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…
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…
On any given weekend, there is a game jam happening somewhere in the world. Professionals and students alike converge on these game jam sites to further their skills, to foster community, and to experiment with game design. Chen, S (2017) Foreword to Game Jam Guide titled A Brief History of Read more…
Well this week has been chaotic. It is probably the busiest week of the year for me so engaging with the content this week has been challenging. I did not want to get behind so it has taken a monumental push today to try and get through things. Thankfully my Read more…
After watching a video from Simon Colton which basically explained the concepts and premises behind computational creativity my initial reactions harked back to that wonderful scene in Jurassic Park where the charismatic Ian Malcolm states ‘Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if Read more…