Polishing Earth Survival Game

Polishing Earth Survival Game

How the game looks now 

Today I felt like polishing up my game so that I could move on and perhaps make a new game. I started out with 2 major things that I knew I needed to finish up. The first thing I had to do was make the asteroids remove the planet from the game. This was easy since I already knew what code I was going to use and so I just copy and pasted it and after some modifications, it worked. Then I decided to put in the ending into the game. This took a bit longer than making the code remover work since I was now working on two different classes and I wanted to make sure that everything worked. This fear and caution towards making the end game state was mainly due to my last game where it didn't work as I planned. Fortunately, this time it worked wonderfully and there were no problems what so ever. This was great for me since I was really worried that I would have to spend half of the class working on it like last time. Then towards the end since there wasn't a lot of class time left I started to work looking up if it was possible to create a timer in Greenfoot. From my research it seemed that theoretically it was possible but no one seemed to have been able to yet. This made me sort of disappointed since I wanted to create a way to create a high score in the game.

The You Lose Screen

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-Moving the characters around to make the game hard + changing the speed to make the game fair
-How I plan to make the rock actors all move around differently.

Unfortunately, for me I was not able to get a lot of work done this Wednesday due to several computer problems. At first Greenfoot refused to start for a good 20 minutes. I shrugged this off since I wanted to get started and so I could finish up the game. Since most of the game was finished up I decided to start by making some unique asteroids. So I created a new subclass which spun around the bottum of the game. This was since I had discovered that if you stayed still at the bottom you wouldn't be hit by anything.

So after creating the spinning asteroids I started to play around with where the asteroids started (Look at the top picture to see it how it turned out). I was really happy with how everything worked out and how the game was actually kinda challenging. However, when this was done I realized that the internet wasn't working anymore. It was 2:30 and so I decided to go check it out. Unfortunately, for me it took a while to fix and by the end when everything was fixed, it had taken over a hour to get fixed.

Score Keeper oh Score Keeper I Hate You, You Stink

Today I realized two important things. The first thing was that while Eytan was presenting I realized that I really need to improve my game and get my own Freaky Friday up to par. Currently my presentation is a bit short and I doubt my topic is at interesting as Eytans topic (currently my topic is how the Syrian refugees are looked down upon by European due to them owning smartphones) for the kids in my grade. I know that I will really have to start considering how to improve and make my presentation better and more entertaining.
The Second thing that I realized (after I noticed that the code that I had worked on previously had deleted itself) was that the score keeper code that the damn score keeper code just wouldn't work for some reason. I tried several things but unfortunately I couldn't figure it out before class was over. So I was starting to reflect a bit about it. I believe that the best way to do this is to look over the code once again and if nothing ends up worrying after I work on it for 10 min ask Mark or Michael for help.

The Code that isn't working 

Getting Things Done

Today, at first I was not able to achieve my goals of finishing up loops and making the game over screen to show up. This was due unfortunately to the fact that the I was missing an entire section of code at the top of my screen. I kept trying to figure out why it wasn't working but I couldn't figure it out in the end. So I asked Mark for some help with the codying and he quickly pointed out that at the top I had forgotten to reference the code at the top. After doing this I realized that it worked and was super happy that I had asked Mark for help while doing this codying. I'm super happy with the results and can't wait to finally finish up section 10 and be done with all of these assignments.

The Code that didn't work without the reference

The part of the code that I was missing