Weekly blog assignment #5
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Hi everyone! I started out this week with finishing my bounce power-up, I did have some troubles with it as it had some bugs. After spending a considerable amount of time on it I asked for help from our lead code, after a few iterations we were able to solve it and now it works fine (most of the time). The main thing I worked on this week was creating a instructions state, where the players can see two pictures that explains the rules and game mechanics. As this was the first time I actually created a new state I was confused and did not know exactly were to start. So I spent some time on just reading the existing ones. To my surprise, creating a state was not as hard as I thought it to be. It introduced me to some new ways of thinking that I had not earlier experienced when I just created monster classes or managers that just used things that already existed. It also helped me to understand the whole structure of all the aspects of the code we have. For example I had never used to GUI class that we have before and now that I have created the new state I had to use more parts of our code than before. All this really helped me with some things that I earlier had problems with and that is too understand how to connect all the dots in the code. More than that, the state was not something especially difficult as it was a really simple state that had very few elements. First when the player clicks on the instructions button while in the menu, they first see the first out of two pictures that explains the game mechanics. At this time, when they are looking at the first picture, there is one button they can press that takes them to the next picture, there they have two options, either go back to the first picture or exit to main menu. Here is what the two instructions pictures look like.
Also, I am the one that will hold our BETA presentation on Friday, so I have spent some time on practicing for the presentation. I prepared my speech by listening to music on my headset on a high volume so I could not hear myself speak. I find this a very good way to practice, as you can not hear yourself stopping between each sentence and saying “uhm…uhm”. Just tonight I practiced one final time and also made a nice powerpoint presentation with our art as background as a final touch. Wish me luck and tune in next week for more! Ara  |
