Week 5

Hey everyone! I completed the week and everything is going well. This week was more of the same: programming games and playing facebook games. This week however, the data we were collecting for the games was of a different variety. This week, my supervisor wanted us to accumulate data on the number of free credits we could get just by initially signing in on any given day. This includes any freebies the game may provide, like daily bonuses, free lotteries, bonus wheels, etc. Now that we have the data, the higher ups will analyze it and plan the next step to take.

Challenges: The new game I am programming has line pays, scatter pays, and some sort of weird stack pays. Usually, games will have a line pay. For example, if the game has a 3x3 grid, three in a row could be a win. There are also additional patterns; these are called line wins. A scatter win would look at how many times a certain symbol appears in a row. Based on the number of times it appears, the pay changes. Then, a stack pay is a pay that awards the player for a reel containing consecutive occurrences of a symbol. I'm having a hard time formatting all my text documents and programming in order to account for all three methods of pay.

Victories: Our floor in the building is getting a lot of new renovations! Our floor finally has a restroom, which is, needless to say, very convenient. I did not really have much of a hand in this, but still it's very nice to be part of this transformation.

Thank you all for reading! Some weeks it might be a little boring (especially with this post title), haha sorry! Hopefully you learn a little something about slot machines. Until next time!