I think it's something to do with...

 Lesson 4.4 This tutorial was pretty simple and quick to finish. The instructions basically made it so enemies were spawning in waves: so for example the first wave 1 enemy spawns, the second wave 2 enemies spawn etc. At the end of the tutorial, We had to make the power-up that we created at the very start to spawn after each wave as well. The code was a little difficult to understand but I don't think i'll really need it when it comes to my own game! I liked these set of tutorials because it gave me ideas for what I wanted to do for future projects when it comes to the second semester! Lesson 4.4 - spawning new waves Challenge 4 The challenge was pretty confusing, I tried looking up a tutorial on it but I couldn't find an english version. I liked the camera movements in it so I tried putting into my own project but it didn't work the way I wanted it to. I managed to do the two first challenges which was hitting an enemy away from you and I managed to spawn new waves by...

 Over the weeks I have read welcoming comments on my blog and it made this year just a little bit less stressful. I love looking at my blog every other day and seeing new comments appear especially from the people who I haven't talked to at all last year. If we do end up going back to college next semester I have a feeling the atmosphere will be warmer than before.  I think the comments on my project are the most useful because then I write notes on the important things people have mentioned. Things such as storylines for my game, the camera angles, the levels etc. I like the introduction blog comments as well because people know a little bit more about me and I remember a lot of things about people when I read their introduction posts which is handy! The feedback comments that I'm writing on other students blogs are truthful and curious. I love seeing other peoples work because it makes me more motivated to perfect my own. Seeing the games being made last week kind of made me...

When I first started on the reading tasks I didn't really know much about academic writing or reading. I kept doing them first because if I left them till the last minute I would freak out. I kept going back and forth through synonyms when writing my blog to make my writing appear more professional because I thought academic writing was all about professionalism. I was wrong entirely when we started doing the reading tasks together as a class. I feel like the progress is getting much better since we figured it out as a group and our lecturer was extremely helpful. He understood that it was our first time doing the academic writing so I took a lot from the Monday lectures.  My favourite reading so far was probably the first one: The components of game design . You can tell that my academic writing was a bit too much but I had fun trying to figure out how to go about the assignment. During the blog comments I was looking at students academic writing and I had a feeling we were all st...