i’m writing the mandatory travel blog post. i’m doing it. i’m gonna stop staring at my screen and i’m gonna write the mandatory travel blog post. we’ll get through this. it’ll be fine. i spent most of that morning packing, dropped down to the breakfast room to get a few rolls to sustain me, not … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

Day 7 was the remaining part of the game jam and I stuck with my new group. We worked on adding the audio, the art, and backgrounds, as well as bug fixing when we got lunch. During lunch, I wanted to try adding a boss attack. So within the last 30 minutes, I started and … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

S’up y’all! Today was the start of the game jam, so there’s really not much to talk about! I was teamed up with Tamura, Naoki, and Ryuki from KCG, along with Belle and Esther from RIT as part of team 3. The theme was “collaboration across cultures”! After meeting up and brainstorming (and doing a … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

Today was the first day of the game jam. I spent over half of the day trying to download Unreal Engine on Professor Jacob’s laptop since my 2015 Mac would have never been able to handle that as it can barely handle Unity. While I was waiting for it to download, I began helping another … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

I planned this day to be a relaxing and recoving day which was needed after traveling to Hiroshima the day before. I spent the day shopping with a small group of other students. I used this day to buy gifts for my friends and family as well. When I found out I was going to … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

We started the day early to catch the bullet train headed for Hiroshima. After getting off the bullet train, we stopped at the dome – the last remaining building from the bombing. I’ve seen so many pictures of this building and appreciated the opportunity to see it in person. It was fascinating how this building … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

alright today we’re doing a two in one. because the event lasted two days and it’s kind of like one chunk of memory. you get it. i’m afraid i don’t have any pictures from this time since i was busy working, but i will attempt to go into the most interesting parts. hopefully you have … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

Right outside of our hotel in Akihabara, Toko Today was the day we said by to Kyoto and bullet trained back to Tokyo. It was really sad leaving Kyoto because we did so much there together, but I was reallly excited for Tokyo. We bussed to the train station in the morning and then rode … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

Today was mostly traveling, taking the Shinkansen to Tokyo and then from there taking the local subway to Akihabara.  The Shinkansen ride was about the same as before, but this time I bought an ekiben to take with me on the train! An ekiben is just a bento box that many people buy to eat … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”

Today was the day the entire trip came down to… Upon arriving at KCG after a hearty breakfast at the hotel, we were met with temporary internet issues at KCG which bottlenecked some from downloading assets or Unreal Engine. During this time, our group specified our game as a trivia game on different elements between … Continue reading “the akihabara descent”