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Plant Defense Finishing off prototype (9th Nov)
This week I have mostly been thinking about finishing off my prototype and making sure I have my post mortem video set up ready to...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Plant Defense Enemy types and spawners (4th Nov)
I have added new enemy types into the game, now there are enemies with two wings and four wings. As each enemy has there own movement...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Plant Defense big mechanic added in (30th)
After talking with my tutor today we discussed potential ways to make the game more unique and set it apart from the typical arcade...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Plant Defense game Score system and music (29th Sep)
Over the last couple of days I have managed to add in a score system into the game which will increment the score once a Enemy has been...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Plant Defense adding in Enemies (25th & 27th Sep)
25th: I have created two simple enemy types and have been working on an enemy spawn system, which will make enemies spawn randomly from ...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read
Starting Development on Plant Defense game (23rd Sep)
Started working on developing my Plant Defense game, this was my first time using Unity2D and instantly came across an issue with...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20201 min read


First Prototype and Ideation phase (21st Sep )
Today we looked at our first prototype game jam theme, which was ‘Beginning’. We looked at what a prototype is and what type of work...

Ben Nichols
Nov 4, 20202 min read
Peer Review of Other teams games(29th Oct)
I have looked at and played all the other games produced by people on my course and was very impressed with what a lot of people managed...

Ben Nichols
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Ants Game Final thoughts (26th)
Overall I am really happy with the game we managed to produce, I think it is very fun to play through and has an element of replayability...

Ben Nichols
Nov 2, 20202 min read


Updating and finishing Ants game (24th)
Throughout the following week we have been working on finishing our Ants game. My main task was to finish off the storyline for the game...

Ben Nichols
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Ants Resource System (14th Oct)
I have put in the variable $NumberOfAnts into the twine project which keeps track of the ants number and makes it easier as I don’t have...

Ben Nichols
Oct 31, 20202 min read
Are Mental States Measurable and Empathy with Technology (12th Oct)
Today we talked about whether mental states are measurable by physical facts or not. We Looked at a video of a woman, who factually knew...

Ben Nichols
Oct 31, 20202 min read
Ants Text based game, MECHANICS (11th Oct)
We decided to go with more of an adventure/story driven game over our initial plan for a strategy/resources based game. This is because...

Ben Nichols
Oct 31, 20201 min read


Reverse Engineering (5th Oct)
We were assigned to find an artefact that we wanted to reverse engineer and talk about our further understanding of that artficate...

Ben Nichols
Oct 31, 20202 min read
Prototype1/Sprint 1 Ants texted based game ideaisation process. (2nd Oct)
We set up a Mural room to plan a and discuss the range of ideas we had for our game. We eventually decided that the Ant Colony game would...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20202 min read


First Sprint Ideas (1st Oct)
We were also assigned a text based game to create (to have an idea for by next week). I have a couple of ideas about some concepts mostly...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20202 min read


Reimagining (28th Sep)
Today we at the art of reimaging art e.g. making a painting from a poem. I found this very interesting as a lot of things that we see...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20201 min read
Reflective paragraph (24th Sep)
For our second assignment were tasked with writing a paragraph that reflected what we wanted to learn and develop throughout or masters...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20201 min read


Avatar (24th Sep)
This week week we were tasked with creating an avatar with objects that we had lying about or that had meaning to us. For my design I...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20201 min read
Reflective practice and Agile development (22nd Sep)
We looked at the idea of reflective practice and the idea of how we learn and grow. We can learn faster with the help of...

Ben Nichols
Oct 30, 20201 min read