Robbie Cahill Multimedia Development

 For reading task Week 3 I had quite a task to complete. Although I have had some difficulty with getting into the swing of these reading tasks I believe that I am now getting better. For this week I researched Active and Passive reading. Although at first they seem to be one and the same and not that different. Active reading involves actively thinking about the content you are reading rather than merely absorbing the info. It also involves considering where said information comes from, who created it and is the creator biased in anyway However. Passive reading is wildly different as instead of seeking to gain more knowledge the reader merely absorbs the information without thinking twice. Instead of questioning anything in the text the reader accepts it at face-value and doesn't dig any deeper, looking for other sources to backup the claims presented. Active reading will be critical for the book I am contributing to. Please leave any advice that you feel would benefit me and my w...

 There are many possible games that I could make for the project  One game that I believe could make for an interesting experience is A dungeon crawler type game, This would be one that has the player endure a dark and grim fantasy dungeon. The dungeon would have a specific aesthetic, whilst there would stone walls, jail cells and perhaps a portcullis and a drawbridge there would also be hints that this dungeon has some sort of magical power which the player must fend off but can see occasionally. Whilst in this vile pit the player would need to fight various horrid monsters, these could include ogres, goblins, orcs, dragons, hellhounds, demons, giant insects and skeleton warriors. In truth any creature from any and all myths and legends could find their way into this dungeon, there could even be a level with a sea monster which has been trapped underwater and now feeds on whatever adventurers it can catch. Perhaps each and every single one of these evil creatures were once hu...

Feedback is extremely important, not just for a better product but in order to grow as a human being. However it is a strange situation when your most harsh critic is actually yourself. To this day I find that the person who always whispers in the back of my ear that I can't do it is actually myself. Self-doubt is in my mind something that can easily destroy a human being and keep them from reaching their full potential. Feedback Source:  Flickr I found this quote to be very good in describing how I have sometimes felt. "Sometimes I feel like a spider whose web is repeatedly torn down. I plan something and start taking action. Then life happens, and setbacks threaten to sap my energy and enthusiasm." Countless times I have thought of doing something yet I always give up believing I am simply not up for the task. This is something that I need to change about myself. Hopefully now that I have entered college I will become a softer critic.

Working on Unity proved to be a very unique experience. At first, I had a great deal of difficulty downloading Unity. I was unsure about which version to download and had difficulty using Unity-Hub. At one point I had multiple downloads of Unity. This is something I will seek to remedy when I am on the college campus next. It took numerous attempts but eventually I was able to get it. Beginning Unity proved difficult as I had named my files wrong. Fortunately, once I got into the swing of it I caught the hang of it very quickly, I must commend Unity for the fact that its software is easy to learn and master. Coding Source:  Flickr At first, I was very troubled using Visual Studio Code. Although I had it downloaded for some reason Unity kept opening a different app called Brackets instead, at first, I was very alarmed but fortunately a brief google search saved me and I was able to easily remedy the problem. I felt elated when I had finally finished the tutorials and felt so happy t...

  I found the essays from the links to be very helpful. My personal favourite was  Four Basic Methods for Generating Ideas . I believe that this essay contains fantastic tips, it also goes through many tips that most people have heard of but goes into depth on them and why they work. One of these tips was brainstorming, in the essay it explains that there should be two large groups with various separate stages that will benefit productivity and the creative process. Some of these stages were, statement of the task, generation of ideas, scamper, combine, modify and eliminate. Brainstorming Source:  Flickr The essay also contained a marvellous sentence about how human beings can generate new ideas.  " He put forward the assumption that thinking in a stationary atmosphere a person will always come to the same ideas, but being in a changing atmosphere, a person will generate different ideas." I strongly identify with this quote and wholeheartedly support it, I find that ...