Even More Unity Free Tutorials

This week I went back to my good friend Jimmy Vegas for my first tutorial to help refresh my memory on some the things that I want to put in my game, such as gems to be collected and having the gems make a noise when you pick them up, stuff like that. While I have watched this tutorial before and followed along to it it was still interesting to go back and watch it again. I think that I may make my collectables a different item to the gems that Jimmy has in his tutorial so that it suits the theme of my game better.

My screenshot of Jimmy Vegas tutorial

The second tutorial I found was on how to have the enemies in the game only spot the player when they are a certain distance away, giving the enemy a field of view, and then having the enemy pursue the player until they leave their field of view. I hope to implement this into my game by following along to the tutorial and of course using C# scripting.

Games Testing

Image from here

This weeks reading was an article about constructive criticism and how to give constructive criticism.

The most important thing to keep in mind when one is giving constructive criticism is to make sure to keep the criticism valid and unbiased. In doing this you make sure that the person receiving the feedback gets the feedback that will help them improve upon whatever it is they're working on without feeling like you have insulted their idea.

Valid feedback is feedback that is tangible, credible and well-founded and unbiased feedback means feedback that is feedback that is free of individual opinion or personal tastes. This means that any feedback is concrete instead of based on personal taste or opinions. Another important thing to keep in mind when giving constructive criticism is to make your criticism clear, understandable, and relevant.

In closing not every bit of feedback can be implemented so don't take it personally if someone doesn't change their project based on your feedback. Remember when done correctly, criticism can result in positive benefits for all parties involved.