There were several times today were I forgot to look at the IRC because I was far to busy digging through the code to see how I could improve the event generation system. I really like how it turned out so far. The changes that I made today was that I finished up having the events be chosen at random but with weights factored in. Then I set up a way for some effects from events scale and some not based on if the change is positive for a flat amount or negative for a scaled amount. ...

Workin' Hard or Hardly workin', eh MAC? At the start of the day, I felt pretty positive. Threebean was in the FOSSbox today, and I recalled our previous code diving experience. He told me that someone from ITS was worried about the routers and was a bit unsure as to why they were sending de-authenticating packets to someone network. I introduced myself to someone in the ##rc.rit channel and sent an email declaring that I was the victim/culprit of the network is ...

Ello, Badges for FOSS@RIT have been made. There is still quite a list of old hackathons and other achievements that I need to make badges for, but a large chunk is done! Attached are some badges I made today: AttachmentSize foss badges green.pdf 262.16 KB ...

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, ...