1. what were your concrete goals for the week?

“Test the swipe attack, merge with dev branch and create a PR, finish the MVP by implementing the win (boss health = 0) and loss (all players’ health = 0) conditions!”

  1. what goals were you able to accomplish?

The swipe attack is implemented and tested! It’s currently being merged. I implemented basic MVP logic, then it went through a few iterations of changes and is part of the current merge. There were a couple of PRs and code reviews/help with testing that I did this week.

I also refactored some code to make boss attacks more easily reconfigurable. I’ve implemented the stomp attack for the boss in the boss attack branch.

  1. if the week went differently than you had planned, what were the reasons?

I think I tried a more “let’s do it and then fix what goes wrong” mentality which helped with progress, though there were definitely fixes that needed to be made…it was fun though! And a good way to break the programming equivalent of writer’s block.

From the teaching staff’s suggestions last week, I set up a time separately with Ryan to meet up and get work done together over the weekend, so we can both be productive. We agreed on a time, and I commuted to school for that meeting. After waiting for him for 30 minutes, I checked in with him, and it was only then that he told me he couldn’t make it.

  1. what are your specific goals for the next week?

I enjoyed working together with the team last week, and I’m excited to merge more functionality this week for a better game! In particular, I want to test and merge the stomp attack, wrap up some loose ends, pick up whatever else needs help, and have a fun presentation on Friday weee

  1. what did you learn this week, if anything (and did you expect to learn it?)

I did a bit more OOP and typecasting review this week. I also though more about how we set up the attack infrastructure, which was a good thought exercise in code design.

  1. what is your individual morale (which might be different from the overall group morale)?

I’m excited about our progress! I think the game has a lot of potential so we’ll see what happens over the next few days :)