Rachael Leddy Multimedia Development

  Personal Screenshot from my Unity Hub This week I kept on following along the first Unity tutorial and adding in some more code to make everything tie together more.  Initially I wanted to have powerups and a lot more things added into my game but as the weeks went on those targets didn't seem too realistic for me so I tied it back to something a lot more simple but also something that can be fun and enjoyable. All I need to do next is add in some final touches with the code and then my game should be ready to play!

  Personal screenshot from my Unity Hub For this weeks Unity Tutorial I added in some final touches on the game we created last week and finished it off. In this tutorial I learned how to spawn enemies in and add in extra powerups after the first one had been used. I think that the powerup element in the last two weeks of Unity will be very helpful when creating and coding my own game because I plan to use some powerups within my own game, like extra fuel that might help the car get to the finish line. The last couple of weeks of Unity have probably been the most beneficial to me in terms of my game because with the farmer tutorial, I will be able to use the continuous moving background and also the continuous spawning objects within my game, and also in the last two weeks with the powerups. I chose not to do the challenge this week and instead hose to go back over some other Unity tutorials that might be a bit more helpful to me in terms of my own game as it is a re...

Source Over the past couple of weeks, I have been leaving comments on my classmates blogs and receiving them back, giving feedback on each others ideas and trying to give a different perspective to help out.  I think that this was such a great idea because it helped with coming up with better ideas for my project, boosting confidence when you would get positive feedback and also just generally helping me get to know my classmates that I usually wouldn't interact with a bit better. I think that the comments I received really helped me out this semester if I felt like I was struggling a bit with game ideas or if I just needed general feedback on what I was doing. The comments I found most useful were the ones that gave me different perspectives from people on my ideas I had for my game. At the start, when brainstorming for out game, we had to come up with a couple of ideas and then write a blog post with these ideas and have our classmates comment on that post on which one they had t...

  Source After nine weeks of doing reading assignments and writing blog posts on articles I had been reading or videos I had been watching, I think they were very useful to me and I've learned a lot. Each week the readings would cover a different topic within game design, something I had never looked into before, and would give me a greater insight into the world of gaming and the world of creating games. If I had to pick a favourite reading, I would say either the Games MDA readings or the GDD readings as both were probably the most effective when learning about creating games and were probably most helpful when it came to start creating my own game. Before reading these pieces, I would've never known what either were, I think the Games MDA reading helped me get a better understanding of the framework when it came to creating games and it also helped me know what aspects were most important and least important when it came to creating a game. The GDD readings were probably of...