Looking at the schedule that I had planned for myself at the start of the semester, I definitely haven't managed to stick to it. I think my time management has improved because of the weekly scheduled blogs but I still find it a little bit hard to fully stick to what I had planned just because of all my other modules having big assignments or my part time job taking up way more time than I had anticipated. I think there is a lot more work I can do to try and stick to schedules and manage my time better but I'm am happy I've made some improvements. Maybe I should try to be stricter with myself when I make plans not to let them pass me by!
Monday 10 December 2018
Growth Mindset:Explore Growth Mindset Beyond School
This growth mindset challenge is to see try and look at aspects other than schoolwork where you might show a growth mindset. I don't think i've ever really had a great growth mindset when it comes to college work but i know i've definitely shown this sort of mindset in other aspects of my life. When it comes to exercise I love pushing myself to work harder, or be quicker or to learn a new skill. It's also an aspect of my life where I won't quit when i get tired or find something hard. I also used to have this sort of mindset when I used to play football but unfortunately there wasn't enough people for a team but I'd love to be on a sporting team again where I can work on having a stronger growth mindset. I do believe if you practise having a certain mindset about some aspects of your life it's definitely easier to carry that mindset over to different aspects of your life.
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| Growth Mindset |
Tech Tip:Twitter Widget
This weeks tech tip I added my personal twitter account to my blog. I followed the instructions to customise the height of the widget as otherwise it takes up the whole page.
Thursday 6 December 2018
Unity Free Tutorials
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| Jimmy Vegas' Tutorials |
This week i continued to use Jimmy Vegas' tutorials as I find them easy to follow I watched another two of his tutorials on adding buildings and different textures to make the city more realistic. I found these tutorials really helpful as I wouldn't have known where to start with trying to make a city for my game without them.
I also watched two of Jimmy Vegas's other tutorials on his car racing game. I put in a countdown so when you press play you have a countdown from 3 before the game timer starts which was done using C# Script. I put in a countdown so when you press play you have a countdown from 3 before the game timer starts which was done using C# Script. I also continued this series of tutorials and managed to add different camera angles for the first person controller also using C# Script. The player can now press the C key on their keyboard to switch from different camera angles while driving their car. This tutorial helped me add some options that the player can choose what they prefer which I feel like my game was lacking slightly. Next I want to add in a Menu before the game is played and I'm hoping to be able to do another option for the player so that they can choose between player under the timer or just freely driving around.
Monday 3 December 2018
Learning Challenge:Watch For Empathy
A person that I observed showing empathy was my boss in my job. I work in a pizza and pasta takeaway in Coolock and its a small business. A homeless man came in over the weekend and was asking to charge his vape and if we had any spare food for him. My boss had already been slightly pissed of at this homeless man because he had come up to the shop a previous day and had emptied all the rubbish from the bin onto the ground in front of our door and left it all there. My boss showed empathy by charging his vape and cooking him whatever dish he wanted and giving him free drinks to bring with him. The man was so appreciative and was nearly in tears getting a big pizza was really nice to watch.
Growth Mindset:Try Everything
This weeks growth Mindset challenge that I picked was watching Shakira's video 'Try everything' which was made for the animated film 'Zootopia'. I had never heard the song before but after listening to it and reading the lyrics its obvious that it has a lot of great advice about the Growth Mindset. The line 'I wanna try even though I could fail' shows a big growth mindset as from my previous readings on the growth mindset people with fixed mindsets are afraid to fail so won't try things that scare them where as this song sings about doing the complete opposite. They don't care if they fail or fall or mess up in anyway they just want to try everything.
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| Try Everything Lyrics |
Tech Task:Pinterest Board
I created a Pinterest board for this weeks Tech task. I have used Pinterest before mainly for inspiration for college in particular for getting inspiration for graphic design and branding. I like to use it sometimes for looking at interior design pictures or DIY ideas. Here is the link to the Pinterest board I created for this task.
Sunday 2 December 2018
Alpha
This week for my project I worked on getting the timer and triggers functioning properly so that It was actually a playable game instead of driving around the terrain. I also worked on adding buildings and better roads and paths and a train station to create the city portion of the terrain. nothing has gone wrong so far while i'm working on my game but I would like to fix the way that you can see the grass developing as your driving towards it while playing I had originally thought I had already addressed and fixed this problem but I've began noticing it a lot and it makes the roads slightly confusing to follow when the outline of the road and the grass is only showing as the players driving by it.
This week coming I need to work on respawning if you get stuck somewhere over a couple of seconds as if you have a bad crash you can get stuck somewhere you don't have to restart the whole game when you have time left on the countdown.
I am starting to worry about meeting targets I don't know if its just that I'm spending far too long on one specific thing I want to complete but I am starting to worry if I'll manage to get everything that I originally planned complete. I am really enjoying the process though.
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| Terrain |
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| Game being Played |
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| Buildings in game |
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