Feedback Thoughts

Feedback on projects is very important as it can help you see your work from someone else's perspective. However sometimes feedback doesn't get through as the opinion of one person may not line up with the creator. Some feedback can be rather critical which can come a lot form yourself.

Silence The Critical Voices In Your Head 

This article opens by calling it's subject matter "debilitating behavior that most of us fall victim to with great regularity" . The behavior in which the article is referring to is listening to the critical voices in our heads. The voices that say " we aren't good enough, kind enough, or productive enough", the article furthers it's point by stating that these negative thoughts can increase a persons chances of developing depression. The article continues to give a case study of an individual that fell victim to these thoughts. The article finishes off by listing off thing to help keep these critical voices quiet.

Seven Ways To Crush Self Doubt 

This article while longer than the previous one lists of different ways to help stop self doubt with the odd doodle put between some paragraphs.

Example of one of the doodles

Game ideas

1. First Person Shooter (FPS)

I'm thinking of trying to make a FPS because I play a lot of them. I've played a number of FPS games from Halo to Borderlands and find them enjoyable to play through.

2. Third Person Shooter 

While I haven't played as many Third Person Shooters as First Person I have played enough to know how fun they can be, although my experience of Third Person Shooters most comes from the tactical shooter Ghost Recon. 

3. Third Person Hack 'n' Slash 

I found out how much I enjoyed the Hack 'n' Slash genre when I was introduced to the Assassin's Creed games, from ther I ended up playing Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and most recently Monster Hunter World. 

4. First person Hack 'n' Slash 

For a long time i had only played Hack 'n' Slash games in Third person up until I started playing Dying Light a first person Hack 'n' Slash game that felt like a mix of different games that I had played. 

Unity Tutorial 1

Starting to make my game

Starting to make my game I began following tutorials give by my lecturer to help us get to know how to use Unity. The tutorials were incredibly helpful as upon first glance Unity appears very overwhelming and it is hard to know where to start so the tutorials are great to help keep you going and are very clear and easy to follow. The first tutorial was to explain the different tools and features of Unity which would have gone over my head with the lay out confusing me with the different windows and the uses for each. The second tutorial explained how to put in terrain and other objects as well as how to put textures on both. The last one for this week was on basic coding for your game which is a very important part of creating games.

Game Design

Game Design 

While browsing the internet you may come across different articles that may catch your interest be it for better or worse while some may get your attention because of a stupid or offensives title others may get your attention through having topics that interest you or spark your curiosity. This is how I came across some of the following articles:

1. What Is a Game?

2. Don't Be a Vidiot

3. So You're Going To Make A Video Game For The Very First Time?

So number one on the list "What Is a Game?". This title caught my attention with the question purposed by the title. The question seemed simple enough but when I went into the site it went into more detail on games and the different definitions of games from different points in history and different parts of the world.

Screenshot of the Game Journal what is a game

Number two "Don't Be a Vidiot". This one got my attention simply with the word "vidiot" the main reason I clicked into this site was to figure out just what a "vidiot" was. After reading through the extremely text heavy site I found my answer, a vidiot is a person whose knowledge of games comes solely from video games. While reading through the article I discovered that I am not one of this vidiots having played a number of board games such as the infamous never ending monopoly and chess.

Screenshot of costik.com vidiot

Last but not least number three "So You're Going To Make A Video Game For The Very First Time?". This one got me in though the title using the statement to pose a question. This site is definitely the shortest of the three which was a relief for me as the other two while incredibly informative were also extremely overwhelming with just how much there was to read in the others. This article give step by step advice on creating your first video game which may prove invaluable when you start.

Screenshot of  gamasutra.com So You're Going To Make A Video Game For The Very First Time?