Following on from my ICEDIP Inspiration and incubation phase I want to now turn my attention to clarifying the goal/outcome. “The main aim of the clarification phase is to discover where you are heading, to find the meaning or purpose of what you are doing” . What specifically do I want to achieve from this…
This week has been a great week! It’s also the first week since starting the course I’ve managed to write my reflection post on the Thursday. At least until my glasses fogged over in the ice rink owing to the face mask and it was Game Over Player One. By far the biggest event this…
This evening saw the start of the first of two Game Jams for this module. Excitement had been building all week with a lot of chatter in the student forum and on our Discord server. I was particularly intrigued as the theme would need to serve both the Indie Game Dev course and the User…
Now we’re into week 4 of the course and our first game jam is starting within the next 48 hours it’s time to get organised! To avoid any stumbling blocks of the “I don’t know what to call my repo” variety I’ve chosen a set of codenames for each repo already. They will all follow…
Stop Doing Keep Doing Start Doing Procrastination!!! Manage and track workload in Jira Read/research more around the subject Extra hours in day job 1 week sprints for own study Greater participation in forum discussions and Discord group TV in the evening Set theme days for sprints Blogging in the early hours of the morning Forward…
Confession time: ‘Ideation’ is a word I’d never come across until I joined this course. I even had to look it’s meaning up in the dictionary after reading the course brief and its one of those nuggets that piqued my interest and encouraged me to enrol. Ironically it’s not an unfamiliar concept: I’ve been designing…
The Week 3 challenge is to reverse engineer an artefact using some of the prototyping techniques we’ve studied to produce a prototypal representation of the artefact. For this challenge I’ve chosen to look at Behavioural AI as it commonly found in simulation and survival games and prevalent in the RTS, FPS and RPG genres too.…
This week’s challenge was to take an artefact and modify it by applying the techniques covered during the week in order to remediate it into another form of the artefact. My initial thoughts were that this would definitely mean stepping outside my comfort zone. The biggest challenge being where on earth to start! As my…
In our second week of study we were asked to shift our focus to creativity. I felt somewhat uncomfortable at this because despite working in creative industries all my adult life I don’t really consider myself as creative. I often look at the work of others in awe, wishing I were talented enough to produce…
Memory jogger for creativity tools. Personal favourites are mind mapping and brainstorming and very keen to try some of the others. List of Images Figure 1. THORN, 2020 Memory Jogger for Creativity Tools References
