Update 11/25

Happy Thanksgiving!

"Last week's goals" turned out harder than expected.  I should have known given how much trouble I had with it before.  I ran into a few problems.  First, picture hunting still proves to be time consuming.  Second, picture editing takes even longer.  Third, I couldn't get the right look and had to do a few different approaches.  This section has some visual elements that needs to convey the information clearly (and subtly for some parts).  It took me a while to make sure the player has a fighting chance.

Lastly, I had a clear idea on what to do, but I didn't have a clear design.  I literally sat down to do some work, but couldn't get anything except some high level stuff.  I ended up going back to design work before I could continue.  The "weekly" goal seems to work out well, but now I think I only found half of the solution.  I think I need to find a way to balance some design goals while focusing and making sure I do some coding as well.

Tentatively, I thought it would be balanced by hours, like 1 hour working on design and 3 hours on code.  But it's really just design needs to reach a certain point where it's more productive to code than doing more design.  I plan to give this more thought.

Goal 1: Production planning- find a method to balance design work and code work.
Goal 2: Finish up in between work.

Update: 11/5

Starting with Goal 1: I finally managed to get 4 hours worked on it.  When I was setting up the goals, I completely forgot about halloween and world series.  I got to the 2 hour mark a couple days, but then stalled for a while after that.

Goal 2: Alternate route is about 90% done.  I had to make some changes since it felt a bit too straight forward and repetitive as I was coding it.  I was having a tough time with the last 10% until I realized it depended heavily on what pictures I can find.  So that will remain at 90% done until I get to that part.  I think I'll need another hour to finish up the last 10%.


Lastly, I thought I was going to fail Goal 3 too.  But I came up with an idea that I like right now.  Hopefully, I'll still like it when I start coding it.  It will require some photoshopping and some picture hunting.  This is something I really want done and over so for my next set of goals...

Goal 1: Work 3 hours.
Goal 2: Complete the in-between work, including picture hunting, photoshopping, everything.  Should be completely ready for play testing.