Feedback Strategies

The two articles I choose to read were Be a Mirror and What Kind of Messages Help Kids Grow

"Be a mirror" also refers back to Carol Dweck , its to do with your mindset.                                   Normally whenever I receive feedback, i normally feel as though its all criticism  more so than anything else but by looking at the quality steps in this article its actually a much nicer way to give people feedback with not making them feel like their work they've done was poor.

Qualities:

1. be specific
2. focus on what there doing, not what there missing
3. focus on their process
4. make sure the feedback transfers
5. take yourself out of the feedback

Be a mirror for the other person to see what they can achieve by this feedback/ what else they can do.

In the second article, it says to get rid of the generic praises  when praises kids like "wow!" "Great job!" "Well done!"

Carol Dwek is already influencing parents with the growth mindset and the "Yet" 

So when a child says " I cant do it" the parents are now replying with "you cant do it yet" to give the kids hope and make there mindset growth instead of fixed, to push themselves and want to challenge to achieve and not let failure define them.

Power to "Yet" Video

From constantly reading articles about the growth mindset its opened my eyes to believing the power of Yet and how it doesn't make you feel like a failure, you just haven't completed the task but your nearly there, and I do believe this theory of feedback will work.

Game Idea Research

From receiving feedback of Shaun I felt as though my strongest game, and the one I was leaning more toward was the Maze Game.

So the theme for the game is a Halloween theme, as it is coming up soon so I want to go with a spooky vibe to it. The story behind the game itself is just a young boy  who went to a scare theme park with  friends and got lost in this maze, little did he realises those "hired" scarers were real people trying to go after and hurt him (Halloween gone wrong) .So within the game its him trying to run away from them in this maze and to find the exit to find his friends and leave!

My thoughts of the elements were firstly,  that the player had to collect coins but from doing more research I came across this blog of game mechanics  called Random Mechanics. I got the inspiration from this to have unlimited paths so the user has to really try to get out and also a timer to rush them and get their adrenalin going.

 I loved the idea of how the players avatar can mark their trace by painting the walls but I don't think I'm too equipped to do that in Unity yet! but its something ill try anyways. I want to also have a map to help the users to to escape the maze.

I have the image in my head of the maze that the walls will all be the same colour so its more difficult for the user to know if they have already been there or not

So in this image you can see the 3D map at the bottom of the page which is the only help that the user can get.

This is how I would also like my layout of the game to be, the coins in the top right corner, showing the how many coins the user has collected.

Unity Tutorials 02

For today’s task I TRIED  to continue on doing the Unity tutorials by watching lesson 1.4 "Step  into the Driver’s seat"

The  step by step tutorials are genuinely  so useful  to people like me who have no clue on making a game or how to even use Unity at all, however I still seem to keep having the same problems with it, does anyone else ?😕

When I go into game mode to see if what I've done works, it just keeps freezing on me and won’t let me come  out of play mode but when I do its just frozen and it doesn’t  even let me minimise the screen  of exit out of the application altogether, I just have to keep restarting my laptop for it to work, which is really frustrating and my laptop is brand new so I know that’s not the problem. I'm continuing to watch the tutorials but its not use if the apps not working 😠

Im not really sure what to do about it, hopefully ill fix whatever the problem is when Its time to start making our own games. If anyone has been having the same problem and know how to fix it, please let me know!😇

this is how my screen looks and i cant click on anything!😤

Game Elements