This morning I chose to poke my head over the parapet and decided to enter the next Grads In Games Search for a Star contest. It’s open to final year undergraduates and post graduate students alike and covers several different categories including game programming, game art, game animation and VFX. Naturally I opted for programming…
This was always going to be a tough week from a reflection perspective. Not because the topic, version control, was particularly difficult, far from it in fact. The main challenge for me, personally, was always going to be about showing evidence of learning. I’m not the world’s expert in version control but I have used…
With Week 6 being Reading Week we had a somewhat easier week this week than in previous weeks. Nevertheless there was still a lot to do as the first game jam was still running and the guillotine deadline of the Wednesday Weekly Webinar was approaching on winged hooves. I’ve already written extensively about the game…
It’s Saturday evening and almost exactly 24 hours before the submission deadline for the Unity Game Jam and I’ve decided to throw in the towel. Why? Because most of today has been a write off. In this post I want to reflect on what happened, the positives, the negatives and the improvements I’ve identified for…
Week 5 presented an interesting waypoint as it offered an opportunity to look back and reflect on my learning thus far with the intent (I believe) of applying course correction for the future. This week’s learning objectives were: Develop the ability to discuss the nature of reflection Outline the plan of reflection within Agile Scrum…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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