Mary's Blog

 For this weeks Unity Tutorials we were assigned the tutorials: Lesson 4.4 For-Loops For Waves (50 mins) Challenge 4 & Quiz Soccer Scripting (60 mins) In the first tutorial 'For-Loops For Waves' , we wrap up our lesson 4 game by putting the final pieces together. In this tutorial we had to enhance the enemy spawner so that multiple enemies would spawn randomly on the map, and we also learnt how to enhance the power up so that the player would have a better chance at fighting against the enemies. We also learned about new concepts such as for-loops, we learned about the increment operator , we also learned how to create our own custom methods with parameters so we could keep track of the number of enemies to spawn and finally we learned how to use FindObjectsOfType. Overall I've found these tutorials super helpful in creating my own game. The timer function and camera control will be super beneficial when creating my game and also the spawning of enemies etc. Lesson 4.4 ...

Feedback 1. Feedback in: So far I find that I have gotten a lot of really useful and great feedback from my classmates, which I am super appreciative of! Its really assuring and nice to see so many of my fellow classmates enjoy my idea and have taken the time to read my blogs to understand what I am trying to create with my game idea. Some people have even given me resources with similar game concepts that I can gain inspiration from which I would've never previously known about so that has been really helpful! Following up on that point it's great that there is so many people in our course that enjoy gaming because they can really help in giving the people who don't game as much resources, tutorials, ideas etc. and its really nice that we can all work together in helping each other out! I have really enjoyed this aspect of the module as it feels like a little community we have all built over the blogging space and I am getting to interact with classmates who I have never s...

  1. Looking back: Personally I have found the readings for this module fairly achievable each week, one thing I've struggled with is the writing as I find academic writing quite difficult but I also find reading and writing up on the readings each week has helped me with this. So far I think that my favourite reading has been the readings on the game design documents, for this reading we were assigned with    Communication and Game Design Documents ,    How to Write a Game Design Document  and   BenderWaffles  video example of a GDD. I found this weeks readings to be the most beneficial and interesting for me personally as I was unaware that so much planning and research/development goes into creating games. A GDD is essentially a document with a variety of headings that help with memory aid in creating games and useful for group work and working in a team so that everyone can get their ideas across and communicate them  efficientl...