Week 9 Reading and Writing

 I was never a big reader in school or at home reading books, I spend too long reading and I normally give up after the first page. When seeing that I had to read every week was a bit overwhelming. However, the more that I read each week the more I started to scan through and take out the important parts which are what I should have done from the start instead of reading all of the articles. 

The two that stood out to me the most was firstly Game Design as it was about how there are different meanings for games and what classifies as a game, once there is a set of rules, having conflict and making decisions. This was interesting to read as thinking of a game such as rock paper scissors isn't the same as a video game however they are both titles a "game" as all of the rules can be found in both of the games. 

The next article I enjoyed reading was the one on Game Design Document, knowing that I would have to do one after reading it I found it helpful to get some tips on how to use it. It showed what should be in one which was helpful that it was in a bullet-point form which I found easier to go back and look at while making mine.  This was also the week that we are done the reading as a group which was helpful. This is one of the things that I found better was doing the readings as a group, even though my work might have not fit into the blog, It was helpful to see how other people do their readings and I feel that I have learnt a better way to do the readings now that I was doing them at the start on my own. I also enjoyed the readings that had a video and I now know to watch the video first as it will have the most important points that will be needed for the blog and the readings just go into more depth. Looking forward I don't think that there is anything I need for the reading or writing tasks each week as I said previously that I feel that I have improved on the reading and writing tasks from the start I found it difficult to do the writing, now it is something that I enjoy the most out of the module is writing in the blogs. 

My biggest accomplishment for this module is firstly writing the blogs I feel that I have improved a lot since first year as I found it difficult to type about myself even now I'm able to talk about readings game ideas and I don't know when to stop. I also feel that starting to make a game is an accomplishment as at the start of this module it was the task that I was least looking forward to as I didn't have an interest in gaming or playing games now I have started to make my own game. 

I like this image the most as it shows all the different meanings of a game. 

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