The Art Of Gaming

Hi!  For the reading task this week we decided to take a break from writing and focused on refining the paragraphs for our themes. Our lecturer shared a document with our names on it and we had to give out feedback to two people that we got assigned with.  I also got feedback from my lecturer on one of my themes which was incredibly helpful so I had an idea where to start. He recommended that I describe what fan programmers are which I did on my first theme. I said that "fan programmers is another term used to describe the modding community". I didn't really get a clear definition when I searched it and I was seeing it a lot in my academic articles so I wanted to include it in my own paragraphs. I also refined the second theme and took out a sentence which didn't fit within the paragraph. I also made the title of the theme shorter and I just said "what motivates the modding community and the skills they learn in the process."  Another piece of feedback I rec...

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog! Today I finished up the 6th tutorial for Ruby's adventure which took me a while to finish since I kept getting errors but I managed to fix it after a few days of pain. Visual Styling - User Interface - Head-Up Display   For this tutorial we edited the UI so that the health-bar would appear in the top left corner of the screen. It was a little bit tricky when it came to resizing and positioning the images so that they wouldn't squish or anything but I managed to get there in the end. I also had to add Ruby's portrait in in addition to the health bar mask. I scripted the health bar so every time Ruby took damage by the robot, the health-bar would go down. I had an issue where I named the script "UL" instead of "UI" and i didn't realise it so the script wouldn't work at all but I found the issue and solved it.  World Interactions - Dialog Raycast In this tutorial we put an animated frog into the scene and ...