Week 16

Though there were some trouble getting everything to work I think overall the project went well. The kiosk mode looked great during the senior show and the AI were challenging to face in the two levels they worked best in. Also our game won game of the year and technical achievement award. So overall Id say the project was successful.

Week 15

The AI really only turned out working well in the Drill and Architect level because the others were finished too late with not enough time to properly test and tweak the AI.

Week 14

This week I tried to get the node graphs into the other levels but they are not all confirmed as final and time is running out.

Week 13

This week I worked on starting the kiosk mode. What I want to do for kiosk mode is create small scenes that are easy to load and unload. This way there isn't a large time between when the player hits the button to exit kiosk mode. I also continued iterating on the modifier menu.

Week 12

This week I worked on starting the modifier menu and fixing lots of small bugs.

Week 11

This week I started to move the node graphs over the to the Architect level. The node graphs took a long time to generate so I made the nodes further apart. I found the initial placement of the nodes caused ships to crash in to the border far too often and kept on creating new node graphs until they improved.

Week 10

This week I tweaked how the AI got the flag. I found that the AI were pathing way more then they needed to and that it would be better to go for the flag more directly using more avoidance then pathing. This also solved some lag issues I was sometimes having with pathing large paths.

Week 9

This week I worked on researching and setting up AI for race mode. I realize we may not go forward with race mode but I want to get a start on it in-case we do.

Week 8

This week I worked on fixing some bugs with the node graph. There were times when I would get errors for trying to access a node that didn't exist. I realized this was because with the addition of moving obstacles some of my nodes would get destroyed during game play.

Week 7

This week I worked on tweaking the avoidance AI. I tried to get a good match between border distance and regular environment distance to allow the ships to survive the best.