Multimedia Development Game Blog

  Image of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) For this weeks reading task I continued working on my book. This week I decided to talk about the history of Nintendo. I read an academic article called "The History Of Nintendo: The Company, Consoles And Games" by Laurie Takeda. After weeks of reading wikipedia and newspaper articles my lecturer told me I need to start reading academic ones so I decided to do that for this week. This article talked about how Nintendo first began as a playing cards company in 1889 which I never knew before. I also learned that Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi and is now being ran by his son-in-law Minoru Arakawa. The article also talked about the origin of the company as well as the companies games and consoles. I also learned from this article that the first consoles Nintendo invented were the TV Game 6 and TV Game 15. I had never heard of these consoles before. I now feel like the book writing is going to get better after the feedb...

  Image from the tutorial For this weeks tutorial I continued on with Ruby's Adventure once again. At this point I had my world created with objects, a character and enemies but this week I had to add animation to my character. The first thing I had to do was go into prefab mode for my robot prefab and add a new component called animator component. Afterwards I had to create an animator controller and set it up in my robot animator.  I then had to enable my controller in my controller setting. After this I had to actually create the animations. To do this I had to open my animation window and create an animation called RobotLeft.anim.  I then had to change my sprites by bringing them into my animation window. I then had to get my robot moving by creating a new animation clip called Right_Run and adding a flip property to my sprite renderer. I then had to build a controller in my animation window. My animator included both layers and parameters on the left side and an anim...