Multimedia Development

  I've finished the first Unity tutorial of this semester. I found it hard to motivate myself to get started, but I did eventually. Making a 2-D game is interesting, it can be easier than a 3-D game, as you don't need to know how to make and texture 3-D models. I wonder what this tutorial will turn this game into. From looking at some of the assets, I guess some type of R.P.G. The actual tutorials didn't take me too long I don't think, I believe I did most of them quicker than the suggested time. One thing that did trip me up was the Tile-maps. Unity had changed since the tutorial I was following was written.  We were given a video on the official class website on what was different and how it would look to set up. But I was stubborn and wanted to figure it out on my own. It did take me a while to figure things out and I did make some mistakes, but I did get it working eventually.  I knew, just by reading the other options when making the Tile-palette, that the one I wa...

 So I have begun my research planning. This is not an easy thing for me because I don't like researching. I prefer to use my own knowledge and get knowledge from primary sources. I do not like doing secondary research, as my attention span would not last long enough. I am torn on what topic I'd like to chose for the book. I know a lot about why humans play games based on my own knowledge and listening to other people, but I am also interested in how game narrative has changed over the years. Researching is probably my weakest point. I prefer to just get going with things and look into things I'm not as familiar with as I go along. My biggest problem with developing skills like this is complicated. I'm a fast learner, but when something has a learning curve, it is so much more difficult for me to get over it. Another problem with researching is that I don't know where to find information for what I'm looking for, except for Wikipedia, which is my go to, if I want...

  I have completed the next few Unity Tutorials and I feel like I am a natural at this, as altogether I completed these in an hour and thirty minutes. This batch of tutorials are interesting as we get to explore more types of code. I am an animal lover, so I couldn't resist putting more than three animals in the game, plus four of them are dogs. I don't know if I am just really good, or if these tutorials should be taking me a lot longer as I usually complete them well under the recommended time to complete them, though it is a confident boost. The only problem I had was that Unity kept telling me I had an error in my spawn manager script that stopped me from playing the game. I couldn't find the error anywhere, so I had to tell Unity to ignore that error I have a screenshot of my script here if anyone can identify the error, as I can't see it anywhere and I wonder if Unity is just broken in its error finding. If anyone can comment what the error is, I'd really appr...

  I have completed the second Unity tutorial and I think I am getting the hang of it, although, I still worry about forgetting the code as I do have a lot going on in terms of work. My overall experience has been a lot better than it was when I first tried Unity. I got to give the player actual control in this tutorial which I think is a big achievement. One thing I've noticed is that it is taking much shorter to do these tutorials than expected, my first one, I forget to say, but it is estimated that it would take 200 minutes, while for me I feel like I did it in 45 to 60 minutes. This tutorial was estimated to take 50 minutes, I did it in just over 30 minutes. Although I did notice this time around I went back a couple times to make sure I was doing it right. There are some tasks I wasn't really interested in doing, such as putting comments in my code. Maybe that's just me, but I can usually work out what's going on just by looking at it without comments. But for the ...

So from the title of this post, you know that I have finally started the Unity tutorials. I got filled with the determination I needed to get through this after hearing encouraging words from people. I dusted off my old Unity account and installed it to my computer. Following the tutorials I found them very time consuming for some simple tasks. Also because I am kind of familiar with the Unity interface already I wasn't a fan of listening to the explanation about it and I just wanted to jump right in. But I hope future tutorials pick up the pace. They are videos after all, people can just pause and rewind if they get lost. When I did use Unity all those years ago I tried to make a 2D game, but these tutorials were for a 3D game. Though they are different, I got the hang of it very quickly. One thing that struck me was actually writing code. Back when I did use Unity I have no memory about actually writing code, so this is already going better than my last experience. After completi...

 What is a game?  Not an easy question to answer.  Games come in all different shapes, sizes, genres, etc. Games, from what I know are a means of entertainment. They are for everyone of all ages. There are some games that are targeted towards a certain group of people more than others, but in reality anyone can play any game they want to. Even though some people try to act like they can't. Making a game is not an easy task, especially video games, and it usually requires a team of people. A lot of people who try to make video games give up when they realise how much more work needs to be put into it than they thought. I know how difficult making a video game is so I'm not even going to try. I remember I tried to make a game, but I was put in a situation where no-one was showing me what to do, I didn't get the help I needed and it has ruined the chance of me trying to make a game ever again. I am okay looking through game files to look at different things such as texture f...

Growth Mindset. I can't say I've ever heard of it before. When I looked into it, I didn't know what to think of it. My only problem that I can think of is that I believe having a growth mindset is easier said than done, which can be said for a lot of things. It's not a topic that I have a strong opinion about. When I look at it I can see where they are coming from and why it would be beneficial, but I do find having a growth mindset difficult. I feel like it's down to the situation. Some situations you can have a growth mindset while in others it's a fixed mindset. I am in the middle of these. Some situations my mindset is fixed, others it's not. Although I've noticed that it is usually fixed, although I think it has something to do with feeling unmotivated to something, even if I want to do it. As I don't have a strong interest in this topic, I would not be interested in learning more about it on my own, but if someone else was talking about it to m...