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 Last Blog Post - Reading Week 12

I have finally reached the end of the reading assignment and it's time for some reflection. All in all, I actually found this reading assignment very interesting and fun at times. I learned so much about game design, game genres, good and bad effects of game genres (I found this topic the most interesting) and so much more.

I won't exaggerate by saying it was always fun, it did get really hard at times, such as when I couldn't find a certain topic I was looking for, or even when I found this topic, reading articles upon articles can get extremely boring, but I always worked during the night which is when I could focus the most. 

What helped me the most throughout the process of the making of this book was whenever I lost interest, which is more often than one can think, I took a break and reminded myself I don't have to have the most interest in something to actually do well in it, with the whole game design topic, I was never interested, but I was interested in the research, grouping what I found, colour coding, organising, summarising, that was all fun.

I can't believe we've reached the end of this semester and the end of this book. I am beyond happy and proud of myself (despite missing 2 submissions when my goal was not to miss any this semester but I won't be too hard on myself).

That's it, thanks for reading my blog post! 







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