Multimedia Development Blog By Samuel Carroll

 Feedback Thoughts While reading the article 'A fixed mindset could be holding you back here's how to change it' in here I learned about how praising someone constantly can actually put them into a fixed mindset and they won't be able to achieve their full potential. In the article it even says "It turns out that's kind of backfired on us" meaning you think that'll work but really it doesn't. While talking about how people with a fixed mindset who take criticism usually blame it on a setback and look for excuses while then a growth mindset would say to themselves ok how can I improve and achieve what needs to be done. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-26/fixed-vs-growth-mindset-at-work-and-in-life/9897782                'A fixed mindset could be holding you back here's how to change it' by Anna Kelsey Slug and Ann Arnold 26/6/2018 The second article that I chose it talks at how the critical voices in your head and at how this can effe...

 Original Game Ideas  While I was thinking of original game ideas for my multimedia development project I thought of what might interest people and how they could have fun enjoying the game. For my first game idea I was thinking of simple ideas and came up with action based adventure game and having a sprinting race or car race. In the game you'd face challenges such as dodging obstacles, jumping over obstacles and trying to reach the finish line first. I remembered at old games like 'Temple Run' and 'Jetpack Joyride' and reminded me of how much fun they were to play. I am interested in this idea as I would like to see at what I could create and see how its made.  For my second idea that I had I thought of doing an arcade design based maze system. In this game there'd be locked doors and to unlock these doors you must answer general knowledge based questions to get passed these doors. You'd have to get the question right or else wouldn't be able to get t...

 Unity Tutorial 1 With my first week at using Unity I found it quite hard at the start of 'Lesson 1.1 Start your 3D engines' as it was confusing using unity for the first time and something that I wasn't used to. The most difficult part that I probably had was using Unity without a mouse with my Mac as trying to zoom in and out of the game that I was creating was frustrating and irritating but eventually got the hang of. I know now that I need to invest in a mouse while using unity in the future. I also really struggled with the camera and the moving of the obstacles while creating the game and positioning them in certain places. When I had completed Lesson 1 and had move on to Lesson 2 and 3 it was much more easier to follow and understand and I could do my work while listening to the video at the same time and I believe that my experience with web dev from last semester helped a lot and made it easy to follow. I believe that the other two lessons were quicker than the fir...

 Game Design While reading the first article I found out at how hard it can be to actually give a definition to a game and that if you tried make a definition of yourself that it can be as the article says"Imperfect". Although it is hard we do know what is in a game such as it says in the first article "rules, story, action" while this is true it can also contain horror, drama and many other topics. While reading further on the the Reading One article I found at how you compare games to other games in the industry like for example you could compare Call Of Duty to Battlefield and so on. From reading the article I found it interesting on how simple it is actually to make a game which I created myself on a piece of paper that took less then fifteen minutes. You really think it's hard to make a game until it can be done rather simply even if it is a basic game. What I also found very interesting was the Games Defined section of the reading where it says" Games...