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Today was the day, we showed off Robot School to the rest of the class and tutors.

Overall it was well received, the people who played it really liked the combat, which made me feel pretty proud. It was a really weird feeling seeing people play our game, and enjoying it. When you have seen something go from a bland unity project to a finished product, you get so immersed in the minor details that you forget how someone who has never seen it before might react to it.

Today was the last day of development on Robot School!

There was a pretty annoying bug with the enemy spawner that was uncovered on entering a room after you had already cleared it. If the player re-entered a room they had cleared, the player would be met with a max wave robot swarm. 

Not really sure how this happened, but I just made it that once the player had completed a room, a bool is switched on that stops any further robots from ever spawning in that room.

I also decided to tweak how much damage the player does to the robots, I felt as though it was still too high, so I decreased it a little bit. This in turn makes the game a little bit harder, but still playable.

Two days until hand in!

A lot of play testing today, we also sat down and got all the player narration lined up in the correct levels. The player can advance to the next section of narrative by pressing space. Each room has its own set of dialogue, which I think adds so much to this game.

Today marks the last week of development on Robot School, I can’t believe how quickly this has gone! And to make things worse, we only have until Thursday morning! 

Today was pretty slow however, we had a sprint review in the morning and since then everyone seemed pretty tired and demotivated.

Today I got working on the ammo and health UI elements.

For health we are going to use a heart system, the player will start with 3 hearts, and each attack a robot does to the player, it they hit, will take off one heart. The ammo is a bar filled with water, as you use the water pistol, the water level goes down, and when ammo is refilled, the bar refills.