Developing Games

For this week, I went down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia, here are the articles I read for this: Video Game Development Overtime Labour Laws Thomas Percival Game development image, taken from Wikipedia . I start with Video Game Development because we've been talking about first playable's and alphas so I decided to look into it. I found that creating a game cost a lot, in 2010 it cost $20 million, I knew games cost a lot but I never thought it was $20 million ! I kept reading until I found overtime. Overtime, also know as Crunch, I've heard all about it in the recent months so I decided to check out what Wikipedia says about it. The article goes over what it is and how they laws to prevent companies from resorting to overtime. The page also talks about the laws in jurisdiction, which talks about the laws in the EU, the USA and other countries. This Led to me to labour laws. I looked into them because I wanted to know about labour laws and how they work. I...

A meme about Growth Mindset, taken from Here . For this extra credit I watched a video, " The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant" , a 15 minuter ted talk video about original thinkers. I found this video very interesting as it explains how original thinkers are usually procrastinators because it gives them time to think and allows for more creativity. I actually have an interesting story of this myself: Back in first year near the end of semester 1, we got 3-4 assignments and all were due in December. I decided to do my digital photography earlier then all the others and left my visual creativity assignment to the last minute. I had my photo essay done before a week before it was due, while I was still drawing and colouring my visual creativity the day it was due ! I thought I would 100% pass digital photography and was hoping that I barely pass visual creativity. I was so surprised that I pass digital photography with a C and got a B+ in Visual ...

My non swinging Axe, taken by me    Capitulate that goes ding ! Taken by me  An enemy, taken by me

This week I decided to do something different and change the template of my blog ! Test out the new template, taken by me I knew blogger had many options for your blog so I decided to play around with some of the templates before finally setting on this one above in the picture! I was also thinking of adding a footer or changing the about me page. Here's other pictures of my blog with different templates ! I thought this would be a lot harder to do but it was easier then I thought. Different Template #1, taken by me Different Template #2, taken by me Different Template #3, taken by me I decided on my finally template by thinking about which template expresses me the best since this is my blog, so I decided on that one because it had my favourite colour. Overall, I'm glad how my blog looks now and I'm happy that I learned how to change it.

Today's blog, I'm going to look at my progress and how I feel about it. So I looked back at my Time Strategies blog, which you can read here . It's weird looking back at that blog because I don't remember writing it at all! Granted I probably should've been looking over it to remind me what my plan was but I didn't. "Overall I'm planning to keep on top of the blogging, there may be a few bumps in the road but I still want to be ahead of that."  This a quote from my Time Strategies blog and it's kind of iconic. Back then I thought no setback would happened but, I was wrong Damn Unity.   Overall I'm happy with my progress and my grade so far. I'm thinking if I should do the extra credit, which I've done none of them and go for the A ? I think I might go for it. The assignments I enjoyed the most were the comments, it was nice seeing everyone's blog and seeing how people were doing.  Looking Forward, I want to try and not ha...

Today I'm gonna review weekly comments and the feedback I received. As a person who values feedback and doesn't take offense to it, I actually liked the feedback idea. I found the feedback I received was in great quality, I felt the feedback was fair and understandable. I also receiving comments as it made feel closer to my year, how they acted and how we would joke. To be honest, after reading people's introduction blog, I started to hate my own introduction blog, everyone has a more interesting life, WE HAVE A WRESTLER!  and me? I'm just a cub leader who like metal and generally focuses on their work rather then their friends. I thought about changing my blog and my introduction but to be honest, I forgot. I found comments the most useful when it was easy to read, I hated when people would leave just walls of text, it's harder for me to read because of my dyslexia, in fact I had to get a RULER to read someone comment! Eventually I stopped reading the Berlin wa...

This week reading is, not an reading but instead a reflection on the readings in general. A look back on the work and how much I've done, let's discuss. Overall, I think I did the best I could for the reading but improved along the way. I felt that my impersonal writing became stronger from doing the readings, though I admit not being to use "Me" or "I" was difficult. I feel the readings did help me, as learned more about game design through the reading, I never realized how much theoretical thought went into games, I knew planning and development did, but I never thought about the theoretical side of games. I feel the reading help with my game, as I'm trying to follow the MDA system and keep the idea of different "fun"s in mind. The readings also help increase my research and reading strategies. I did politics and Society for the leaving cert, but that was 1 (2? I can't remember) year ago, so I haven't been keeping up those skills....