(image of my Dundoc design model) This week I started to create my Game Design Document and have wrote up some of the basic things I need to include in it. Starting off I was a bit lost on what to write but I was able to get through it by using a template on Dundoc and looking at other examples to get a better understanding. having to write the Game Design Document gave me a clearer end goal and direction to my game where I was able to define things such as the characters back story and some more way to add a twist to the game such as actually being able to win the game if you get far enough from the tornado. The link to my Game Design Document can be found here .
(image taken from RefWorks of my 4 readings) This week for my reading that I had to find and select 4 academic papers on my topic, dimensions of a game world. I searched through quite a few papers and found 4 that I would focus on this week and saved them in RefWorks. I made sure to read the abstracts and conclusions so that the papers are relevant to my topic. I'm still finding it a little difficult to find some suitable papers but the ones I've found so far are similar enough to what I'm looking for. They are: Defining the Physical Dimension of a Game Setting - Ernest Adams Gamasutra Dimensions of video game behavior and their relationships with personality - Narnia C Worth, Angela S Book The Geology of Minecraft - Georg Kleinschmidt Authoring Adaptive Game World Generation - Ricardo Lopes, Elmar Eisemann and Rafael Bidarra I went through these 4 papers highlighting what I found to be important and commenting the main points I took from the papers. I then go...
This week I read 2 articles about Feedback for Learning. These were: - Neil Gaiman's advice on the creative life - A fixed mindset could be holding you back I found these two articles very useful and insightful and I love their approach and mindset of how receiving feedback should be! Reading through the first article about Neil Gaiman's advice on the creative life I was intrigued by his advice of no matter how tough things are, just go and make good art. That no matter what you're going through be it good or bad you can go and make some good art out of it. I feel it give that mindset of looking at things from the bright side and taking just the positive. Another good point of his was going and making mistakes. The fact that if you're making mistakes it means you are going out and trying new things, you can't learn without trying new things and being ok with making mistakes. I really like this mindset and I'd want to implement it in my life more. The second ar...
That is some nice words of wisdom you got there Fineas.
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