Monday 29 November, 2010

SORRY!
Yesterday, before I could post, my dad forced me off the computer, because I had spent the whole night yesterday working on my "GAME!"

SO, for today, I'm posting right now about yesterday and later on in the day, I'll post about today!!!

Now then, the game I mentioned is a fairly simple game (it's flash too!). You might be familiar with an online flash game called "World's Hardest Game Ver. 1 and 2". Anyways, my game follows similar rules and objectives as the World's Hardest Game, in which the user, controlled by arrow keys, has to advance their token (a square) from one side of the screen to the other side. Sounds easy? Well, inbetween the screen are numerous blue circles which bounce up and down in a fixed position. If the square grazes a circle, then the user loses a life and has to start all over again. The circle moves at fast speeds, thus increasing the difficulty of the game. Currently, I have finished programming the code for one level, however, I still need to polish a few things, such as the screen-flickering (although I set the screen to graphics mode), the boundaries (so the user cannot "cheat" and avoid the squares by going outside the screen), and what happens when the user loses a life (instead of resetting the level, the user stays in the same position, only with one less life).

As you can see, my game still needs to be polished a LOT just so that the first level will function properly! I plan on finishing the first level before school is out, then working on new levels during the Christmas Break. Until then, I have to focus on my English Compare and Contrast Essay and my ICS Substrings Assignment and Programming Test.

Yesterday in class, I completed the first four Substrings Assignments with no difficulty whatsoever. After that, I continued to work on my game for the rest of the period. The Programming Test has been post-poned to next week (thank God!), however, I don`t really feel the need to panic about the Programming Test because up to this point, everything that we have learned has been really straight-forward (input, output, selection, and repetition). Just in case though, I`m going to review a little (around 15 minutes a day) for the remainder of this week to refresh and review everything, because I have a pretty good feeling that this Test will be a lot harder than the previous Test and that we will be given less time to complete the test (last time, we received almost two minutes for each mark), so maybe this time, the Test will be out of 50 and we will have 50 minutes to complete it, or...

...enough worrying. It does not matter what the test will be out of, because I know that if I`m prepared, then the Test will just be a big review of everything we have learned!

Until later on this day, that`s all for today!