MA INDIE GAMES DESIGN BLOG

Week 2 explores the game design process, and the principles that underpin it. The first warm up task is to analyse a game that inspires...

This week’s challenge activity is all about taking a technical skills audit: The audit and my answers can be found below: 1. I can take...

After what felt like a long (well earned) break after completing Module 1, I was really looking forward to kicking off this week’s...

Week 11’s materials and activities looked at our readiness for work and what you need to be thinking about with regards to your next...

For week 10’s activities and materials we returned to Agile Practice and explored the Agile manifesto, as well as looking deeper into the...

For week 10's challenge activity we were asked to create a persona that might identify with one of our previous artefacts. Here's what I...

Week 9’s materials and activities were all about communities of practice and presenting our second Rapid Ideation project – which I...

Week 12 is finally here and caps the end of both an equally exhilarating and exhausting three months. Although I still have a few blogs...

As well as completing the second Rapid Ideation task, we would also need to complete the weekly challenge task, which involved watching a...

Week 8 began the same way week 7 finished, very hectically - alongside working on the Rapid Ideation project and developing the graphics...

Week 7 began with the weekly materials focusing on version control and with the second Rapid Ideation session beginning during the weekly...

As a little aside (or bit of procrastination) from getting back to working on my blog posts after being totally burnt out from a...

Following on from my previous blog, I will be explaining the process of making the game demo, what issues I’ve had, what I learned and...

Over the last few weeks, I have been working on the first of this module’s Rapid Ideation Sessions and was expected to create the...

This week’s challenge activity was to identify an artefact that you find interesting, which could be anything from an inventory system to...

This week, the focus is on ‘rapid ideation’ which is a term used to describe the generating of new ideas, processes of prototyping and...

Having looked at some creative processes and techniques and chosen the original Alien poster as the artefact to remediate, for the first...

This week is all about fostering creativity by exploring different creative techniques, for this challenge we must select one or more...

This week’s topic is all about the creative process and more importantly how it can be applied to our own practice and be used as an...