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 In this blog post I intend on running through some possible ideas for the game that I am going to create. I will discuss where I got the inspiration for the game from, my ideas for the art style and mechanics I would like to include. Idea 1- Cat simulator My cat Ham, the inspiration for my cat sim My first idea is for a Nintendogs style game where you keep and care for cats. Another big part of why I would want to make a game in this style is that I recently got a kitten and I would like to share this experience with others. Ideally I would like this game to be a relaxing and more casual game. I would like the art style to be relatively simple, in recent years there has been a revival of cell shading and other less detailed art styles in games and I believe that this kind of style would suit a game like this. In terms of mechanics in this game I would like to include ways to play with your cat, feed them, bathe them and I would like to add some unique cats with very distinct perso...

A screenshot of my unity project  This week I began my first unity tutorial, I had no previous experience working in this program so this was a new experience for me. In this tutorial I learned how to create a 3D engine and build the beginnings of a 3D game where you control a car. This tutorial covers the basic elements of unity like setting up and editing a C# script, adding scripts to an asset, controlling a camera and other basic elements of unity. This tutorial really helped me in getting a grip of unity and learning more about the program. I'm looking forward to continue with my unity tutorials and to go onto using the skills and tips I learned in these tutorials when I go onto developing my game

While reading these three articles about game design and how the process of game design works I learned a lot about the work that goes into creating a game. Game design link One of the most significant elements that was repeated throughout the three articles is the idea of ' ideation '. In all three articles there are examples of how game designers use brainstorming and other forms of ideation in order to develop their ideas. Idea development is incredibly important as it leads to creating interesting and innovative games.  In addition to a focus on ideation there was a significant focus in these articles on the idea of  collaboration  within game design. The second article has a section focusing on direct examples from game designers and how they work on creating interesting ideas for game design. According to this article most of the game designers they spoke to first work on ideas by themselves before bringing them to others for feedback. This way of working on develop...