Multimedia Development Blog

In today's blog I will be discussing the current development of my Alpha game, so far I have an 'Introduction' scene and a level that follows one characters' journey from start to end. My game is slowly beginning to get to where it should be. I have recently created an 'Ending' scene to this level also. I will discuss the challenges I faced creating this 'Alpha' game, what worked and didn't work! Issues include; the 'Start' button not appearing or functioning and and the scenes not building or playing in sequence. When I go into 'play' mode, the scenes don't appear in the correct sequence. However, all the dialogue and interactions between the characters are completed for this level, through the use flowcharts. I will include screenshots of my flowcharts, below. I am hoping to create at least three levels for this game but in order to do this, I will need to solve the technical problems above. On completion of  the development...

Hey Guys, Welcome back to my blog !  I'm back on twitter again today and it was the first time I used hashtags. It was pretty fun because when I clicked on my hashtag it would show me other people who used the same hashtag as me which is awesome. My tweet is about how I'm currently feeling about my game so enjoy ! Screenshot of my Twitter post Sources; My own image

In this blog post I will be discussing what tutorials that I followed to help me implement new elements into my game. So I thought to myself, what features does my game require that I'm unsure how I would go about incorporating them into my game? Well I know last week I discussed about using a game timer in my game on the puzzle questions. I thought that my game would need to have a music playing backing track for my game. So, I looked up tutorials online on how to add music into my game. I also had to find and choose the right type of music for my game because the music must suit the scene as well as attempting to evoke a certain type of mood in the player. Here is the tutorial that I found on YouTube:  I found this tutorial to be very helpful in guiding me to have a music backing track in my game. I now have a music backing track in my game and also in the my introduction scene too. I chose to use a specific music track clip because I felt that this suited my themed level...

In Today's blog post I will be discussing the reading, 'A Practical Guide to A Hero's Journey' . It's about looking at how a hero's journey can shape the narrative of a game. The readings this week focuses on games stories and why narrative is important. In this article we looked at the value of myths,  within what society teaches us about ourselves, morals and how we should behave and act. Throughout history myths and stories have been used to encourage tribes and communities to be brave while hunting and fighting, and to believe that their deaths during war are good for the survival of their comrades. The article states the following:  Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, "Who am I?" Myths make possible our sense of community. We are thinking mythically when we show loyalty to our town our nation or our team. Loyalties to our friends or community are the result of strong myths that reinforce social bonding. ...

Hey Guys!, Feeling Time Pressured Sources; Google images ; For today's blog I will be discussing my progress with the development of my game. Unfortunately I'm behind because I was busy doing other assignments all week and week end. The deadline for the group project is for today too. Therefore I haven't made much progress on my game. I have worked on it since the last blog but I'm still at the early stages of its development.         I hope that by the next blog regarding its development I will be much further along and I will be able to show you many screenshots displaying its design and functionality. I am having some difficulties with it such as getting it to work and show up in the game play mode. As I'm behind I hope that my game will be good enough to be finished in time. I can't wait to show you my progress when it's good enough to be showed.  (Update) I have made some good progress with my game so far. I have an intro scene screen and a...

In today's blog I will be discussing how happy or unhappy I am with the progress that I have currently been making in this module. I will go through how I'm handling this module and how I manage to get everything done efficiently and effectively. At the moment I think that I'm getting along quite well in regards to my current points that I have attained by participating in this module. So far if I keep going at the pace that I'm going with my points I will achieve 378 pints total and that means that I will receive a A and I can finish early too.           I'm on track to finishing early because I have done every blog post necessary as well as extra credit which, I did in my spare time. If we're talking about my progress with my game, then it wouldn't be as positive. This is because I simply don't have enough time or energy to work on it most of the time. There is a lot of assignments to do and sometimes they are due all at once. It can be tr...

In this blog I will be discussing comments and feedback that I have received so far and the comments on feedback that I have given. I will go through the quality of the feedback that I have received and the feedback that I have given to other students. I will also discuss my opinion on the feedback tasks that I have done so far as well.  Feedback In: I would say that overall I would rate the feedback that I received from the other students as quite good and highly rated. I get quite a good amount of comments on the majority of posts and the quality of those comments are good and helpful. I find that the comments that are the most useful would be the ones where you read them and you can tell straight away that they actually read my entire blog post and they didn't just skim through it or relied on what other people said and rehashed what they said but wrote it in a different way. The comments that are the most helpful for me personally is when th...