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Week 9 Reading & Writing

Hi Guys,

Welcome back to my blog, as it is week 9 of the semester we are now half way through - isn't that bloody crazy! Feels like is was only September yesterday 😓 but I am going to talk about how I think i'm getting on in this module so far while trying to juggle everything else this year keeps throwing at me! So here goes.....

Overall I am really enjoying reading different articles, I haven't missed any of the readings yet as I have been trying my best to keep up to date with them. I have enjoyed some of them but being dyslexic reading is like my worst nightmare, I always have to read it twice to understand exactly whats the person is trying to explain so that is very time consuming but the one thing these readings have me doing is actually reading... I never read, I always put it off as I find it difficult so even though it takes some time I am enjoying it.
The reading which I most enjoyed was probably one of the first readings I done in this module which was https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/video-game-designer/ when I read back over this blog post I have realized how much I have learnt about games since then. What I liked about this article is how it is very easy to read and has good detail and information which you and clearly understand. 

The writing part... well thank god for auto-correct as my spelling is atrocious!! But then again I am loving writing these blogs, I follow A LOT of bloggers on Instagram so by writing my own blogs I feel like I am one of them (even if it is writing about something I am not very interested in) (sorry Shaun😆😂😂) But also by writing these blogs I feel like my typing is getting faster, I am using words and putting sentences together that I would of never done before so overall its a bit of a win win!

After nearly having a breakdown because I was putting myself under so much pressure and stress I am now finally happy with how my game is going. Because I was over thinking it and trying to make it amazing I forgot about how I was physically going to do everything under such a short time frame! But thank god I sat down with Shaun and had a chat and he gave me reassurance that I was doing okay.

My favorite image that I have used in my blog posts is this one
I just find this picture so funny as this was my face for so many weeks on end of how to understand unity. I just could not get the hang of it until one day it just clicked and I realized that the assets store was going to be my best friend!

Looking forward.... I think if I just keep going the way I have been going I will pass this module. If I keep on top of the blog posts and keep ticking away at unity by Christmas I will be finished and hopefully happy with my final product!

Anyway guys, hope you enjoyed reading my blog.

Chat soon!

-EH
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