Alpha

 

This week I worked on Alpha of my game. Continuing on from last week, my goal for this week is to get the car to jump over the other cars. But I firstly added a box collider and changed the size of it car 1 the first obstacle then added a rigid body I added the same to the second car. I then started to try and get the car to move forward and not just jump up and down this took a lot longer than I thought I thought how would I do this then I remembered the first unity tutorial, the truck and how to moved. I started by adding a transform.Translate variable. 
to the playercontroller script the same as the tutorial. As you can see it did not work and the car kept doing flips.

I then added Time delta time to the script and vector 3 which made the car go forward. As can be seen in the image below the car came forward and is jumping over the other car. I then added *10 to make the car go faster The second Image is what the game currently looks like after changing the speed of the car. When I added all of these variables the player's camera went underneath the car which it did not before, I will need to find out how to change it. I tried different way to change the camera I will need to work more with the camera next. 

Overall making the game is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be I thought that I would be nearly finished by now however I'm nowhere near finished which is frustrating me as the smallest mistake such as missing a ; in code makes the game not to work and I don't know where I have gone wrong which also takes a lot of time to find where I have. One positive is that  I'm happy that the car now goes forward

Things I need to do:

- make the camera above the car

- make car not jump as high 

- Add a car to chase as the prisoner 

-  Add more obstacles 

Review Week Comments and Feedback

I found having to write comments on people's blog very interesting, I feel that I have found out more about people such as interests favorite module last year and what they have done over the summer from their introduction post. Last year I didn't like the blog or writing about myself nevermind writing on someone else's blog, this year I enjoyed seeing other people's blog design, read and see their game idea and write a comment to see what I thought they could improve on. I thought this was helpful when people commented on my game to see what they thought I could improve on as I think having another person's point of view was important during the process of making my game as they have new ideas that I did not think of as they are only seeing the game for the first time while I had the idea stuck in my head what I'm going to do and didn't think of changing it until I saw peoples comments. I also thought looking at people's blogs was an impact to see the style that they write the reading articles as many people did bullet point form which I thought was good as it was easy to read. From reading other people's blogs I also got it to look at links which they found helpful in making the game such as where to find assets.  I found the blog comments about my game more helpful than the one's that I wrote about the articles as everyone had read them and wrote about after reading peoples I could see that most people had the same type of information and I don't know if it was as beneficial writing on them then the game idea. I also learned how to suggest an idea I had in the correct manner rather than it looking like a negative impact on their game. It was also interesting to see other people's comments on someone's post while I was typing to see their suggestions and their style of writing comments. 

Each week I also had to add an image to every post I would look for an image that I thought related the most to the blog post to make my post more interesting and not just text. 

Overall I'm happy with my blog and the way that it looks. I think people found it easy to read from the comments that people have left. I'm also happy with my introduction as I feel that people got to know me if they didn't before and got to see how I tried to entertain myself over summer with which is something that everyone could agree on that reading other peoples blogs everyone seems to do the same thing by going on walks. Something I could have added to my introduction blog is a picture of me as people know a lot about me from reading my post but may not know what I look like. 

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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