Tech Task

Tech Tip: Blogger Template - Lilcatattack99

Hello all,

In this week's tech tasks, I have changed the style of my blogger profile.

The current style of my blog

I decided to change from my cool purple background to something that more suits what we are doing in Unity 3d. As we have been learning about designing backgrounds, adding characters, effects, etc. I felt it was appropriate to change up the blog style. I gave the blog a more scenic feel. What I like about the new blog style is that it feels a lot like home in Ireland.

The current style of my blog for mobile

What I also like about this new style is how it appears for mobile users. The information is displayed very nicely, so it is easy to view all of my work on your phone.

Unity Tutorial 6

Unity Tutorial 06

Hello Everyone!

In this week's Unity tutorial by Jimmy Vegas, we are learning about adding a skybox to your game. For those of you who do not know what a skybox is, it is basically what the term used when creating the sky. As in the tutorial, Jimmy Vegas describes the skybox as everything that is surrounding the scene.

A scene containing a Skybox

We learn about getting materials to help improve the game style and to add extra components. To access the asset store, it is located in Unity in the window tab. I really like that he showed this as it makes developing a game so much easier. It's very easy to find things in the asset store and there are so many options, free and payable.

He went into detail about using different contrasts to make the sky as realistic as you would like and it is quite easy. The tutorial is very good for showing how customizable Unity is.

What I also really liked from this tutorial is he shows you how to add wind in the scene to make the trees look more realistic and overall make the scene feel quite real.

In conclusion, I feel this tutorial was very good and simple. I personally feel the more I work with Unity the easier it becomes and doing these tutorials have been improving me along the way.

Thank you to all for reading,
Please leave a comment if you have any opinions or advice.
Take care
Catherine

Game Desicions

Game Decisions by lilcatattack99

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Hello everyone,

For this week's readings, we will be delving into the meaning of an MMO, and to why it is so important to know and understand when developing games. I will be providing links to any articles I am discussing for those who are interested to learn more. Bear in mind it is a lot of reading material. So it may take some time, however, it is very well in-depth about "game design theory, art and the business of design".

https://lostgarden.home.blog/

MMO

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For starters, we need to ask a very important question that any new game developer should know. Which is, "What is an MMO game and what does it stand for"? 

The term MMO is short for a "Massively Multiplayer Online game". Multiplayer games are becoming more and more popular, with many iconic releases happening each year. Examples of MMO games include Fortnight, Final Fantasy XIV AND League of Legends.

Lost Garden

In this week's reading, we were required to read an in-detail essay about the "Lost Garden". It was really interesting, I would recommend you to have a look if you have the time.

The reading discusses concepts, some of which are interesting. As these concepts are everyday things that we do not really think there is a meaning to. It relates these things to gaming and how our normal interactions are applied to gaming. 

When gaming you should try making friends. The gaming community is huge and you can always find people with the same interests as you.

" Building friendships and providing lonely people with human connections are goals worthy of our highest-quality work."

That is it for today.

Thank you for reading