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I'm not going to finish the game design course until October.  I'm just going to do the EMA.  I'll sort out all the actual making of the game stuff when I have time to enjoy it, which I think I would, if I didn't have these other courses hanging over me like a weighted blanket.  So I've printed off as many of the resources as my printer could handle before it coughed, spluttered and informed me it was low on fluids.  If only it ran on water like me.  I guess ink for the printer is synonymous to wine for me.  We both cost money if we are to function effectively.

I've pushed so many things to October I wonder if I'll have time for it all.  No I don't, I already know that I won't.  After my S3 exams I have 3 months, into which I have shoved years and years of unaccomplished tasks, most of them huge and impossible, half of them things I should know that I will never actually do, some of them important things that I have to do, and some of them just things that I really want to do.  All that will get done in reality are the really important things.  I guess I mentally store all the other things because otherwise the view would be too depressing to bother looking at.

Tomorrow I have to do my game design EMA.  Thursday I have to do my web design EMA.  Friday I'm out of here; backpack of wine, wellies, hats and multicoloured layers - it's time to kick back from all this virtual nonsense and lie in a field with bass thumping up through my fibres until all my stress is pumped into the atmosphere, and far away from me.  Rock on.

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Best of luck!

Out of interest what course in game and web design are you doing? I;ve only just started the level 1 courses and in my spare time been doing some web design and development, and would like to progress on eventually to designing some super awesome games!

 

I hope you have fun at the festival, and that the weather stays dry!

ROSIE Rushton-Stone

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Hi Tim,

I've put the links to those courses below.  I wish I had taken them when I had nothing else to do but enjoy them.  Unfortunately they have had to take a back burner.  I didn't anticipate there being so much optional study, that I'm sure would be beneficial.  If you've already done quite a bit though, then these would probably be a bit basic for you.  Maybe a level two would suit better.

http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/t151.htm

http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/t183.htm

Hope you also enjoy your festival!  Good luck with your studies smile

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Thanks Rosie!

They sound interesting, I might enrol for one just to boost my points toward a degree.

All the best big grin