Ciara Meegan's Blog

 Reading 04 https://www.lavonnesisk.me/analysis-without-the-pain/  I won't lie I was not looking forward to going through all my research matrix again and start taking notes on what to use and what was relevant, but after watching the video it is actually such an easy process wherein the video the man was explaining the three pass method where I would read the abstract first then I would start to skim over the rest of the article to see if it is relevant to my topic.  I learned that it's good to take notes or go back on the highlighted areas later on so I can keep track of what notes are useful to use.  Also always look at when it was made and look back on the references and footnotes.

 Game Research (https://www.eamalgame.com/excel-at-game-development/) The picture is what the process of game design would start out like in the creative form The idea I have chosen to use would be the jetpack joyride type style of game as I have been very into 2D games lately and think my game will come out clean and precise. I've been playing jetpack joyride again and see it has one goal to not die, as this is like every game I intend to make a distance meter to reach and to have Tetris type blocks to jump on. Sticking with the idea of making it dogs vs cats I have made some sketches at the home of what would the main character look like. Watching youtube videos on how the game came from a concept design to the final version is quite remarkable and gives me that push that I can get to do this as well.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iotBgfRX88) The link is the youtube video from where you can see the start to end product of the jetpack joyride, the way they wanted to keep...

 Unity Tutorial 02 (screenshot from my computer doing the turn control) From doing the tutorial this week I learn how annoying and hard it can be to get the controls to work. It took me a while to fix it but after a while, I got the hang of things. I learned that it's important to go over and make sure my code is correct and to take my time. I think since I had a lot done I wasn't as stressed as last week. The tutorials do help a lot as once you show me I do get it. I did have trouble also saving my file as it kept saying corrupted and my laptop is always organized so I hoped it was just a system error, but that didn't stop me from nearly having a heart attack thinking the whole project was gone. Thankfully I had it previously saved on my hard drive so I just started from the last step again which I didn't mind at least it wasn't the beginning.