MultimediaDev2020

  An image of the unity logo  In this weeks unity tutorial, we had to finalize certain elements of the game. in terms of the build, and distribution I found it really straightforward in terms of overall difficulty. although I did experience a few crashes from the program which was annoying bur a pc restart fixed that problem. Overall I found the unity 2d game creation much more pleasant compared to 3d game creation, the entire process was a great learning experience. I think knowing the different methods for making 3d and 2d games is good knowledge to have. I could defiantly see myself using all the experience I have lernt from these tutorials in the future  In conclusion, I am glad to be finished these tutorials and I thought they were a great learning experience  

  Image of a man reading ( Source ) This week we had to continue expanding our annotated bibliographies, continuing from last weeks task in which we had to create themes based on the summaries gathered from the conducted research. intentionally at the start, I found this week's tasks really straightforward as we had to just write an introduction and a conclusion to or already curated themes.  In practice, I found it rather difficult to actually write cohesive sentences that set up the particular theme I had written about, in the end, I managed to create an introduction and conclusion that fit themes the I had chosen. although it did take a while I am happy with the end product, you can find the full document here

  An image of the unity logo  This week unity tutorial wasn't too bad in terms of difficulty, I didn't find any of the steps too difficult. we had to add a UI element to display Rubys health bar and have it scale to dit the bounds of the game. the scripts were much easier and I understood what they did which is a good sign as that was an area I was struggling to understand for the majority of my unity experience. I also spent some catch up from last week unity which wasn't too difficult too, I'm finding 2D games much easier than 3D games in terms of complexity. in last weeks tutorial, we had to add camera bounds and a camera follow a script. In the end the unity I did find in time-consuming but I think that's due to the fact I had to catch up, I am happy that the end to the tutorials is coming to an end next week.

  An illustration of a woman reading ( Source ) This week we were tasked with acting on the feedback we obtained from last weeks peer to peer reviews. I found the feedback I gained was very helpful in helping me structure and rewrite in other to end with a more polished product. Based on the feedback from lectures and fellow peers I was able to highlight key sections such as my improper formatting of quotes and lack of sentence structure. Another area that was outlined was the absence of key information needed to better explain my themes. this is something I will be putting the majority of my focus on moving forward. Reflecting back now after I have completed this week reading task, I found it much easier than when I started these annotated bibliographies. I think the feedback really helped me on how I would restructure and make it more straightforward. The full document can be found here

  An illustration of a woman reading ( source ) In this week's tasks, we had to define our themes, this is following from last weeks tasks were we had to read over the annotated bibliographies and highlight certain themes we discovered. at first I found this task rather confusing as I wasn't sure how I was going to structure the themes from the papers. I found the video on the CDM website about structuring sentences very useful as it helped me understand the correct format to use. After I had my themes organised I began to write sentences using the methods that I learnt which made it much easier to formulate my thoughts and conclusions. here is a screenshot of my work, the link to my document can be found here

  An image of the unity logo ( source ) In this weeks unity tutorial, we had to continue with the Rudy beginner tutorial. I found this very time consuming and difficult due to the issues I am still experiencing with the unity software. in terms of following the tutorial, I find it straightforward and easy to progress. The issue I'm having is not being able to enter play mode in unity. this is something that I have been experiencing from the start and have tried many troubleshooting methods with no luck. this had led to progress without checking with the play mode which had made it very time consuming as I have to double-check each stage before continuing  other then that, I found the tutorials clear and manageable to complete.