First Game Complete

Hey readers! This week was pretty awesome! As I'm sure you can tell from my first post title, I completed my first game today. It was not without its difficulties, but nevertheless, it is done. I'll be talking about the new things I learned this week about programming.

Well first off I learned about progressives. Progressives are basically jackpots that increase as time goes on. Go on a Facebook casino like Double Down and there are some games that have visible progressives, which actually shows the value of the jackpot at the top of the game. In the game that I helped to program, there is a sort of jackpot/progressive. When I programmed it, I made the game have a jackpot instead of a progressive that increments. Someone more skilled will go back and do that for me later, haha.

Additionally, I was shown some cool ways of thinking as far as programming goes. For example, I was reminded of how to change the inputs of a function in order to make a program more efficient. Instead of having to make multiple variable in multiple locations, you can make a function have one more input variable, and you won't have to constantly redefine it. I'm sorry if that made no sense, but to me, it was great!

For the data that me and Armin are collecting about the already existing Facebook casinos, now we are writing a document about the social aspect of each casino. By the social aspect, I am referring to the frequency a player will be shown the wins of another player in order to promote tournament play. We are supposed to finish analyzing all the games by Thursday of next week.

Challenges: On Thursday, I accidentally deleted all the work that I did on my game, so I had to finish the game all in one day. Being sick that week didn't help either. But now that I've done one, I think I will get faster at the next ones.

Victories: I now think I understand what I am doing! Honestly, in the weeks prior, a lot of time was spent staring at the computer screen pondering "What am I even supposed to be doing right now?" Now actually know a little!

Thanks for reading! Maybe one of these days I will post some pictures of what the office looks like. For now, just imagine the stereotypical office... Perfect. That's exactly what it looks like. Talk to you all next week!