Week Seven

Back at it again with the weekly blog post!

This week was a trip down memory lane: Rather than starting on coding more games, we went back and made some final changes to all the prior games we had been coding in the previous weeks, using all the tips and tricks that we’ve learned since we initially wrote the code. One of the main addition I needed to make to my games was to add something called a ‘mathobject’ to certain parts of the games that had a feature which would need to be used by the programmers to indicate something special is happening. It’s a little hard for me to explain mostly because I’m not entirely sure how it works myself, but basically it just shows where something needs to happen for the next people who work on the game after us. Some math objects had different coding than others, but they were all pretty similar so my main struggle was figuring where they were actually needed.

In other news, if you guys remember the construction I was talking about earlier, they've made some significant progress, and parts of our office have been remodeled! I gotta say, the new rooms look pretty cool with all the slots machines all over the place (I should probably take a picture but I can never remember until I start writing these blogs).

We’re also starting to come up with some ideas of how to code a new type of slots game. The example we’re looking at is called Slingo, which is basically a combination of slots and bingo. The concept is pretty cool, but coding it is actually pretty unique compared to the regular slots games. Since we haven’t coded one ourselves yet, we actually have some free space here to figure what the best way to go about it is, so I’ll probably post some updates on that next week.

I also checked the fake email I created to make the Facebook account where I was playing the the online casinos, and it turns out they spam you ALOT when you play the games as much as I did, so I’m very glad I used a fake email instead of my own. After reading a few of them, I honestly didn’t really understand why they felt the need to send so many spam mails, as they really didn't entice me to play the game any more than I already do, but maybe the technique works better on those older ladies, who knows~~

Anyways, that about wraps up my week for you guys, see ya again next week! :D