Mary's Blog

Feedback Source:  https://pixabay.com/photos/return-feedback-news-board-chalk-1825515/  The two articles I decided to read to learn more about why feedback is important were ' A Fixed mindset could be holding you Back' and 'How to get past negativity bias'  Firstly I read 'A Fixed mindset could be holding you back' , this article discusses how praising children for doing something right can actually backfire on us. That this doesn't create resilience in the long run and instead we need to celebrate both failures and successes. This is what we call a fixed mindset. "When the world starts to be a bit more honest with you about what your strengths and weaknesses actually are, and you start hearing negative things about yourself, if you've developed a fixed mindset you become very brittle,".  On the other hand a growth mindset is somebody that believes that intelligence and abilities can be developed through practice and feedback. This creates a ...

  Ideas Source:  https://pixabay.com/vectors/question-questions-man-head-2519654/ General Overview From somebody who has never really been into gaming I definitely found brainstorming ideas for possible games quite difficult, especially considering I have no idea what I will be capable of by the end of term. None the less I got out my notebook and began brainstorming. I juggled around with a few ideas but the four ideas I've come up with are: A Racing Game with Cars: Something that stands out to me from my childhood is watching my cousins play racing games on their consoles. Although they would never give me a shot (because I was a girl, I know how times have changed...) I always wanted to try it out. So one of the ideas I've come up with is to have a few cars racing in a lap to a finish line. Ideally it would be two to four cars with a countdown and then once the countdown is done they would all go and race. The lap would include different scenery along the way. It would cons...

Screenshot of Unity application Source: own image This week we began to use Unity and C#. We were tasked with 3 tutorials from Unit 1- Lesson 1.1 Start your 3D Engines, Lesson 1.2 Pedal to the Metal and Lesson 1.3 High-Speed Chase. From first impressions and installing Unity I was already confused and lost. But after taking a minute to properly read through instructions and try different solutions I finally got the application up and running. Getting through the different tutorials proved to be time consuming and challenging as it was all new things that I was learning, but eventually I began to get the hang of things and by the last tutorial I was flying through the videos! I found the tutorial videos easy to understand and follow which definitely helped in me understanding the application better. I also found that it had a similar layout to the adobe platforms which really helped in me understanding this new application. I found moving the trackpad around in viewing the gameplay quit...

  Gaming Consoles Source From my readings and analysis of this weeks readings on game design I feel I have learnt a lot about this topic, firstly there is no 'one way' to define what a game is. But generally games have activities, rules, conflict, goals, involve decision making, and they are a form of art.  To create a game seems like an extremely challenging thing to do, but from my readings Im starting to believe that it might just be something achievable for anyone with the right motivation and love for game and design. To create a game is an organic process that involves a lot of idea generation. Game designers draw inspiration from just about anything! some examples include watching TV, movies, playing other games and even taking walks in nature when they get writers block. There is a lot of brain storming involved and designers often have group work sessions to get the ideas flowing, or, after generating an idea go to a colleague for feedback.  I learnt that generat...