CAGD 495 - Blog Post 4 - 3/27/2025

    This sprint was a little bit slower as I spent a lot of my time trying to figure out the spawn points between levels. The original idea was to have the players play through every level but what was happening was the spawn points were different locations between the levels. Another issue was when you would switch between levels player one and player two could end up switching. I was on the right track for the player spawning one but then we ended up scrapping the idea towards the end of the sprint because I was saying I had no idea about the players swapping and I didn't know how much longer it would take me.

    After all that the next thing I worked on was the energy drink. The energy drink will replenish health and stamina by half. I was running into an issue where the bars were not updating properly because I didn't have the bars in update. So, once I moved them to update everything was working fine. I did need to delay the boost regen as when you would pick it up for some reason the boost regen was extremely quick.

    So, on paper it does look like it was a really bad sprint so even though I was stuck on some stuff I will need to pick it up and get more work done in these next few sprints as we are only have 2 and a half sprints left.

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