Tuesday 20 June 2017

Course Evaluation

1. Game Journalism and Programming
2. More Programming
3.

4. Could have done the maximum amount of work but I'm forgetful and lazy

Friday 12 May 2017

Friday Post May 12th, 2017

How to Tween an animation in Photoshop.

We're going to be making a heartbeat animation.

First create a red heart on the center of your canvas.













Then right-click on the layer on the right side and select blending options. From there you will add a bevel with: Depth 62%, Size 29Px, and Soften 13. Add a red outer glow with opacity 75%. Add a stroke with a size of 1-3Px, depending on the size of your heart. Add contour under Bevel and Colour Overlay. It should look like this:












Then click create frame animation on the timeline, and duplicate the frame.






With the second frame selected, change the blending options on the heart. Change the Bevel to: Depth 71%, Size 70Px, and change the stroke to 3-6Px, again depending on the size of the project.
Then click tween animation, and add 3 frames.






Then simply repeat the process by duplicating frames and tweening again and adding a background









Wednesday 19 April 2017

Game Journalism Day 2 - Resources

The Creator of the Game is "ColdGames".

In-Game interaction:

You can hit trees with your axe to get wood. Three hits = 1 wood, 4 wood maximum.

Wolf
Bear - 1 type
Fibre Plant



Resource Box - 4 types


NEW advice: Gather everything you possibly can

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Game Journalism Day 1

A persons basic needs for life are Food, Water, Shelter, and Warmth.

Definition of "Subsistence": the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level.

Subsistence is a survival game in which your goal is to build shelter, gather supplies and stay alive.



The game is similar to Rust in its survival aspect.

Early Access means the game is not completely released yet and is still in development, even though the public has access to it.

General Controls
Action Controls
Tips for Day 1

Tips and Tricks

Don't go near the bears
Build a campfire right away for warmth during Night
Try and create shelter ASAP

Friday 31 March 2017

Friday Post March 31st, 2017 - Photoshop Timeline


When animating a shadow using the Photoshop timeline, you must start by separating all the parts of the photo into layers, so that you can animate them individually. There is no way to separate them once merged, so be careful. Second, you must open up the timeline by going to "Window", and then going down to "Timeline". Once you have the timeline opened, click "Create Video Timeline", and then select the layer you want to animate, the layer with the shadow. There will be an arrow beside the layer name, click it to open a submenu. Then click on the stopwatch button beside the word "Opacity". A small diamond-shaped button will appear, this will be used to define when the opacity will change. Put one at the start, one in the middle, and one at the end. These will be where you change the opacity. Drag the timeline to the middle diamond, and change the opacity to less than 50%, possibly even 0%. Then drag the timeline back to the start and press play, your shadow should act something like this: