TOE week 47: Slacking Off While Showing Off

The week before this I was on vacation. It was really busy, seeing family as we usually do over the summer. I didn’t get to work at all. So much of my time was spent around the hotter part of the state where our families are located. I did however get to show off the game to my father in law, brother in law, father and a friend of mine. I didn’t let the first three play the game because I brought my Xbox dongle but like a genius I forgot to bring along a controller. My friend though she had a PS4 controller and I figured that would work. 

This was a dumb thing to think apparently. Did you know that the PS4 and Xbox controllers use different numbers for the buttons? Cause I found that out when we plugged in. My friend she could open a portal but couldn’t teleport through it. I did look up that button 8 on PS4 is the share button where as button 8 is clicking the left analog but I did this after the fact. Also jump is the square button and is A on Xbox. Basically I think every button on the face of the controller rotated clockwise. This is good to know whenever I get around to porting this thing to PS4 or PS5. I could have had my brother in law look at the game in this way but there was a time consideration and honestly I didn’t even think about it. 

Another thing that happened was my friend she managed to detach the player’s head. You know the thing I thought I fixed weeks ago. I blame the PS4 controller.

Then there was this week and was honestly about as productive as last week. I had no time this week. Everything this week was either car or baby class or just decompression from vacation. Showing off my game to family was pretty great. Now I just have to get back to work on making this thing so I have more work to show off later.

‘This week’ and by this week I mean today. I made a Fire push collider. It is basically the same thing as my push colliders but this push collider only pushes you if the portal is open. The idea being that the portal blocks the fire and pushes the player in the given direction. If the portal is not open the player will take damage. So yeah any amount of work next week will be better than this week.