Elizabeth Hegarty

https://www.123rf.com/photo_83383233_close-up-of-notepad-with-creative-brainstorm-sketch-and-colorful-pencils-brainstorming-concept.html Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, in today's blog post I will be telling you guys about my ideas for my video game. When I think about making a game I think it needs to be a game that everyone will enjoy. After having a look around the internet I know have a good idea of what my four possible games could be. Game 1:  For my first game I would like it to be similar to The Sims 4. The Sim was first released back in 2000. It has many different versions of the game which has made this game the "best selling video game series of all time". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims  . I have always like the idea of being able to build your own imaginary life on a video game, from personalizing your characters, to building your own houses/business, to earning money, to having relationships/friendships within this video world. I would ...

Hi Guys, Today I will be writing my blog post on my thoughts about feedback. I have read two artciles to do with feedback. https://makeameme.org/meme/brace-yourself-feedback-1v7zch The first article I read was " Why rejection hurts so much and what do about it" -  https://ideas.ted.com/why-rejection-hurts-so-much-and-what-to-do-about-it/ . I found this article so interesting as it has made me more aware of what I have been feeling and I didn't even realize what was causing it. What I have learnt is that our brains are wired to respond in this, the feeling of wanting to be accepted in society. As a person I am so hard on myself as I always want to be the best I can be but by doing that I try to hard and when i'm left rejected I feel horrible about myself which is not good for my self esteem. What I have learnt from this is that everyone is going to be rejected in life but its about how you overcome this rejection and how you can deal with it. The second ar...

Hi everyone, Welcome back to my blog, this evening I will be talking about Unity Tutorial's. Honestly I was clueless watching these tutorials as gaming really isn't my thing but from watching Jimmy Vagas i finally (kind of) understood what the hell was going on😅 When I downloaded unity and started to listen and do step by step with Jimmy I started to feel like I was getting somewhere. Don't get me wrong i'm still absolutely shocking at it but I will get there ( eventually ) . first attempt of trying Unity(shocking I know)😂  To navigate  the game was the easy part but I really did struggle with the rest. When Jimmy talked about using the F key on the keyboard to focus  on the object better it was a great help as for someone on a laptop with no external mouse it can be difficult without that handy tip. The more I played around with each of the features Jimmy was telling us about the better I began to a little bit better. I am excited to learn more and to ...

Hi guys, Welcome back to my blog! This evening I will be talking about game design. When I think about making my own game I sort of freak out a little as I have no idea what I am doing. I am not great at drawing and I am useless at directions so if I had to sit down and write out exactly how my game was suppose to go you'd probably laugh at how bad it would be! Anyway....  After I read the article I was interested to keep reading more of the articles that Shaun had linked for us. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever really consider game designers to be artist. When I think of artists I think of Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh, not game designers!  From playing games myself especially now on my phone I think it is so important to make sure the game works, there is so many games out there that crash and have viruses so when making a game my one priority would to make sure that it was perfect before release.  When I think of playing games I think ...