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Game Fun

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                                                                     Game Fun Through my reading this week I found a lot of things very interesting but in particular I found A theory of fun the most interesting. I found it quite insightful learning lots more about the details and psychology behind games. I really enjoyed learning about the different types of games for example type one games these are games that teach us about thinking for example chest teachers all about strategy and foresight in the game. I thought was quite cool to learn that some games that I love for example call of duty or actually type to games and focus a lot more on things like reflex and how quick you are. Something I found quite interesting was how important understanding the concept of fun is and that fun is about learning, learning...

Unity Tutorial 07

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                                                                  Unity Work For my Unity tutorial this week I looked at some very informative videos aiding me in my process for my project. I found a channel on YouTube called coding in flow that and easy to follow tutorial for a a platform style game similar to my idea. As I got confused on my last attempt on starting the project I felt like this was a nice clean start to try again. I watched a good lot of quite long videos of him explaining how to set everything up he was quite slow and easy to follow along with which I found nice. I ran into hurdle when similar to my first attempt I tried to get my character to do something by pressing the space bar it wouldn't work. Eventually I realised it was probably because of my IDE so I downloaded the same one that the man in the tu...

First Playable

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                                                                 Project Work For my project this week I wanted to continue my project I started by looking on how to get my character to be able to jump and also to move forward after setting up the basics last week. I went to my Unity to tutorial to find out how to do that after applying the necessary attributes to make my character do so, I tried to press space for it to jump it would not work I had everything correct but for some reason it would not work. So I decided to start the whole project again. I thought to myself this is quite confusing so I searched out another tutorial on how to do it. I eventually found one that was quite easy to understand but the mechanics still were not working even when following his way. I then decided thought to myself it might be my I...