My Multimedia Journey

Positive thinking The first article I read this week regarding feedback was  this  New York Times article. It was short and sweet yet had a good message and made me look at negative feedback differently. I found it interesting that most of us find it hard to accept negative critique because we are so afraid ourselves to give it to other people. I personally would cringe at the thought of sitting someone down and tell them everything I think they're doing wrong but if I approached the situation with consideration and constructive criticism then it would be much easier for a person to handle.  'you can retrain your brain to actively seek out that feedback so you associate it not with anxiety, but with opportunity.'   - This is something that I am going to work on for the future. When I receive negative feedback I take it quite personally and it gets me down but if I change my mindset to see it as an opportunity to grow and learn then I will become a better worker....

Game developing for me is something I have never considered doing as a job as I am not much of a gamer at all. As I explained previously in my post about my favourite game, which can be found  here , I have only really played GTA V so I found coming up with new game ideas quite difficult to be honest. Game Idea 1- 'Cloud Surfer'  The first game that I came up with was inspired by Doodle Jump, the game application where a cute alien hops from platform to platform collecting extra points and avoiding enemies. I had an idea to have a similar  'cloud surfing'  where you have to jump from cloud to cloud dodging various obstacles in the sky like planes, birds, hot air balloons and so on. Even though it is quite a simple idea it is something that I would be interested in playing. It would be an easy hop-on hop-concept which would function as a (hopefully) infinite platform, where the player tries their best to score the highest amount possible. I would enjoy if there was a ...

  (screenshot of unity interface - by me) I have just completed my first set on Unity tutorials which surprisingly enough, I enjoyed! At the beginning it was quite intimidating opening up the Unity Hub as I have never used it or seen it before but the tutorials were very helpful. In the tutorials they explain how important it is to watch what they are doing first and then do it for yourself after. At the beginning I had to stop myself from going off and doing the work as he was doing it but when I watched the tutorial in full first I found I understood it a lot more.   To start off with I learned the basics like adding a folder to the programme and how to add a car and obstacle but as the tutorials went on I learned how to move camera angles, change the mass of an object and even get the car to move which was very cool.I didn't realise how much work goes into the basic movements but I suppose the more I learn the more things will come naturally to me. The coding side of t...

  What is a game? If you put this question to a hundred people you would, without doubt, get one many different answers. Before conducting some research on the topic I would have said it an activity that involves making choices which results in either winning or losing, but I know realise it is much more complicated than that. The article linked goes into much more depth about what a game is. Even though there are many different answers to the question, there is not one exact right answer which should be used as there are so many various ways to answer it. There are however facts about what games are which include: Games are an activity  Games have rules  Games have goals  Games involve decision making  In order to make your own game or to explain a game to another person it is important that you understand the correct vocabulary to use as it shows a greater understanding of what you are talking about.    Game controller Moving on from a what the defin...