Chloe O'Donoghue blog

This is the meme I created for my Tech Task

For this week for our unity tutorial we were asked to look up and find our own tutorials online that would help us with unity and creating our game.  I found this youtube channel called Brackeys. It is quite similar to jimmy Vegas but it was nice to listen to someone else explain unity in a different way.  He goes through things really slowly so it is easy to follow.  I've watched a few of his tutorials on making spheres and terrains. Like Jimmy Vegas he has loads of different episodes for different things.

I found this weeks reading week to be really good and interesting. I am really not good at taking critisism so it was nice to read an article about the positive sides of criticism. I like what he said how about how when giving criticism its good to concentrate on the things people can improve on rather then point out all the things they did wrong. He also said the main thing to concentrate on criticism and feedback is that its not unbiased and that factual. I like how part of the article he gives examples on the difference between good criticism and bad criticism.

Honestly I think I have progressed a lot in the past 2 weeks in this module. I am happy with the work I am doing but I know that I need to do even more because I am really behind. I have put in a lot of effort to this module and have been watching unity tutorials every night to try get a better understanding of how to use unity and how to go about creating my game, I am unfortuntely a really slow learner with Unity so I have to watch every video a few times to fully understand it. I have also been making notes on each unity tutorial so I can look over how to fix something in my game without having to rewatch a tutorial. I have a lot more unity tutorials but I am confident I will finish them in time. I will just have to do a few all nighters but if thats what it takes then I will do it!! I also have been set back a good bit unfortunately with the fact that I have to change my game due to not have enough time to create the Freddie the frog game. Although I am disappointed with not bei...

Overall I have not received much feedback on comments on my blogs, I wish people would write more on my blogs and give their opinions on my game ideas and my thoughts on readings. Although I have not received much feedback I still have some. Stephaine commented on my blog and said she liked the idea of my game and thought that it would be very well. She asked me am I going to make levels or make it endless. For my game I am thinking of making it in levels, so when you collect a certain amount of coins you move onto the next level. I thought about making it endless like the game flappy bird or temple run. But then I realised that it might be a bit boring so hopefully my idea of making it in levels will add excitement and determination to move onto the next level. I want to make levels harder to cause frustration in players making them want to move onto the next level more and more. I also thought about not making it about levels but making the game about trying to beat your high scor...

After realising that I did not have enough time to create the frog game that I wanted to I have decided to change my game, after doing some research I realise I want to do a pirate game. I am still in the process of planning the game but these are my ideas so far: Main Character  The main character of my blog will be Pete the Pirate. He will be a Pirate who is looking for gold coins. Goals The goal in the game will be to try collect as many coins as possible by following the guide lines given on a map. The guidelines will rhyme and will give clues to where the coins are. Rotation system  Pete the Pirate will be able to move varying on what buttons to press. He will be able to move in different directions. Enemy  I'm not sure if Pete the Pirate will have an enemy yet I was thinking of a shark but I want to research more.

After briefly reading over my blog posts about my previous readings I think one of my favourite readings was the article called "Don't be a Vidiot" by Greg Crosiykyan,  I liked this blog post because the language was really simple and easy to understand, it was the first of the readings that got me to understand more about this course and what the content of a game should be. He explained how most games should have a main character, a goal , a enemy and a conflict. He also went on to explain some useful tips on first time game makers. After reading this article I realised that I should focus more on game play not the appearance or the story game.  Later in the article he goes onto explain how you can do almost anything with software. With software you can develop it and define it. Similar with games there is a crazy amount of different types of games. He uses the term "There is an entire universe of weird and wonderful gaming styles." This is why this is my fa...