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Week 2: Spark challenge!
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...
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Will Ward
Feb 1, 20214 min read
Week 1: Challenge Activity
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...
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Will Ward
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Game Development Week 1!
After what felt like a long (well earned) break after completing Module 1, I was really looking forward to kicking off this week’s...
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Will Ward
Jan 1, 20213 min read
Week 11: Real WORKS and branding
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...
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Will Ward
Dec 22, 20205 min read
Week 10: Agile Practice
For week 10’s activities and materials we returned to Agile Practice and explored the Agile manifesto, as well as looking deeper into the...
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Will Ward
Dec 21, 20201 min read
Week 10: Challenge activity
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...
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Will Ward
Dec 14, 20205 min read
Week 9: Communities of practice
Week 9’s materials and activities were all about communities of practice and presenting our second Rapid Ideation project – which I...
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Will Ward
Dec 11, 20205 min read
Week 12: Finale!
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...
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Will Ward
Dec 8, 20204 min read
Week 8: Research and User research methods and ethics
As well as completing the second Rapid Ideation task, we would also need to complete the weekly challenge task, which involved watching a...
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Will Ward
Dec 5, 20202 min read
Week 8: Rapid Ideation 2 part 2
Week 8 began the same way week 7 finished, very hectically - alongside working on the Rapid Ideation project and developing the graphics...
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Will Ward
Dec 2, 20205 min read
Week 7: Version control and Rapid Ideation Session 2!
Week 7 began with the weekly materials focusing on version control and with the second Rapid Ideation session beginning during the weekly...
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Will Ward
Nov 30, 20209 min read
Desert Island Disks
As a little aside (or bit of procrastination) from getting back to working on my blog posts after being totally burnt out from a...
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Will Ward
Nov 2, 20205 min read
Week 5 and 6: Rapid Ideation Session 1 (part 2 and conclusion)
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...
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Will Ward
Nov 1, 20204 min read
Week 4: Rapid Ideation session 1 (Part 1).
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...
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Will Ward
Oct 8, 20204 min read
Week 3: Challenge Activity!
This week’s challenge activity was to identify an artefact that you find interesting, which could be anything from an inventory system to...
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Will Ward
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Week 3: Rapid Ideation
This week, the focus is on ‘rapid ideation’ which is a term used to describe the generating of new ideas, processes of prototyping and...
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Will Ward
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Week 2: Challenge Activity! (part 2)
Having looked at some creative processes and techniques and chosen the original Alien poster as the artefact to remediate, for the first...
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Will Ward
Oct 5, 20202 min read
Week 2: Challenge Activity! (Part 1)
This week is all about fostering creativity by exploring different creative techniques, for this challenge we must select one or more...
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Will Ward
Oct 4, 20201 min read
Week 2: Creativity
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...
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