Alex's Updates

  For my project this week, I worked on position my character/player on top of the buildings. I just had to create a mess to prevent the character from falling through the buildings.  It took me a while to try and find a good tutorial and code move my player from left to right.  I looked at unity tutorial that provided code and my character can move from left to right and also jump.  I also created boundaries to my player cannot move out of the camera view and is limited.  When my character jumped from building to buildings from left to right,  the player was falling through the sides of the buildings. So, I put my buildings together to prevent this and decided i am going to create a long path of buildings instead of jumping from building to building. 

For this week for the tutorials, I watched   BlueFever Software   video step by step to create a character for my game. I quickly learned that creating a character from objects in unity was going to be very difficult, so I found this video which became very useful.  I have found out that Mixmao provides free characters to you if you have an adobe account. I searched for an appropriate character that would fit my game. I found this woman character, in a suit that looks for like a secretary.   I then imported the character and then made it a Humanoid Rig in the inspector, for this to work properly you need an avatar, which is my character I imported  When the character was imported I need to apply the materials, as the character had no texture when imported, so  in the inspector I applied the materials and textures.  Finally, I wanted to make my character move, so In the end when the player presses the space bar the character will jump....

  Source: flickr Feedback in Overall the comments I have received in my post are great and useful. I love receiving feedback on my post and people enjoy reading my blog. I love when people give me suggestions or have an input in my project. When other students also give me ideas on my project too!  These comments I find are the most useful and help me with my project if I'm stuck with something. I also love when students propose and ask questions in the comments. I love responding to others and it is a great  communication tool to get to know other students in different classes.  Feedback out Giving and providing feedback on other students projects is my favourite task in this module. It is great to see how other students are getting along each week with their project and how they progressed. When I am giving students feedback I aim to give good and strategic feedback. I always use TAG. Tell, Ask and Give. It is a great way to give feedback. I also try and provide s...

As I reminisce and reflect on the reading and writing tasks I have completed in this module I have gained a lot of knowledge about gaming and how to create a game. I never knew how much work goes into creating a game. When entering this module, I had little to no knowledge about gaming.  Now, when I play games I am analysing the game mechanics, the narrative, the level of difficulty and is the game engaging and so much more.  In the first stage of reading and writing, I was proposed with the question What is a game?.  I learned that question can be answered in several aspects. As I progress with my game, I always tend to look back on the notes I have created in Game Design. When creating my game I always consider this sentence. The components of a game: rules to action and storyline. If you want to have a captivating game, construct rules of what your player can or cannot do while playing the game.  Also during this reading, I learned about several different ways fo...