Day 27
By: Michal Rooney
Tags: Drive, Debugging, Game Design, Motivation

Day 27

Final edits are now in sight. I’m seriously so exhausted I don’t know how to write at the moment. I have been pushing 12 hours today but and this is a distinction from what I have experienced in this program I’m really feeling like it clicks. How is not just endlessly debugging I was actually making some progress. I have a hellish goal of working on my own time and making it by the end of the week. If we are realistically defining the end of the week as Sunday I might make it. I don’t think Friday is a possibility it’s just a matter of time it’s going to take for me to work through some extra features. I have learned what rushing has done to the rest of the project and I don’t need to do that that’s that I’m going in a much faster Pace than I was before because I somewhat know what I’m doing with it. what I need to do for the next steps are actually a lot of things I was using to fix my mistakes so that’s a “yay” thing.I’m just probably going to have to not put in all that extra time on my own throughout the week because my marching is probably going to be more effective if I do it at a pace I can continue for the next 3 to 5 days. Really it’s just taking the time. I really know how to do what I’m supposed to be doing in theory and that’s just great. now I don’t have to try to piece together something that really was never meant to fly that way. Discworld reference can’t help myself.

So I finally found out that we will be able to continue after this in some sense. And that makes me feel a lot lighter on my feet

However, we will not be being paid and this is the end of the internship is an official job under the cares act for now. It is truly unclear what the future will bring in terms of aid so who knows maybe this will be reinstated in some capacity. In any case we do get to retain lifelong access to the files which means that we can go through about 10 courses bent on making us talk to your unity engineers (or at least the beginnings of such). Considering how the time constraints were waiting on me I really feel great about that. Because I really could complete a lot of those courses has given my ability to invest in my future enough to devote time to it. Left my own devices I think I will very much complete this course stream. however what I’m really looking forward to is the fact that we’re not exactly going away we are still people that have been trained on that course and perhaps we will be picked up for some kind of a group project in the future. That’s what the people that completed the course has the fastest got to do they got picked up for the team project that’s going on right now. I can’t say that I’m not a little jealous but I came in a little bit late to have a chance at making the opening for getting graduated to that. some people have been here for more days and they just had chances to get through some of them with the courses and that’s kind of what they’ve used to determine when they will give you an interview. There’s a point when people are obviously ready and they are checking with a live determination of that. The two founders that is.I know it’s rather sad that I didn’t get on the team in the window of time that I had but I’m starting to think that maybe they’ll be another project unrelated to other and being paid at the moment to do the training I might be picked up if I what it takes to get to that point myself. I’m going to transfer the burden of my own education to myself because is something I am well-versed in that as somebody going for a biology master and having a penchant for languages. Anyway I’d be pleased to a chance actually work in game development. It might not be what I ultimately end up using engineering for but it’s not that far from home for me as it may be for some other people. Because game design is with most challenging and innovative uses of computer science. Since I want to do something along those lines it’s not the worst way to learn. if anything it has told me you taught me to be incredibly adaptive and fearless in the face of implications of how we can use a tool. Instead of going “Oh no there’s more to learn”, I go “We can do beyond what we’ve been taught to with that?”

I need to get back to implementing features so Ja mats for now.