Can't wait for next year,
Miles
This has been a great year of AGAD and i've learned a lot since september. I have learned about how game companies and studios organize their teams to make games, and we actually put that into practice. That project in particular was definitely the best learning experience overall for showing how game industrys work. The main thing that I think should be removed from the course or at least condensed would have to be the sound editing part specifically because of its similarity to the video editing stuff we did a week later. I also think that marketing for your project should be either removed or shortened too be less taxing at the end of the year. I think adding more assignments that will help to teach and improve communication will be very helpful to getting used to working in the big groups that work on most triple-A games. This class has absolutely improved my ability to work on assignments and keep up to date which will vastly help on my school assignments in the future and into collage. Can't wait for next year, Miles Here are all the images in the Info-graphic
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The newest update for Destiny 2 has been released and I have been playing it for the better half of the last week to see everything there is to see in the new expansion. First impressions are good they brought back an old character from the lore of Destiny Ana Bray to guide u through the Hellas Basin to meet the old Warmind Rasputin, who is a hulking war-machine that has access to the entirety of humanities old golden age arsenal. Sorry if i'm sounding like a nerd I just really love the Destiny franchise that being said I also really love this DLC. With new guns armor and loot a whole new grind to unlock all this sweet new loot. As I've said I'm super biased when it comes to this franchise and i will say unless you've already bought the DLC via the season pass or really love the series like I do, it might not be worth it to buy Warmind. The DLC while fun may not be big enough to be worth buying, I’d say wait until the September update which is the update similar to the taken king update.
So this is it the last few weeks before exams and crunch time has officially begun. Everyone is rushing to finish their projects before we have to do the final test which we still don't know the nature of, minus the fact that it won't be a traditional final exam but more of a mini project that will be assigned before the actual test starts (I know, its weird). My project is coming along well though, I’ve finally set up the player properly (which is now in first person). I’m now working on the terrain and collectibles for the game. I should be able to finish the game within the week.
Here is one of the resources I've been using to make my game. https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/roll-ball-tutorial As of earlier today i have finally finished the TANKS Unity tutorial. This is honestly by far the longest Unity tutorial that we have done. Luckily this is the last Unity tutorial for the year, huzzah! That doesnt mean Im going to be free from working in unity just yet, the last project for the year is an independent project, of course if you read these posts you should already know that because of last week’s post. As for where I’m at with it I’ve started to redesign the infographic for the project, to make it more neat and polished. The plan is to get the infographic done this week, the earlier the better, once I have finished the infographic the real fun begins. The first thing to do when starting this project would be to make the terrain which for this project will be the most important part of the game. The level has to be designed around the ball’s ability to pick up momentum, so lots of hills and valleys avoiding i'm going to avoid making bumpy terrain. All in all i'm not there yet so that will be all for this post.
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/tanks-tutorial This is the first blog post of the fourth quarter which means THE END IS NIGH for the school year. This quarter is always the worst for time which is why I’m planning out my work for the quarter. There are two more tutorials that need to be finished before the final independent project which I have already made a infographic for and i've planned out what my goal for the project is. There are a few more blog posts and portfolio checks so this won't be the last blog post for the year. After the school year ends Im planning to still make blog posts, and i'll get to talk about my experience on my first internship that's happening this summer it'll be fun so stay tuned over the summer for updates on that.
Above is a work in progress info-graphic for my independent project.
Below is roughly what I want the game to play like, and what the project was inspired from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5T7L1CCTzE So it's the last week before spring break and everyone in class is working hard to get the Unity tutorials finished. For this quarter I have done 2 of the 3 tutorials i need to finish for this quarter and I'm nearly done with the last one the space shooter. After that for next quarter Ill need to get 2 done and then work on my independent project. Essentially we've hit crunch time. It seems almost like an unwritten rule of this class to have crunch time at the end of the year. Personally I feel like i'm fairing a bit better than I was last year or the year before, I actually will be able to get everything done on time and i'll probably be able to get an A for the 3rd quarter. Which is exciting to say the least. I've also had a shift in mindset when it comes to working, as of previously I would have dreaded doing work to the point where I try to avoid it all together. Now on the other hand I have started thinking about work like if I get this done I won't have to think about it anymore. This mindset has really gotten me working on things with more effectiveness. For next quarter I wanna see how fast I can get everything done so I will probably be doing more of these tutorials at home.
http://www.igda.org/?page=crunch six lessons (If u wanna try out the unity tutorials for yourself then click on the link below) https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials The news outlet Game Informer has recently made their annual top 300 games of all time list. They do a list like this whenever they pass 100 issues. Which is always a personal list from the Game Informer staff which is why this list is always somewhat controversial when it's released. Historically with previous top 100 games of all time they have kept many of their choices the same or near the same as their past lists. For instance Cod Modern Warfare is still fairly high on the list while newer relises that wowed audiences like Super Mario Odyssey are faring in the 250 range. While understandable that this is an opinionated list and while their entitled to their opinion, some of these games shouldn't really be on here like Peggle a casual puzzle game, or madden NFL 2004. I feel as the list makes sense for basically the majority of the games on this list do have a place on there I would just switch up the order a little bit.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2018/03/15/here-are-the-game-informer-crews-personal-top-10-games-of-all-time.aspx This week in game design I continued to work on the tutorials that were assigned in Unity. I am currently working on the Space Shooter tutorial at school. It is proving to take longer than I thought it would. I’ve run into coding problems which I’m having trouble solving. I am dyslexic which makes it harder for me to spot coding errors. I have to rely on the compiler which doesn’t always point out the exact problem and it doesn’t show me a way to fix the problem. I find coding pretty tedious. To work around this problem, I plan to work on the survival shooter tutorial at home and give myself a deadline because I have three more tutorials to finish before the end of the quarter.
https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/survival-shooter-tutorial Because of recent problems with 3Ds max which has caused relentless problems for everyone working on it our teacher just said screw it and skipped 3D all together and now we are on the unity unit. For those who don't know Unity is a game engine that is used to create games.
The software was made to support 3 types of coding softwares C sharp, C++, and Boo (which I’ve heard that the only the creators of unity use this coding language). For this class we are using C sharp to code our games. This isn't the first time we have used Unity in the game design course last year was when we learned about the basics of unity before jumping into making 2D games. This year we are doing 3D games and the first assignment was to create a 3D version of the UFO game from last year. This was very easy because the work was nearly identical except for the fact that now i'm working in 3D. I’ve realized that I have retained a majority of the information on coding from last year and furthermore I have a deeper understanding of the mechanics of unity now that i'm working with it again. Not going to lie im sort of excited to work in unity again.
https://unity3d.com/ https://unity3d.com/public-relations Moon Hunters is a top down dungeon crawler with a twist. Specifically, the game is designed around testing one’s moral choices with none playable character (NPC) events that spawn randomly as you travel the world. For this reason it is described as a co-op personality test. I really love this concept and I love how the co-op fits into the gameplay. As you progress you will play as lots of different characters, each one with their own abilities and skills.
Overall, it is an immersive game that draws you in. It’s a good experience and it is a blast to play with some buddies but it definitely has room for improvement. Pros
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