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…
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…
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…
As the first week of study draws to a close, it’s time to pause and reflect on events of the previous week. When I originally applied for the course I did wonder if I’d be in a class of 1 or 2. That’s clearly not the case and I was pleasantly surprised to discover there…
There is no denying it, effective time management is the first challenge and not unexpected either. With each module requiring in the region of 300 hours self-directed study over a 12 week period I need to make an average of 25 hours per week to get through the workload. To quote one of my business…
For this post I want to look at the structure of my blog. Unlike a notebook that forms a monolithic record, using a blog allows for a more structured approach to filing my writings away, searching and finding entries. I originally created this blog to serve as a repository of my own thoughts and ideas;…
I stared at the blank canvas of the first post on a brand new blog. My fingers, poised above the keyboard, positively twitching with anticipation of what to write whilst my mind was frantically chasing all the pesky, elusive ideas that have invaded my thoughts for months. With every breath I took, the ideas evaporated…
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