Wednesday, January 20, 2016

John Frankel, Week 2 PPJ, Blog Post 2, GMAP 378

Orgainizing Trello in preparation for GANTT chart
I spent some time adding all of our basic tasks to the trello board and orgainizing them by, administrative, programing, and art tasks.  Since we do have due dates for all of the administrative tasks I added the respective due date to each task.  The rest of the tasks will be moved into the proper weeks task as those weeks approach.

(1.5 hours)

Working with TJ on some unity problems
TJ had asked me to help him with an aspect of his game.  We attempted several different methods of controlling his character and none seemed to work optimally.  This was annoying becaused I used some of the same controls with many other games.  It may have something to do with working with zero gravity, but I believe there is something odd about the setup of his level.  Call it intuition.  He decided to used the basic controlls the other games were using with things like rotation locked and additional drag to stop the ship when it is not moving.

(1.5 hours)

Slot machine
I was able to complete the code needed to run the slot machine.  I am not really pleased with it, (there is a bit of hard coding that still could be improved upon) but I believe it is more than functional for our purposes.  Each slot can have X number of icons in it, each icon needs to have a script to give it information on what level is chosen.  It is currently very slow, but the speed can be adjusted by a public variable at any time.  For instance, we could use it to speed up the machine after each chosen slot.  The speed will be the same for all of the slots, so it is best to shuffle the icons between each slot so that they look different.  I am hoping it is a simple task to add the level select functionality into the slot machine, but that will depend on how encapsulated the level setup is.

( 5 hours)

Positive
I got a lot of work done and it looks good.

Negative
There is a lot of things that need to be done with the slot machine before it looks presentable.

Total: 8 hours.

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