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TGIF. It will be long weekend. Office will be closed on Monday. It's for Deepavali celebration. 

Updates on the game:

1. Realizing I don't know shit about Unity. 
2. Taking time to go through introduction tutorial and bunch of other basic stuff before I can do the game at all. Trying out the food prep game tutorial from Youtube helps in understanding some things, but not all the things I wanted to make. 
3. I will think properly about the wholeness of the game.

Feeling a bit restless today.

Updates:

1. Deciding to have a burger shop game (similar with the Youtube tutorial)
2. Installed Unity, Visual Studio editor
3. Imported all the assets available (consists of parts of burgers - bottom bun, top bun, lettuce, tomatoes, patty, 2 customers)
4. Adding scripts to click on bottom bun, top bun, lettuce, tomato to the plate. 
5. Adding click to patty to be cook in the grill, adding timer to make the patty dark and spoiled. 
6. Adding click to the patty that is cooked, to move to the plate.
7. Arranged a good position in the plate for the burger

Realizations:

• This is the first time I'm trying to create a game. Creating a game is hard -_- (who am I kidding...), it involves a lot of mechanics - things that need to work on at the same time, example, while you added functions for the objects (food items), you also need to add functions to the customers that asked the burger (for example), adding functions to cook the meat, and clicks to be able to click on it. or throw it away when it's spoiled. Need to remember a lot of things to work on. In the end need to add some animations/sound.
• I'm having trouble with the sizing of the objects to fit the scene, it looks ok in the editor, but when I built it, the sizing is not accurate, that I need to resize all the objects, and it's so tedious. I haven't do this one yet. I'll try to make all the functions work first I guess, or I will do resize first before adding all functions?

That's for now.

I watched a video in Youtube, that shows how to do food/prep food sim game using unity. That made me think, maybe I can do this also. 
While the illustration in the example is provided, I thought maybe I'll use my own. To the realization it's hard, and my style is limited. Well, I thought to myself, maybe it doesn't matter. Let's try to work on it. The purpose is to be able to have a sense of achievement. First work on the basics, and add in more details later on. I can do this!

Day 1 is creating assets, downloaded unity, downloaded some games just to get a feel of it. My friend recommended 1 game called Line Chef, I tried Pizza game (Good Pizza, Great Pizza), the other one is Food Truck Pup.

Here's my thoughts on the games:

Good pizza, great pizza.
Pro:

• Cute illustrations and smooth animation
• Smooth gameplay
  
• Easy to understand
• Have storyline

Con:

• one scene is too long, although i bought longer time in a day coupon. 
• after some time it became boring

Line chef
Pro:

• Super cute illustrations and smooth animation
• Simple and short gameplay
• A lot of stages
• There's a balance of hard, and easy
• Have lifes (addictive)
• Different range of difficulties
• Social games (can invite friends, send lives, etc)

Con:

• Addictive -_- for users (good for creators)

Food Truck Pup
Pro:

• Cute pixelated illustrations
• More simulations no stages, only can go to other 5 locations.
• Relaxing game
• Fun animations in locations
• Mini games to achieve 2 times rewards by watching ads.

Con:

• Too much ads, and I wasted time watching ads to get double rewards

Good combination of a game could be:

• Cute illustration and animation
• Simple and easy to understand game play
• Either relaxing simulation (don't need to think so much) or fast stages with balance of (hard and easy to achieve)
• Not too much ads
• Adding social things could be good

The game that I will be making could be far from all of this, but I will try basic, simple ones first.
That's it for now. 

This is something that I drew few years ago, using pen and watercolor.

Second exhibition that I went to is Wonderland. It's more of interactive exhibition and it feels more interesting that floating utopias. Although I think some of this installation are dedicated for children, still it's very interesting to see one. Everybody was given a map, that you can plug in to a screen, and it will give you different stories of different views (Mad hatter or Alice or Heart Queen? - I can't remember). Sadly, I only found 1 screen where you can put the map. I'm not sure if I missed others though. The most interesting part, is when you put the map and take the picture of your face, you would see yourself as a card soldier on the screen. I think it's quite cute. The last one is an interactive video where everybody were seated as if they are in tea party. How do I feel about this? It's normal. Maybe because it's too short :). Here's some of the photos, and one video.

I went to this exhibition in Art and Science Museum in Marina Bay Sands. It's basically art installation with inflatable objects. You can say big, giant balloons in different shapes. The exhibition shows a lot of information on how different inflatable objects were used. Here's some of the photos in the exhibition

It's funny sometimes when I thought about it, my flavor palates are different now when I'm younger. For example, I didn't like Earl Grey tea for the longest time because.. I thought they smell horrible, like old tea that's kept in a warehouse for a very long time. Until one day, the bubble tea shop selling earl grey milk tea - with bubbles of course. I thought, what a smooth and fragrant tea that I'm drinking. Bubble tea days are over now, well, at least I don't buy from outside shop not because not that they are not great, they are so nice that I convinced they use a lot of sugar (although I always ask for the lowest percentage. FYI, I'm cutting down some sugar, including sweet drinks, soda, ice cream, cakes.... and to replace the craving, nowadays I drink earl grey tea + milk - no sugar. 

I didn't like Pu-er tea, because well, smell and taste funny, but one day we ate heavy and oily lunch. One of my colleague brought Pu-er tea and she said it will flush down all the oiliness from your mouth, and it's true. I feel better after drinking one. 

When I was younger, I don't like herbal soup, because it's like drinking medicine, nowadays I feel a bit healthier when I drink herbal soup. 

I hate vegetable juice that my mum always make when I'm home, it contains celery, bitter gourd, bell peppers, cucumber, apple. It taste bearable with apple, but it smells horrible. Nowadays, I don't even smell it, just to think of the health benefit I will have drinking the vegetable juice. 

Is this me getting older? 

I love cooking, and baking. Well, maybe not so much baking because it needs a lot of time and patience, also cleaning up is an effort. I also love to illustrate recipes, and I put some in this link www.theydrawandcook.com/artists/lina-kartika . All the recipes there also I uploaded here, because it's easier to see them. Also, as I'm moving to new place now, I have more time to cook! I will add in more recipes as I go along. Please enjoy them, also feel free to feedback and comments! 

I've been busy because of the move to the new place, also some days after that, my parents were visiting. For a few days my mum was not feeling very well, so we didn't go out that much, and spent some time to bake sugar cookies. I thought of adding plain white fondant and color it. I thought using fondant made of marshmallows would be better, but using icing could be simpler. My kitchen was a mess after that!
So, here's all the cookies I drew.