Ashley vDub

So overall in this paper I found that it was a bit over the place in terms of minds being changed on what we wanted to accomplish. I ended up doing all the game set up and coding for the project. There were a lot for me to learn in terms technical coding and working in Unity. I have never worked with mobile before but after this I feel I have a better understanding of this now. I did feel like it was hard at times as we didn’t get to see Ben as much as he was busy, we did have the Master students to help us. After a few weeks of the research I found it to get frustrating as I found it took time away from my technical research. However I did use Yemon’s research as she was the one in charge of all the research for our project and I was her designer/ developer.  The coding did take a lot in terms of understanding however I feel very pleased with how much I learnt and achieved by myself and setting/ creating the entire project by myself, bar the assets which Yemon created for the game. 

I would have liked it to have been displayed however the final result was still a beta and Yemon’s phone did not seem to work with the build, even though my Android worked perfectly. 

For this paper I decided to focus on the UI and feel of the application. So how I felt I went within this was relatively good, I really enjoyed the process of looking into the various design possibilities. In terms of getting to where I am now I had worked through a number of different designs as can be seen within the blog. I feel like the overall look came out well and doesn’t come up looking to cartoony which was my main aim for this seeing as it is my first app. 

So in terms of the designs I worked on the logo and image designs in photoshop and created them as vectors in order for them to keep their form when scaled up. I also aimed at creating the animations and transition of the app myself which at fist was really tricky. But lucky Visual Studio had a function called Blend which is were you can make your own animations, colours and designs for the app. I spent a lot of time here trying to get a flowing design which I am very happy with. The biggest thing I was most impressed with was the profile page. This to me was the most fun, I used Blend and within that you can create a storyboard. This means you can organise how certain effects are played out to the user and can create some stunning visuals with this. The reason for being so happy is because the design is smooth and laid out in a very professional manner. I found it very difficult at first to understand storyboard but after a few weeks of practice I found it really worked well for me.

There were however some stressful times in which I had trouble with my studio linked to this paper where I had some technical issues to deal with which set me back and had me worried that I may not have a very completed app, however after creating a chart to organise myself in both uni and personal life I found it became a lot easier to manage myself and not become as stressed out about the time frame. This ended up giving me a whole week in which I had free to polish off the app design and start working on my final presentation for marking which I feel should work out very well. 

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