Multimedia Development

 So I have completed my last round of reading tasks. I thought it was interesting writing a chapter, but it didn't come without its challenges. First I thought about writing a chapter about why people play games, but I couldn't get stuck into it. So I decided to switch my chapter to be about how representation is changing in video games, a topic I'm much more interested in. Having more representation in video games is important to me as I'm not the 'typical' cisgender American, straight white male gamer. I am cisgender and I am a white male, but I'm not American and I identify as asexual. It is important to me that more characters of different nationalities get represented, and it's not something people commonly talk about. The fact that in almost every piece of media, books, video games, movies, or TV shows, the most popular ones ALWAYS have a majority cast of American characters, whether they are fully American or partly American. As someone who is not

I have finished my last round of Unity tutorials. While I did find them interesting, I know that game development is not for me, as I cannot remember what any of the code I wrote in my scripts do. In these tutorials, we were taught about audio and preparing a build for publishing. I thought the audio was interesting, but we weren't taught how to get some of it working, like the footsteps for the player character, or the sounds for hitting the robots with the cogs. The build part, I kind of breezed through, as my build was no where near good enough for publishing. My only problem with these tutorials is we weren't taught how to make the character have a finite about of cogs, players could just throw cogs infinitely which gets away some of the challenge for a game like this. I would have appreciated a tutorial on how to create a set amount of ammo and collecting ammo. I also couldn't fix some problems I've been having, like the robot's animations not working or, makin

I have read the chapters of two of my peers wrote. I did find the chapters very interesting and learnt a few things in the process. I did think the two chapters, Gaming psychology and the history of games were interesting. In the history of gaming chapter, I wasn't aware that there was a difference between formal and informal play. I thought every game, even the simplest had at least one rule. In the gaming psychology chapter, I was aware of many of the points made in it. And I do know just how bad gaming addiction can be. While I am a gamer, I'm lucky enough that I'm not as bad as some other people and I actually cannot stay on my computer or an electronic device for too long. One thing that I do need to do with my chapter is add the references and bibliography. Overall I think my peers wrote good chapters that brought up interesting and important points. I did learn some new things reading them and now I've gotten curious on reading other chapters. Anyway, I'm gla