Class Hours: 10:05 – 2:40
Mr. Cronin
Notes
- Election Day! Vote if you can! Remember – If you are against my personal beliefs please remember that you vote tomorrow. (this is a joke, go and vote!)
10:05 Attendance and Article
10:10 Unreal Engine
- Variables
- float – 1.34, 4.25
- integer – 1,2,4
- boolean – true, false
- Functions
- Game Instances – persistence of data level by level (the game remembers the value of the variables when we do a level jump)
10:50 Morning Break
11:00 Critiques
Each week we will upload our work on Monday. I will then present your work to the class. Each project I will pick a student to practice giving constructive criticism. Constructive criticism is a type of feedback that offers specific and actionable advice to help employees to improve. In the professional setting we need to be to talk professionally about the work, even if you don’t “love” the person who created it.
If selected, you will pick 1 thing that works, and 1 thing to improve upon next time. Remember we are separating the Design from the Designer. We are looking for actionable input.
11:30 Illustrator Starting Screen Creation
Let’s get out feet wet with some basics of Illustrator to create your game title screen.
Let’s get it into Unreal as a proof of concept – we can always update throughout the week.
11:55 Lunch
- No food in the room / eat in the Cafe.
- You are welcome to return to the room when you have finished eating and work / hang out.
12:25 Attendance and Article
12:30 Unreal
- Mouse control to the UI – by default we can’t click on anything, as our mouse control is trying to control the game.
- Give control to the UI from the game.
- Give control to the game from the UI – back and forth as needed.
12:50 A Gentleman in Moscow
Imagine being sentenced to spend your life inside a luxury hotel. In A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Count Alexander Rostov faces exactly that. Trapped in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel after the Russian Revolution, he builds unexpected friendships and watches history unfold outside. The novel asks an important question: Can you still build a meaningful life when your freedom is taken away?
A class read-along gives us a chance to slow down, disconnect from screens, and get lost in a great book together. As we read, you’ll naturally build your vocabulary, strengthen your reading skills, and experience a story.
1:10 Afternoon Break
1:25 Speed Design
Speed Designs are 10 minute sprints in GAWD where we practice. It could be any medium – 3D, 2D, video, programming, etc.
1:40 Afternoon Practice & Production
Design Homework 10: 10 Floating Boxes in 1-Point
- lastNameDH_10.jpg
Week 10 Agency
- lastNameAgency_1.jpg through lastNameAgency_3.jpg
2:15 Dailies
2:20 “19 Minutes”
Every day in GAWD will end with “19 Minutes” of silent reading. Closing down our day with silent reading provides many benefits:
- Improve Literacy Skills / Reading Stamina
- Create space for a small reading meditation where we can disconnect from the world and get lost in a story
- Unplug
At the end I will 3 students and ask for a 1 sentence explanation of what happened.
2:40 Dismissal
