Doing

 In this week's reading task, we should start coding our resources and choosing five themes in the end but with following a certain process. I watched the video before starting because I had no idea what is coding a source. It was interesting but the process is honestly hard to do and I was confused at the beginning but then I started doing it step by step and I think it is fine. I still have to figure out some steps in the process but I think it is fine now. Hopefully, it gets easier in the next couple of weeks. I have all my resources ready except for one but I annotated every source I got from google and google scholar. I found some books, articles, and websites that talks about the core elements of game design as this topic is broad but whenever I am searching and start annotating, I try to narrow it down to keep it simple and clear. The reading tasks are somehow complicated and I wish they were easier because it is hard to follow all the steps correctly but I guess by time it gets easier and by practice it gets better and clearer.

Coding sources

Tutorial 04

 This week's tutorial was confusing and a lot to do even though it was just two tutorials and overall 120 minutes. There were a lot of scripts but I have learnt how to add animation and projectiles, which was interesting and I liked doing the animations. I mentioned last week in the blog post that I had some issues in my 2D game and that I couldn't figure out the issue so I just gave up and left it as it is. This week, while following the steps of the tutorial, I found the problem in the scripts and I fixed it. I started reviewing the scripts after every tutorial because I always forget a code or type a capital letter instead of lowercase. The only issue I have now is that the character Ruby disappears whenever I am in game mode. I still can not figure out what's the problem and when did it happen so as to go back to this certain step. I hope by the next couple of weeks, I can figure out what is the mistake I made so that I could fix it and actually see Ruby, the character, in the game while playing it.

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