Hamza's Blog

  For this weeks  reading task I added my Chapter, before adding it I took the feedback from  the first paragraph and used it to develop my chapter. I read through my chapter to make sure it was coherent and to make sure there was no spelling mistakes.                                                                             Finished I'm quite happy with my chapter and and enjoyed the process I took to make it as I learned a lot of new skills and information. I'm glad that my chapter will be included in the book and hope that people would like. I wanted to do a different approach when making it but than I realized if I did follow that approach I would just be giving facts and information without any personal opinions or thoughts. At the start of the semester I was confused about the steps and the information I needed  to know to make the chapter, but looking back now it wasn't that hard.

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  For this weeks project task I continued working on my 2d platformer game.                                                                                                    Image by me      This week I made more  progress on my 2d game,  I was finally able to get the camera to follow the avatar as it moves along the ground, I added some animations to the avatar when it jumps and when it falls down. And I have created moving platforms. I also added a background for the game and I plan on changing it  so it can fit the adventure theme.  I  have enjoyed the process of making the game so far Everything was working so far until I made I started to to make the  obstacle and life scripts. For some reason it would say error even when I was pretty sure I done everything right. It has been quite a setback but I hope to solve it soon. After I finish with those scripts I plan on adding the final elements of the game like collecting items ,sound effects/background music and a start over menu when

  For this weeks reading task we were supposed to make two digital resources for our chapters and to write a author biography  I found and edited an  image for my chapter and also I found some other images that I could edit to make it fit my chapter more.                                                                                 Image edited by me in illustrator.  Images that I plan on editing     My chapter is about the physical and mental effects of gaming . I thought the image that I edited could be  a good  graphic for my chapter because I think it works wells with the chapter title. I also found some other images that would be relevant graphics to my chapter but I want to edit them  so they  can be more eye catching and interesting.  My author biography: My name is Hamza Abdulhamid, I'm a Creative Digital Media student studying in ITB and I am in second year. I like to listen to music and I enjoy playing sports. I also  enjoy learning about filmmaking and making websites.

                                                                                      Image by me  First this weeks project task I made more improvement on my game , I found a helpful tutorial on  YouTube to follow. I imported some assets from unity to help me start making the game in terms of layout and  aesthetics . I sliced some block  sprites to start creating the first level of the game. the assets provide a variety of different types of  color blocks and  those will help in making other levels . I learned how to turn a 2d box sprite into a character that will be the adventurer in the game. I updated my player movement by using the code from the tutorial as it was better than the code I used  as it allows the player to jump up and move left and right more smoothly. I have enjoyed making the game so far. I haven't met some of the targets that I set for last week, but I plan on doing them soon. I  think my ideas for the game will work as the tutorial is easy to follow and I  hav

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 For this weeks extras task I chose to do a heart task on " How reading rewires your brain for higher intelligence and empathy " .                                                                                     Reading                                                                                            The article talks about how reading has many benefits for your brain and how it improves your emotions towards different things. One thing that the article confimred for me that I knew to be already true was that reading makes you more intelligent in terms of making better decisions about yourself and the people around. One new thing that I learned from the article that I did not know before was that "when you read soap and lavender , the parts of your brain implicated in scent are activated". One new thing that I'm curious to explore is how I can get the benefits from reading, I plan to act on this by following the advice given in the article and by do

                                                                                                          Image by me  This week’s unity task was quite heavy code based, But I learned a lot of new things like giving ruby health and making game objects to take the health away. And I also learned how to use a trigger which is a type of collider which allows ruby to collect strawberries to give her health. I  also learned to make a  moving enemy that takes life of ruby if they collide.   I enjoyed making the code that took health from ruby and the code that gave ruby health, it was interesting to learn more health physics in unity 2d. I also enjoyed that the tutorial was easy to follow, and I was able to learn a lot from it.   I look forward to keeping on working on Ruby’s 2d adventure and learning more about 2d in unity to help me when I start to make my own 2d game.

                                                                                                        Image by me     For this week’s project task, I made a prototype of a 2d platformer game.    For my first prototype I started of with making the controls for my game. I made the basic controls of going left and right and jumping, I have set a decent amount of speed for the block so that it doesn’t move to slow or fast. When I start to develop the game more, I hope to implement some other types of movement like climbing and crunching.   From making this prototype I have learned more skills on how to use unity to make the 2d platformer game. And from YouTube videos I also learned more about using c sharp script. I also learned more about tile maps in 2d games and how to make them work properly with the correct settings     I enjoyed making the controls for the game as it helped me to think more of how I want to the player to move. I also enjoyed thinking of how the layout is goin

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                                                                             Overcoming Fear                                                               Link to article: Fear For this week’s extra task, I read an article on to overcome fear in situations or scenarios. It was an interesting article to read, and I think the advice given in it is worth taking.   One thing the article confirmed for me that I already knew to be true was that if you don’t put yourself outside your comfort zone you can never learn or grow.   One new thing that I learned that I did not know before was that if you change your mindset to see certain situations as a chance to learn you would want to get out your comfort zone more and you would have the desire to learn more.   One new thing that I’m curious to explore is how to switch mindsets, it seems like something interesting to learn and to try out. I would try it myself by following the advice given on the article on how to switch your mindset.