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Tutorial 02

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 I've finished my second round of Unity tutorials and they are simple enough I had no real problems with this one, I'm glad we were able to add colliders to things that the character shouldn't be walking over, like the water. The tutorials did suggest adding more decorations to the environment besides boxes, but I was too lazy to reread the tutorial for adding the collisions and adding the prefabs and all that.  The only problem I did come across was when I was editing the script so the character would collide with the boxes properly and didn't stutter while running into them, I edited the script in a way that I couldn't move the character any more. Both my script and the script that the tutorial had looked identical, but when I decided to copy the whole script on the tutorial and paste it into my script, suddenly the character could move again. I don't know what was the problem, but it doesn't matter anymore. One thing I am hoping for is being able to creat...

Reading 03

 After taking time to think about it, I've decided to look at how the representation of the LGBT community and other minority groups in video games has changed. While I will be looking at minority groups as a whole, my main focus will be the LGBT community, the reason is that I find them very interesting and the fact that I've seen straight couples so many times, that they are now boring me. I've read on how in reality, the gaming industry still has a long ways to go in terms of LGBT representation. I read that there are homophobic players who don't want any LGBT themes. However that could be counteracted by saying there used to be sexist players who didn't want women as playable characters and look where we are now. On a serious note, a lot of AAA developers, from what I read, are very intimated on having more prominent LGBT themes because they are afraid of losing the market on their homophobic players, but to that I say screw them, and a lot of straight players a...