Aaron Hogan

Feedback Strategies This week, I read two articles about feedback strategies to improve my feedback skills. The first article I read was called' Five Reasons to stop saying "Good Job!"' by Alfie Kohn. This article was a great read. Here are some reasons he suggests to stop saying "Good Job": Manipulating children:  A "Good job!" to reinforce something that makes our lives a little easier can be an example of taking advantage of children’s dependence. Kids may also come to feel manipulated by this, even if they can’t quite explain why. Telling a good "good job" doesn't show much emotion to them after they've done something positive like not spilling their drink when drinking. Creating praise junkies:  In short, "Good job!" doesn’t reassure children; ultimately, it makes them feel less secure. Sadly, some kids might grow up looking for people to praise everything good they do. Reduces Achievement : If the parent ...

Game Idea Research This week I have to choose a game from my last week ideas and do research on it. The game I have chosen to go forward with is the 'Multiple choice' game. I want to go ahead with this game as it interests me to figure out how I can make this game work. The first part of my research for my multiple choice game was to google 'Multiple choice game design'. When I googled this I found out a lot of information on multiple choice. I found a very good article called '5 Rules For Writing Interesting Choices In Multiple-Choice Games?'. The 5 rules that are included are :  - Every option should have real consequences : This is important because if the decision has no effect then why should the player even choose - The player needs some basis to make a decision : The player needs to know what the backstory of their choice is and what will happen - No option should be obviously better or worse than all the others : This is important to keep the play...

Unity Tutorial 02 For this weeks unity tutorial, I watched two videos, the first one being called 'HOW TO MAKE A GAME FOR FREE #004-IMPROVE GRAPHICS'. I enjoyed watching this tutorial as it helped me with many tips and tricks. One thing that I found rather difficult about this was the coding. I have used coding before in my Web Dev last year and this year so I am quite familiar with it but I still found it hard enough at the start to get used to everything and where it goes but I eventually got the hang of it in the end.It's very difficult to understand how everything comes together to actually make the game work. I really like the realistic side of this tutorial that you can add to the game. When I added the wall into my game, I could use the right hand side of the window to play around with settings such as Metallic and smoothness of the wall to make it look more realistic.The second tutorial I watched was called 'HOW TO MAKE A GAME FOR FREE #005- RAYCAST'.Th...

Game Elements In my reading for week 4, I read and learnt about 'what are the elements of games?'. I enjoyed this read as I learnt a lot of valid information. The first element I read about was player. -Player:   A game needs a player for it to work. The amount of players can vary from 1 player to 2-15 players. There's many types of player structures when it comes to a game, two examples are, Head-To-Head: this is when its 1v1 eg, chess. Another example is one-against-many: eg, Build-up chasing which is chasing but every time you catch someone they join you.There are much more types of player structures, so here's a link to some more: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/3/pages/level-3-dot-1-1-players -Objectives(goals): Every game has a goal/objective in it weather it be to cross a finish line or save a friend from evil bosses. every single game has to have a goal for the game to work properly and for the game storyline to make sense. -Rules:  There are...