Sticking with my new mantra of reflecting in a quicker and more direct way. Last weeks SMART targets I am going to have my game ready before the Wednesday conference and I am going to volunteer to demonstrate my game to the rest of the group. I am make some Read more…
So at the end of my last post on this small project I made it a point to ensure the next thing I did was the Wave mechanic for the game. I also wanted to ensure I was maintaining my methodology and practice. So I made a conscious decision to Read more…
Well this might be a short one this week, which is strange because I think this is the week I have done and learned the most from. However I had a bombshell moment with my reflective practice this week and this should illustrate the change. It came from the weekly Read more…
The middle bit sounds a little bit passive really for what is about to come because after my last post I have fully applied my Agile approach and, well, a lot has been done. With all my idea generation tied up and an idea firmly in place, alongside its relevant Read more…
I have been challenged to review my progress in reflective writing and explore my use of reflective domains within in order to see if I could improve or re-balance my reflective style to become more proficient. What is reflective practice? As detailed by Schön (1983), a philosopher and professor at Read more…
So the task at hand. Create a prototype of an artefact in two weeks based on a randomly chosen theme. So a two week game jam in essence. The theme was chosen by using a board game called Dixit, a game based upon imagery and story-telling. All the cards were Read more…
Well this week I finally had one of those lovely penny drop moments, which is always nice, and something I feared would happen did not actually happen. We have begun our first Rapid Ideation sprint (sprint 2 of the module) and I was very apprehensive going in to this. I Read more…
Well this was a really fun week for me as I was in my element with prototyping and rapid ideation. It has also been enlightening for a couple of other reasons that I will get to later. Game Jams The week started with an investigation into rapid ideation event, or Read more…
..continued from Fortnite Chest Simulator Part 1. Moving on to the visuals for the chest simulator I knew there were a few things I wanted to achieve. The first being that I wanted to make sure there was a graphical representation of the differences of choice that the generator made. Read more…
For the challenge this week we were tasked with utilising prototyping techniques to reverse engineer an existing creative artefact and then rebuild it as a quick prototyped representation. For this challenge I chose to look at the chest mechanics from the Fortnite Battle Royale video game. My reasoning behind this Read more…