Blue Spaceships and -5 Ammo Count

Good evening all! Things have been at standstill all day today. Lets examine.

I finished the extras on the Shooter game adding a quit application script, so that the user is able to press “esc’ to exit the game. Yes, there is actually a method to do this, I always believed that was automatic. I then notice the next thing was to submit my shooter game, so I decided to to go back and make sure things were polished by cleaning up my script and playing through to make sure everything runs smoothly. Now I’m ready, or not. So I needed to turn in using GitHub link, which I don’t have. As a beginner, it was not yet required to start this and focus on getting through the course work.

Being myself, I tried my hand at it and it didn’t work. I got through the download and the intro course section. Everything was ready and I could not get through the first course due to errors. Apparently my desktop is not listed. At least I tried.

Through the guidance of my Team lead, I continued on to the Phase I framework. I got through the first challenge of increasing the speed of the player when the left shift key is pressed down and revert back when released. Then I was stuck on the next challenge of having my Shield to show its strength with color and taking total of 3 hits before disabling. I have searched but have yet to find the right script. I left it as is only to return tonight with the same issue. I tried using the “GetComponent” method and my space ship turned blue. I didn’t realize until after that the sprite I needed to get was from a child game object. Ouch! I moved on to next challenge.

Next challenge is setting up my laser with 15 shots and adding a counter or sound effect when ammo is out. I got the 15 shots in but it continues to count into negative, so its infinite! I decided I’ll pick it up tomorrow and get some good nights rest.

Positive for the day, I helped out a fellow teammate. I wasn’t confident in my abilities but offered to try to assist as I also had issues on the same part. Turns out he made the same mistake I did. YAY, mission complete.

I’ll update tomorrow on how my challenges went.

Good Night!