The World of Gaming

  Animated gif I made for my Steam Profile I thought this weeks tech task I could spice things up by actually designing a nice gif for one of my social pages on Steam. I was going to use a website at first but I figured I have access to all these adobe products it is a shame if I didn't use them. I started up After Effects and Photoshop, I used After effects to generate the 2 boxes and text design you see on the gif, I also placed an animated background behind it to add to the design.  Once I had everything set I rendered out the finished project but first I needed to process it as a gif so I rendered each frame out into a png which I then launched on Photoshop and process the gif there. Overall pretty happy with how it looks and it runs pretty smooth too.

I've actually had some experience trying out twine when myself and my project team used it for our "Group Project" last semester, During that time I learnt how useful of a tool it can be for helping plan a game or storytelling project. I decided id follow the example giving on the main course page and made a simple pick a number game where you ask the player to decide on a number between 1 and 10, then you ask them if it was an odd number or even number. Depending on how they answered will determine if they win or lose.  The starting position and 2 passages within the game. I continued to mess around with this task as I wanted to add the ability to return back to the main question if the user answered wrong, after a while I released I could just direct the button in the text back to the previous passage/choice using [[try again->pick]] which was helpful for completing the game.

Hello, Today I decided for this weeks tech tip id mess around with Simitator, its a website where you can build/make fake posts or comments from sites like Twitter or Facebook! Now normally this kind of stuff wouldn't interest me but lately, I have been looking for new ways to prank my friends so I figured id give it a shot. After loading the website up I began by picking a target, I went with Donald Trump as the man has said some questionable things on Twitter before so its more believable than what he would or wouldn't say online. I looked at him all his details to match them up with the fake tweet I was typing out. Fake Twitter post In the end, I was quite pleased with how it was present it looks pretty decent and if it wasn't for that I couldn't get the website to accept an image of Donald trumps face, I think it be perfect. All in all, it was a fun experience and maybe ill try pranking one of my mates with it who knows.

 This weeks tech task I wanted to give the typing test a go, I've noticed a few of my friends from the module talking about it and figured I might as well give it a shot too right? I searched up on google for a typing test and was flooded with multiple websites to use, I picked the first one on the page being Typing.com  and began the 1-minute test. Well, I didn't expect much, its a lot lower than my friends but I kind of expected it not to be the best, I never learned how to properly use a keyboard and my speed is more based on muscle memory than anything else.

 For this weeks tech task, I decided to pick something I had never heard of or known of before this module and one of those features was the google search timer! I was actually kind of blown away by how useful and this piece of information was, I mean I've never even heard of it and till this day I've always used my phone's timer even if I need a timer for something on my computer.  The way it works is when you open up the google search bar and enter "Timer (time)" it will start a timer at that exact time, it will slowly count down and once it finishes it alerts the user with the use of an alarm. I've been messing around with it for a while now and have been using it to time myself doing projects, been good so far.