Hamza's Blog

  Today I’m going to talk about some frameworks used to help in game design and game research. Source:  Medium The first paper that I’m going to talk about is MDA: A formal approach to game design and game research. The paper talks about MDA (which stands for Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics) which is a framework used to analyze games. It makes it easier for all parties in the game development process to decompose, study and design a broad class of game designs and artifacts. The paper refers MDA as design methodology, design methodology help guide the creative thought process and help ensure quality work. I think MDA is a very interesting approach to help with game design and research. Because the main elements you’re looking for is Mechanisms, Dynamics, And Aesthetics so you get a good idea of the type of information you should look for and the type of design you would want to achieve.   Overall, I think that this paper gave helpful information on what to and what not to d

  Source : Red Blue Games The name of my game is Sliver sky it’s an endless-action fast-paced 2D game designed to be made for pc and mobile devices. The elements of the game are dodging erratic objects, powerups to give you a hand and compelling music. The game would be played in an overhead view, which means that players will have an aerial view of the game layout. And the camera movement will move in response to the movement of the avatar, the camera movement would be like the camera movement in the Nintendo game Animal Crossing.   As you start to play you will navigate throughout the layout of the game and you will see objects fall from the sky, and objects will stay on the ground for a specific amount of time before they disappear.  overtime it will start to get progressively hard as the objects start to fall faster. And there will be obstacles on the ground that randomly pop out that can stop your movement, which can lead to you losing the game.  You can collect coins which you ca

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  The game idea I would like to focus on is my third idea, which was an endless game of objects coming down from the sky and an avatar on the ground would have to try and dodge them.                                                                                Source:  Animal Crossing World                                                C lick on link for more information on  game mechanics:                                                                                                   Game Analytics    To make the main objectives of this game work I would need to use some game mechanics, game mechanics are the rules that guide the players actions in the game and the games response to them. Some game mechanics that I am considering using are resource management, movement and speed.   A Resource management mechanic would be important in my game since I intend to use powerups in the game. While using this mechanic players can collect powerups keep them in their inventory and use the

                                                                                   Image Source:   Research Gate                                                                                  Article:  KQED The first article that I’m going to give my thoughts on is “The Difference Between Praise and Feedback”, I think it was a very insightful article as it talks about process praise, person praise and parents giving any type of feedback to their children.   I found the article to be interesting because it talks about process praise which means to praise someone on process and effort while person praise focuses on individual qualities and traits.   I think process praise is an interesting technique to use as it motivates children to take on challenging tasks and to try hard in what ever they do. And it seems to be effective as one of Dweck’s study results. showed that “the greater use of process praise with these very young children predicted their later desire to take on new chall

  My first game idea is a simple idea, it’s to make a game where you would have to throw rubbish in a recycling bin, and it would have instructions saying what can and can’t enter the bin and it won’t have a time limit. The objects would be thrown diagonally and horizontally and to get them in the bin you would have the swipe them towards the bin. There won’t be lives but if you get the wrong object in the bin your score will reset. Or there could be levels, and you would have to reach a certain number of points to get to the next level and the point count would go higher after each level you complete. There would be something like milestone achievements, for example you could get ten points then you would get a text come down from the top of the screen saying something like “well done you gotten piece of trash in the bin”.   And as you progress throughout the game it will get harder, for example if you have more than 10 points or you’re on level 5 the objects would start movin

                                                                          Image by Joshua Mucira                                                                                   source:  Pixabay             My first impression of this module was I thought it would be time consuming and stressful, but by reading what the the assignments were about , I  got a better understanding and when I started them I found them quite enjoyable. The assignments that I was  most intrigued by was the growth and mindset and talking about my favorite game. These assignment's are  unlike other ones in other classes because I have more choice of what I want to write about . But then the assignments are like other assignments because there is a deadline Some extra credit options that grabbed my attention was the growth mindset because I found what Carol Dweck had to say in the video  very interesting and I would  want to learn more about growth and fixed mindset. The other extra credit option that gra