CAGD 370 - Blog Post 1 - 10/8/2023

         The making of our prototype has been going well so far everyone has been doing their work and there have been no issues so far. This is my first time using agile development and I think it is also my teammates first time using it, so we are all trying to figure out how much work we can do within one sprint period. Personally, because I have never used this format before, figuring out how much work I can get done within one sprint period has taken me longer to figure out. It is taking me some time to figure out because my workload is changing week by week with my other classes while also trying not to burn myself out with just one class, because of this during the first sprint kick off I assigned myself to little work so I went back and had a couple more cards assigned but then was unable to finish both of them by the time the sprint was over.

                                            
        I did get very close on one of the cards where I was trying to have the hand of the player detach and then have the hand become the new player. I was so close that I was able to complete it the night of sprint two kickoff but the other card I was not able to start until later. The reason for that is because after I finished detaching the player, I had pushed it to GitHub but when my teammates tried to add something to the project a few of the prefabs broke so now we have to figure out why that happened and also fix those prefabs.
                                            
        The work I was able to complete this sprint was the player movement and camera as well as the hand player movement and camera and as stated before I almost finished the detachment and reattachment of the hand from the player. What I am working on now is getting the hand to climb up walls when it goes up to the certain walls that the hand will be able to climb. My team planned it out well as one of the team members has already finished the look of the certain walls, so I get to take those and use them while testing the hand climbing instead of making my own wall and having the potential for something to break later down the road.
                                             
        With this being the first prototype, I have worked on with a team it has been nice having those people there to help bounce ideas off of or having someone to help you because they know the vision of what you are trying to accomplish so you don't need to try and explain as much to them. Also because I am in a team it has helped me get more work done during the week instead of push it off until a later date as I don't want to hold them back so I now have a system where I need to get some more of my work done each day so I accidentally sabotage my team or make them get a worse grade because I was too lazy to get my work done ahead of time. It also helps that the lead of the team has to check the work so I can't wait until almost the last minute and dump all my finished work on them at the last minute. Something new that I am doing to help me is set a goal of where I can stop on my work for each day, or I set a time limit if the work might be too difficult, and I don't want to burn myself out and leave no time for my other classes.