Multimedia Development Game Blog

Image of mind map I created on Miro with keywords Reflection:  For this week we had to start brainstorming our idea for our book that we will be working on throughout the semester. Each of us will be adding a specific topic for each chapter of the book and then we will be putting it all together at the end of the semester. When told about this project I started to brainstorm a few ideas. Firstly I thought of the idea to talk about game stories and explore the narrative side of games an idea that lots of other people had. I then thought of the idea to go with game definitions based on one of our readings "What Is A Game?" that we did in semester 1 however I began to realise that there might not be a lot I can write about in the space of 12 weeks. I then thought of doing consoles. I realised this would be a good topic because there is a lot I could talk about for the next 12 weeks such as the different types of consoles, different generations, how they evolved, each consoles hi...

  (Image of Ruby from the tutorial) For this weeks tutorial I had to make a 2D game instead of a 3D game like in semester 1. I had to do this following tutorials for a game called Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner Project. I previously have had experience making a 2D game in my plc on a website called Flowlab however as I had graduated my plc 2 years ago it felt like it was all new to me especially since I didn't use Unity the first time round. For this tutorial I had to update my Unity Software to a different version then what I currently had for semester 1 so that I could create a 2D game. After this I started adding in my main character (Ruby) and then I had to make her move. To do this I had to create my first script just like in semester 1. To add my main character I had to download an image of her from the tutorial materials folder (see image above). I then had to add her to my sprites folder. I then had to make my Ruby sprite into a GameObject. I had to put this sprite into ...