It is now the end of the fifth week of this summer research program. It is quickly approaching crunch time. All of the deadlines are now looming over our heads. With that being said Lemonade Stand is looking really good so far. I’ve put a lot of work into balancing the game through changes made to the event. I spent the early part of the week messing around with the way events got created, even added a delay that for all days before day five would end the function before an event was created and ...

Spent a long time play testing to make sure that I'm ready to close the ticket for now. That is now done, the ticket for random events will be closed. Then the rest of the day I spent playing around with the gui to see if I could get it so that there could be a option to change what recipe you were using at the end of the day. ...

I adjusted the values that the cups were being sold at to scale depending on the difficulty setting. Then I tested some of the changes that had been made. Then started looking into how to add in a way to in a way to select a recipe while in game because I would have a chance to ask questions of those who knew how the gui worked because they would be in the same room. ...

This blog post is meant to supplement my inability to attend debrief yesterday (Thursday June 28th) due to me being unable to connect to an internet connection. Old Buisness ACTION: brush ask for some badges to test with nope ACTION: brush make some circles with new inkscape skills to play with done ACTION: brush get Sash onto the xo nope ACTION: brush ping #sugar about saving whole files into DSObject pinged, no response, found how to link the files correctly on my own. ACTION: brush ...

Well this is troubling. Since I've taken on the task of understanding how the journal works in the OLPC XO laptops, I have learned a great deal of information regarding the sugar datastore. HOWEVER, as I claim more and more knowledge for myself, I keep finding myself at points where I cannot physically progress my understand because the only documented information about datastore is contained within this single document. Its a 1 to 1 ratio, ...

Ahead of and behind myself Today was an interesting day. FOSSmaster Decause was out of the FOSSbox all day, carrying out business in Syracuse. For this first half of the day, the ranking member of the office was Oddshocks, a bit of wild man, never hesitant to speak his mind. However, later in the day Threebean came by and gave us all a [presentation on GitFlow](http://threebean.org/presentations/gitf ...

The team, Stephen Jacobs, and myself began talking about creating a more dynamic feel to the game. What I mean by this is making the game feel like anybody can be able to customize what kind of the stand they actually want. For example, maybe somebody would want a hamburger stand or even an ice cream stand. To show this dynamic and customized version of the game, we will be able to load in different sets of images and ingredients to the game with a simple click of the button or simply adding in ...

I finished all of the finishing touches to the first version of the new UI including a menu screen, difficulty screen, a tutorial of a short slide of images, and the challenge mode which caps the playing time after summer is over. For now, we defined summer as 90 days and after that the user will be taken back to the main menu to play again if they please. I spent more of the morning typing up descriptions for each tutorial screen hoping that I was descriptive enough so that after children go t ...

So DAWacker found out why the events weren't showing up after five days had passed. It wasn't working because I was using the variable's name when checking how many days had passed when I should have been using the property's name. He the decided to fix it himself and in the process of fixing that he decided to completely rewrite a helper function that I had written and was still in the middle of testing, which prevented me from continuing working on my ticket. So I spent the morning looking at ...

Our valiant leader was unable to be with us in person but he was with us in spirit and irc. But the one and only threebean stepped up to the plate and taught the humble Lemonade Stand team how to use gitflow so that we may be more efficient at collaberating on large projects. What I had worked on was learning how to build a sugar activity on to an XO because I had never done that myself personally. I needed to do this because the resolution of Lemonade Stand was mad ...