BREAKTHROUGH

After getting practically no help from the 3 forums I posted to, I finally had a breakthrough.

IT MOVES!

This sounds really pathetic, since I've been working on it for, what, a month or 2? But I don't care, I'm finally getting somewhere and it feels great.

Right now, the shapes are overlapping when they're supposed to be next to each other, so I need to fix that, but now I can finally move on to making this game happen.

And I thought just making the little organism was going to be the easy part... Just think what I'll have to go through to make autonomous organisms...

Sample will be uploaded as soon as I iron out the bugs.

5 Weeks Remaining

Jackie has successfully drawn up the website. You can actually visit the prototype (with no game currently) at edge-project.tripod.com.

I can't say as much for myself, however.

I'm still tearing my hair out trying to make this happen in Flash. I'm stuck trying to get the organism to follow the mouse.

Yes, I'm that behind.

Unfortunately, I can't go any farther until I solve this problem. I've posted on 3 big Flash forums (ActionScript.org, Flashkit, and Kirupa) and no help yet. Last time I had a problem (drawing the polygon shapes dynamically) I posted on ActionScript.org before going to bed and had a solution the next morning. Hopefully, the same thing will happen this time, with 3 solutions to pick from. I have it all coded, and I feel like it should work, but I'm probably missing some obscure detail that's probably counter-intuitive and takes 4 years of actionscripting before getting used to.

That's all for now. I'll update again when I get an answer.

Spring break

Or, as it should be called "winter break 2," considering there's absolutly nothing spring about this weather in Cleveland, at least for those not as fortunate to be going on vacations.

Well Spring break was spent working a lot, and relaxing a little. I spent a large chunk of this week fighting with Dreamweaver, considering I haven't used it, there were a lot of lynda.com tutorials involved, and a lot of stress, but now that I've got the very basic skeleton of the website going, things are looking much better compared to a few days ago, or even a few hours ago. Cory has had a huge ammount of work to do in other classes so that's what he has been focusing his energy on, not much to report on the programming of the actual game. Starting to get nervous, but I know we will pull it off.

That's all for now.

MIDTERM

Wow, tomorrow is the midterm presentation, and we don't have much to show for all of our hard work. The new flash application is no farther along (or dare I say, less far along) than the original Processing script.

Thankfully, Knut, our Prof, is very understanding. He said that he "loves failure." I think he meant to say that "we learn more from failure than from success"; perhaps something got lost in translation from his native Swedish to English.

Jackie has been working hard on the website design: a nice "logo" graphic and the main buttons have been masterfully executed in Photoshop. Here is a preview:
Hopefully the website layout will be done soon. And perhaps the game will be done sooner? Probably not. But one can dream.