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Escape Room Game – Creating Puzzles
At this point in development I have completed the entirety of the first room. I am very happy with how it has turned out and the puzzle difficulty seems appropriate. In the coming weeks, over the next two sprints, I will be working on the remaining two rooms the the puzzles within. One of the…
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MVP Almost Done
I originally chose this project because I really enjoy game development and I saw this as an opportunity to learn more about a game engine which I previously had no experience with. I also wanted to work on a project that was creatively fulfilling that I could share with friends and family as I made…
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Technologies Learned
The only major technology that I have learned in the process of developing my 3D Escape Room Game project has been Unreal Engine 5. However, because of how much there is to learn in Unreal Engine 5 in order to accomplish the task of creating a whole game, I have been very busy learning about…
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Code Smells Vs. Clean Code
One thing I would certainly like to avoid when coding is making my code “smell”. Code smells are often things that make code hard to read or understand. One such instance of a code smell would be a bloater as described here: https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/smells . A bloater is a section of code such as a function…
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Development Underway
Hi all! We have now started on development. It was a bit of trouble actually getting Unreal Engine 5 up and running for myself and another teammate as it is a large and intensive program. However, we were able to move past that hurdle and have now developed some parts of our game! I have…
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Planning Done
Hey everyone! My team and I have been very productive since my last post. We have found a project that we are all excited to be working on and have now completed the first phase of planning! An important step to complete before any coding ever takes place is to decide what your goals are…
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Introduction
Hello everyone! My name is Sean Brandon and I am writing to you from Southern California (PST). I enjoy rock climbing, surfing, going to the gym, chess, and playing video games. I started learning how to code when I was in high school after my friend suggested we learn python online. I enjoyed it so…
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