Week 5 - Cacthup and Unity

 

Screen shot from my unity set up after completing lesson 2.4

So after all the unity struggles and issues with not being able to catch up i've now been able to do some catch up with unity. Unity seems like it can actually be rather fun to make and create with however theses deadlines and stress of being behind feel more like frustrations as it feels like i'm wasting more time on mistakes than growing and learning from it, especially since some of the mistakes are spelling errors which are hard to notice with a learning difficulty like dyspraxia. The first unity tutorial I didn't even fully finish but i'm sure I spent over 2 hours on it due to having lost all my progress the first hour then getting past that on the second try. but i decided to skip over that section as the tutorials seem well put together and reference back to the older tutorials if you are stuck or missing a certain section. 

while I thought I had caught up as far as week 5 reading week i had only just caught up on part of week 04s unity tutorials or at least i think i'm honestly not sure anymore i keep going to the site to figure out how far behind i am and i'm not sure if i'm going crazy with the website looping or if the reading week links redirect to week four or five or unity tutorial 4 in week five. 

At Least from covering mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics I finally got an idea for a simple game I could create which would be inspired from a small game in a collection of games called the beginners guide. The game is a simple collection of games from this creator called Koda and is being lead as if on a tour guide of his work one of the games koda created was a simple walking and exploring messages meant to mimic messages left online while all of them were created by Koda and slowly reveal his mental state with the mechanics simple of walking and exploring and reading making you feel more personally connected to the simple story in the game.

Week 5 - Mechanic Dynamics and Aestetics

 my first thoughts about this was that they where not as straight forward as I had just based only what definitions I already knew about mechanics and aesthetics. and while my what I knew about mechanically how systems worked in games I didn't realise aesthetic could also refer to emotional response and how this is a simplified method of chatagoising how the base mechanics or rules of game translate to the dynamic response the player has and the emotional response you have to the game. its why portal is technically an FPS due to it being a first person shooter and while it does have the base mechanics of point and shoot it does not have the aestic or vibes as call of duty or action based shooters. and how to identify the only changes you can make are based in the mechanics to tweak the players aesthetics

The basic concept of the MDA framework by Hunicke et al.2004

    time spent 63min

Week 3 - Game Ideas

Some of my most enjoyed games are silly and funny dating/friending simulators of either the ridiculous or silly variety like Hiveswap friend sim and Monster Prom, or even silly or wacky ones like Panzer Madels or hatoful boyfriend, and combining these elements with something such as rpg elements for random stat generation and stat modifiers that I would be able to create drawings for characters and creating and writing witty dialog seems fun! 

Another idea would be a rythm base platformer where if you mess up the rythm platforming too much instead of a fail state the song would change and become slower and the faster you can keep up the faster the song would become.

an idea for a 2D game would be a match 3 game based on the periodic table of elements like matching 2 hydrogen to 1 oxygen to create water and so on and so forth.

Week 3 - Unity Struggles

 This blog post is to document my week 3 progess with Unity, which hasent been working. I thought I would be able to complete from my home desktop which I encounted an issue that prevented me from starting the tutoriels. An ussue where the unity client would not create a folder to start the project. The issue happend with restarting my computer, running it in adminsistrator and runnging an ealier version of unity that was more stable but even reacing out to my partner who has experiance with unity hade made the suggestion of the diffrent unity client and have not resolved the issue. 

Time Strategies

 My thoughts on my time management strategies is that I could be better at it. While I’m often not late to events and appointments on time I often stress myself out since I’m not the best at reading clocks which causes me more stress than I need too as the simple mental arithmetic of reading and analog clock causes me to struggle looking at the clock for a while and often people will then respond with "oh that’s great you will like 24hr clock-" No. no the answer is no I have not been able to memorise the pattern of which number means what if it goes past 16:00 and again the simple mental arithmetic of -12 leaves me stumped to the point I need to take out a calculator. What helps is being able to plan other things in my life like a fridge white board to trach whose turn it is for dinner and checklists for what work I need to have done each week which can still be hard to meet if fatigue kicks in or if I just needed a more relaxed week this week.

About me!

 

Last semester I had quite a few modules although I think I just enjoy design process and practice and image processing but that might be just my affinity to the Adobe Suite. My biggest accomplishments last semester was realising when I was overwhelmed and deferred one of my modules which was a big relief to the workload I had to over come that semester.My goals for this module is to create a piece I feel genuinely passionate for which will cause working on it to feel like play and not work. 

Over the break I took part in a game jam which is uploaded to icth.io (https://itch.io/jam/alternate-genre-jam/rate/1104499) I mainly handled the texturing and the graphics for the UI but it still was fun seeing the game come to life! 

One of my favoite movies is Inside out, its one of the few films for me that always gets me crying no matter how many times I rewatch but that might be because it’s a Pixar film.

My favourite music often shifts and changes thanks to the youtube algorithm and sometimes I don’t even realised where the music comes from one of these examples is Cecily Smith by Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick. Its just so happy and tells a story to keep me hopeful! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HVkq9bnq4U8" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> 

My current goals is to complete my 4 year course and figure out from here to their which career path I want to pursue my only other goal beyond that is to live contently.

I have a cat called Ahsoka she’s named after a character from star wars, she was a stray we took in when one night she jumped through the window and started to eat my brother’s dinner. She’s a short haired British tuxedo cat and the vets love her and her little moustache

My hobbies include D&D, gaming and drawing. and usually one of those three im doing on my days off heres a few drawings I did recently!

Link to my twitter

https://twitter.com/E1m34r/status/1444596948015755267 

The power of not yet - Growth Mindset

 

I listened to Carol Dwek's Ted talk on growth mindset and while I haven't heard about her or this technique before I'm glad to have discovered her. after watching this growth mindset I now realised it was something I had put under practice the past two years after failing to get accepted to any collages through the CAO.

Granted I believed this was mearly spite, that I was spiteful at the world and the hand life had given me and all the horrible stuff we hear through information overload in this hyperconnected world.So I decided to kick, scream and fight to make things better even if it leave me with bloody stumps for nails from clinging to this hope for so long. 

so I'm glad there comes to be a more lighter and positive version of this mindset as for the past while I have been filing myself on spite alone. But it was nice to realise I'm able to weaponise stubborness and spite to become a mostly functional adult dispite a lot of set backs and disability I face.