Progress Week 11: 4/1 - 4/8

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2. I accomplished: - A lot of coding, which was uploaded to GitHub. Specifically finalized layout, and working on the Achievements, Store, Save and Load, UI, and others. Just a lot of cleaning up and adding while also figuring out there is always more to add. I know I keep saying this but I truly believe at this point the code is 90-95% complete with the only things needing to be added are: - Achievement specific text (not code) + code finalization - Store specific text (not code) - INVENTORY. I think the list button will end up becoming this as it hosts a place for all your decoration to be chosen from and activated. This should not be hard because I just need to add variables in the buy section that allow you to unlock that variable and select it for your tank in inventory. - Save and Load finalization of variables (the code is completed I just need to add all the variables to be saved and loaded) - Specific tracking for daily, weekly, monthly (a change in variables, hopefully this can be done by setting a timer based on what the goal type is. I already did this with the daily tracking timer set to 24 hrs.) ...with most of these mentions only being a few more lines of code (hopefully...) However, here is a video of the working code:

Finfillment 75%-80% Done:

https://vimeo.com/932223136

- Meeting with one of my mentors, Christian, as well as completing his Mentor Review. - Did a miniscule amount of drawing that barely ended up with one

One of the small lists I made in preparation for drawing and reference based on the information I gained from my surveying.

One of the things that worked best for me this week was using my Mentor to my advantage and having him help motivate me to talk and work with my project. I visited him a few times during this week and each time he made me sit down and work for at least 3 hours (usually from 5 - 8-ish) on code with his help if I needed it. From there he asked me if I would rather stop or having a break. He encouraged me to do more of my work in the morning by making sure I have enough rest and then waking up early to continue to work. So far, I am finding it helpful and I thought working with another person was not as bad as it seemed (especially since they weren't depending on me to finish this project. Lower stress). Although I might not be getting enough done for the deadline, I still feel like I worked hard this week and got a large chunk of things done instead of brute forcing it with little to no sleep and getting MORE done but less quality work and me being extremely unhappy in my daily life as a result. A lot of the things on this list did not get accomplished this week because I couldn't fully finish my code. So, in preparation for the next week I will just be taking this entire document and re-using the goals. I will do so because I believe those goals are what seem to be the final steps to take to have one fully completed game and I want my game to be in much better shape by the end of this.

3. One of the things Christian commented on last mentor review was my UI. I have since integrated this feedback by adding pop-ups of information throughout the tutorial and the ? buttons scattered through each part of the game. They are designed to tell you information without having to do much navigation. Another thing Christian commented on this mentor review was that I may have been forgetting some pieces in my code and would benefit from a little bit of a condensing of the UI. I integrated that advice by agreeing and slashing the "List" button that just showed a visual list of fish. He also reminded me about the user needing to be able to actually interact with their decor and such, so I integrated that advice by making sure I include an "Inventory" that may replace the List button. 4. Not very unexpected but even though I am an artist, art is still hard to do when you're completely burnt out. The other unexpected things being the code pieces I thought were done but quickly realized more needed to be added to this in order for it to be COMPLETED. Also, the completely new addition of an inventory, but I should've always assumed I needed a place for that stuff in the beginning.