Multimedia Development Blog By Samuel Carroll

 Game Stories While reading the first article on 'What Every Game Developer Needs To Know About Story' I found it very interesting on how it talked about common misrepresentation on games saying "Story is Dialog" and "Story doesn't matter". This meaning at how that the dialog is the story in a game and also that story doesn't matter in a game when it really does matter. While reading further on and how it talked of classical stories work so well with it starting with a hero and his or her world being thrown out of order I thought of 'The Last Of Us' and at how it followed the same structure. Game Storyboard While reading the second piece of reading I liked at how it talks of narrative in a game and that while it has developed so much over the years it is also very quite tricky to get it right also, as it has a lot of implications to it such as cultural. I didn't realise at how it has been developing with the games along the way and throug...

 Alpha While working on the alpha of my website I have ran into some problems such as my player falling through the floor but managed to fix this by un clicking the Is Kinematic button the ground's Rigidbody. This helped greatly and I managed to solve the problem then, I ran into some other C# script problems but managed to get around them and get them all working together and fine which worked out greatly for my game and is working well at the minute. My Own Unity Game While trying to see the targets I'm a bit behind work wise and struggling a bit to get to meet the deadlines with the work I'm getting around to it and will need to catch up a bit and work some more but I'm in a good place at the minute and is working well.

 Unity Tutorial 08 While working on Unity Tutorial 08 I found it easy to follow and found was fine with doing it the only problems that I ran into were at the start with the private tags in the spawn manager c# scripts which I managed to fix but Im not sure exactly how I managed to fix it though which is a problem for another day. I found the overall unity fun and easy to use and managed to get it all done and complete and found the game rather fun to play by the end by dodging the random enemies that spawn into the game and dodging them one by one very fun to do and complete. I look forward to the future unity tutorials that I can complete and work on. My Own Unity Image

 Review Week Comments and Feedback I would say that overall the comments that I have received off other students are helpful and good as by looking at them I can improve on my game and learn from the comments of other students and then I can say to myself oh how can I do that better then it already is. They are also very good in the sense that I can push myself and gives me some motivation and that I know I'm doing something right and am on the right path. While a lot of comments are good the ones that really stand out are the ones that critique my work which I like and are telling me at how I could improve in certain manners and could do something better in that way, these are the comments that really help and that I learn from.  I would say that the comments that I'm giving out to other people in my year are good its good to get to know other peoples ideas and learn from them and seeing on how I could improve further. I rather enjoy reading other peoples blogs as well as the...

 First Playable  While working on my first playable it was simple enough a bit challenging just need to add some more scripts and have to fix the player running forward but I'm getting there some challenges have come up and will be a challenge in the weeks ahead and will have to get some graphics for the game but is looking basic enough at the minute and is a bit challenging not having someone telling you that to do but hopefully all goes well.

 Unity Tutorial 07 For Unity Tutorial 07 I started working on and seemed to find it a lot easier then the other weeks flowed a lot easier and while working on it at the start I enjoyed making it and was fun to move the ball and used previous skills from other weeks like creating the scripts such as Player Controller and then a new Script called Focal Point. I also got to add a previous skill form my project last week which was add a material to it. While I found it easy enough one thing I did notice was for the first video section on part 6 in 4.1 I didn't see much difference in the game from adding in the code and my game did work though would not pay at time for when I clicked into game mode and clicked my mouse keys and nothing changed which was strange but eventually changed.  While working on the other parts it was simple enough and had no other real problems and was a bit confused when he started to talk about the Void and Vector 3 but other then that I had no other...

 Week 9 Reading and Writing Looking back on all my overall reading blog posts I can say overall I rather enjoyed learning about new topics and materials like for an example I had no idea what a Game Design Document was before I started this module and what it was used for but now I know what its used for and exactly how its used and what its function is. Other new topics that I learned were that of a Growth Mindset and how it worked and really liked learning of how it works. I also enjoyed using blogger as well as I could put into my own words of what I thought of everything that I've done and at how I can add in my own style of writing and thoughts and can learn from mistakes and take on advice from classmates such as with my Game Project blogs where people would tell me on what I can improve on at how I could have done something better which I appreciate greatly. I also learned of Game Design, Game Elements, Games MDA, Game Decisions and Game Fun. All these have really helped wit...