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Tech Tips - creating GIFs

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 Making GIFs GIFs are a great way to spice up the content on your blog, they are a more interesting way to view content on your blog. Here's a GIF I made from some photos of my friends and I on some recent nights out! All photos taken by me! If you would like to make your own animated GIF you can do so by following these simple steps! 1- Pick out the photos you want to use. 2- Head to  gifmaker 3- Upload the photos you chose. 4- Adjust the settings on your GIF i.e. the speed, if the GIF loops and the size of the GIF 5- Download your GIF It's an incredibly simple yet effective tool to make your blog posts more unique. I hope this inspires some of you to create some GIFs and add them to your blogs.

Game idea research

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 Researching ideas for my game The game idea that I'm focusing on in this post is my idea of a cat simulator. Based on some of the feedback I've received from my classmates I believe that this would be a very interesting and entertaining game. Screenshot of neko atsume link The first idea for one of the possible game mechanics for my game is to include a feature where you can ' collect ' different cats. I imagine this being like the cat collection feature in the game  Neko Atsume . This feature would allow for me to include a range of different kinds of cats with different personalities, likes and dislikes. This would keep the game fresh on repeat playthroughs. I would implement this by having different kinds of cats appear periodically in the adoption center. Another possible mechanic I would like to include would be a feature where you can develop relationships with the cats you adopt. I imagine this being similar to the friendship mechanic in animal crossing where y...

Unity tutorial 2

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An example of my C# code  In this weeks unity tutorial I added more advanced techniques to my unity project. I learned how to make my vehicle move from left to right in addition to moving forward. I did this by adding more advanced C# code to my project. I also learned how to adjust the speed of the vehicle by using C# code. This more advanced C# code has allowed me to make my project a much more functional game and more entertaining to play because of that. These more advanced techniques will benefit me when I go onto developing my own game.