Hamza's Blog

  Starting off my prototype was kind of hard in terms of making my controls work, but eventually I got them to work. After a lot of tweaks, I was able to get my obstacles to come down from the sky. But I’m still going to have to find a way for them to stay on the ground for a specific amount of time before they disappear. I was also going to have obstacles appear from the ground, but it has been quite difficult and frustrating  to make it but its's fun learning how to do it . I’ve been rewatching  unity tutorials and looking at  some  that can help while I’m taking further steps to develop my game.  

                                                                           Image  source:   Self-awareness For this week Wikipedia trail I'm  choosing to do my topic on flow experience. I wrote a blog on it this week and thought it would be an interesting topic to do a  Wikipedia trail on.  The first article I read  was Flow, I chose this article because it talked flow experience in depth, talked about how and where it is applied and the consequences it has. Link to article: Flow The second article on my trail was Mindfulness. My curiosity led me to this article because I thought that it would have similar information to the flow article. Link to article:  Mindfulness   The third article I chose was self-compassion, I wou...

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  Image source: IED In this blog I’m going to gives my thoughts on Dan Pink’s video “what motivates us”.   One thing I found interesting was that depending on where you’re from or what activity you are doing change, it can change your motivation and work performance towards the job. One thing that video confirmed that I already knew to be true was that money is a motivator, if you don’t pay people enough, they won’t be motivated to do their job.   One new thing that I learned that I didn’t before was three factors to better work performance, the factors are autonomy, mastery and purpose. Autonomy is the desire to run your life, mastery is when someone strives to be better at something and purpose is when someone knows their work or what they do has a purpose, so they try their best.   One thing that I’m curious to explore is to learn more about motivation and how we can use it to improve our daily lives.    

                                                                                               Image source:  Rondos In this blog I’m going to talk about my thoughts on the pieces I read the, article" Building a Princess saving app" and the academic paper on “Flow experience on game playing among Thai University” .   The article on building a princess was kind of hard to understand, but I get what its overall was message was. The article talked about how games work and how you can build learning and fun into apps. I thought the article was a good read as it’s information on games made me think about my game idea in a new light and I think of how I can my make my game keep the interest of the p...