Supervisor Meeting - 05

Student Name: Christy McLaughlin
Supervisor: Ryan Locke
Date: 16.02.15

Agenda

• Discuss Last years blogs
• Mention my new hallway idea
• Question about using textures via cgtextures.com etc

Progress Report

• My concern with the blogs is that I found some of last years blogs, quite short and some a bit too personal. When I brought this up Ryan told me not too worry - that my blogs were going very nicely. I am keeping them up-to-date and showing exactly what I need to be showing.
• I wanted to ask about using the likes of cgtextures.com as I have been creating my own textures in fear of copyright and not looking as good an artist as those who do their own work. He told me that I was not being graded on my texture creation but I was being graded on how effective I communicated a horror story through the environment. So to save as much time as possible, by all means, I should use cgtextures.com and other similar resources. Of course I will be editing these textures and crediting the original picture in my dissertation.
• I never got to discuss my hallway idea due to a heavy discussion on research

Agreed Action Report

• Look at Journals - Journal of Gaming Worlds - Game Studies Online - Sage Journals
• Use Google Doc too - Visualize Dissertation - Log journals/references
• Use cgTextures to my advantage - credit where needed

Personal Notes

Another good session today. Ryan was pleased with my progress and just really wants too see my research move up a gear! So I will start looking into journals and using Google docs to store references. As well as the research I wish to test my environment so fr and progress with the rest of it.

For Next Week

• Using google docs - create a visual document for dissertation
• Research into a few journals - make use of storing references
• Start developing first event of story - 'Gravity Law'
• Get a few people to test my environment - initial level

I am now at the stage where everything is needing some form of attention so it is important for me to time manage efficiently. Tonight I am going to do my final polish of the bedroom scene. I will then leave this until around April until I finalize it for good. I will begin developing the rest of my environment. I want to test this room and get some constructive feedback that I can then apply to the room and the rest of the environment. Research is hugely important so starting tomorrow I am going to begin with that and get myself a good amount of research over this next week.