May 7, 2009 1940

I'm bored in class again! I'm taking two other classes that I didn't talk about last time - Game Development and an AI project course. Both ofthese classes are project courses, and both worry me.

In my AI project course, I'm working with gem, the Kubos, and Ethan. We're creating AI algorithms to play the game of Battleships. I feel like we're pretty behind. We've yet to combine code at all. I've been working on the actual algorthms, but until I get the file reader/writer and main game loop, I can't really test my algorithms.

Game Development is worrying me too. Here at UCI I'm working with gem, Ethan, and a person I met in class named Tony. They're all programmers. In addition, we're working woth a group of artists from the Paguna College of Art and Design. Our planning has gone great. We know what we want to make. Art design is coming along well. I've been impressed with the concept art Ive seen so far, but we haven't finalzed by designs yet. We're meeting this Saturday for the first one to really discuss things.

We're just getting started on the prgramming for it though. It's due in about five weeks, which is not very far from now. By that time it needs to be playable, but we don't really need it to be complete. It should have one level, a small selection of enemies, etc. After the class ends, I'd like to continue working on it. I know most of the artists feel the same way; I don't know about the other prgrammers though.