REVIEW!!

Well unfortunately I haven't been able to blog for the last few weeks due to school exams and other disruptions... So, information dump.

INDEV CHANGE LOGS:

## Match'n'Grab V In_0.01:

## Created by Alex Engelbrecht, AEG

## Version dev begin date:  04/09/2012

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## Version dev end date:    04/09/2012

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## Current Features:

##          -Imports all useful modules

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## Additions and Changes:

##          +Importation of modules

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## Match'n'Grab V In_0.02:

## Created by Alex Engelbrecht, AEG

## Version dev begin date:  04/09/2012

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## Version dev end date:    04/09/2012

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## Current Features:

##          -Imports all useful modules

##          -'Constants' class for storing

##              system variables

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## Additions and Changes:

##          +Addition of class '_constants'

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ALPHA Change Logs will be posted once Alpha version is completed.

Review:

Progress is a bit behind schedule but going well, game will be finished on time.

B.14159265359

Okay, this day for me is a milestone. Today I officially complete the planning phase of this assessment and moving into the actual production phase. Order of operations for the creation and completion of the Indev--Alpha version will continue (roughly) as follows:

1) Create game folder/file structure

2) Create code objects:

-Word/Picture objects

-Falling Obstacle objects

4) "Grabber" code object

3) Create main game program (Word/Picture object matching, falling obstacles, etc).

(1--4) Debugging program: All the while I will be upgrading and creating a "Debug" console so that I may interact with the game or diagnose faults behind the scenes.

The Indev/Alpha Test Plan has been created pre-development.

Then with the move to the Beta version comes the inclusion of:

-Level Selection Screen

-Functioning Log In Screen

-Extra Levels/Themes

-Inclusion of modding API

-"Real" Sprites (instead of "Dummy" sprites)

A Beta test plan will be created as features are added.

Another Weekend Ahead...

So ends another week, and begins a new weekend. For me weekends are time of work. And this weekend I shall work. At the present time I have completed my brief and have begun making essential files for running the game, as well as folder structure. By next week I will begin coding.

The future...

At the moment I'm so lazy I wont format that title.
Anyways...

Expect posts to get more frequent as I begin coding, there will be an update at the end of each or almost each day, as well as a major post at every new version update. These major posts will include a change log, showing Additions, Modifications, and Removals from the game, along with an up to date bug report on new, persistent, and recently removed bugs.

Back to B.e(ish)

I have now almost recovered from my setback a couple of days ago. I am planning that a lot of hard work over the weekend should put me perfectly back on planned schedule. So far I have re-done my mind map to approximately what it was before hand. Story-board is coming along, as well as my final specifications brief.

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Well... Lost my USB stick yesterday... And back ups are out of date. What do I call this? C to B?  Yes I am now slightly behind unless I recover my USB stick. In order to stay productive however, I started writing some pseudo code. Yeah. That's it.

Meh.

Unfortunately I didn't complete my specs brief today as I hoped, however, I am still a week ahead of schedule. I will complete the brief over the weekend in order to keep this week ahead of me.

Another A
"My Journey From B to C"

In the very first post on this blog I discussed the philosophy of the Adventurer setting out on his journey. Like all other journeys, the Adventurer does not travel from A to B, but instead from B to C within the entire journey A to Z, as the real question is not "How does the Adventurer get from A to B?", but instead "How did He get to A in the first place?".

Today I have started another sub-journey within my journey from B to C. This day marks A in B to C. Call it B.a; but is it? No. Because how did i get to that .a in the first place? In fact, this may be about B.d or even B.e.

This B."e" milestone is the beginning of the write-up of a Final Specifications Statement Brief. This will include a list of initial brief points along with self identified step-ups. It will also include story board, code flow-chart and pseudo-code.

POST!!!

First Order of this Meeting:

"An Update on the Holidays"

Most of the holidays were spent brainstorming ideas for themes to be included in my game. So far, identified possibilities are:

-Emotions (Emoticon faces, match with emotion, e.g. HAPPY, SAD etc)

-People

-Food

-Sports

-Animals

-Numbers

-Places

-Colours

-Things

-T.V. Shows

The other most of the holidays (?) were spent exploring the functionality of Python and the possibility of programming this game in that language. Things are looking promising.

Second Order of this Meeting:

"An Update on the Week After the Holidays, The Week Just Past"

First day back I completed the task of updating my Gannt Chart. I was extremely pleased to learn that I was ahead of schedule. Over the next few days I published my mind map on Inspiration. I now have a basic map showing categories that will be extended as I complete each category. I am now on schedule.

Today I was able to ask my initial questions. I was also able to begin making a brainstorm in Inspiration, putting me quite a bit ahead of schedule. With the holidays starting tomorrow I hope to be able to accomplish a fair amount in this vast space of spare time.

Milestone!!

(Small Update)

Completion of first milestone-I have now finished creating my plan for my assessment using Gannt Project. This puts me perfectly on schedule.

This day and the creation of this Blog marks the first milestone of my challenge to create an educational game for my school assessment. This Blog is here for usage as a tool to inform my computer science teacher Mr. MacRaghnaill of Taradale High-School. But again, I would like to come back to the original topic of this post. The creation of this Blog is my first milestone. It marks the beginning. The beginning of a new journey. I do not know fully where this journey will take, or how it will end. But, like all great journeys, I hope this will end well, and I hope I will pick up many memories, good and bad. And above all, I hope I will learn something. Whether it be to improve on something I already know, or to learn something completely new all together, or even both. I mention the creation of this Blog as my first milestone, the marking of point A on my journey to B. But philosophers and even physicists and mathematicians alike have said, "As the adventurer sets off on his journey from A to B, the real question is not how gets from A to B, but instead how he got to A in the first place." Does this not imply that our life is not a set of journeys, but instead a single journey with many different parts in between? This for me is not a single journey, but a small part of my journey through life. It is not my journey from A-B, but instead my journey from B-C, in my entire journey from A to Z. So if this is not a single journey, but a small part of a single, whole, entire journey, is my journey from A to the beginning of B-this journey not important?