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VFX - 3D Portal Shot part 1

The final practical task in the VFX unit I have to complete is a 3D tracked shot with an image of a door somewhere in the scene. Since...

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May 3, 20213 min read

UI/UX - Making a Website Part 1

Since I already have a solid draft of my Game Design Document, I decided it was time to start putting the website together. I started...

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May 3, 20213 min read

UI/UX - Wireframing a Website Part 1

The first thing to do before jumping into creating a website is to design its layout and pages. This is a good way of getting to know how...

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May 3, 20212 min read

Individual Project - Popular Games of 2020

Multiplayer: Animal Crossing Among us Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout Sky: Children of the Light Single-player: Cyberpunk 2077 Hades Final...

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May 1, 20211 min read

Individual Project - Popular Mechanics

Game Mechanics are the functions that a game is remembered for, which means they either have to be unique or enjoyable to use. It’s...

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Apr 30, 20211 min read

Individual Project - Puzzles

Possible types of puzzles: Puzzles will be in every level. They could be within the player character’s memories, such as having to sneak...

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Apr 30, 20211 min read

Individual Project - Development Struggles with Games

Twilight Princess: Twilight Princess was originally concepted as a sequel to Wind Waker, which came out in May of 2003. The style of...

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Apr 29, 20212 min read

VFX - Previsualisation

Previsualisation is a great way to plan out how a VFX shot is going to look and progress. It can be done either with 2D images or with 3D...

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Apr 28, 20214 min read

Unity - Puzzle Matching Game

As part of the project to make a game, it's important for me to have an idea of how to code in certain elements of my game. An element...

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Apr 28, 20215 min read

Individual Project - Solutions to the Single Player Problem

Many of the popular games of this and last year have been co-op, whereas the game I have planned out is single player. Here are various...

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Apr 22, 20212 min read

Individual Project - New Plan on tackling Primary and Secondary Research

Use Secondary Research for a broader source of information, but back it up and compare with Primary Research. Generalising is a problem...

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Apr 20, 20212 min read

Unity - Creating a Minimap

Part of UI in games is a Minimap, which the player can use to navigate the world their character in-game is in. Creating one of these in...

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Apr 16, 20212 min read

Nuke - Rotoscoping

The next exercise I did involved rotoscoping, which is done on complex, moving objects. This is most commonly used when applying FX to...

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Apr 16, 20215 min read

Types of UIs in Games

There are various different forms of UI that appear in games, which players can use to interact with different parts of a game's...

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Apr 16, 20213 min read

Game Design - First Draft and Iterations

Using the idea generation ideas discussed in the previous post of this unit, I created a Game Design Document of my original idea, and...

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Apr 13, 20214 min read

Individual Project - Introduction and Level 1 (Vertical Slice) Story

I wrote out a basic summary for the Introduction and Level 1 of the game I'm proposing in my project. The reason I only wrote out these...

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Apr 8, 20211 min read

Individual Project - Concept Art and Outline

I'm a person that enjoys coming up with stories and concepts for characters and worlds, which put me in a fortunate position. Mostly, the...

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Apr 1, 20215 min read

Portfolio - Comic Strip

My previous portfolio images I made contained some of the constellations as characters, which is a theme I've been using in my artwork...

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Mar 17, 20214 min read

Individual Project - Game Development Cycle

Game Development Cycle: · Pre-Production(10% - 20% of the project): o Defining costs – after an idea is decided on, it’s important to...

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Mar 8, 20212 min read

Game Design - Initial thoughts and brainstorming

To start off the idea phase, I created a mindmap of my initial ideas. This was a blend of brainstorming and forcing relationships between...

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Mar 7, 20212 min read