For this week's extra credit task I went back and did a task I had done at the start of the year as I think iv completed most of the extra credit tasks already. I followed more people on Twitter this time I chose people outside my course that I find interesting. I followed Lewis Hamilton and Daniel Riccardo as I am watching drive to survive on Netflix at the moment and it has quickly become my new favourite show.
For this weeks unity tutorial I complete the tutorials "World Interactions - Dialog Raycast" and "Visual Styling - User Interface - Head-Up Display". After completing these tutorials I now have only two tutorials left before I have complete Ruby's Adventure and will have a fully functional and playable 2D game. When starting the tutorials this week I realised I had made a mistake last week so I had to go back and fix the smoke particles I created last week. I then moved on to creating a health bar for ruby so when sh gets damages you can see the blue bar move down. I found this quite complicated creating different images, mask and canvases I'm still not 100% sure what I did but I followed the steps and was able to complete the tutorial in just under an hour. Next, we created a new character named Jambi, I think I'm going to have to redo this tutorial at some point during the week when I get the chance because I got a bit confused during it. I am excited to finish up the Unity tutorials and complete the game.
For my image this week I chose another screenshot of my desktop while I am mid tutorial, this is a boring option but it does prove that I am actually doing the tutorials.
For this week's extra credit task I decided to create my own Einstein image using the Einstein Generator. This is what I created:
I chose a dad joke to write on the board.
For this week, week six of the semester I completed another unity tutorial, I complete both tutorials eleven and twelve. I now have just four unity tutorials left until I have completed "RubyRuby's Adventure: 2D Beginner" Unity tutorial for beginners. The first tutorial I completed was called "Camera-Cinemachine". In that first tutorial, we installed and added a unity package called "cinemachine". This package is to automatically control the camera without the need for code and C scripts. The camera is now able to follow my main character ruby automatically. We also set bounds for the camera so it doesn't go out of the screen as well as setting bounds for ruby. This first tutorial was quick with only seven steps. Next, I completed the tutorial names "Visual Styling" this part of the tutorial was a bit longer but I still enjoyed it. I also found this tutorial a good bit harder than the first one I did today. I was very happy with myself when I completed them as I'm finding the unity tutorials a lot more doable than last semester.
Twitter Task Retweets and hashtags!
The tweet I decided to retweet was from one of my course mates and friend sean. He is looking for people to participate in his documentary, by retweeting it hopefully he will be able to find more participants.
The hashtags I explored were #GameJam and our class hashtag #dmed2023
link to retweet: https://twitter.com/SeanCla31310754/status/1366407196129558531
For this week unity tutorial, we complete tutorial nine and ten. I have just six unity tutorials left until I have completed "RubyRuby's Adventure: 2D Beginner". In the first tutorial, I completed "Sprite Animation" we added animation to both our robot and ruby characters. This tutorial was a bit for advanced and its the only time I would have preferred the video explanation rather than the written but it did help me learn the language of unity when trying to find things myself and diagnose a sentence into steps. I was pleased when I had this tutorial done and everything is working smoothly. In the second tutorial "World Interactions - Projectile" we make our character ruby throw a cog and fix the robots. This tutorial was more based on the #C scripts which I like, they also provide what your script should look like and the end of the tutorial so you can check if you've made any mistakes which iv found very helpful.
For my image this week I chose another screenshot of my desktop while I am mid tutorial, this is a boring option but it does prove that I am actually doing the tutorials.
This week for the extra credit task I have to do the "Tech Tip: Following at Twitter", I have followed a few more people in my course as well as the TUDublin library services and The TUdublin student union I am now following over fifty people on Twitter and have over fifty followers.
Starting this weeks unity tutorial I was fairly confident. I flew through last weeks and I knew I would be able to do the same this week. Though I normally enjoy sitting down to do the tutorials this week it was a case of getting it done and out of the way. Even still I feel like I learned a thing or two. In the first tutorial "Decorating the world" we got a chance to decorate the world we’ve created,customize the way that Unity renders our Sprites and reuse GameObjects using Prefabs. During the second part of the tutorial "World Interactions - Blocking Movement," we modified our character controller script so that Ruby can collide with the world and doesn’t go through objects. To do this we used the "Physics System". I think next week when I have a bit more spare time I am going to try to spend a day and get through a few unity tutorials. I managed to get this week one done in an hour and a half including the blog so I'm aiming to get tow done next week to give me the opportunity to spend more time on the writing tasks as we are now three weeks into semester two and I can already feel the workload of other modules starting to build up.
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For this week's extra credit task, I made a list on Twitter. I decided to make a list of interesting Irish people who I think everyone should be following on Twitter.
For this weeks unity tutorial, I chose the 2D game option where I completed a series of unity tutorials to create a 2D game named "Ruby's Adventure". This semester's tutorials are typed out detailed step by step instructions which I much prefer over last semesters tutorials which were a series of video a few minutes long. With the instructions typed you can go at your own pace and it doesn't go ahead without you. Once I had unity updated and everything set up I flew through the tutorial. I found this a lot quicker as well instead of watching the whole video the attempting the instructions I was able to complete each bullet point before moving on to the next. It also allowed me to listen to music while I worked wich made the time fly fast. I enjoyed this unity task as I am comfortable with the unity software so the task was enjoyable. For my image, I just chose to screenshot about halfway through the tutorial and a picture of Ruby from the game. I am looking forward to creating a 2D game this semester and having the creative freedom to design the world which I think is next weeks task.
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This we had a "tour" with the librarian, she joined our lecture and talked us through the libraries website at TUDublin, she also showed us how to use Refworks to save us time when referencing our assignments. We had to choose what topic we wanted to write about when contributing to the academic textbook on gaming we are putting together as a class. I chose to write about "demographics of players(types of players)" under the chapter "Understanding the player". I choose this because I thought it would be interesting but it's not too broad so I won't be left with trying to cut down a ton of information I can write a detailed, informative piece.
"Wiki Bartle taxonomy types of players"
