Trip down the rabbit hole

For this weeks task we were asked to find 5 themes in our annotated bibliographies that we created last week.  I went through them and found a total of 6 themes from my annotated bibliographies.  I found this weeks reading task to actually be very enjoyable. I found going through my annotated bibliographies and finding themes was relaxing and enjoyable. I had noticed themes when gathering my research but once going through them with a more critical eye I found more that I had not noticed before.  I was worried at first that I wouldn't be able to complete this weeks tasks because I knew a few of my sources overlapped slightly in the content they where covering. However I found there was a lot les major cross over than I thought there was which allowed me to find 6 themes throughout my sources. I won't lie I was surprised to find so many with relative ease.  To know how to do all this I watched the video on coding a document and creating themes on the Multimedia Development 2 wee

This week for the unity task we had two tutorials to do which where 9 and 10 in the set of tutorials we have to complete this semester. I found these tutorials this week actually a lot easier than some of the previous ones in the last few weeks, not to say I didn't have difficulty with these I definitely did have some difficulty.  The first tutorials was all about making the characters move by using animations. I found most of this tutorial easy as last semester I had learned this in the 3d game however one thing I couldn't get to work was to get the robots to change animations however Ruby did. Even after multiple attempts and spending way to long on it I chose to move on with the tutorial as I was following the tutorial word for word so I left it.  In the second tutorial I had to create projectiles which honestly I found very easy and had next to no issues. I mean there where a few things where I had slip ups but they where minor instances where I input the code either in the

Link to This weeks annotated bibliography's This week I found creating my annotated bibliographies to be a bit easier than last week as I now had experience and knew what I had had to improve on. I started this weeks task by gathering new sources as I  had found a lot of the ones I had gathered either went off topic or didn't actually connect to my topic at all like how I thought they did. I then spent well over 3 hours reading over my new sources and taking notes for writing my annotations I will admit I found this difficult as I took me a few readings before I could get full answers to the questions I was finding myself asking after my first read through.  Caption: This is an example of a more narrative focused game Until Dawn.  Source:  https://www.chatmapper.com/video-games-perfect-storytelling-medium/

 Hello his week I completed the unity tutorials 7 and 8 in the Ruby's Adventure series. I am really enjoying this set of tutorials as the are a challenge but are so challenging that I end up stressed. I will admit that this week I had some issues with tutorial 7 mainly at step 10 no matter what I did I kept getting error after error so what I did was to take a break and sleep issue. I hoped that taking a step back from the issue would let me figure it out when I got back to it. When I did get back to it I couldn't figure out so I just carried on and by the end of tutorial 7 I had everything working so I believe I was just missing a small bit of code.  Tutorial 8 was a lot easier as it was less reliant on code and focused more on bringing in the enemy to ruby I actually found the code we had to add in very easy to understand and had no issues with it. I think  I found this so much easier because I had run into the issue in the last tutorial so I was more focused on making sure I

This week for my reading task I began making  annotated bibliography for four of my source that I have gathered. I won't lie it took me quite a while to find substantial sources that related to my topic as some of my key words from last week just were not giving great results so I began to get very frustrated but once I got on to a bit of a roll with the results I was getting. I used the TUD Blanchardstown library to find my sources this week I found this a very useful tool when looking for my resources. I did have some difficulty at first but those issues where just minor teething issues.  I began critically reading four of my sources to create four annotated bibliography. I did have difficulty with this as I have dyslexia so I experienced quite a lot of moments of reading fatigue. I decided the approach that would best suit me was to read each one take notes and write down questions to areas I wasn't sure on.  Then take a 15 minute break and come back read them again trying t

I have just completed this weeks Unity tutorials which consisted of Ruby's Adventure tutorials 5 and 6. I will be honest I found these tutorials a little difficult to get into I kept having to take 5 minute breaks to give my brain  a chance to understand what I was reading I am not sure if it was just from the overall amount of writing or if it was just me not being able to concentrate but once I got into the groove I was flying. The first tutorial was mainly about decorating the world and using Prefabs which I have done before so I found easy to follow this once I got past the start portion of it. Something that I came to realize that I find keeps me back with these tutorials compared to the 3D ones is the fact there is a mix between normal images and what I can only describe as gif's. It really causes me some confusion at points. The second tutorial was all about world interactions specifically colliders. I found this tutorial really handy however I did have some difficulty a

This week we had a look at how to search databases with Lindsay from the TU Dublin Blancharstown Campus library. This I feel was a great session for me as this was something I was worried about going into this semester, however now I feel like I will have little difficulty gaining resources for my my topic. For this week we have been asked to firstly create a strategy  for gathering research and to also become organized for next week.  The topic that I have picked to research and write about is Story types in games or as I will refer to it going forward in my blogs Story types. I feel as though this topic has a vast mount of information on it that is easily accessible especially after the session his week.  To start me off in my research and preparing for next week I created a mind map with 20 keywords that I will use to search up credible sources.  Image of my mindmap I created on Canva.  I also went and made 4 folders on my Desktop to organize my research which Shaun suggested we do.

 I have completed this weeks unity tutorials which were Ruby's adventure tutorials 1-4. The first tutorial was setting up the Unity workspace. I found this tutorials very easy as last semester we used went through a similar tutorial for the 3d work the only main differences where  using a one screen setup instead of two as the game is in a 2D environment and therefore doesn't need a view of what the player will see as it is the same view more or less.  The second and third tutorials was all about the main character and the setting up of the script to get the main character to move like the first tutorial I found this quite easy as I had learned this previously with a 3D environment therefore I was just dropping the Z axis from the equation so to speak. I had a minor issue with getting the character to move on the Y axis however after re reading the instructions a second time I realized my error. The finale tutorial is where I had some issues as firstly I had never done anything