Devlog #16, posting this while at school 🏫

What I did:

• Fixed bugs in my minigame, there are still some left to resolve
• Fixed a bug where when you press try again, it put the user directly in the story mode even if they wished to play the mingame
• Fixed of bug of the emergency glow, it kept glowing after u pressed try again
• Rewrote parts of code I used AI in
• Removed and added new comments to make it more clear and not so chaotic
• Fixed the pygbag sizing issue
• Last thing, I previously had my setting.json file in the .gitignore for testing purposes and I forgot about it so my settings are what were seen by others instead of the factory settings they should have seen

Notes:

• Fix minigame
• Optimize for low end devices
• Possibly add mobile or tablet support??
• Make new v3.0.0 releases??
• Releases for many OS??

Devlog #1

What I did:

• I made my schematic for my alarm clock
• I finished making my PCB, I added a silkscreen to it too
• I am going to make my case now

Devlog #15, this is a big one

What i did:

• So graphics are finally in I would say
• New hover effects like button glowing
• CRT lines, I first added them, didn’t go as planned removed em it the felt dead for some reason so added that back again
• Light mode
• The major one, improved the mini-game, a lot, it take up the whole screen now instead of just a section like it was earlier, it has added particle effects, and actual landing zone, star backgroud, fuel and velocity control
• The mini game looks real good but there are some bugs, many I would say
• I am currently working on fixing sizing issues with GitHub pages, I think pygbag is causing it via my deploy.yml

Notes:

• When the bugs are removed and the sizing issue is fixed I think I will be ready to ship once more

Changes Requested Devlog

• New file project.html for the projects subpage
• Removed glowing effects cuz they look AI
• Improved the projects page

Devlog #2

What I did:

• Added a navigation bar on top, it has a translucent effect like the Apple’s liquid glass
• Added underglow to the sections
• Added more of my projects with pics and videos
• The project page has its own subpage within the site
• Added a contact me section
• I learned how to make custom backgrounds with CSS I would definitely be using that in the future

Devlog #1

• I set up a basic structure of my website and repo
• Right now I only have a .html and .css going to add a .js soon
• Also have to add more stuff, gonna be a fast project

Devlog #1!!

What I did

• I made my repo and my file
• Started and finished my style.css file
• I learned new styling method
• I am going to work on my index.html now

Final Devlog

• My application got accepted and my slack bot is live, test it out using /aerobot-help
• I finished my README and changed the ping response from Pong! to I am very alive!!!
• Also added a bot image
• The bot is ready to be shipped

First Devlog

What I did:

• I set up the project and the repo
• Added new commands
• I started with some commands that used API but after trying for a while only my /aerobot-iss works so I ditched the ones that weren’t working and added some new ones

Whats next:

• I am waiting for my Nest application to get approved and I have to complete my README then I will be ready to ship
• Also, whoever wrote that guide is awesome, it helped me so much and is very clear, thank you!!!

Devlog #14

What I did:

• So after I 2nd ship, I went to AirVenture so no code there, It ruined my streak
• So I have finally, finally pushed the code on the web by making it entirely pygame then I ran pygbag so it is now finally live on GitHub Pages
• Proud of myself, there is still some work to do like fixing bugs

Notes:

• My ship rating reasons suggested to add graphics so currently working on that
• I also have to improve the loading screen, looks like shit
• The biggest bug was getting the character and line spacing right, funny ik

Devlog 13 !!

What’s New:

• I added Reset All Settings to default button, to reset every thing to the “Factory Setting”
• New setting, users can adjust how fast the typewriter writes on the screen
• If the user passes the mini game and lands successfully, they would unlock the option to just play the minigame instead of have to go through the the whole story again

Notes:

• I promised that I will release web, I tried, failed miserably, so I am just releasing a new .exe
• I tried everything to pygame, didn’t work out, then tried to host it on noVNC, it acted up to, I finally gave up after 5 hrs of trying, didn’t count that because that was trial and error and not actual coding (although I did had to make and modify my Dockerfile like a 100 times)

Devlog #12 !!

What I did:

• So as u guys know I added audio controls in the previous devlog, I made it even better now
• The settings menu is now in pygame instead of tkinter
• The slider changes color as the volume is changed (It looks so cool!!!!! )
• There is a new “Mute All Sounds” check box

Notes:

• tkinter sucks, I loved it at first it was easy but as my code becomes more complex it just causes unnecessary bugs, so I plan to switch entirely to pygame
• After I make the switch I can finally publish it to the web so you guys don’t have to download the source code or an .exe file (I was planning to do this, I got many reviews saying that a website would be better, so I am doing that)

Devlog #11 !!!

What I did:

• So I switched from ctypes to the pygame audio engine this is so when my game is played on MacOS or Linux it doesn’t throw errors because ctypes is a Windows thing
• Added a settings menu to control the volume of the background music and the emergency sounds. The user preferences are saved using a .json file
• Updated my README.md so the instructions to how to play my game on another operating system aren’t broken
• Thanks to my ship suggestion, I am trying my best to implement those suggestions into my game and have already done so with a few of them!!

What might be coming next:

• I hope that I can add to the settings menu so the user can control how they want the colors to look in the game, so basically full customization.

My first ship is finally here, after 3 changes requested, I added a try again screen so the user doesn’t have to through the loading when they try again now it just shows there tries. Thanks for the idea from my first ship.

Fixed the bug made the buttons disappear if your screen was too small or you weren’t fullscreened

v2.0.0 I think??

What’s New:

• New Landing minigame!!
• 3 difficulties
• The minigame features SPIKES!!
• Improved GUI

Changes:

• I orginally started building my game on tkinter thinking it would be easy because my rest of the code was build on it, but I was wrong, it was so annoying to work with and caused so many bugs that I decided to switch to pygame I have never worked with pygame before so I ha to learn and then figure out a way to combine tkinter and pygame.
• Also, pygame is not supported in Python 3.14 so I had to do pip install pygame --ce the community edition
• I got it to work and I am so proud
• The video is a bit speed up

I cleaned up the UI and linked the Solar Sails choice in branch 2 to the ending choice of branch 1.

I know I promised that the update after the SFX one would be customization but I want to focus more on the game itself so I would just be adding a Dark and Light mode. And doing more customization options later.