What were your concrete goals for the week?

• Get the Game Engine set up
  • Basic GameObject / Component system created
  • Clean it up and network it
• Work towards getting the basic animation system set up

What goals were you able to accomplish?

• I was really only able to get the basic GameObject / Component system set up

If the week went differently than you had planned, what were the reasons?

• I bumped into a lot of problems trying to implement what we wrote up for the game engine because I got caught up in trying to get the semantics we wanted, using C++
• The week wasn’t as productive as I had hoped, this was basically just because I didn’t put in as many hours as I should have

What are your specific goals for the next week?

• I want to fully get the GameObject and Component system set up and networked
  • Thread-safe MessageBroker / Component system
  • Clean up code / files
  • Networked components set up
• Then I want to implement a basic game with multiple players and a boss NPC
• And I want to work with the group looking into the files for models and animations

What did you learn this week, if anything (and did you expect to learn it?)

• I learned about the Singleton design pattern, and I expect to have to learn about this sort of thing if we wanted to make a thread-safe type of decoupled structure
• I also learned a bit more about the thread safety in C++, I also expected to learn about this
• And I had to relearn about some C++ basics because it may have been a while since I’ve done more complex OOP

What is your individual morale (which might be different from the overall group morale)?

• My individual moral is a bit rougher since I had a lot more issues than I was expecting, but I am happy to have figured most of it out