Deadlines
Flash games are interfering with my plans to finish this Java game.
Right now, I have a fully functional, moderately clever, highly configurable Monopoly bot, which is really the most interesting part of the assignment. The rest (that is, the actual game of Monopoly) is just boring details, so it’s not likely I’m going to finish it in time for the Wednesday deadline ever.
Note that this is the same assignment I was originally going to write a tower defense game for, and then a 3D Rubik’s cube, both of which were abandoned after the interesting bits were done (in the former case, the path-finding algorithm for the bots, and an OMG OPTIMISED collision detection algorithm; in the latter, the data structure describing the cube), which counts for 70% of my final grade for my Java class.
Clearly I have attention span issues.
(Exhibit B: the net of a tesseract, constructed out of my grandfather’s business cards. I was going to make a Menger sponge, but I ran out of cards. Procrastination++)
Edit: The deadline isn’t this week. I wrote 2,023 lines of Java and about 300 lines of XML in three days and the deadline isn’t even this week. It’s a month from now. Fuck.
(For comparison, all of Muffins is only about 20,000 lines of PHP, and The Mansion, which I worked on for over a month, is 3,962 lines of C++.)
Skatje said,
May 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Wait, wait. You were writing a Monopoly flash game?!
Finish it please. Want. ;.;
Cairnarvon said,
May 18th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Not Flash, Java. The playing of Flash games is interfering with the writing thereof.
I’ll probably still make an effort to finish it, because having this class again next year would suck. It was originally going to have an Anti-Monopoly variant as well (possibly through defining game rules entirely in XML), but that’s not going to happen either way.
Skatje said,
May 19th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Reading comprehension for the win. >__>
The rest of what I said stands.