The Art Of Gaming

 Hi everyone! For this tech tip I made a twitter list with all of the different modding websites that are on twitter. I made a list because I'm doing my literature piece on game modding (player community) and I felt like it was necessary. I'm going to be adding more platforms in the future when I find relevant articles.  -Anna Zurawska

Game Modifications (Player Communities) "To Mod or Not to Mod - An Empirical Study on Game Modding as Customer Value Co-Creation" Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat, Anna Dewalska-Opitek and Magdalena Hofman-Kohlmeyer (2020) 'To Mod Or Not to Mod—An Empirical Study on Game Modding as Customer Value Co-Creation'.  Sustainability,  Vol. 12 (9014) 9014. In this article the authors focus on the customer value co-creation in relation to game modifications as well as the motives of mod users and creators. Qualitative research has been carried out which includes separate interviews and focus groups with mod creators and mod users. This research centres on the participation in the development of game mods and how it motivates the user and the creator based on the engagement of the individual. This article gives an in-depth definition of what game modifications are and the different type of game mods and their characteristics alongside some background historical information on the fi...

Hi! This is my blog post describing what I did in the second unity tutorial. I feel like my laptop isn't under any pressure when i'm dabbling around with the 2d world. I feel like this semester is going to fly by with these tutorials because in the first semester we got straight into creating a 3D game rather than a 2D game. In the second tutorial " Decorating the world" I added prefabs onto my character and metal boxes. I changed the colour of the boxes to red and I also changed pivots within the sprite editor. I feel like the prefabs in the 2D tutorials were easier to understand than the 3D tutorials. I like how the character goes behind the box to add a more realistic effect. I coloured in the prefab to be red and all the boxes changed that colour! The physics system in the 2D world is more crazier because you can't just fall through a 3d platform. We added many components to the character and the metal boxes to make it so the character would be able to go behi...