"Feedback Thoughts"

Feedback is something I always in a sense kind of dread because all I think about are the negatives of feedback and not the positives. For years this has been my mindset and I would like to change that because I know feedback is a good thing but sometimes its hard to believe that.

The first article I read was "Neil Gaiman's advice on creative life". I really enjoyed reading this article becasue of how positive it was. Gaiman is brilliant at explaining the truth about mistakes and how they aren't necessarily a bad thing but a good thing that helps us learn and experiment. I will definitely take on what was said in this article, I usually only see the bad in feedback as I said earlier but I will now as Gaiman said "Make them into art". I think that mistakes are always categorized as these horrible embarrassing things and I have been thought that from a very young age thought school, but they aren't they can be an inspiring change and a learning curve in life.
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The next article I read was "Silence the critical voices in your head" by Sabina Nawaz. I took interest in this article because I thought reading it would benefit me and help me to change my mindset. I like how this article gave good and applicable tips to the reader. I enjoyed how there was an example of a real person who dealt with the troubles of the critical voices and how even when he was getting great and amazing feedback all he could focus on was the small fraction of negativity. What I will be taking from this article is to believe the positives and to hear them, I think this is something everyone should do.
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Game Brainstorm/Ideas

Summer Forever
This is going to be a fun and simple game about changing seasons. The objective of the game is to catch the leaves that are falling from this huge tree before they hit the ground. If the leaves hit the ground the tree will start to change the leaves will start to change from green to orange which means that Summer is changing into Autumn and the player is losing the game. If the player hasn't collected enough leaves the tree will then loose all of its leaves meaning the player has lost the game. I think this would be a fun game to make because it could be seen as an educational game where it teaches kids about the different seasons.
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Record Scratch
For this game I came up with the idea that there will be a main character that is jumping from vinyl to vinyl and as the character is jumping and progressing the background will start to change around him, for example it would change from a rock music background with electric guitars and dark red colours to a pop music background with light and bright pink colours and so on. If the character falls off a vinyl it means the player has then lost the game and will have to start all over again. The aim of the game is to keep jumping from vinyl to vinyl and win a prize every-time the player passes a different background/genre. This game is a game that I would've loved to play growing up its fun and exciting which is why I would like to explore this type of game.
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Jump the Vine
This is going to be a game where the player chooses a character who will jump and climb up different vines to to get to the top of a mountain to win a prize and win the game. As the game goes on the game will become more difficult for example some vines will fall and other will be snakes that will send the character back to the start. Think this would make a good choose your own adventure game where the player can choose what they want to do.
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Quick Bake
This is a simple straight forward game. How the player plays the game is by picking the food they want to bake e.g. a cake of sorts and then all the ingredients for the cake are on the back of cards. The player will then have to find the ingredients by picking two cards with the same ingredient on it so they match and then the ingredient will go into bowl and the cake will start to come together. Puzzle games are the games that I played most growing up I think they can be an easy and fun way to pass the time which I like.

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Game Design

I have never before looked into all there is to know about game design. I liked reading these articles because it helped me to understand more about what is involved in game design and how much time and effort is put into making a playable and enjoyable game.

The essence of Euro-Style Games 
The articles all taught me something I hadn't known before I read them. Before today I had honestly never knew there was Euro-Style games. They don't seem to involve many elements which I like cause I tend to get distracted if a game has too many elements my attention will tend go to something else. I have now found out that I prefer Euro-Style games they are easy to play but also dont give the answers you have to make choices.

Pulling the plug in defence of Non-digital teaching and learning
I really enjoyed the article talking about how it is better to teach with non-electronic games to learn electronic game design. I fully believe that this is a great way to learn electronic game design because  I am. beginner and I feel like if I tried to straight away dive in and learn electronic game design electronically I would be overwhelmed and not be confident in myself. If I was too learn first with non-electronic games I would be more comfortable and be able to expand my skills and understand more about gaming in general.

So You're Going to Make A Game For The Very First Time
I also really liked the article "So you're going to make a game for the very first time". This article had so many informative and useful points of information for beginners like me. Something I will definitely be taking from this article to "reign back your ambition. I have a tendency to sometimes rush into things and make things too intricate, so I now know that this is something that could make me very stressed so I should go with the usual instead of the unusual as it will work more in my favour.

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