postmortem

My game is a clicker game. Although I started off with a lot of great ideas, it ended with me not

using a lot of it. It’s a clicker game, where the base value is 0.01. It might look small, but it’ll take

no time for anyone playing it to reach 1,000,000! The features I added are- a LOT of panels.

You see this stats button? Click it and a panel's gonna pop up! There WERE 3 buttons, Stats,

Profile, and Settings.

Stats contain:

Upgrades for clickers!!!

Profile contains:

Time played, and lifetime earnings.

Settings contained:

RESTART, and volume slider

5 things that went wrong:

1. Passives were too complicated to implement

2. Trying to add money earned from click data kept contradicting with one of the other

codes

3. A lot of updateUI(); bugs

4.  Debugging was very challenging when you have a 300 lines code, I've definitely spent around 2 hours just looking through the lines looking for the bugs.

5. I lost progress TWICE!!!

6. I couldn’t get the github right.. The repo was connected for the prototype, but it wasn’t for

the main thing..

7. A lot of naming issues

5 things that went right:

1. Lot of new ideas, the polished game looked better than and worked better than I

expected

2. I got a reply from a roblox developer that helped me with my math logic!!

3. I had fun with Panels

4. The Game functions as expected!

5.  Scaling Issues wasn't a big of an issue when loading

6. A lot of the codes I wrote worked the way they were supposed to, without too much trouble and contradictions


REFLECTION

Throughout this project,  there was a lot of road block i came across. Obviously finding the answers to these problems were also quiet challenging. One of the easiest way to get help without being on someone's time is through AI. Although AI can provide a lot of answers to all the questions someone might have,  it could also definitely lead you down the wrong path. 

One of the biggest challenges I had was Git and Github. I'm not very familiar with working with the terminal, pushing and pulling, committing, I don't even know what some of these words mean. Usually when I'm asking a friend for help with GitHub, or watching youtube videos, I always seem to get more lost than I already was; this led to me asking for AI help. I thought that if I followed everything it said, I would fix the problem I had in no time, but little did I know that couldn't be far from the truth-- It led to my memory being overload because I kept pushing random cache data, and eventually it lead to me losing my progress TWICE! This was very discouraging and it made me lose motivation a LOT!

All in all, I don't believe it's wrong to ask AI for help, but I also believe people shouldn't rely too much on it.