I slacked off for a week writing a blog, so this post actually represents two weeks of work. However, I can say that if there seems to be a lot done, it's not just because there is two weeks of work involved. By the second week, I realized I was on the home stretch and did a lot of work. This will be the last blog post I forsee for CBI.
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This week saw me struggling to keep interest in my game. As to why I can't be sure. It could be that all of the most interesting features of the game (the features essential to gameplay) have been added, and all that's left are "nonessential" features (not that they are not needed, but that they augment yet don't directly affect gameplay at all). Perhaps it was because I REALLY did not want to move forward on certain tasks. Perhaps it was general apathy, or a reaction to a lack of interest from others. The most plausible answer, though, is a recent increase in other distractions. I've been trying to get out of the house more and all week I've been going to concerts, dances, or to the arcade with my brother. When you're getting home around ten every night, you really start to want to just go to bed and not go back to "work."
The bug I encountered last week was a deep one. Somehow, the game would move the player and AI objects when they are supposed to be stationary, and it appeared to be associated with the UI's button objects I was using. I say "appeared" because I really don't know what the source of the problem is. I spent a whole work night trying various ideas to figure out what was wrong, where the problem lay, or whether I could somehow ignore it. Sadly, every effort to try to thwart the bug, or even just figure out what was causing it, failed. To this day, I still don't know why my game was behaving the way it was.
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AuthorCurtis Miller is an instructor and graduate statistics students at the University of Utah. Archives
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