Elizabeth Hegarty

Hey Guys, Welcome back to my blog, It's been a long week, thank god we only have one more week left!  So all week I have been working on my game, unfortunately I got the code working but I have way to many errors popping up which means it wont make my character move! My coins are working, my wind-zone is working and so is my sky-box but the most important bloody part wont! I have created so many different character and entered the code which is needed for each of them and none of them will work!  I also think one of my problems is that my world is too large with to many different effects going on through out it. I know what your going to say... "delete some of it" but that is not an option as I lost my first game and had to start it all over again so honestly I am petrified to touch it and delete things I don't really need.  (screenshot from my own unity)  (screenshot of my own unity) (screenshot of my own unity) As you can see from...

Hey Guys, That time of the week again... Unity! I am also feed up of looking for more tutorials as the ones I have found in previous weeks are the only ones I am using.  Anyway.. This week I am looking at two different tutorials. The first one is about  Collecting Coins . In my game I have decided to add coins instead of gems. With this being the last week of making my game I have a lot of work still left to do as my game deleted from my unity and over the weekend I had to start again.  I have learnt from this tutorial that no matter what I am going to have to use within my game i need to code which is actually killing me. The second tutorial I looked at was again  How to Create a Character  again because I lost everything I am back to square one again. I remember a little bit of how to do it but I did need a recap again as it has been a while since making one. Anyway the weekend is coming closer and I will be very busy trying to complete my...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, its finally week 11 which means we are almost at the finish line! Its been a long semester I can tell you that much! I know its only Sunday but as I am sitting here building more of my world I thought it would also be a good idea to do the reading before Tuesday as it then gives me an extra hour on Tuesday to do something else!  Anyway this week I am reading an article called  Giving Criticism- The good, the bad, the ugly! I really enjoyed reading this article and I found it very relate able, for instance when the author talked about how when you say you don't like something it could end up in an argument it is so true, I always find when it happens to me I'm like please do not ask me for my option if you do not want me to be 100% honest with you! You have to be able to talk criticism without being offended as we are just giving our honest option!. Constructive criticism  offers valid feedback which is both positive...

Morning Guys, Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about game stories from two different articles I have read. The first article was called  Into The Woods: A Practical Guide To The Hero Journey.  By Bob Bates. In this article Bob Bates explains to us how a hero's journey is very important within a game as myths are important, he explains that myths convey the values of society, they teach us who we are and how we should behave, they are a guide for our actions, they aren't just dusty old books. Myths are influenced by Moral Values, Mysteries of Life and Death, Communities and Personal Identity. Bob goes on to explain that myths are wired into all of us, they drive humanity to carry on because without them we would easily fall into madness causing us to suffer from depression and other mental illnesses.  I found this article to be very interesting, I liked how he compared our myths to the myths within a game and he referenced lots of different books...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about Alpha within my game. This is going to be a quick blog post as I stupidly left my laptop charger in college and my laptop is slowly dying so I need to get this done asap! So the alpha within my game... I have no idea what that means.  Now that I have looked it up I know that is means features and elements that are finished. Unfortunately I am still slowly getting there with my game. I am still moving different things around but I have the Sky box complete and I am happy with how that looks. I have majority of my paths made for my trail. I still need to add the water and walls and different gems within my game but over all I am happy with my process.  I still have 2/3 weeks to complete my game so I don't want to rush it and I will have it finished by the deadline. After speaking to Shaun and explaining that my game will not be playable he gave me great advice to screen record my game and do a voice...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about my process in this module.  Looking at the process chat and the email Shaun sent today I am extremely happy, I have done every blog post since September except for week 8's weekend work (the week got away from me and I was trying to catch up on myself!!🙈). For the amount of stressing I have already done this year I was happy to see that some of it was paying off. Don't get me wrong I sometimes feel like the stress is coming over me but when I see good results I feel like it is all worth it.  Back in September when I done my schedule for this module I was determined to stick to it but that wasn't the case, but the one thing I am proud of is I have gotten the work done in the end and my end result will show that. I do think the extra credit is a great idea but I have only done it once or twice and that is because of time but when I have a spare hour in the next 2 weeks I plan on doing some more.  ...

Hi Guys, Welcome back to my blog, today I will be talking about comments & feedback as it is review week! Looking over the comments I have been given from my fellow classmates they have been very helpful, they have given me suggestions which I have taken and put into action, they have also given me advice on there thoughts of my game and everyone seems excited to see my final product which in a way is good but also quite scary in case it all goes wrong and the game isn't even playable! 🙈 But overall I do think getting feedback from people whether it is good or bad is very important in this assignment process as I like to see peoples options on my game. The only thing I will say is sometimes when people give me feedback it is not very clear and can be quite confusing to understand where they are coming from with the comments they have made. But overall I am happy with everything else that people have commented on! https://uxplanet.org/real-world-vs-lab-feedback...