These goals have been superseded by my 90-day goals which are better aligned to my 2-year and 5-year vision We all know and love SMART goals: the notion of defining meaningful goals that are both relevant and achievable for our development whether that be academically, professionally or personally. When used correctly they can be a…
Welcome to the alpha release of my first game on the Indie Game Development course. The theme for this game jam is available on this page. Enter full screen mode for the best player experience BTW, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to leave a comment below.
This week’s spark discussion was to reflect back on our studies so far. I’ve replicated my post from the discussion forum here as I wanted to include it in my reflective journal as well. This week and continually throughout your studies, we ask you to engage in open and honest critical reflection. Reflection can be…
As the game jam has progressed, I’ve had several ideas for new features that I could include. At the moment my main emphasis is on getting the game finished to the point I have something I can demo to my peers. These are not in the current scope so rather than allow feature creep to…
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…
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