Reading 04: Annotated Bibliography further analysis

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After this week's session I think I can definitively say that I have found this process extremely difficult and that I struggled greatly in completing these tasks. Similar to last week I was not able to complete the intended amount of work in a reasonable amount of time and thus I was quite disappointed in myself in that regard. I was able to get a bit more done than last week but I still found the process very difficult and confusing and felt very unsure while doing it. It didn't feel as cumbersome and slow as last week as I think I had gotten used to the feeling of sitting down and writing for a certain amount of time again but this week still came with it's own problems and left me uncertain and confused like last time. I was still unsure about what information I should be actually extracting from the papers but unlike last week, where much of my writing was more summary in style, I aimed to focus on the papers' contents relevancy to my own writing project topic over trying to collate as much of the understandable information as I could. On a slightly more positive note I am glad that I spent the time that I did in Week 2 sourcing my papers before writing these bibliographies as it's quite  weight off my back not having to go and look for a new source every time I have to do a bibliography entry. My process of setting a block of time to sit down and complete as much of the work as I can helps me on a personal level as it stops me from overworking and sacrificing other aspects of my life like I'm prone to doing but I have to admit that it's kind of disheartening on an academic level that I haven't been able to complete the intended amount of work yet with this process. It feels like it does help however with my writing as it puts me into the 'academic writing' state of mind for the duration of my writing sessions which makes my writing more cohesive and lets me recall my previous writing better for comparison. There's no doubt that this process as a whole has been a struggle for me personally but this is the compromise that I landed on.

The working document of my Annotated Bibliographies can be found below

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kIdExr3wTsuJPG7_vqhq16mfJYXuLErrlTTSxPtdLF8/edit?usp=sharing

Unity Tutorial 03

Screenshot of my Unity workspace

In this weeks tutorial we learned how to add and alter health to the character which is a new game feature that I had not encountered previously in the 3D project. This feature made this project feel a lot more like an actual Role Playing Game rather than just a porotype project. I also reintroduced triggers but employs them to create health items instead of powerups like the previous Unity projects although the code for the health item pickup was quite similar to that of the powerups. This process however introduced new concepts that I didn't recognise such as properties and the maths functions for calculating the health of the player. The second part of the tutorial was far more complicated and introduced many new concepts for the 2D Unity workflow. This tutorial introduces damage zones which alter the value of the players health when collided with, this feature also introduced new concepts for triggers such as sleep modes and OnTriggerStay. It also introduced the concept of tiling sprites proportionally. We also added an enemy to our scene and gave it automated motion, this was vastly different to the motion that I used for my 3D project which involved animating game objects, the motion for a 2D project had to be executed in the code. We also added collision to the enemy which damages the player and in turn lowers their health. These features were quite complicated and difficult but made the game feel a lot more legitimate.