TOE week 14: The Jim Cunningham Philosophy.

                So last week I struggled with fixing a very broken thing. The day after I wrote that blog about how hard it was to fix the damn thing I fixed the damn thing. The problem basically came down to an error in direction. When traveling to the left I was multiplying in the Y direction (up) when it was supposed to be multiplying in the X direction (side to side). Basically this seemed to make the player check for a collision with the ground in the upper right corner of the player, something that can pretty much NEVER happen as only the left and right lower corners ever touch the ground. Finding this problem took 5 days because the code for walking up a slope and maintaining the player speed is pretty complicated. A bunch of math is involved that I don’t want to bore you with. 

                Then I spent the rest of my time fixing my decrease in power problem. Something happened and all of my parabolas and push colliders all decided that they were no longer powerful enough. My boomerang only would fly out slightly in front of the player and the player would no longer move upward in the push colliders. I thought it was the addition of the art that did this BUT I deleted the art and still the power was too low. So I upped the power and fixed all of the ‘broken’ things. I hope that I don’t have to do this yet again when my computations compound but again I don’t know what happened. 

                I was supposed to paint this week… I didn’t. If I’m being honest I was afraid. I was afraid that I would do something and break the game. I want to say that I have created some simple and yet versatile code but I can’t really confirm that. So unfortunately for me I let fear get the better of me. So after I finally solved my Zoolander problem I ran into the Jim Cunningham problem. (Kudos to you if you get that reference or Googled it.)

                I should probably take heart that I am still solving my problems even if not on a time table to my liking. Means I am still able to work it out in code. Coding is not my strong point but I am still managing. I guess I need an attitude adjustment. I mean I have overcome all of the obstacles so far, basically nothing has stopped me. Also I have finally made it to a part I’m good at! The painting part.