#week zero

@eldr1tch-lesbian Day of nothing. 

HA! I bet you were expecting something today! Well jokes on you, I have nothing for today! haha!

Also, tomorrow is the last day. I have a bunch of things to give you tomorrow and then you will be free. 

Over the summer I spent my time improving on my digital work. 

A few of us decided that we would get together for the Rainbow Game Jam. As Becca Marshall spoke with the host of the Rainbow Game Jam at Women in games.

“Rainbow Game Jam encourages participants to create games exploring and celebrating identity, gender, sexuality, sex, life, and love! Games are for everyone, and anyone can create games!” - Rainbow Game Jam, website description.

We spent our first week of this coming up with basic idea for the characters, mechanics and atmosphere for the game, this was in response to the theme ‘Safe Space.’ We decided to go for a space themed shooter, inspired by galaga, with scenes where the player can interact and befriend characters to progress the story.  We threw lots of moodboards for the ship and characters together and discussed how we wanted it to look/ preform. 

My first (unofficial) week of university! This week was mainly an introduction onto the course, meeting the rest of the VFX students and the course leader. As a way to ease us into the course, and well, a way for us to get to know each other better; we were given the task to create a believable 'ghost story' influenced by historical events or places in Norwich. With most of us foreign to Norwich and it's history, we went on a legendary ghost walk from 'the Man in Black' to gain inspiration for our projects.

Splitting into groups, my group and I came up with a story that intertwined with both history and a classic ghost tale. To go with our ghost story, we had to provide visual proof of the haunting, whether it be a picture or gif. We decided to base it at one of the local churches we visited during the tour, and as our story goes, is home to the ghost of Sir Sebastian Dougal III whom was falsely accused of being a thief...leading to his untimely demise of being thrown off the church tower. A fate many thieves and grave robbers faced had they been caught.

Overall I genuinely enjoyed this week, and I'm looking forward to what else awaits me for the rest of the year. I was worried I wouldn't quite understand the software and the methods we're going to be using, but I'm glad that we're slowly going to be going into the course and going over basic tools in softwares.