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Screenshot of my word doc. work It has been a lot way but we are slowly coming to an end of our digital book. You can really see it coming together to a full-on finished piece and all the hard work done is clearly visible. I personally didn't enjoy the academic writing but I am happy with how much I managed to do and my academic writing has definitely improved from what it was at the start of the semester. It was very hard to begin but it is a lot easier now coming to the end and a big relief is approaching us all that we have almost the word document completed. Today in class we looked at the word doc. and were asked to finish up any bits that weren't fully completed. I had to do my "test yourself section" which I didn't get a chance to do earlier. I had a quick read over my work and then came up with five questions. After I did that I then added my bibliography with the links to the original piece online and arranged them in alphabet order. Following that, I wro...

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Image source This week we have provided feedback for each other's piece of writing which I think was very useful for everyone. It always to spot out mistakes or suggest improvements that you might haven't seen or have missed. I have read through the comments I have received from the two people and then had a quick read over my work again to see how and where can I put in the improvements and what suggests I can apply to my work. I didn't receive any negative feedback only suggestions which I felt were very good as it didn't say that it was wrong and it was helpful rather than having a comment saying "this is wrong change it". I have tried to apply and use all of the feedback I got and thanks to the positive feedback I knew what was good and didn't require any further changes. I have tried to do the exact same for the two peers that I have commented on so they will know what they can change and what I personally think is good and strong. I didn't have t...

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Image source This week's reading was a bit challenging but with the practice, it starts to be a lot more clear on what should go into each paragraph and how to style your writing in a more formal academic style. I feel like my academic writing has improved and sounds more serious and structural compared to what it was at the beginning of this semester. I try to correct myself when I feel like my writing sounds less academic and more slang and I am managing to be faster at fixing those mistakes.  I didn't have too much trouble or problems with writing both the introduction and the conclusion, I have followed the steps and took the tips from the videos into account, and tried to keep the paragraphs in the same structure. I did however found the writing quite time-consuming as I wasn't sure if the introduction was enough or should I go deeper into the topic without revealing too much about what was involved in the next few paragraphs. I had a look over the introduction and my ...

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  Screenshot of my Unity, building a game I just want to start with a 'yay' to finally be finished with the Unity, now I can focus more on other modules and other tasks of this module. It took some time and trouble to get through this unity, the fact that we were constantly working on the same game was very exhausting and got very boring after a few weeks, one of the biggest problems I think was that if something didn't want for you then the whole game wasn't working correctly and it placed more errors for you. The steps made the process slightly faster but then some steps weren't explained well which then cause you a lot of time to figure it out especially if there were errors like spelling mistakes in the steps provided. Thankfully the last few parts of the tutorial weren't too bad and some areas were easy and turned out to work towards the end. I have already placed some audio within Unity for my own game that I have created last semester so I was more famili...

Screenshot of going through my work This week's reading task was very beneficial I think to many people as they were able to get more familiar with other people's work and they have a better understanding of what is expected and how others have tackled this task. After readings, others' work you were able to get some ideas or receive some help on how to make their paragraphs more in-depth and improve their structure. I have provided feedback to two people which I based on what I knew and how I have done my own written work which I hope they found helpful and it allowed them to improve and further develop their work. I didn't want to force anything of my feedback on them so I only suggested a few factors that could be done in my opinion. I haven't received much feedback for mine but I have received some positive feedback from one person which made me feel more comfortable with the reading task. Hence why I haven't however changed anything or rewritten anything be...

  Unity screenshot  This week's tutorial was a bit tricky as they happen to be a lot of errors in the instructions. I was able to fix some of the errors after doing some google research and reading. This turned out to be very time-consuming and unfortunately without them fixed Unity didn't allow me to proceed with further steps as they required play mode to be working. A very big issue that I came across and that caused me a lot of time and trouble was the incorrect use of the capital letter in the names for the scripts. This cause a lot of trouble as nothing would work then and I have re-read the instructions many times and made sure it was exactly the same but it was what cause me the problem. The second part also had that mistake with the script but thankfully I noticed it earlier and got it fixed much quicker which meant I didn't get stuck for a long time again. The second part went also a bit faster and I found the canvas with the text input very handy and useful to le...

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  Screenshot of my highlighted themes The theme of Relationship: The most common following definition of relationship is said to be the way in which two people consider and behave towards each other especially in a romantic and sexual way but what is the specific term for the player and avatar relationship known as 'PAR' which is outside of this world. In the world of digital games, PAR is defined to be the approach the player has for their avatar in the game.  The PAR can be identified as a parasocial and social relationship, in addition, it can be  very meaningful or more basic as they can be both long-term or short-term. In most cases, it was discussed how a player has a strong PAR where the player develops feelings about the avatar and can almost feel for them almost like in a human relationship. Some papers argue how the PAR can almost be a social relationship yet others argue how it can't be as it is not in the real world.  Banks, J. and Bowman, N.D. (2016) sta...

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Screenshot of the Unity, tutorial 5 work, fixing the smoke effect I am looking forward to almost be done with this game,  everything is coming together and the game looks very detailed overall. There is a lot of new functions in it which makes it more fun and interactive to play as the player has many abilities and you can create a very big world map with the use of tiles. This week I have managed to fix some of my mistakes from last week and polished some areas of the game. The first part of this week's tutorial flew very fast but the second part involved a bit more thinking and there were times when you had to go back to the previous tutorials to repeat some steps like for the effects where you had to split them into four again. The link that was provided turned out to be incorrect as I couldn't find it and then had a read over the comment sections where I found out that it is definitely the wrong link, the comments are very helpful in situations like this, I recommend having...

  Link to my analysed document The theme of connection: Overall in all of the resources, I have looked through the connection between the player and the avatar is a big and common topic. It looks at how close the player connects with the avatar and what makes them connect to the game. It is discussed what there is about the avatar and the game design that draws the player in. It states how the ability to customize your avatar makes the person feel like they are connected to the avatar. Other things that connect the two are any similarities that they have like characteristics or storyline. The theme of relationship: This theme differs from the theme of connection despite its similarities because it is more specific and focuses on what type of relationship is the PAR (player-avatar relationship).  The PAR can be very meaningful or more basic as they can be both long-term or short-term. In most cases, it was discussed how a player has a strong PAR where the player develops feelin...

  This week I have managed to make the robot move and added some more coding to make more abilities for the player in the game. I have come across some errors and issues but towards the end, they seemed to be working alright. In this tutorial, we have made some sprite animation which was interesting to learn and find out how Unity works on the commands that are given by us the creators. It allowed you to have a better insight into how the scripts and Unity connect off one another to perform a certain action. In the second part we have done some world interactions where we made our first projectile so that the avatar Ruby can collect it and then throw it, there was an optional task to complete to make your game look "prettier" as mentioned which made your robot dance, however, due to being short on time I skipped that task after having a quick read over it. The game overall is starting to look more professional but at the same time more demanding with the coding and lots of di...

Screenshot of working on the reading using Adobe Acrobat Pro  Resource 5 PAMELA LIVINGSTONE (2015). WHY MY AVATAR LOOKS LIKE ME:  A STUDY ON IDENTITY IN DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. B.Comm, Ryerson University, 2014 This paper focuses on the player's and avatar's identity in the game "Dungeons & Dragons" and includes a study that was carried out on four players that gamed with each other once every week for a full month. The study looks at the impact of the avatar's character and its visual design on the player's and what consequence it has on the player-avatar connection throughout the gameplay. The author's study is on how the avatar design acts on how the player and the avatar link together and affect one another. The paper goes deeply into discussing areas like the importance of identity in games, the link between identity and the avatar, how the visuals play an important role along with narration. All of the above are examined in the relation to the pla...

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  Screenshot of my Unity from this week The tutorials are getting more difficult at times and there are more steps that you need to do on your own with fewer guidelines. I like the use of short quick little videos that are embedded in some steps however I think that some of them are too fast and have too many steps to show. It is very hard to check if you have the settings correct and if you followed the steps right as unfortunately, you can not pause them at a certain point and then there are no screenshots provided below. I think they should provide screenshots of what the settings should be set to before telling us to move onto the next step. It would be very helpful if they could do that like they do with the scripts at the end of each section. Overall I have got on well this week apart from one issue. My bot enemy is not moving on its own and I can't seem to figure out what the problem is. I have checked my code and settings in Unity and everything seems to be correct unless I...

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