Mary's Blog

For this tech task I learnt how to embed a map onto one of my blog posts, and I choose one of my favourite cities that I have travelled to, Florence!

 I decided to try one of the coding tasks as an extra credit task as I find code quite difficult to understand and wrap my head around. I started with the first tutorial:  Scripts as behaviour components. This tutorial was very quick and easy to follow. We learnt about changing the colour of an object through code by pressing a key on your keyboard. I'm glad that  I  decided to follow this tutorial as I feel that I have learnt something new that  I  can implement in my future games! link: 

 For the book, I would be interested in the chapter "Harmful effects of gaming" and I would like to discuss the over sexualisation of women in games. I feel this would be an interesting sub-topic as this can have multiple harmful effects on people especially women.  Some useful articles that I have found on the topic: The One-Sided Problem of Oversexualization in Video Games:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/11/28/the-one-sided-problem-of-oversexualization-in-video-games/?sh=b3fa68355ff0 Let’s talk about sexualisation in video games: https://www.mcvuk.com/development-news/lets-talk-about-sexualisation-in-video-games/ Video Games Still Overly Sexualise Female Characters, Study Finds:  https://www.thewrap.com/video-games-still-overly-sexualize-female-characters-study-finds/ There are plenty of resources online that I feel would be really useful for this sub topic and I'm excited to research more into it! I found the library tour that Lindsey gave...

For this semester we were given the option of doing 2D tutorials, introduction to XR or an E-Learning project. I opted for the 2D tutorials as I felt it suited me the most. For the first week of semester two we were tasked with the tutorial: Ruby's Adventure: 2D beginner. Getting back into the swing of Unity after the break was definitely challenging but before I knew it, it was all starting to come back to me! In this tutorial we brushed up on the basics which was a nice refresher. We then had to add a character to the game and make it a Sprite which was new to me. We then done some coding and made the character move left to right and up and down using the arrow keys. For the last bit of the tutorial we were introduced to tile maps. Unfortunately my Unity software didn't have the option of creating 2D objects so I really struggled with this part.  Overall I found the tutorials to be very useful in brushing up in Unity after the break and learning new skills with 2D games. I am...