Game Design Document

For this blog I will be writing about my ideas and thought. I will be designing a racing game. As my previous game did not turn out aswell as i thought it would be so i have decided to take on something different from making RPG or Survival game and will be working on a another type of game. I think racing game can be played by any of the age group and can be very enjoyable.

I got my inspiration from other games such as Need For Speed, Asphalt 8 and movies like Fast and Furious. 
I have an idea of creating an open world fill with racing tracks. The player can choose which track he/she likes to race on when starting the game. The player also will get to choose which car to race with. The car will have stats to show speed level, steering level, break level and acceleration level. The game will have a mini map showing the player where the next turn it or even to look at the track. I also want to add time lap or after finishing the race the player will have it's own time record. I want to create many different modes for the player to have fun from game more such as time trails or check list where the player will have to complete a certain task and various form of races. 

For the landscape of the game i would like to make it look more natural with lots of dense forest with small pond running through the track. As the car pass by the water would splash. I also would like to add rocks on the track for the player to avoid and i think this will make the player to be more observative and careful when driving.

For this project i will be using Unity engine to create this game. I will do more research and look at many different tutorials to create good looking racing car aswell as racing track and landscapes.

Need For Speed- where i got my inspiration from

My visual idea of the game

GDD
https://www.dundoc.com/project/5247/8c6uuzu8vv 

Week 8 Progress

With the progress i am mostly happy with all the blog and unity tutorials. I really enjoyed doing unity tutorials but with all the reading and writing is a bit much for each day today as there are many work from different modules aswell. I do have a routine to do all the blog and unity work. I mostly get the work done on the day that is due but the time that i spent was sometimes more an hour or two everyday. The assignment i enjoyed the most is working with unity and getting to learn many new things that i can do on unity. It always surprised me with a click of a button can do to the game and how many things can changed or have different effects. For the extra credit  i did not use any of the extra credit as i had no time to work on them. But whenever i am free i tried to do one or two of them.

There are lots of things i want to change on the second semester. First i want to change my routine of work progress. I want to finish the work that was given as soon as possible to make time for other modules. Second is to change my habits of being lazy to read. And last i want to practice more and look up more tutorials on unity during during my breaks before going to second semester for multimedia. There are things that i want to avoid such as overthinking and trying something first before saying no to it. Something new that i want to try for second semester is to go more in depth with game design and try using new software.

Here's an image that i think it will motivate me

Week 8 Comments and Feedback

For feedback in, i find it very helpful by getting feedback from other students. All the comments are very positive and was very interesting to read what other has to say. I want to rate this very high quality of comments and want to thank all of the people who have given feedback to me. All of the comments are all helpful. They made me see things that i don't see on my own and the mistakes that i made and was pointed out from the comments. It was tragic to see the negativity on my post but it helps me to do better on my next blog. To be honest i was a little bit ashamed on myself that i could have done better.

For feedback out, i was always not sure if i should said this or that when i thought they could improve on a certain things. I did not want to be mean or made the blog writer feels bad about their blog. Most of the comments i have written was very positive comments and i think instead of saying this is bad idea, i tried to avoid it by saying something else instead such as " maybe you could try this it might help your design to look much better". I would rate my feedback and comment 5/10 because i feel like i could have given more feedback and read more on their other blog posts. I found some good feedback strategies by reading the articles that was given to us on reading every week and by reading other comments from different users. I got a very good idea on my own writing as i analyse other's people writing. From my writing which makes no sense sometimes, i think it makes more sense now as i got a few ideas on how to write from other's people writing. 

I got to connect with more people through their blogs. I think it is a very good idea. At first i thought it was kind of stupid to comment to other's people blog, there is no point. Now i see why we are doing it so. I was happy with my introduction post although there are lots of things i wanted to change or write more about myself to get more people to connect with me and tell them more story about me.

I look forward to read more articles and more blog post from other's people student.I feel that if i read and write more i can give much better positive and helpful feedback or comments towards myself and others. There are lots of things i want to change on my blogs. I would like to rewrite it again to give more information and make it clearer ideas. But i think i'll just leave it there to look back to so it can help me how i went wrong on a certain topic and how can i improve it better.

Thanks for all the feedback and here's a smiley face to let you know that i'm thankful for your comments 

Week 8 Reading and Writing

My overall thoughts about  reading and writing assignments are working very well for me as i get to practice more on writing to improve my writing skills and vocabulary as well as reading. Although sometimes i do think it's too much to read some of the articles and most of the time i just got lost in the topic itself.

My favourite reading so far was near the first or second reading week, which is about mindset. I really enjoyed reading the articles as it also helped me with my mindset. 

Reading notes helps me each week with my game because every time i went back to read them, i always come up with new and different ideas from previous game idea. I think it's really good idea to go back and read few things over because you never know that you might have a better idea than before.

I have discovered many new readings and research strategies such as things i would never have done it myself. Looking at tutorials on unity is my new discovery. I never knew how game were made until watching unity tutorials.

I am very happy with my game project. Although there are some parts that i am not sure how i will make it work. I will start to prototyping my game project by first making the game architecture. i will do this by looking up more tutorials on YouTube. I feel like my game is not to bad in terms of the game story and the game objective. Writing up blogs about my game every week really helped me a lot as every week i always came up with new ideas and design from previous blog. I guess that's part of designing as you always have new ideas every time you write or design.

What i consider to be my biggest accomplishments for multimedia are working with unity which i have never used or heard about it before also writing blogs. When i first started using unity i thought to myself, there is no way i'm going to be able to make a game or even tried to make a game. After a few weeks with unity engine i started to get to know the basic of the software and what it can do. I was very interested of how amazing it do, it is like i'm creating my own world where can customize everything as i like. Writing blog and reading a lot of articles was a thing that i never wanted to do at all but for this class i had to read and write. At first it seems really boring and takes too much time but as i get to read and write more i really enjoyed it. Getting to have new ideas through reading articles and changing my ways of thinking was i think my accomplishment for this class.

I choose this image to be my favourite image because i think it is very cool to make a special item or gem in a game. Every game have a special items for the player to collect and i find it  very interesting creating my own gem.

I look forward to read more and write more. I want to improve and commit myself to do more readings and writings because it will help me in the future.