This past week, I’ve been looking at example at different usable with Arduino and what materials I would need to purchase. I’ve looked into W3 schools to practice more on HTML and get a refresher on forms and creating login in screens. For next week, I want to look into purchasing Arduino or Raspberry Pi.

To start my research for designing a gallery website for TCNJ students I researched many portfolio websites for established artists of all mediums. I started with this because their websites are always filled with beautiful work and are always clearly presented. These websites never overly complicated and present the work in a creative yet concise… Continue reading Research Update #1

In the very beginning of my game, there will be a short, animatic-like animation that’d serve as the intro to the game. I’ve been mainly focusing on that this past week and created various drafts/sketches in a storyboard format. As it’s in a sketch/draft stage, I was trying to experiment with different styles before figuring… Continue reading Emma’s Research Update #1

The Mixtape This week I researched the origin, lifespan, and the modern approach to the mixtape format. I started my dive into music history with this topic because I have coined my upcoming project as a mixtape instead of a proper album or LP. But what is the significance of my project being viewed as… Continue reading Alex’s Research Update 1

                This week I decided to mostly focus on researching other visual novels by playing through them and observing how dialog is structured and what kinds of choices they give you. This week I played through Rewrite by Key. It takes place in Kazamatsuri, a city with lots of plants and greenery. The protagonist is… Continue reading Aaron’s Research Update #1

         This week, I tried to find statistics showing the state of web accessibility in the world – how accessible are websites right now, and if they aren’t, why not?  I initially had trouble finding good data on this subject, and when I did finally find a sufficiently recent article, it acknowledged that “There still… Continue reading Kiernan’s Research Update 1

Over the last week, my research was in the form of watching the 2013 documentary The Smash Brothers for the first time. This documentary was created by Travis “Samox” Beauchamp and produced by East Point Pictures. It is a nine-episode series with each episode running at about 30 minutes. Seven of the nine episodes detail… Continue reading Luke’s Research Update #1

My research thus far has been mostly focused around shoring up my knowledge of the Unity platform and the C# scripting language. Though I haven’t been doing any research into VR, as I do not have a platform with which to test it, I have been teaching myself the software in the scope of 3D… Continue reading Albright – Research Update 1

This week I spent some time looking at several different games to help me get a different perspective on what I am planning to create. I started by looking at Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, which were fairly early Strategy RPGs. Both of these games had isometric perspectives and maps with several elevations. This… Continue reading Snyder Research Update 1