Week Five

So far, for design practice 2, I have created various works, and for the most part, I am happy with what I have made. As each week has required a maximum amount of work, I have been unable to keep up with what was expected, primarily due to the mediums and programs that I use that takes an extensive amount of time to use. Even though I have missed the amount needed occasionally, I believe that the work I have created has still showcased the total effort that I have been putting in.

As I am currently in a test phase of working, failures are pretty prominent. Usually, the failures involve time constraints and the restraint on making my work better to present. This comes from part perfectionism and the want to continue working without restraints. I have been trying to overcome this by working through the restraints in my own ways, and I believe this has helped me do suitable work that has been helping me improve with each week. I used the first three weeks as an iterative style process, starting with collecting majorly physical works and using traditional drawing and cutting methods and then transforming them into digital for the second week. In my third week, I wanted to start bringing these more into a cohesive game; I placed a few experiments that I had so far created, but they were now in a playable environment. Week three was also the catalyst for the rest of the weeks, as it was then that I started to build an official setting of where my game will be in. Taking small ideas and working through them from a concept stage to having them playable has worked well. Using physical methods that are not just traditional drawing was an exciting experience that allowed me to explore my ideas more extensively than I initially thought. Taking these ideas and transforming them into digital has also been different due to typically creating 3D assets without concepts. The various works that I have made so far will be instrumental from here to continue working on my game as I can continue to explore different ideas and push the limits of what I can do with them. 
 

In the beginning, when there were specific constraints, I followed them to a tee. However, in the first week, I quickly found that forcing myself to work within time limits and increasing with each stage was very stressful and almost pushed me into burnout. To work around this, I started looking at the time constraints in a less linear sense and used them in a way that worked well for me. An example of this is how I focused more on what I wanted to create and worked the time constraints around that in week two. I was also not too focused on how much time I was spending as long as it was not over the deadline. Working with the constraints this way took the weight off me and allowed me to work to my fullest and create all my works up until this point.