#warren tech

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May 5th, 2020

I accidentally slept in and missed the all-class meeting, but either way today I’m just going to keep working on what I was doing before the weekend, which is making the enemy AI for the deep underground game. 

I have a coroutine set to go off every few seconds that adds a force to the slime enemy based on the relative position to the player, so that it will always try to move towards the player. next I’m planning on making the bat code so that it will always go towards the player every few seconds for a set amount of time before pausing. 

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May 1st 2020

Wow, the year’s coming to a close and it’s all just now starting to really set in. Either way nobody has joined the discord group call yet so I’m just going to work on the stuff that Olivia has listed out for me in the trello, which is primarily just making enemies spawn in at specified points and actually giving them certain behaviors.

I’ve got a script written that takes an array of gameobjects representing the enemies, and then selects a random one from that array and instantiates it at its position, so hopefully I should just be able to make a prefab of this enemy creator that I can pepper throughout the level wherever an enemy needs to be, I haven’t actually tried it out yet so I should probably do that.

it seems to be working, at first I forgot that it instantiates the objects using worldspace coordinates rather than relative coordinates so it was just creating the objects right in the world origin so I did a quick fix so that it creates them at the spawner’s position, I should also probably add code that destroys the spawner once it’s been used, but that can wait for a while until I get the basic enemy scripts finished at the least. I would update this with more information but it’s getting a bit close to the deadline for this workblog for my liking so I’m going to go ahead and leave it for now, but I’m definitely going to be doing some work over the weekend.

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April 30, 2020

Today I’m primarily working on getting the physics all working properly for the game jam game that olivia is in charge of, by the looks of things we’re either going to scrap it altogether or work on it through next week depending on what happens tomorrow. I’m having troubles getting the player to properly interact with the slopes and making them slippery like they should be.

this is obnoxious to say the least

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April 23, 2020

wow, I don’t think I like being project manager. it’s surprisingly difficult to get clear answers from everybody as to what they do and don’t have done, as well as pushing people to get more work done so that we can have everything finished by the deadline

I’ve been taking a big part of the day to just put the game together, we’re running low on time and I need all of the art assets in asap but the artists can only work so fast

this update is due at 3:00 but I’m going to keep working probably for another twelve hours just to get this finished in time

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April 22, 2020

Today’s a much more programming-centered day for me, as we’ve pretty much figured out the story and how everything is going to play out, it’s just a matter of getting everything put together so that it works. I’ve completely reworked it so that instead of our old system it’s going to be more branching-path based.

I got my old typing code from the wyoming project set up so that it’ll go through an array of words and display them, and once it reaches the end it displays buttons for the player to click to make their decisions.

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April 21, 2020

Today is the first full work day on self investigation, and for now I’m taking more of a designer role for this project since I’m the project manager. Penguin and I have been figuring out the logic trees of how the different branches you can take are. I’m going to have to make a lot of scenes, one for each branch taken, which will make things more complicated

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April 17, 2020

Today is the beginning of the “Step Back” game jam and so I came up with an idea for a game that’s point and click where you start off by being killed, and you have to “step back” through the day talking to people (and figuring out your relationships with those people)

So far we’ve got 6 different character ideas (other than the main character) created, and I think I’m really starting to like the role of being a designer instead of just a programmer

We’ve got a pretty good base for the story line of how the day is going to progress from end to beginning for some of the different routes you can take

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April 16, 2020

I’m not going to be able to get as much as I usually could done today because we had to move our router today because the wifi’s been pretty spotty lately here at home Today I think I’m just going to be doing a little bit of polishing and cleaning up because we don’t really know what the next few weeks are gonna look like I made it so that whenever you buy an item from the shopkeepers the button to buy the item disappears.  I have to go now so I feel bad for not being able to get a lot done but that’s life in quarantine I guess