FINALLY A BREAKTHROUGH!!!! Today was our second work from home Friday. This time I was working from Cortland New York, about 2 hour away from RIT and the FOSSbox. My main mission continued throughout the week trying to get the Lemonade Stand Activity to create a journal entry. Previously, I had emailed a former surf member for some tips on how he worked with OLPC during his time with the FOSSbox. I was directed to his Open Source Blog to research what he did wi ...

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Today was a good day. I tried joining in on the order of wings with everyone and determined that I do not like it and won't be joining any future orders. I also redesigned how the game Lemonade Stand selects the random events in an attempt to make it be able to change the frequencies of events based on difficulty. However this has no made the Impossible difficulty a little to hard so I need to re-balance the events. With my new design we also need a few more events to really spice up the game. S ...

Hi all, I redesigned the character for lemonade stand. I did not think the previous character was transferrable enough for players across the world. So I gave him a lemon head. That may have been a strange solution, but I thought it would be better to take race and gender out of the equation. Also having a lemon for a head is kind of funny! However, I am a bit worried I am designing this for too young an audience. Maybe lemonheads are cool in third grade, but once fourth grade rolls around the ...

Hi everyone, I have been bouncing around a lot with what I was working on today. I got a decent amount done. Here is a run-down: Lemonade Stand: -I have been working on Lemonade Stand game screens. (And fixing up and re-aligning some shapes on the cash box image) I want to revisit them some more tomorrow, so I haven’t committed them yet. -I changed the layout for the screen. I do not know if that can be easily done code wise, or if there was a specific layout that needs blank space in certai ...

CODE SPELUNKING!!! Yesterday was a very dirty day digging through code. The entire day I was looking at two sugar activities. SkyTime and Lemonade Stand. The ticket assigned to me was to get Lemonade Stand to make an entry into the journal. I used SkyTime as a parallel test case to see if something was blocking the journal from accessing the activity or if I needed to add some fun ...

When tickets are assigned, code is slain. I have finished cleaning out the daily log and created the mini game screen for kids to be able to interactive with and separate the log for the mini game. This cleared up our logs a lot and makes all of the information look less clumped together and more comprehensible for kids to read and understand. These were my first two tickets I have closed on GitHub! As for now, ...

The Boat sank. With that and the power outage this week so far has been an interesting group of mechanical failures. I'm so glad that it isn't my machine this time. Today was a productive day for me. I spent the day working through the random event code in Lemonade Stand. I've managed to add in a few more negative events by going into the constants file and adding some more dictionaries to the list. I then made the negative events decrements a percentage of the items instead of a flat amount. R ...

Tuesday was an immensely more productive day than the preceding Monday. Without power outages, we were able to get down to work quickly, and stay focused. After catching up with my blogs, I began a new search into the Journal of OLPC by pining the #sugar irc room. A fantastic fellow with the irc handle of "dnarvaes" pointed me towards the sugar GIThub repository of the journal which you can find Here. The relevant modules of the sugar repositories are sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, and sugar-datast ...

After looking up the syntax of dictionaries in python I've come to a better understanding of Lemonade Stand's code. I gave up trying to work on the ticket I was assigned because there was just to much overlap that I was very unproductive. So I've switched my focus for now to work more on the random events that happen to the player and balancing some of them to help try and slow down the rate the player earns money. Today was the RocPy meet up. Most of us here for the summer went. We heard a tal ...