Last week, I focused on creating my capstone poster draft for the capstone showcase. This wound up being more difficult than I had initially anticipated it would be. Since I had never attended a capstone showcase, I used reference photos from previous years to see how the poster was supposed to be made, both in…

Last week, I worked on adding text to my game. I had to do research on how to use text since it isn’t as easy to use as other programs. With MonoGame, you have to upload a font and initialize it before you can write text to the screen. I had a lot of issues…

Last  week, I created the ability to restart the game. Eventually, this will be an option that will be prompted when the user fails a level. For now, there is no way for the player to lose the game, but you can still restart the game if you’d like to. Although the player can’t lose…

Last week, I added a class for structures. In particular I used this class for the tables in my restaurant. As of now, I have only created one table so that I can make debugging easier and more straightforward. I added the table texture near the middle of the screen to signify where the guests…

Last week, I created new player classes and updated my current player classes to clean up the code a bit. I was able to change a few things to make them easier to reference in other files. I also added a secondary NPC to provide some variety to the game. The two NPCs will look…

Last week, I focused on making a health bar for the game. It is made up of two rectangles on top of each other: the bottom one stays constant and the top one will adjust as the player’s score goes down.  I have attached the health bar to the player’s “score”. The player will have…

Last week, I created a SpawnPoint class that would make zones for the NPCs to spawn. For my particular game, I would only need one spawn point that would make multiple NPCs spawn from a single point, to signify them entering the restaurant. I had considered making multiple spawn points but didn’t think it would…

Last week, while playing a game, I realized how convenient it is to be able to set your own keybindings while playing something. I thought this might be useful sometime in the future and decided to make a keyboard class and mouse class rather than use what is built into MonoGame. I created a keyboard…

Last week I struggled with finding and changing aspects of my code due to the way I organized my files. I had the entire game in one long file which made it difficult to work with. I decided to go through my code and separate it into various organized files that can be more easily…

Last week I was out of town with limited computer access for the majority of the week. Due to this, rather than spend a lot of time doing actual coding aspects of the project, I focused more on things that could be done on paper. The first thing that I worked on was making a…