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Publishing Task 3

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Migration When I was migrating my website I used a plugin called All in one WP Migration. This allowed me to download my website files from the local host. I then used Infinity free to host my online website and to give my website a domain. Once my infinity free account started working, I had all my files in the file manager. Once Infinity free accepts my domain name. I then created another WordPress account and downloaded the All in one WP Migration plugin. This allowed me to import my website file from the local host website.   I had a problem while importing my website. The progress bar was stuck on 76% and would complete importing even though I paid for the website to be hosted online. Eventually, after numerous attempts and hours, it finally worked and my website was online. Link to website: http://alexanderpartridge.epizy.com/ Theme The theme I used for my website was called Inspiro.   I chose this theme since it felt fitting for the straightforward website design I was aiming fo
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Publishing task two

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Section A- What I will Build? In order to attract tourists to the city of Amsterdam, I want to design a theme-based website. I want to develop a website that will provide visitors with information about Amsterdam. I want everyone who visits my website to find it simple and straightforward to use. The action of booking tours and vacations will be the first UX element I add to my website. A comment area with a review function for the excursions and tours will be the second UX feature Section B- Why Build It ? As stated above I want my website to be easy and accessible for my user to use. The website is obviously original and will fulfil the needs of the user and what they are looking for.   The website's landing page will be enticing and draw visitors to the content they are seeking. The landing page will contain a nice visual slideshow of Amsterdam city and will have a booking button clearly visible. The user can utilise the button to find what they're seeking exactly. They will
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Doing

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 The reading task for multimedia was definitely a challenge this semester. Researching topics was not my forte and I had to adapt and learn quickly.  The only thing that pushed me through the reading was my interest in the topic. My topic was on broadcasting game streaming so I looked at articles and Google Scholar books related to this topic. When I was doing my research, I looked at the history of broadcasting and I also looked at game streaming and why people game stream and how viewers interact with game streamers when they are live streaming.  As I stated previously reading was deafly not my forte and I really struggle when it came to Reading really big articles and books. I know this is worthwhile doing as I know many essays will happen in the third year.  Once I submitted my final output for reading I was super content with all the research I have got and I think I had made a very strong academic piece to the book. I'm so glad I came to the final hurdle in with reading. 
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Game Jam- Report

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I had no idea what a game jam was when I first heard about it, but the more I learned about it, the more captivated I became. I liked the idea of different people from different courses getting together and making a game. I had a great time at the game jam as a whole because it was a great experience. We worked really well as a team to create a really good strong game, and I was very thrilled with the outcome.I was a big Sims fan when I was 10 or 12 years old. I used to spend my weekends playing it, I do play games on my PS4, such as Miles Morales or GTA V. I could spend hours and hours playing them. I could also go months without playing online games. I would not cast myself as a gamer.  I really like the game jam style, even though students from TUD courses like Business and Language Game Design, as well as CDM students, participated in the game jam. My teammate Kevin and I were hoping for a game design student to join our team, but we did not get one.   On the day of the game jam, o
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Tutorial 07

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  Source: Here We're just about accomplished with the Ruby 2D game in this week's tutorials. All that remains is to add audio to the game to make it more exciting and fun. The music in a game makes it a little more delightful, and players enjoy it when there is good music in a game. the audio tutorial was simple and easy to follow. I noticed that we would need to link the music we installed as an mp3 to the camera in the game if we wanted it to play repeatedly throughout the game. The second tutorial wrapped how to build and run the game. Now that the game is finished, I needed to create a standalone application that you could upload to a digital store. So that people can play the game without having to install the Unity Editor and all of your assets on their machine. I'm so happy and content that everything is working so well, and I'm so proud of how much work I put into making the game. Following the tutorials is not an easy task, and even a minor error can have serio
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Tutorial 06

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  Screenshot I had to develop a user interface to my game for this week's tutorial so that I could view Ruby's health on screen. I learned about the UI in Unity, which uses a GameObject called a Canvas component to create UI-specific components such like graphics, sliders, and buttons. A Canvas specifies how each UI element should be presented on screen and is responsible for rendering all UI components that are its children. Using the UI editor was a breeze for me. It was challenging for me to create a health bar mask. It was really difficult for me to resize and shift its anchors to match the empty space in  UI where the Health bar should sit. The step-by-step instructions on the Unity website were not clear enough for this section, so I watched a YouTube video of someone at this stage. The video was very helpful, and I would not have been able to complete this week's tutorial without it. I can now see my game coming together, and I can't wait to see how it works out.
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Unity Tutorial 05

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  Because the game has only functioned on a single screen thus far, I've been employing a static camera. In this lesson, I used the Cine machine Unity package to manipulate your camera without having to write any code. I wanted the camera to follow Ruby, the protagonist, as they begin to explore a larger universe. I launched the Package Manager in the Unity Editor (menu: Window > Package Manager) to add the Cinemachine package. Then I went to the Cine machine entry and hit on Install. Cinemachine makes it easy to create elaborate 3D camera setups with multiple cameras, along with movement and cuts between devices. Cameras in applications like Unity can occur in two ways: 1. Perspective: When all lines heading away from the camera converge at a point, objects appear smaller as they move more away. This looks like a straight path that disappears into the distance and converges into a single point on both sides. 2. Orthographic: When all parallel lines remain parallel, it is said t
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