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Week 3
12017-12-12T10:01:21-08:00Javier Juanillo9f51bd896df7c456d1ecbd23694d6b9aeaa9073d230792Alex's Week 3 journalplain2017-12-12T11:19:49-08:00Javier Juanillo9f51bd896df7c456d1ecbd23694d6b9aeaa9073dThis week was a week where I tackled major personal issues for the first time. I decided to take action and seek help through campus resources and my friends network. I began to look more reflexively at the aspects of my life and initiated the push to begin changing my perspective on many issues.
We looked at examples of how games can act as a platform for social issues and began talking about the strategies, technologies and methodologies that can be deployed to strengthen this idea.
I began to think about how I could potentially harness these capabilities in order to express my experiences, ideologies and social platforms.
I've always found it natural to express myself via storytelling and art work such as drawings. In more recent times, I've discovered the power of film and digital media. I began to try and compose everything I've learned in both personal experiences and academic ones so that I could bring it all together into a project for this class.
Unfortunately, I had a serious case of writer's block and being indecisive on top of the struggling with my personal matters. Never a good combination for an artists trying to produce some work...