MultimediaDev2020

  An illustration for a person reading ( Source ) This week we're tasked with to continue the research on out giving topics, following off from last week I decided to try adding some new papers using google scholar. I spent some time looking for papers using methods that learnt in previous weeks. unfortunately, I didn't add anything new as I already had good variations of thems the the other papers covered.  Next, we had to revisit the paper and online particular themes within the research being conducted, I found the part rather straightforward as I broke down each paper and summarised it last week. this made it much easier to pick out the themes. My annotated bibliography can be found here Here is a screenshot of me highlighting some themes from the papers

  An illustration for a man reading ( source ) At the start of the annotated journey, I wasn't a major fan of writing bibliographies, to begin with, I would blame the lack of knowledge on how to actually write one, this week we were tasked to continue researching and writing up bibliography on our findings. I found the experience much more efficient the second time around, I think have a better understanding of how to correctly write them helped greatly.

  An illustration for a clipboard ( Source ) This week we were tasked to start accumulating our bibliography for choosing topics and make a list of all the usable ones relating to the subject. I started this week by searching for reliable sources pertained to my topic, I used tools like google schooler and the TUD liberty database to help find relevant papers and case studies, I narrowed down the searches by using some of the keywords that I generated last week which greatly help me find more specified and focused results. I used methods that I picked up from this weeks lecture such as reading the summary and conclusion to see if it fit the related subjects that I will be covering in my area of research. After I found a few sources I used tools such as RefWorks to help organise a cite all the different sources. The first paper discussed the effectiveness of implementing emotions in a multi structural system that allows the simulation of different emotional triggering models. the pa...

  An image of the unity logo ( source ) In this weeks unity tutorial, I started to make a 2d game called Rudy adventure, we had to import all the assets and start organising and laying out the different layers of the game. initially, I found the tutorial straight forward at the beginning I did, however, run into a few issue during the work, the main issue was my play mode didn't want to work which caused a few issues.  In conclusion, I enjoyed the process regardless 

  Image Source This week we stoke to the ITB librarian to help us understand all the available resources in place to support us, she talked about refined such tactics such as the "SU Subjects terms", the ITB book database and referencing tools such as RefWorks, a tool the helps catalogue and organise all the reference all in someplace, she also talks about the different bibliography types and how to properly cite quotes from different sources  I also read an interesting blog about " How effective project milestones planning can influence your project’s success". in this blog it talked about different ways to set milestones and gave some example such as " How effective project milestones planning can influence your project’s success" and " What is the impact of this task or event if it meets/doesn’t meet the deadline?" I think these are a useful factor that I hadn't consider and really help me in planning an ineffective strategy for my overal...

             A Screenshot from the detective game (Source) The significance of story narrative in video games Stories were developed from the very beginning to play a specific niche role: encouraging us to follow moral paths, protecting our history and traditions, entertaining and supporting each of us in the grand narrative of human life to appreciate one another and our position. The video game, a new storytelling medium, helps us to take our old and the new stories and reimagine them as playable interactions. This same narrative expression throughout games demonstrates in different ways, from well-designed game stories such The Last of Us (June 14, 2013) and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (May 18, 2015) these games are prime examples of modern storytelling narratives. The main reason these game have successful anecdotes is due to the world-building and concentrates on character development. These aspects contribute to a link between the players and the ...

  Beta Image ( Source ) Being completely honest, working on the game as been the last few weeks has been a difficult and daunting challenge, I find myself spending hours trying to implement new features and game mechanics. it seems like every new feature it breaks something in my game. I've had to rethink my plan of action as a result of this and simplify some mechanics that I have intended to have in order to complete the game in time. okay, now I've got all the negatives out the way this week I worked on my spawn manager that will be tasked with spawning the car obstacles and the barrier obstacles. I got it somewhat working but I still have some bugs like not spawning the cars on the road or not spawn sometimes. another element I worked on was to have the road spawn in also but I had to remove that and make the road a set distance because that broke every other feature in my game. I also added a start screen to the game that will hopefully allow the player to select between ...