Per Joshua Tornetta's suggestions, here are some further thoughts about my Essay 3 - Game Level Design Process.
To me, the whole purpose behind this assignment is to identify the general process that each of us uses to complete tasks. I have chosen to do this by talking about one specific task that I did in the past, and seeing where I could have done better by altering my process.
In general, I don't think I do enough preplanning with my tasks. I don't have a job, so when I say tasks, that normally means tasks relating to college work. I think the message that I want to get accross to my audience is that preplanning is important so that you can do the best job possible. I have done pretty well in school, college and otherwise. However, in the case of the game level I designed, I could have made it better by doing preplanning in the beginning of the project.
Before I go into the actual content of the essay, I should say that I have already written the essay and think that I am almost finished with my first draft. I started off the essay with some background information about Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. It seemed like this would be a good idea in case anyone in my audience is not familiar with the game. In the second paragraph of my essay, I talked about the features of my finished level. This way, the reader would know about the finished product first, and then read the rest of the essay to see how I got there.
The UAT class where I created this level gave us the last two weeks of the class to create and refine the level. Therefore in my essay, I divide my process by the first week and then second week. I had to determine what the requirements were for the level, and how I could accomplish them. I think the two most important things that I learned from this assignment is that preplanning is very important, and also having time to review your work is important.
So, those are my further thoughts. Thanks to Joshua Tornetta, and I hope this makes my pre-writing opinions a little clearer!
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2 comments:
Good call on the preceding, I feel that you're holding back. A lot is in a sense bottled up inside, let your true emotions show. Even if they're hate, let them shine through your words.
Could you publish the essay and share the link on the blog? That would be great.
Sure, Robert. Here is the link to my Week 3 Essay: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgg98mfs_6gpz3c9&hl=en
As you can tell when you open the doc, other students have said that I probably got too specific with my description of my level design process. This is the first draft, so I will try to fix that situation when I do my second draft. I hope that I can do this draft later this week.
As for your beginning comments, I don't necesarilly think I hold back. A closer description would probably be that I filter what I say and write based on whether it unnecessarily hurts others.
I also try to convey a very happy sense of being because that is how I usually feel. Whenever I have to go to the hospital, the nurses are always surprised at my happy attitude. My dad jokes that I am that way until I am blue in the face. So, I guess you know a little more about me now:)
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