Reading 3 - The Start of Research for my Topic!

Hey Guys,

Welcome back to my blog, this week I have been researching my two topics which I talked about in my last blog post. I am not going to lie I am still trying to get my head around the referencing and finding it difficult finding article which would be beneficial to me and my research.

Anyway I started with making my folders, this is to make sure everything is organised correctly and I don't forget about important documents and articles I have read with valuable information which I could use in the future. This look some time as I had to make different grids within the folders but I am happy it is now done.

(screenshot of my folders)

I then went onto using google scholar to help me search for documents, here I ran into a bit of difficulty but soon resolved it and got back on track.

The first thing I looked up was "What is level design" i found this article An Architectural Approach to Level Design. By looking at the different heading this showed there was a lot I could learn from this book as it also has information about the "Key Principles" which is my second topic I will be researching.

I found many articles such as Beginning Game Level Design. I have saved all these PDF's to my laptop and also made a document to which has the chapter and page of the reverent information that I will need.

Overall I have found this research challenging but I am looking forward to searching deeper within my topics to finding more information which I can use.

Until next week!

-Elizabeth

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