Game Design – Week 8 – Logic, Flowcharts, and Coding

“Binary code” by Christiaan Colen is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

When asked the most important thing I should teach my students, the MIT student I was interviewing simply stated , ‘ teach them logic.’ – Mr. Le Duc

SUMMARY

• This week is like all other week, I mostly read novels and do some work.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

PlayCanvas

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/JavaScript/
• Variables is the latest lesson i learned today

Unity

• https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 30 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Chicken Little Game Logic Flowchart

• Watch Creating a Simple Flowchart in Diagrams.net (Draw.io) Tutorial

• Steps to create a flowchart
  • 1.Think out in your head a sketch what you are about to do and what are the steps that gonna be involve
  • 2. Create the start and end box
  • 3.Put the steps in one by one and connect the line
  • 4.Check for any spelling or grammar mistake
  • 5.Polish the diagram to make it look better and more presentable
  • 6.Export the diagram into a file

Mr. Le Duc’s Flowchart Shape Guide

More Flowchart Creation Resources

• http://capitalcomtech.info/2017/02/28/design-elements-flowchart/
• Design Elements Flowcharts (PDF)

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• [I didn’t really understand what you mean with (Try to create your own game flow for one of your game ideas) so I made 2 diagram of what you could have meant]
• How I come up with concepts
• How the game will go Idea #5
• Making the diagram is not as easy as it seem I took most my time thinking of is the chart detailed enough or is it too detailed.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 35 minutes,
  • 20 minutes watching Elizabeth Gilbert
  • 15 minutes walking

• Watch Elizabeth Gilbert discuss creativity and genius
• Go for a walk outside and think about what she said, if you can safely
• Write anything you found interesting and useful in your reflection
• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 60 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the game engines below, (NOT BOTH)

PlayCanvas

• Start Daniel Wood’s, PlayCanvas Tutorial 1 – Getting started with PlayCanvas
• For extra support, explore PlayCanvas Tutorials: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/

Unity

• Start the Unity tutorials
  • https://learn.unity.com/course/beginner-design-unity-game-development-course

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• Tell your daily story here!  Highlight what you learned and enjoyed most and at least one problem you solved. Problem-solving is one of the most important skills you need in life. Employers want to know HOW you get stuff done as much as WHAT you got done.
• Today after woke up, I make my breakfast and begin reading. most of the time (today included), I read to get more concepts/ideas for my writing, so most of the time I only read 100 or so chapter of one books. After that, my parents told me tell me to help out with lunch. After lunch I go out for a walk usually 15 min but around this time it’s really cold so I only go for about 5 min. then I go in do my homework until dinner and then I read just keep reading till 9 (usually I write ideas out at this time but today I don’t feel like it so I just read then I go to sleep. today I solved the problem on how to read faster and still understand the story.