Week 8

Hello readers! We are nearing the end of this fantastic experience getting to intern at Design Works Gaming. This week we spent our time very similar to the previous week: designing and programming games.. what a surprise! However, this week I started a game that my supervisor told me would be the most difficult game I have done.

In this game, there are four features: each one doing its own specific and complicated action. One feature is pretty easy; it just replaces a set of symbols with a random one from a weighted table. There is one difficult feature that is challenging me. In this feature, a specific symbol triggers the rearrangement of the symbols in order from lowest to highest value, bonus symbols being the lowest and aces being the highest. However, the starting index of the lowest valued symbol in randomly chosen from two different starting locations.

Also, this week, I feel like I have mastered the macros in Microsoft Excel (the macros pretty much export certain text documents to be referenced in the code). In order to save time, what I would do is copy the macros from one game to another, then just change a couple of the numbers that refer to certain columns and rows.

Challenges: The new game that has the challenging four features. I'm having difficulty setting up the framework in order to carry out the features.

Victories: I finished another game this week. We are getting close to our deadline for completing these games and all is going pretty well!

Also, by the way, if you are on Facebook, you should like the page Diamond Sky Community! Help the company out.

Until next week, happy gaming!