Nanodegree FEND project 3 and random thoughts

Plugging away at the Frogger clone. It’s basically done but I’m picking away at making it “udacious” because I’m a high achiever. But I might leave it as it is. Time’s a’wasting.

This project freaked me out. I got the “oh golly gosh I’m stupid” feeling and it hit me harder than the last time. Multiple JavaScript files with stuff in them that made no sense. Lots of comments in said files that didn’t seem to help. A degraded attention span from years of Twitter and youtube jump cuts. I used to be able to read a small paperback in one night and now I’m here.

I was really doubting myself and wondering if this was it. At some point sensible me kicked in and said “ask for some help.” I did and my mentor pointed out the now obvious to me: Get rid of the red in the console and work from there. Duuuuh error messages stopping the code from executing. Game board rendered. Kick self, next issue.

There’s been some forehead slapping going on. I couldn’t get my player on the board because it wasn’t loaded into the thingamjig. The boy player is already included and I wanted the cat girl. That’s time I’m not getting back.

I figured out how to get my enemies rendered and moving without too much trouble. The collision detection still baffles me but I brute forced through it by copying MDN and messing with numbers until something happened. There’s a couple of things I might refactor to make things a little more efficient, but yeah, it’s done.

Yesterday I added an opening modal that basically said game start, cross the road. I found an appropriate font for it and all that and didn’t have to look up too much CSS info. That felt good, like I was working from past experience.

I’ve made it to the other side of the boulder in my path, another battle story for the repertoire. It was good. I’m not 100% on any of it, but it’s a start.

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