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Mike and I have attempted to switch gears a bit. We came to the realization that somewhere along the line we had shifted from our original goals and bitten off more than we could chew by adding in the creation of an entire game engine instead of our original goals of mathematics/physics and UI development. In order to expedite our research to make up for lost time, we’ve talked to Polack and suggested that we give the Valve SDK a try. I’ve been fiddling with it and have been able to successfully load the maps we created last week and have begun working on a basic entity. I’ve followed a tutorial and have a basic entity that switches directions every so often. I’ve now begun working on creating a ball that spawns within the world that can be picked up and thrown by the player. The purpose of this is to begin the study of physics with game environments (specifically that of Valve) and the usage of collision detection algorithms and bounding boxes. I’ve got the basic code working, but I’m having trouble getting the ball to spawn all the time and when it does it appears as a static entity and the player can’t interact with it. I’m going to iron out the bugs and should have it fully completed by wednesday.

Time spent: ~4 hours

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