TOE week 53?: Slightly Larger than Goose Egg

Well I haven’t really been able to work on this for about two weeks. I did work on my Spotlight enemy. It now will Lock On To the player and if the player gets out of the Spotlight’s vision it will then Lock Off and go back into search mode. There are some different problems with it but it effectively works. However there seems to be a problem with the underlying game itself. I want the projectiles to be avoidable but right now the player can just out run the gun fire so there is really no penalty to being spotted. If I just increase the speed of the projectile then the hits become more ‘mandatory’ and I didn’t want that either. My AI for this enemy right now is Artificial minus the Intellect. I wasn’t really sure how to fix this so I did the ‘smart’ thing. I stopped working on it for two weeks and played Slime Rancher. 

I did also work on my figure drawing because for whatever reason that helps me draw Giant Robots. But full disclosure I pretty much ignored this project for about two weeks. Whoops! The smarter thing to have done was to give up on the Spotlight enemy and work on a different enemy that I need. Instead I played an adorable Farm Sim. In some ways you could justify Slime Rancher as ‘research’ but not to the degree that I played it. I also picked up Destiny 2 from a Red Box because God knows my love hate with Destiny 1 and you cannot justify this as ‘research’ in any way really other than “hey this game contains the following things that will not be appearing in my game.” Then list EVERYTHING. 

Is it ironic after a post about how to work hard and get what you want my productivity was pretty much a goose egg over the last two weeks? I don’t know I will ask Alanis Morissette if and when I run into her at the knife store.