week two!

This week we a had more challenges. we had more defined goals and we were getting use to Unity. we had the privilege of reading four research papers. Two where our guidance on how we should read research papers and the last were on research the current grad students  are conducting. This was definitely helpful because it will prepare me for when I want to pursue the graduate level. On our specific project, our small team of four people , were working on a creation of a three dimensional world for the game called "Bots". This game consist of a blocks on a plan surface. There is a robot that is on one block space. There is also a ball and on the blocks of the surface has an end point. The bot is suppose to go and grab the ball and bring it to the end point. The way this is done is by having the player program the robot. The player has a menu where the he can select turns, forward steps, backward steps, pick up and pick down. The sad part is that the player has only a set amount of moves he can produce. In this case, the player can use computer science concepts to prolong his moves. The options that the player has are creating  methods such as "while, for loop and if statements"and at the same time create functions that will allow  the user to reuse his loops.
The user also has the power to create levels , play his own level and after passing it, the player can also play levels that another play has created. This is possible because each player creates an account in order to play. This can be seen from different menus, such as score boards, my level, winner, contact other people.
This may seem very technical however this is a quick view of this game. It is at its infancy and there is still a lot work to be done. 
We had dedicated with my coworker to create a 3d world. the goal is to create a building of some type for each selection on the menu. we have been working on the texture of the world, the buildings and reading other codes.
we have been also fortunate enough to hear from other professors how to present and enhance our public speaking for our presentation the end of the program

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