Elizabeth Hegarty

Hi Guys,  Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking again about feedback. I have read two articles about different feedback strategies that I would like to share with you.  The first article I have read is The Trouble With The Word "Amazing"   I found this article very interesting as I myself am one for saying something is amazing when it really isn't. It seems to be a word that a lot of us use to praise someone for something they have done rather than actually giving the right feedback. The author Jennifer Gonzalez is right when she says that she can never understand why people say something is amazing when its not. In the last paragraph of the article she mentions about her gym teacher is giving positive feedback but not telling her that she is amazing as her gym teacher wants her to improve which personally I think is better feedback then saying "your doing amazing" when she wasn't. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/the-trouble-with-amazi...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, in today's post I will be talking about the game I am going to do for this assignment. I have decided to go with a virtual world just like The Sims or Second Life. First off I had to google what "game mechanics" meant. After doing a bit of research I now know what it means. The first game mechanic I will have in my game is the journey that each character will go on through-out the game. Whether it is relationships, friendships, enjoying their own company I want the player to go on a journey within the game and make up there ideal world that they would like to live in. The second game mechanic I will have in my game is rewards/levels/progression . By building your own virtual world you will be able to progress by hitting certain mile stones within the game. I think this is important in a game as it gives the player a sense of achievement. The third game mechanic I will have in my game is emotions/feelings/discovery . By ha...

Hi Guys,  Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about the second Unity tutorial.  I'm not going to lie to you guys I can't get the hang of this Unity, I even went back to week 3 to watch the videos all over again as I just can't get the hang of it. The more I tried to understand it the more frustrated I got.  I know week 4 tutorial is all about C# and it should be easy as we are use to coding but its not. I have zero idea what is going on.  Going back to week 3 and starting all over again (I know putting more pressure on myself but I really wanted to make it work) I was slowly getting there until I had to add the gem. The tutorials that we are watching are from 2017 and the software we have is 2018 so i'm finding it hard to find what Jimmy Vegas wants us to do.  I downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio like he said to do. Unfortunately it is still not working for.  Adding textures like the water and the grass is the easy part I...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, in today's blog post I will be talking about Game Elements.  When I think about game elements I always think about player & rules but I never quite thought about the objectives behind it.  Players :  A game isn't a game without having at least one player right? You could even have 10 players if you wanted to. When I think of the game I would like to develop I would like it to 1-6 players, that means you could play it on your own or you could connect with other people and play the game together.  There is all different types of games that have different types of players such as: 1 player v's the computer system. These types of games are great especially when your testing your own mind. Examples of these types of game would be Solitaire, Piano Online, Hill Racing Cart, Mindsweeper etc. There is website online that has thousands of different 1 player games.  https://www.agame.com/games/singleplaye r Head-to...