To assist with the development in the lead up to hand in, I was struggling with prioritising tasks and remembering everything that was left to be completed. Due to this, I decided to create a hacknplan time management schedule. I had originally scheduled tasks including the whole creation process but…

For the final lecture within this unit, we explored Political and Documentary games, the content was as follows: WATCH: Disruptors — critical conversations on videogames: playing with guns by Victoria & Albert Museum (YouTube video) PLAY: Phone Story by Molleindustria PLAY: Unmanned by Molleindustria PLAY: Every Day The Same Dream…

This week’s lecture was focused around the topic of haptic feedback and the content provided is as follows: Mobile AR – Creating Augmented Experiences from the Anti-Po-Des Design Journal 2 by Max R.C Schleser and Gaby David (2013) Chapter 8: Reach Out and Touch Someone: Haptics, Tactile Presence and Making…

Week 11 For Week 11, I have been working on adding further mechanics to Arctic Rush mainly involving around AI with some material work on the side. For example shown in the GIF below, is a circle pulse effect I created using a material blueprint. I aim to use this, mostly within…

This week’s content focused on the subject of art games and the viewings were as follows: Game Aesthetics: How videogames are transforming contemporary art by Domenico Quaranta (Article) Chapter 6: Artists’ Locative Games and Chapter 7: Critical Computer Games from “Critical Play: Radical Game Design” by Mary Flanagan (2009) Chapter…

(Note: I thought I posted this on Friday but turns out it didn’t update, so apologies for the late date.) This week explored creating content for minority audiences including LGBT. The viewings were as follows: “10 ways to make your game more diverse” GDC talk by Meg Jayanth (2016) An…

The next step in the pre-production for Arctic Rush involved creating a sound and audience engagement plan, as shown below: The Key situated to the left outlines the meaning behind the different colours and icons used such as the perspective key, symbol for the walkie talkie and icon for the player. This is shown within each of the four sound plan images in the bottom left corner.

This week was focused around the topic of sound and the content was as follows: Chapter 5 from “New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance” by Camille Baker (2016) Voices of VR #607: Principles of Immersive Sound Design with Sally Kellaway (Podcast, 2017) New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance This was an interesting overview from some…

This week I mostly worked on shader creation as shown in the gif below: Water Firstly, I created the water shader as I feel it is one of the most important aspects of the environment. Below is a collection of screenshots from the shader blueprint inside Unreal: