It is now the end of the fourth week of this summer research program. This was a week full of interesting events. This was the first week with the full summer crew present all week. There was a power outage on Monday that made only some of us loose power, disrupting work for a few hours. Then on Wednesday, the boat went down causing trouble with the meeting logs and many of us from writing the blog posts on time.

As for what I did this week, I found that because there was a lot of overlap on the ticket I was working on and the ticket another member of the summer research program was working on that I was often finding myself with not much to work on. So I gave the rest of my ticket to him and moved on to another ticket. I was trying to make the game a little more balanced so that players didn't find themselves earning over a million dollars profit a day in Lemonade Stand within only a few days. I was doing this by specifically working on how the game would choose the random events and making the negative random events a little more potent.

I’m fairly close to finishing this ticket. I need to play test my changes to fine-tune them so that it is hard but still playable on the hardest difficulty and to add more events with the advice of the rest of the team. After that I’ll be choosing a new ticket to start working for the rest of next week.