One of the reasons sometimes cited for why Web Accessibility is a necessary and useful thing is that it makes websites more usable for everyone. This week, I finally found two studies that support this argument. A 2016 study by Sven Schmutz et al. (link) had 61 participants without disabilities use three different versions of… Continue reading Kiernan’s Research Update 3

This week I mainly finished the story for the demo portion and continued to work on the animatic I have planned to put at the front of my videogame. Still a bunch more frames to go but hoping to get as much as I can done by the time the Fall show pops up. I… Continue reading Emma’s Research Update #3

For this week’s research, I looked at various forms of documentaries and narrative techniques used in. I found a LinkedIn Learning course called “Introduction to Documentary Video Storytelling” and learned about the history of the genre and the main philosophy behind it. One of the facts that stood out to me was that in most… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update 3

This week I researched the different ways I could create my site. I researched building a website from scratch using a program such as Adobe Dreamweaver Also I researched using WordPress Then I looked into the website builders such as Wix and SquareSpace In the end I came to the conclusion I will need to… Continue reading Pete’s Research Update #3

This week I did not do as much work as I initially planned for. I ended up picking up several shifts at my job and because of that, the research I had done was much less than the previous two weeks. However, I still managed to do some digging on the album/LP format and the… Continue reading Alex’s Research Update 3

This past week my research efforts have been focused on preparations for animation work later this semester. I plan to do both 3D and 2D animations so I have been researching the best way to do 2D animation that aligns well with my skills. I have been studying the techniques involved in 2D animation via… Continue reading Marcus Moore Research Update #3

This week I looked into how movement and pathing work for tactics/strategy games. I learned about something called Breadth First Search, which is an algorithm used to search graphs. I suppose that it works in this case because the board is a grid, and so it can be used for determining positions, and then it… Continue reading Snyder Research Update 3

This week, much like the weeks previous, I have spent researching the Unity development platform. Much of my research into Unity entails working to create smaller micro-projects that serve to cement a specific aspect of the program. Scripting here, animation there, each project helps a little more with my research. I do realize that in… Continue reading Albright – Research Update 3

This week’s research has been the most frustrating, as I have finally undertaken art research. Thing’s are not looking great and I am becoming more accepting of the fact that my game will be laden with what is known as “programmer art”. In other words, art that is not exactly visually appealing but art that… Continue reading Chad’s Research Update #3