This is my second personal development reflection, which I am writing in week 9 of the project. The following notes are focussed on what I’ve achieved in the past 5 weeks.
Soft Skills: We have resolved issues with teammates being unsure of what work they should be doing, and continue to communicate with each other effectively. I keep my teammates updated on my work, let them know if I won’t finish something on time, and ask for their opinions and feedback on my work.
Soft skills are documented here:
Technical Skills: I have continued to use Ibis paint to create the survivor camp and resource camps for the game. I assisted Anna with implementing these assets into Unity. In my previous reflection I mentioned I would like to try using procreate for my future artwork, I intend to do this when I create the dialogue scene backgrounds.
Technical skills can be found here:
Academic Skills: I have continued to conduct research into films and games with similar themes and aesthetics to those left behind. I have also conducted a survey on my survivor camp design to help me understand the players perspective, and improve my design.
Academic skills can be found here:
My previous goals:
My previous goals were to achieve the following learning outcomes:
Experimental methods to advance your discipline-specific ideas: This would include being creative in my problem solving, experimenting with a variety of mediums and testing my ideas with peers, gathering feedback.
I achieved this learning outcome by testing my ideas and gathering feedback in my survivor camp survey.
Knowledge gained from a range of sources and contexts to advance your team project: This would require me to continue researching my design choices, making sure its clear that my research and development has guided my final designs.
I achieved this learning outcome by conducting research into games that influenced those left behind, and creating mood boards as inspiration for my work.
New goals:
For my new goals, I want to focus on completing section c of my learning outcomes: Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills. The two outcomes I will focus on are:
C1 select appropriate tools in order to support the development of a ‘Vertical Slice’. While I am using appropriate tools to create my artwork, exploring other tools, such as Procreate, will help me gain more experience and support the development process further.
C4 analyse and produce your practical work through sustained engagement and critical awareness of your ideas. I need to keep on referring to my research and ideation process when creating my final artwork, making sure I don’t stray from my development process. I need to continuously reference my previous work when creating new work.
I also want to work on some of my weaknesses from last semester, to do this I will need to:
- Focus more on integrating research with the outcomes.
- Provide solid justification, and more user testing to determine final designs.
- Connecting the art with the narrative explicitly will help clarify the overall vision.
Tips to achieve this:
- Consider conducting more in-depth user testing, such as a peer review of your mock-ups and art.
- Cross-referencing your mood boards with the environmental designs and integrating them into the gameplay mock-ups would create a more cohesive design.
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