Trip down the rabbit hole

This week for Unity we had to complete 2 tutorials and I won't lie I had quite a lot of  errors but I completed the tutorials to the best of my abilities. The first tutorial was about the Cinemachine and this is where all my issues began or stemmed from so I began this tutorial and when I went to play to test out the what I had followed from the tutorial I realized that I had a error that I couldn't fix because it was in read me files that had come with the Cinemachine package so  after restarting an going through all the same steps and getting the same errors I decided to follow the steps in the tutorials and get the practice of them in.  The second tutorial was much easier but since I couldn't see the results thanks to the errors it did add issues however I feel if I didn't have these issues I wouldn't be learning to keep an eye out for issues like this in the future. I also feel that even though I couldn't figure out the issues they had me actively engaging w...

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 Develo...

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 th...

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 ...

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 tr...

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...