Sophie K.
Modular Temple
I had a surprising amount of fun working on this assignment, the temple layout overall was fairly simple and worked super well for the...
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Sophie K.
Modular Review
All the editable poly modifications came back to me pretty quickly. The only things I really had to readjust to were the more complex...
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Back to the 3DS Max Grind
What techniques came back to you quickly? What did you struggle with? How did you overcome the problems you experienced? What did you...
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How I've Managed Managing
As we've started working through team based assignments, I've gotten very excited about leading the team. I'm sure there will be many...
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Becoming a Producer/Artist
This year in Advanced Game Art and Design we have been tasked with a rather large project that requires us to split off into groups of...
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Wrapping Up Mission Two
Neither of my games were successfully able to go through the build process so they are not linked here but they were checked in class....
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Designing Levels
Our latest assignment tasked us with creating three fully fleshed out levels that we could theoretically make in Unity if given the time...
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Official Junior Programmer
We've officially wrapped up the first of 3 Junior Programmer Mission assignments and with it we've learned some basic terms and grammar...
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Putting the Pedal to the Medal and Pencil to Paper
Drawing with traditional mediums has always been a fascination of mine. The care artists put into shading and making things appear...
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Trial and Error
Recently, we were asked to write scripts that came together to make a game with a health bar, enemies, and more. A task that proved...
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Learning C#
Since I joined game design, coding has seemed like a legend. It was always "we'll learn how to code eventually", but now it has finally...
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Designing a Board Game
As you can probably gather from the new content on the Game Art and Design PBM page, we were recently tasked with creating professional...
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Game Design Documents
GDDs seem incredibly helpful in the game making process when they've been made the right way. While the information on them has to be...
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Exploring the Pre-production Process
Going through a realistic rendition of what creating a game would be like in the industry has been a very illuminating experience. I knew...
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Storyboarding
The storyboarding process really made me make some detailed story choices that I hadn't thought of before. I was forced to really think...
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Finishing my First Unity Project
Officially finishing my first project with the unity engine is a big step. Even if it's not really a real game, I can't help but feel a...
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Brainstorming Game Ideas
Today we were tasked with coming up with a new idea for a game based on a fantasy universe. I had a lot more fun with this than I...
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Creating Our First Game in Unity
After learning the fundamentals of the software, we were tasked with creating a simple game that followed a given prompt. I was confused...
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Beginning to Explore Unity
Unity has been familiar and exciting so far. There are a lot of aspects similar to those of 3D Studio max and other creative software. At...
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Analyzing the Mechanics in Deep Vents
In the game, Deep Vents players take turns building oceanic environments one tile at a time. During the game, they trade in a currency...
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