The Art Of Gaming

"Of Mods and Modders: Chasing Down The Value of Fan-Based Digital Game Modifications"  Postigo, H. (2007)  Of Mods and Modders: Chasing Down the Value of Fan-Based Digital Game Modifications , SAGE: United States. The modding community play an active role in relation to the success of a game in addition to the gaming industry as their work is constantly being recognised because it improves the sales of a game. There are various add-ons that fan programmers design which include modding, changing the layout of a map, weaponry, skins and making changes to the game-play. Modders have the ability to make changes to anything in relation to the game. Some of these examples involve making changes to the game-play and the story mode of a game and physically manipulating the world around them. Mappers on the other hand design the map layout of the game. Skinners change the "skin" of the character and weapon makers who create or improve weapons within the game. The article out...

Hi everyone! This is the third week of the 2d Unity tutorials and i'm finding it very easy so far. I was a bit scared at first when I realised I had to read the set of instructions myself but now I prefer it over watching videos! In this set of tutorials it mainly focuses on collectibles and damage zones as well as enemies.    World Interactions - Collectibles Coding was the main thing about these tutorials because it required for collectibles to be set to triggers. As soon as the character goes over to the strawberry collectible, it disappears and a message pops up at the bottom left corner making it clear that Ruby received a life. After Ruby has collected the life and the bar is full, when Ruby goes over to the strawberry again it doesn't get picked up. World Interactions - Damage Zones and Enemies In this tutorial, we made a damageable as well as an enemy that moves in one direction. They both harm Ruby which results in health loss. There's nothing much to say other tha...