Thesis Weekly Reflection Jan 30 — Feb 6

The start of the Spring semester — and for many of us, our last semester before graduation —heralds the second half of senior thesis…

Thesis Project Change

Through a bit of advice and planning, I am planning on making more pixel art, instead of continuing my game. I discovered that coding was not a very strong point for me, and I had a hard time finding good software to make the game, such as through RPG Maker or Unity. I am a very slow…

Thesis Weekly Reflection 2/13–2/20

Earlier this week, I obtained a breadboard and a USB connected keyboard. The keyboard, quite…

Week 2: Characters and RPG Maker

Making my main character move was a long process of making sure the movement was fluid and simple, in all four directions, along with a static position for all four directions. It is easy to just change the head of the neutral character to make them male or female. It is…

Weekly Reflection: Feb 20–27

Due to the snow day last week I was unable to meet with the professor to try to get the PC as I had planned…

Thesis Weekly Reflection 2/6–2/13

This week found me a more than a little bit preoccupied with trying…

Thesis Weekly Reflection 2/20–2/27

So the snow day on Wednesday threw me one big loop. On the bright side, I finally managed to obtained a monitor with an HDMI port (thank you Josh!), which I dragged to Hack TCNJ over the weekend — an impressive feat, I might add, as the monitor was about half my very…

Weekly Sprint Feb 13–20

After trying time and again to run the code I found online for the Kinect on…

Weekly Reflection Jan 30 — Feb 6

The first week back at school is always hectic because we figure out the things we need for all our classes and determine how this semester should be. For the last week I came up with an overall schedule as I do every semester to determine what days I dedicate to classes…

Reflection Feb 6-13

This week I tried to run the code for getting the kinect signature in processing. I first went online and did some research on the game I’m trying to make which is essentially a rhythm game that involves keeping up a number of polygons in time with the music provided in the background and if a…