BSA506 Blog Fifteen

 Semester 2 Blog Fifteen

Overall Semester 2 review

What was some stuff I liked?
Some of the stuff I enjoyed within the BSA506 classes is the numerous and wide range of topics that we discussed, ranging between film , animation and a bit of game. It was quite neat to look at several documentaries and learning about alternate branches in the industries, and possible jobs and well as certain things within the entertainment industry.

What was some stuff I found Difficult?
I found that although we did explore many different topics, they were all quite scattered or only related to one chunk at a time, rather than going through a straight line and "Junctions" between the topics. For the assessment I would have preferred to know about making a project during the Pioneer proposal, as it did not click for several of my classmates, myself included.

What would I change if I did the year again?
I would choose to more simpler Ideas so I could change them in my own unique way, rather than staying closer the original. I would also probably try to get more assessments in earlier and write or create them for a higher standard.

Overall this has been a wild year, but I did learn and discover a whole lot of new things and I had fun. Thank you Patrick for the year and see you in 2021.

BSA506 Blog Fourteen

Semester 2 Blog Fourteen

So today in class we had our presentations, whoo. Did I think they went well, not really. The downside to my assessment is that I did not realize that the video I had would play, which I had fun making. After I had added the alternate levels and made the additional textures, I put a video together with the background song of vamos i la playa, which I found to be quite funny and honestly made me more proud of my work. Although It didn't work in my presentation, here it is to see.

The rest of my classmates presentations were quite cool and I enjoyed seeing their works. Afterwards we just finished class and continued the rest of the day.

Time for a review: 

How did I think my presentation go?
Well I think my presentation could have been much better if I had made sure that everything was going to work alright and properly and submitted the PowerPoint aswell into blackboard, along with the rest of the work I handed in. The main thing I am pleased about though is that there were no bugs within my game, so it was quite relieving that I did everything right in the end.

Did I represent my Pioneer right?
For William Higinbotham I think I leant kore to the side of pong rather than Tennis for two, although I believe I kept to his original purpose of anyone can play.

What would I do Differently next time:
Make more of a plan and follow through with it than doing everything more or less last minute. I would also choose more of an advanced topic such as 3D gaming or cross platform play and put more time into making it better than my previous works.

BSA506 Blog Thirteen

 Semester 2 Blog Thirteen

Wooohooo, second day of doing my project, and it didn't go too bad. Today I mainly focused on getting all the code I need to make the game run fine, before I get into the complex stuff. SO the basic codes that I began with is the ball movement script, The paddle movement script and the main menu scripts. I began with these three as it would be much easier to re-do what I already know. After I started working on a pause menu script and layout, so if you were playing you could leave whenever you wanted to.

This is going well so far and I am quite pleased with the current outcome. Next time I will be writing code to change the speed of the balls, aswell as adding some additional textures to the scene, and then it should hopefully be done. Well that's all for now, adios.

BVA506 Blog Twelve

 Semester 2 Blog Twelve

Progress on my Assessment:

So far the progress on my remake of Tennis for Two is going well. What I started off making was a basic court with a frame around the outside, two paddles and the ball. In the game I hid the barrier around the edges of the screen so they were not protruding into the main game view area.

After that I added two numerals at the Top to keep the score between 0 and 99, depending on how much someone were to play this. Afterwards I opened up a separate scene and began work on the main menu. What I wanted for this game is to have different levels of difficulty, and it needs to have a quit button to leave the game. The next thing I had to do after getting the basic assets done, is do the coding, Yay. Personally I enjoy the coding part of making a game as it makes me think about how to solve problems and come up with new ways to think of doing something. But that is for next time, but so far so good.

BSA506 Blog Eleven

 Semester 2 Blog Eleven

Bonnie and Clyde:

Today in class we watched bonnie and Clyde, which personally I did not enjoy. The main themes in the movie to me were that there are more grey area's in life, rather than everything is portrayed in Black and White. The main reason I did not enjoy the movie was probally I found the story quite bland and uncharacteristic, and it did make a huge impact on me. *Spoiler* when Bonnie and Clyde die at the end, I didn't really feel anything towards the characters, and I felt like Bonnie was quite selfish and Naive and Clyde was just a jackass and had a superiority complex. In the end it wasn't my cup of tea and I don't plan on watching it again.

BSA506 Blog Ten

 Semester 2 Blog Ten

The game so far, well I want to restart it. Personally I am not proud of this, as it feels too easy, so rather than keeping it I will be retyring and make it similar to pong. My main goal it to make it look more fresh and exciting, as my previous attempt felt boring and uninteresting to play, so this will provide me with more exciting gameplay, aswell as a neater look. I already can use some of my previous code, but I will have to change it to suit the new project, but even though I have two weeks left, I think I can get it done.

BSA506 Blog Nine

 Semester 2 Blog Nine

Progress so far, so I honestly haven't done much work on Tennis for two at all, as I am not really enjoying it much. What we went over this week is the several thing that we need for our class presentations, such as an introduction, progress of our work, our pioneer and their body of work and additional information. so far I have most of this already down, but I will still need to do some more, especially if I want to change it.

BSA506 Blog Eight

 Semester 2 Blog Eight

Coding thus far:

I have done some code to make the ball go over the net and when you tap within the lines area. So far it works well but it isn't the best. I am currently thinking of restarting and making more similar to a pong style, but I will take to the others within my class and see their opinions. 

BSA506 Blog Seven

 Semester 2 Blog Seven

What I am doing now, well I am setting up my game in a very basic way , the people move back and forth and the ball goes up and comes back down. but it doesn't restart yet and the ball stays at a constant speed, so I have quite a bit to work on but it feels like its going alright.

Next time I want to add some additional colors and have some trail physics so make it more interesting, so it might work. 

BSA506 Blog Six

 Semester 2 Blog Six

So finally my proposal is sorted out. I have a re-submission due in a week and a half so I will need to pull out all the stops ASAP. I have had a meeting with my tutor and the HOD about it and I'm just glad I have the chance to pass. So I will be talking to my tutor about the requirements for the pioneer for what can I choose, because I do want to pass this. So today in class we are just talking to our tutor about how we are going on with our projects. So far, not too well for me, but I have some time in the Holidays so hopefully I can get a decent amount done, after the proposal is done of course. Thats all for this week, ciao

BSA506 Blog Five

 Semester 2 Blog Five

So at this point, I have not gotten any information back about my proposal, and whether I am staying in the course. Currently I am still waiting on an answer on whether I can do a re-submission for the proposal and also I will need to find out several outcomes if I do chooses another Pioneer, so overall I am just very confused. So today in class we were checking out several of the new-wave movements in film and cinema like the French New-Wave, the American New-Wave and the British New-Wave, and how they all bounced certain aspects from each-other to slowly progress into the films we have today. 

BSA506 Blog Four

 Semester 2 Blog Four

So what has been happening, well, honestly I do not know. Currently I have two Ideas for my project as my proposal is still not cleared up yet. One is a short video game similar to something made from Bethesda, like a remake of Morrowind, or go off Tolkien and make a high fantasy book or sorts or a screenplay. The main thing is I need to see how much time I have to do all of this, because the  longest would take is a video game, the second the book and the quickest and easiest is a screen play. Currently I have three weeks left for this term and about 5 for the next term, so I really need to find out what I need to do by then.

BSA506 Blog Three

Semester 2 Blog Three

Today we watched a mockumentary. At first I didn't know that it was fake, and believed it completely and I was so confused and surprised when I was told that is was a complete mockery of documentaries.   Fun day though.

BSA506 Blog Two

Semester 2 Blog Two

Today was interesting. We just watched a movie call breathless, and to be completely honest, not my cup of tea. Just very confusing, the french, so personally it had no linear story and seemed like it was trying to be something that it is not

BSA506 Blog One

Semester 2 Blog One

Today was quite alright. We went through what we are doing for our next assessment, which is creating something based off our pioneers that we chose for next term. Unfortunately I ended up sort of failing the assessment, so yeah. We also watched some old movies of the "New World" era in film in France. Fun. My homework is to contact Kathryn about a Re-sub and contact Bethesda Softworks to see if it is alright if I use some of the stuff for The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, for copyright purposes and stuff. Thats all for this week.