Review Week Comments and Feedback

Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! Only a few weeks left of these so I'm now at the reviewing stage. In this blog I have reflected on the comments and feedback process.

Overall, the quality of comments I have received from fellow students has been great. They've given me constructive criticism on my game ideas as well as my blog layout. I found their comments really helpful and took all of their suggestions on board. Some classmates gave me ideas to help with my game, such as actions for my characters etc., which I found very useful.

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I'd like to say the quality of the feedback I have given is good. After giving feedback almost every week, I have definitely gotten better and constructively expressing my opinions. I've also learned a lot and gained some good ideas from analysing other peoples work.

I definitely feel like I got to know people better through their blogs. It was interesting to learn about people who I may not always talk to or see during college. Reading my classmate's introduction blogs taught me a lot about everyone. I'm really happy with my introduction post and the comments people left for me on it. I found out I have a lot in common with some of my classmates. I think (I hope) my blog post gave everyone a slight understanding of the type of person I am.

Looking forward, I need to give myself more time to do the feedback assignments. My time management has definitely gotten better during this process but there is still a lot of room for improvement. I may change the formatting of my blog slightly too.

Hope you enjoyed reading!😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

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