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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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