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  (https://www.scholastic.com/content/dam/scholastic/educators/articles/how-create-perfect-independent-reading-environment-16-9.jpg.corpimagerendition.xxl.1400.788.png) I will talk about this week’s reading task. I left comments on Kain Bradly’s work for the gaming world’s chapter I don’t think there was much to correct his work seemed to be pretty solid and the topic informed me a lot. I’m sure that I missed some mistakes that someone could point out to me but I did read the work several times and I found nothing new.   I could not read Darragh Coles I am not sure if he uploaded his work to the google doc I emailed him im not sure if he received the email. I also read the comments left by Kain and I am planning to make the changes to the work so that it is better his comments seemed valid and it seems that he actually read my work which is appreciated as good feedback is important

  (Book) Introduction Marketing video games is a key component in the video game making process. Without game marketing games would not see the popularity they have today. There are a few components that will help market a game. In this chapter some of the components mentioned are how to use an already established fan base, ways to monetise games that are based on the free to play model, and show how game budgets have grown and how marketing budgets have grown to make the video game industry one of the biggest entertainment industries in the world. There are both ethical and unethical ways to achieve game marketing and the more nefarious unethical ways tend to result in more sales this will also be covered further in this chapter.     Advertising   Game studios advertisers and game publishers have one common goal, to spread awareness of their product and then make a profit from it. Advertising is a key factor in game sales in today’s market, It can make a worse game ...

  (stack of pages) Today im going to be talking about the unity tutorial for this week. This week’s tutorial was familiar with me as I had top do a lot with text in the game jam, game I made. So making canvass and using text mesh pro is already familiar to me. Importing google fonts is alawys useful so knowing how to do that is useful. Formatting the text was easy as I already done it before. This tutorial was a very quick one as I knew what I was doing. Making the player be able to hold the text like a clipboard was useful swell as many unity game have instruction done like this. More snapping practice is useful to know how to optimise the vr controller still a shame I cannot test it due to not having a vr headset.

  (https://media.wired.com/photos/5be4cd03db23f3775e466767/125:94/w_2375,h_1786,c_limit/books-521812297.jpg) Hello today im going to talk about the unity tutorial for this week.   This week we were asked to review two other peoples work and two other peoples reviewed my work. From this criticism I now know what I need to improve in the paragraphs I had written last week. I now know that I need to expand a little on what I have written include a quote or two into the paragraph and have more information in the paragraphs. I also feel I need to read back over my paragraphs again and see if I can improve the wording aslo to see if i have correctly phrased the opening sentence and if the conclusion is correct. The feedback I received was mostly positive which I hope is a good thing but I learned a lot by reading other peoples work which I think will help me improve the paragraphs.

  (https://unity3d.com/files/images/ogimg.jpg) Hello today im going to be talking about this week’s unity tutorial We learned more about placing things in unity vr and making them snap to objects. I went over how to resize mesh sizes which was useful as i haven’t used that feature in a while and it also taught me new things on how to make things snap into place, this is useful for any game I’m making that requires items to be stopped when placed. The tutorial also shows how to make things light up with proximity which is useful for interacting with items. The tutorial was useful learning how things light up and snap into place is good for making tutorials in video games and helping the player understand how to play the game.it would have been helpful to have a working vr controller to test these things n game but I guess testing in unity itself will have to do.

  (https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/1179064920/960x0.jpg?fit=scale) Advertising   Game studios advertisers and game publishers have one common goal, to spread awareness of their product and then hopefully make profit from it. Advertising is a key factor in game sales in today’s market it can make a worse game sell better or a better game sell worse if advertising is or isn’t applied correctly. Advertising is also changing with the old ways not being as affective as the new. New forms of advertising are always emerging and if one can capitalize  on a few aspects they can spread awareness of game and possibly increase game sales.   Monetizing Companies are ways trying to find new sources of revenue, game companies are no different therefore there is more than way to monetize  a game. Since the game market has grown rapidly in recent years new forms of games have emerged like the free to paly game. These new games still try to make money b...

  (https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/qNxAn4NteBqU2Cv3fW7jqW.jpg) Hello im going to be talking about the unity tutorial for this week.   In this week’s tutorial we learned how to install VRTK and place assets in Vr games. It was a very easy tutorial and didn’t take much time the new thing I learned was Vertex snapping which I did not know about before. I think working In the right scale is important as well as was demonstrated in the tutorial if he didn’t resize everything he would be too small to start the car battery. This tutorial has been the most technical so far and it is a shame I do not have a vr headset to test these tutorials like it suggests in the videos. It would be nice to actually see how it looks like In game.

                      (https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/gettyimages-476551312.jpg) Hello today im going to be talking reading task for this week and how I did in it. I discovered several themes in the papers I read. The first theme was about exploiting younger minds to sell products and have a more loyal fan base   which is obviously unethical but corporations have to make money somehow so why area about ethics. The second them I discovered was about product placements and how it affects people that play video games it mostly has positive affects if used correctly. The third theme was the size of the markets in different years showing how it scales compared to advertising and game budgets in different years. The fourth Theme I found was about the addictive nature of video games and how it can be exploited for profit this is similar to the exploitation of children but on a broader scale. The fif...

(https://gbc-cdn-public-media.azureedge.net/img74897.768x512.jpg) Hello today I will be talking about the unity tutorials for this week. This week’s unity tutorial wasn’t very difficult it was mostly about research however I do not feel that I done to well in it and this is because due to lack of time usually I do my unity tutorial on Sunday and the reading task trough out the week. This week however I did the unity tutorial on a Thursday due to the game jam begging tomorrow and continuing throughout the weekend. This means I spent less time on the unity and reading task than I would like too because I also do other subjects on Thursday and I cannot give up on this e subjects. The unity tutorial was not a hard one learning about more VR technology and going off to do my own research was useful to understand how XR works. Another query I have is the game jam itself as we do it from Friday to Sunday depending on how much you commit to it and from what I seen the web page it is the few ...

  (https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/1009498682/960x0.jpg?fit=scale) Do mobile banner ads increase sales? Yes, in the offline channel          Authors: Ernst C. Osinga , Menno Zevenbergen , MarkW.G. van Zuijlen Published: 29 March 2019   The purpose The authors wanted to find out how banners in the mobile market influenced consumers to buy more products. Since the mobile market has grown significantly in the last couple of years, there is a larger budget allocated to advertising through banners. The paper wants to see how online banners so banners in apps or games influence the player and how offline banners for apps or games influence consumers. The article mentions that it is not a good idea to solely rely on online banner ads.   The how The article finds its info through a geographical filed experiment conducted in the Netherlands. The authors of the article state why companies should not ignore ban...

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/International_Pok%C3%A9mon_logo.svg/1200px-International_Pok%C3%A9mon_logo.svg.png)   Hello today im going to be talking about the unity tutorial I did for this week. I continued doing the tutorial form last weeks lab after jo0t figuring out how to launch the apk on my phone I used unity to explore the world as best I could. This week however it was less based on the world in unity and more information on xr itself. There was a lot of info on mr which blends reality with the real world an app example that was given was Pokémon go. I think its useful to know about the dangers it gave so that developers can try and avoid them. I also think it’s useful to know what the compotes of how your phone determines in what area you are etc. There was another part of the tutorial that I couldn’t do with placing the Vuforia just wouldn’t work I would have like to see what it could do but it seems to be very similar to the snapchat but ...

    (https://www.designnews.com/sites/designnews.com/files/styles/article_featured_retina/public/Design%20News/SegaVR.jpg?itok=QDGp_xEY) Hello today im going to talk about the unity task for this week and how it went for me. The unity task for me is a struggle as I did not fully complete it I was setting up to explore the vr museum with my phone i set up unity to be able to launch the application directly to my phone. The problem was that when the app launched there was a black screen on my phone and it quickly crashed when I tried another phone it wouldn’t detect it I tried looking on forums to figure to this issue but I feel like I broke unity more.   I sadly never resolved this and I am afraid that I will not be able to continue and will have to the 2d tutorial which I don’t really have a interest in doing which is a shame.

  (https://contenthub-static.grammarly.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/research.jpg) Exploiting the 'video game craze': A case study of the tobacco industry’s use of video games as a marketing tool. Authors: McDaniel, Patricia   Forsyth, Susan R Release Date :2020/10/19   The purpose The aim of the authors McDaniel, Patricia and Forsyth, Susan R was to show how the tobacco industry was and is using video games to market their product to young adults. The tobacco companies figured out that young adults who play video games are an attractive market ready to exploit as they were already using normal games like card games and bar games to promote cigarettes. They had also of incorporating video game themes into cigarette packaging and through particular corporate messages.   The how The authors search through the tobacco industry’s previously undisclosed 15 million documents at first using broad term such as video game and online gaming and then narr...

  (https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/DqjrQ7DeAJMclovOy11XtcCRZC8=/1400x1400/filters:format(jpeg)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/16200453/akrales_190429_3371_0087.jpg) Hello in todays unity tutorial I choose to xr. This tutorial was mostly based on teaching you what xr is and reviewing some xr apps on your phone. I reviewed snapchat as it is one of the most popular xr apps here is the review. Snapchat on a lower range android phone . Snapchat is a messaging app that at its core allows people to have very secret conversations. It achieves it by deleting the image and messages sent after clicking into them and clicking out. New technology also makes it one of the biggest ar apps due to such features as face swap and turning your face into animals lie dogs or looking more youthful this part of the app is used for fun and has no real other purpose. The target audience is teenager’s young adults it is very popular with both groups of people. The application is ar and ...

  (https://static.thenounproject.com/png/342863-200.png) Hi in this week’s reading task we had to create a research strategy for our chosen topics. My chosen topic was video game marketing. I choose some basic words associated with marketing itself. Some words where marketing, advertising, selling, buying, promoting, Markets. These words then helped me find topics on my chosen subject. I would then go onto the TUDublin library and search up some journals and papers on the words followed with game for example game marketing or promoting games. This gave me a wide variety of sources to choose from. I then got to work in organizing my findings after some time of searching for relevant sources, I use the research matrix to organize my findings I make 4 folders on my computer and I start putting in the relevant info into each one. I think this is a useful academic task to have and this entire subject is most likely to be vital in 3 rd and 4 th year however I do feel that this subj...

(unity logo) Hey today im going to be talking about the project work this week I just spent the week making sure the game works and everything runs smoothly I also looked for some assets to put into my game because as of right now it’s still just cubes however most of the assets where paid and I don’t really want to buy them also im not too familiar with blender yet and even though I tried my had at making some assets it would take me forever to make them all so I made the creative decisions to just really show off what I have made and not bother with assets especially ones I did not make . I reworked a level for the game making scripts work differently and what not to make doors work and place in the transition screen apart from that my game is almost finished and I have to work on a few more movement problems I encountered with my player character

(Unity logo) (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Unity_Technologies_logo.svg/1024px-Unity_Technologies_logo.svg.png) Hello today im going to talk about the unity tutorials for this week I did not use the unity tutorial provided instead I decided to find tutorial that would help me with scene transitions as this is required for my game. I started off looking for it on YouTube and compiled several videos on how switch scenes. The first video I watched was by Brackeys. The second video I watched was by Heer these 2 videos allowed me to make scene transitions between my levels and it was not too complex. Last week’s main menu tutorial touched a little about scene changes but I wanted to reinforce my knowledge on transitions. When I finished working on the scene transitions I looked up some puzzle games to get inspired into making one more level for my game as I wanted to make a few levels to show how complex it could become. I added the scene transitions into my ...

  (henry the hoover) (https://www.onestopcleaningshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/product_9_0_902395.jpg)   Hello today im going to talk about the reading for this week The reading for this week was a bout game testing and its importance before release to the public. Games can be tested for many different reasons, be it to see if the game is actually fun or if there are any hidden bugs or if there is any exploits or to check hardware compatibility. All these tests should be conducted before releasing the game as they are important to make sure the game is fun. The way a person might test there game is through someone playing a prototype of the game. This will help determine if the game is too hard or if the game is fun to play or if all your walls are actually walls. Game testing is vital for any game it is similar to testing a product before releasing it to the public. If a company doesn’t test there new hover to see if it actually works and functions as intended thi...

(Unity logo) (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfnS9uLh1TRq6jOxAzCs-1FKy5_w4RksfSTbI98hdaSQIyJTG4ge3FsNPN3gSl7IPD5O0cB5E6HmZFT8Cnr8xqcTIs4XAiTYcTuNfJqIkiHzX_S8ffU8aLxCz3QXyeWigPh6riaqulKy8/) Hello today im going to be talking about the unity tutorials for this week. This week I did not do the unity tutorials on the website instead I looked up my own unity tutorial on how to go to a new level after you complete a level so that I could make it so the player can complete a level and go onto a harder one. This a useful tutorial for me as I intend to have multiple more and more challenging levels and Id prefer to use different scenes instead of aligning them in one line this would make my csharp code form the first level change the other levels components and I do not want to have to many tags so I do not get confused. I used Brackeys a popular Unity You tuber as one of the tutorials and it was part of his making a game from start to finish series on YouTube. I a...

(A book) (https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fcultural-comment%2Fkirkus-reviews-plight-of-the-problematic-book-review&psig=AOvVaw0Bcu_lOYXEjXrznrBDPj3e&ust=1606828997675000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCKDarNCuqu0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD) Today Im going to be talking about the reading for this week. The reading for this week is about systematic storytelling and what kind of story telling it is. Systematic story telling is story telling through game mechanics so they are the ultimate choose your own adventure game because the story is told through game rules and game systems instead of a linear story. An example of this would be crusader kings 2 where you play a medieval leader be it historic or made by yourself and you rule land from a small barony to a whole empire wit different government systems and interaction between characters this game tells its own story through each Ai interaction provide the story tol...