Robbie Cahill Multimedia Development

 After my reading on the types of fun in gaming I found Marc LeBlanc's 8 kinds of fun to be a particularly interesting idea. The listed ideas. Sensation, fantasy, narrative, challenge, fellowship, discovery, expression, submission. All of these ideas are ones I firmly believe touched on different aspects of gaming and I could see how each of them fit into different types of games, even ones I don't personally play or enjoy. Source:  Flickr Here are some items which I found interesting and I believe are relevant to the current topic. When Video Games Feel Haunted: Inside the Low-Res Horror Boom The Many Different Types of Video Games & Their Subgenres Video games are fun. Here's why, and how they hook us.

  For this week I worked on Unity tutorials from Unit 4. Specifically, tutorials 4.1, 4.2 & 4.3. These tutorials provided me with new challenges which I had to work my way through. I started with 4.1, this tutorial had a completely different setting than the tutorials I completed last week. The setting was a large tower-like structure stretching up into the night sky. I then added my player character as a sphere and a texture to make it look better aesthetically In lesson 4.2 I added an enemy sphere and added a texture to that sphere. Afterwards I created a C# Script in order to make it follow the player around the map. I then proceeded to make the spawn location randomised. Source:  Flickr During lesson 4.3 I added a power-up to my game. This allowed me to be able to knock the enemy sphere away. After this I changed my C# Script so that I would only have this power-up for a few seconds. Unlike some of the Unity tutorials I had completed in previous weeks I experienced a d...