Friday, 3 October 2008

Week 1: 22nd - 28th Sept

First week back to uni and straight into 4th year with a bang! Been told to come up with the area we wish to study for our project. I'm still very much unsure but still looking over the most relevant topics that I'm interested in. In particular, looking at websites which may have more information on the types of problems surrounding the topic, what people have done so far etc. For next week, we've been given the first worksheet to do, which is designed to help us reach the final research topic and ultimately the research question. The first worksheet is as follows:
  • State the topic of interest that you may wish to take forward into a project.
  • Indicate the issues surrounding this topic that you may wish investigate.
  • Outline your initial ideas about how you would carry out the practical aspects oft he project. i.e. what do you envisage yourself actually doing for.

To answer these questions, I have to finally decide on the topic. I think that maths would be the best decision for me. I'm very interested in it and how it is involved in the game design and implementation process as the is a lot of maths/physics in games. Still really unsure what area within that topic i could do. Some thoughts were:

  • how characters/objects collide with environment
  • how real life elements eg, wind, friction, are implemented and the problems surrounding them
  • movement/reaction of characters/objects with this environment

I will keep looking over the resources to try and get this narrowed down so that I can submit my first worksheet.

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