The Art Of Gaming

I remember when I had to make gifs using photoshop and it was the most frustrating thing in the world. This was a couple of years ago when I was 15 years old and I was a tumblr addict.  Now there are countless websites which help you make a gif easily which save you the hassle! This is the website I used to make my animated gif. Credit to Megan Kelly for helping me find this website! Frodo in his natural habitat. -Anna Zurawska

Reading through my annotated bibliographies I noticed common themes among all of them. The only downside to my them is that I don't have a ton of information written for each so I will have to go back and read the academic articles once again. For my main project I have a few things I want to write about that I feel is important in terms of game modifications.  1) What is a mod and the history and background of game modifications. (I need to get more information on this) 2) The active modding community that revolves around the gaming industry. Examples of this include Simtropolis, Nexus Mods, CurseForge and how they benefit fan programmers.  3) What motivates the modding community and how much fan programmers benefit the gaming industry as well as the different skills fan programmers learn along the way in addition to complications.  4) The different developmental tools that make it easier for fan programmers to mod their games. I will be talking about Half-life 2 and how...

Hi everyone! Today I went through the tutorials based of animations and the physics system. These were extremely long tutorials and I'm happy to be done with them.   Sprite Animation This tutorial was pretty long but I enjoyed making animations for the characters. The 2D animator looks much easier than the 3D animator and I'm proud of myself for understanding it. The animation clips were already provided but I had to put them together and save them for later use. The robot is a little broken because it only goes one direction but that was probably due to the previous tutorial. I like the fact that the finished scripts are at the end of the tutorial because I sometimes find it hard to know where the functions go.  World Interactions - Projectile  This tutorial was all about the physics system.  I remember doing this in the 3D tutorials but I found it easier going through the videos on this part. The tutorial didn't really describe the process very well and I found mys...