Monday

Today we were taught on how to use JavaScript by messing around with prewritten code. The prewritten code was a basic drawing tool on a website. This was very useful as I was able to start messing around with the code as there was already working code. After discerning how it works I was able to create a brush for making a square which was very simple and only required calling a function. I found this function online by just searching for how to make a square in JavaScript.

The next challenge was trying to create triangle, there wasn’t a function for this so I had to visualise a grid and think of how it would draw a triangle. This took me a while to figure out and took me talking to others to find out how they did it. Thinking of making shapes by just drawing them on a grid was the breakthrough to understand how to push it further and create more interesting shapes such as a cube and triangular prism.

Tuesday

Today we were taught some more JavaScript through a lecture and then were told to make flowcharts of systems from other games to allow us to understand the basis of them. I made the layout for a quest system in flowchart form, I chose to do this as it was something I could create and have basic but always build more upon it later and more layers of complexity. We were then also given the task to turn a guard patrol system which was written down into a flowchart which was easy to start with but going into one of the systems more in depth was more challenging to think about but wasn’t too hard once I got my head around it.

The rest of the week I didn’t do loads more other than go back to the previous work done and just improve upon it a bit.

Next Week

Next week I would like to learn more about javascript code and get a better understanding of it before we start to make a game using the language.