The Weekly Developments

This week, the main aspects of my game are mostly done. It's not at all refined or even filled in with the correct questions but it does work. A lot of this is with thanks to the Brackley tutorials on YouTube. They're completely made for beginners and everything is explained a lot better than the Unity tutorials, I found. So the game works! Next week I'll be: refining it looking into more details I could add possibly adding mood music trying to change the timer from seconds to minutes trying to add more randomized elements On that last point, I currently have it so that the same is being made and it's a basic true or false system. This is fine and it works well in my opinion, but  if I can add more answer choices or randomize the drink then that would be great. Not a top priority as I want the game to run smoothly before I decide to overcomplicate.  (screenshot of my screen in unity once I finished putting the quiz elements in) In terms of plans and scheduling, I'm ...

 This week, I attempted to add my twitter into my sidebar but it just wouldn't work. I think I need to mess around more to find the right theme but the three I tried just did not co-operate.  Instead, I went on to Fotor to create a collage about gaming. I liked looking through the different templates, it really helped with inspiration. I think when we're used to using Photoshop and Illustrator, it's hard to stare at a blank canvas every time because it can be quite daunting. I definitely thing I'll explore more things with templates for inspiration and ideas.

  (kid playing with a soccer ball, freedesignfile.com ) I 100% had war flashbacks for this last lesson. It didn't help me much having a bit of experience with for loops though. They're still just as confusing now as they were two years ago, but that's okay!  It did come back to me and I wouldn't say I struggled in terms of following along but I wouldn't say I'd be confident in doing it myself with no direction or pre-written code in front of me just to edit. The latter part of the last lesson was a bit easier as it was back to stuff we'd kind of done so I felt less out of my depth there. No pun intended, but the for loops kind of through me through a loop. The challenge was manageable but I did find myself, as usual, going back and having to look through the previous lesson. I used to try and do it without looking through the explanations below the video but I found it too frustrating and I'd rather give it a proper go then just look at everything and ge...

I went through my own blog and found that I have very few comments. I thought maybe it was because I'm not someone that's friends with everyone but I often leave comments on blogs from people I've never met and there is a randomizer on the page for everyone to use. The likelihood of my name never popping up is very low. I'm not sure if it's my theme or the randomizer or what but I think I have less than 10 comments. I don't take offence, it doesn't really matter to me but the feedback could have been nice. Maybe there needs to be groups implemented? Maybe group 4 comments on group 5 for the weeks before the first review, then it changes until this review and then changes again. If there's a smaller pool of people to select from I think that might encourage comments but yeah, I don't have very many comments at all.  (speech bubbles on an orange background, motherjones.com ) I feel like I've left good feedback. I used the TAG approaches in my own w...

  (dog is squished between two pillows and has fallen asleep,  helpguide.org ) Starting off, I think that this image above is probably the most accurate example of how I feel at the moment. I'm struggling to find motivation and I'm finding that everything is starting to pile up. Because it's a lot , I can't keep up and I just want to lay in bed instead. That's not exactly how it works, I've still got to do this, but it just makes it harder to want to do. Also with the lockdown, I'm going back to work soon and I just wish I could have the extra two weeks to not do hours of Christmas retail because it makes everything harder to juggle. But also, I need money. I think lecturers really struggle to understand that because when most of them were students it was far easier to be a student than it is now; there's fact and figures to back that up, I promise. Reflecting On What I've Done So far, I've really struggled with following the Unity tutorials. Ini...