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Image: Multimedia Hi all, It was great to meet up last week and begin planning our activities for this semester. Thankfully due to the heavy lifting last semester, we have a great opportunity to concentrate on the creation of a portfolio piece. As was discussed the theme and type of multimedia project is up to you! I really enjoyed the discussions of what might be possible(talk to your peers if you missed last week). During this weeks lecture slot please be in a position to describe your project idea to your peers. This week I will also be setting out our academic writing task, in order for this to be successful you will only be attending the lab slot after this week until your 2nd-year project is complete Image: a multimedia project plan I am very conscious of the workload in relation to the 2nd year project so have designed the first half of the semester to take up approx 3 hours of work, with 2 of those happening during your lab slot. We will then make...

Hi all, I come bearing gifts.. Due a surgery I had two weeks ago I'm finding it difficult to spend much time at a computer so haven't been able to give the level of feedback I would have liked to. Image: Gifts In order to compensate for that Sundays project blog(Week 10) and Week 11 Project blog are on me. I will update Moodle for everyone for these two tasks, please still complete Feedback and Comments tasks. Of course this doesn't mean you shouldn't continue to work on your project, On Wednesday the 19th we will meet at 9:30 in D028 to present our final projects and discuss our plans for next semester. Keep an eye out for further details!

Image: FAQ's I've had a few queries in relation to the workload as we near the end of the semester, this week and next will see the end of the readings and Unity tutorials so that you can concentrate on your project and providing feedback to your peers. The Unity tutorials at this stage should not be additional work - you're probably in the position of trying to get components of your project working and your selection of tutorials should be helping you towards this goal. Some of you have also emailed to say you've reached the grade that your happy with this semester and are asking can I finish up now. the answer is Yes and NO. Yes you don't have to complete any Reading, Unity, and Feedback/Comment tasks and the NO is the project must be completed to a reasonable standard ie a small but perfectly formed game, if your unsure if its complete come and see me during a Lab/Lecture slot

A big thank you to everyone who completed the Progress Task, last week - they provided me with enough solace that we as a group are progressing in the correct direction. As we set out this semester I set several objectives for us to work on, and I mean "us"! if you remember they were; How to manage our time, ie making space for this module and engaging with the material on a regular basis.  I had to figure out how to manage to get useful feedback to you and I have to admit still struggle for consistency? To improve our reading and critical analysis of the reading by reflecting on it - through many of you have found this a challenge the evidence in your blogs is that you have risen to it - I am particularly proud of each of you in this, for me this is the most important skill you can learn at ITB to gain an appreciation of a gaming engine, this is evident in your project work, if anything, its trying to get you to slow...

Image: Unity tutorials So this weekend you have been finding your own tutorials and applying them to your prototype, Jayanam has some really good tutorials, you may find elements that you would like to apply to your game. The work that I've seen so far has been great, Keep up the momentum!

HI, all first apologize for not getting feedback to you this week so far, I intend trying to get most of it back to you tomorrow - if your awaiting it before moving forward feel free to come to the labs on Wednesday I can offer my feedback during that time. here was also a mistake in relation to dates on Moodle, this week is the normal assignments as per  yesterdays post - I have amended Moodle to reflect the semester calendar

Not sure about you but I can feel the cold today as we start Week 7! You might feel that you have hit a wall remember there is more than one way past a wall. Image: Winter is Coming! I have listed this week's tasks below, we're in the creation phase of our project and to support this please find 2-4 Unity Tutorials that you have identified for creating your game and try them out. The next few weeks Unity Tutorials will be all about learning to create the vision you have for your game. Keep up the good work, as always I will be at all Lecture/Labs slots this week, call in and let me know how your getting on! READING Tuesday due date: READING    4 points  appx. 1 hour Do the  Reading  assignment for the class : Kinds of Fun, Kinds of Players Unity3D Thursday due date: Unity Introduction 8 points  appx. 2 hours You will be completing this week  Lab on Unity PROJECT - FEEDBACK - COMMENTS Here are the final as...