Unity Tutorial 04

 In this weeks unity tutorial I learned how to move the robots around from side to side. This was a cool thing to learn as I would have never thought of doing them that way, I probably would have found a much more difficult way to do it and made it harder for myself! Also found this weeks code ok, which is good.

I also learned how to duplicate sprites which was also cool because I had never done something like this before.

Every week I find myself improving a tiny bit more and disliking it a bit less as I am improving and learning each week. Although I know unity is not for me, I am glad that I have the opportunity and I am enjoying the experience and learning new skills!

Reading 04 Analysis

 For this week I have been continuing on with my annotated bibliography's. So far I have only completed 6 as I am researching a good bit before I start them as I want them to be interesting and worth reading. Although they are tricky and time consuming I am finding them genuinely interesting and its fun to learn about some health benefits and mental benefits mobile gaming devices can have on various people.

I am so glad I chose the topic of Mobile Devices as I am finding the information really interesting.

Unity Tutorial 03

So far like last semester I have been finding unity tough, I just cant quite get the hang of it. Although some tutorials are easier than the others and I do feel I am improving a bit its just not really my thing. I will keep going and trying and see how it goes.

Anyway, this week I learned how to allow ruby go through the metal cube sprite without colliding with those metal cubes, which was cool and I didn't find overly hard. I also learned how to set the pivot of the sprite so we can rotate it.

Overall I am continuing to work on my unity skills and I am hoping that I improve as the semester goes on!

Reaction to readings

When we were first told about this, to be honest I was confused and slightly overwhelmed on what was being asked of us, and to be honest I wasn't even sure of what an annotated bibliography was. 

In saying this, after joining the lecture and listening on what we have to do and watching the video on it, I have a good bit more of an understanding on what is being asked of me and I know I can always go back to the multimedia website to look for guidance!

Unity tutorial 02

 In this weeks unity tutorial we learned how to add decorations to our game, which was cool. It was nice to be able to add decoration and personalize it however I wanted. Also I quite enjoyed this weeks tutorial as there wasn't too much coding to be done.

We also learned how to create blocking movements for the player by using box colliders and we learned how to interact with the world. Although this wasn't too hard as we done a bit of that in the last semester. It is fun to try these things that we are familiar with on a 2d game as opposed to last years 3d game.

We also added a rigid body to components to make the physics system handle objects and look much more in detail.

For me I found this one of the more easier tutorials as there wasn't a huge amount of coding and we had done some of the things in the last semester so I was familiar with them!

I look forward to what the rest of the semester brings and see how I improve with the tutorials!

Unity Tutorial 01

 For this weeks unity tutorial we had to make a 2D game. 

The first task we were challenged with was setting up unity editor. Doing this was easy enough to follow along and I did not have too much difficulty with it. 

I found the next set of tutorials quite easy also as I knew a good bit from semester 1 which helped a lot!  I learned all  about scripts and how to add the character to the scene. 

The whole thing was not completely easy, I did struggle a bit throughout but I eventually got the hang of it.

The next tutorial was about character and controller inputs. This tutorial  just made us play around a bit more with unity and changing some details in our script to make it possible to move around our character.

Finally, the last tutorial for this week  thought us how to design the enviroment around Ruby and to play around with it a bit. This was a nice, easier tutorial to start off semester 2 with, and although I struggled a lot with it last semester I really hope to do better this semester.

Planning

  Hey! Welcome back to my blog, my first one of a new semester! I had a lovely few weeks break but I am ready to get back to some work! 

In this weeks lecture we had a library staff member named Lindsay to discuss with us how to use the library website and told us that we can rent some books that we need from the library and some may be available to view online.

Lindsay also spoke to us about referencing and showed us a very helpful website called Refworks. This website was very helpful and she also showed us that you can use it for creating a folder with different readings for various things so I might look into doing that for this module!

This week we had to pick a topic that we are going to write about. I picked "Chapter Devices" with the sub heading of "Mobile Phones". To be honest I would have loved to pick WII or the nintendo as I would have liked to write about them, but I am also happy with my choice of mobile phones as it is a very popular device and it would interest me to write about them! Also there is a lot of apps that come with mobile phones (obviously) that I would enjoy writing about and even getting to know more about them.