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And with that ladies and gentlemen, we finish out Flavortown off strong. Added a few things like minimum investigations before interrogation, and minimum interrogations before arrest. I also added the arrest and explanation for who wants it, but I’ll blur those out so I dont spoil it. Have fun

Holy Business Partner interrogation. We are basically done, just gotta add the arrest, and touch up a few places, and then we are done!

Onto the daughter interrogation. I lowkey tried to speedrun this, but it still takes like an hour One more left, then we go to the arrest, and we’re done!

Finished the cook interrogation. These are taking way longer than I expected, I’m not really sure why. I guess because of the braches, but the code isn’t too long. Maybe it’s just creating valid questions. 2 more remaining!

Oh my dear god, I’m reverting back to the monoliths of if statements. But this is for the interrogation, so you can ask multiple questions, So it’s like the below if that makes any sense. I also added a thing where if you find certain evidence, you unlock a question. Also you can only interrogate a person one time, so you dont go through all possibilities. I also had to add a couple while loops in case of incorrect answers, but eventually we got it, and we only need to do this 3 more times

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Just a few quick updates:

1. Added so you have to look at the victim first before you can investigate
2. minor structure updates so the code is better

Finished with the rooms . This was the living room, and the last room. Onto suspect interrogations.

Continuing on with the bathroom inspection, took me a little while to generate good ideas of what should be in there

Continuing with the kitchen inspection.

Right, so we continue with rooms that can be inspected. Right now, we have started with the bedroom.

And we start another project! This is for the haunted sidequest, just a quick detective game. I created the intro, and all of the details of the victim.

Right, so flavourtown decided to go ghost on me and not publish my last devlog, which was completing all the other scoring for the second round. I realized this too late, and now this will be my last devlog, because I am done!!! . I added the 3rd round of rolling, which is 5 attempts to get yahtzees, then I polished it up real quick, made it as easy of the eyes as can be (especially for a text based game). However, we are done with this, kinda surreal to have started this and finished this all in one day, would call it a successful day in my books.

So now we got into stuff that’s new for me, which chatgpt helped me out. I needed to quickly check if there is a 3 of a kind, and doing every possible combination is not easy, so chatgpt led me through some new stuff that I now understand. And it work, so very nice.

So nice once you get the format for things in similarity, so its just a quick copy paste of code and a lil tweak, and we finished with scoring for the top bracket, also knows as the numbers, 1-6

So I started scoring, and adding score, and for now it was just for if you chose for ones. I realized that I would get a bug that if you didnt have any ones to score, and you declined the confirmation of recording 0 points, it would re-roll everything, so then I needed to create a loop in the code that would make sure that it would repeat the question without rerolling.

Added the first round, which is just one round of rolling to try and get a yahtzee, which I actually did! Anyways, I had some issues with unresolved references, in which I had no clue what was going on, so I went to ChatGPT to help me figure it out and basically I needed to return the values from the def roll(), and also save them as variables outside of the def roll(), so I learned something new today!

Added the intro and rules

Added roll #3, and now that function if fully defined, and we can start creating the actual game

Created the roll #2 code, which is still in the same definition, which is roll.. I wanted each roll to be a separate function, but then it gave me errors that I didn’t know how to overcome so I just decided to bunch all 3 rolls within one function, called, you guessed it, roll.

And with 5 days left in flavourtown, we start a project. This is a simple yahtzee game, and I’m hoping it will be quick as I won’t have to write as much since this time I’m writing functions I will continuously call upon. Right now, I created the function for roll 1. Had some issues with it in terms of that it would exit when it wasnt supposed to, but then I added a few loops and all is good now .

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I created the print files for the stands, and its 5.5 hours and I NEED to print 12 of these. . But asides from that, I created more plaques, of which I will blur out the names due to confidentiality.

Right, so since I have the 3d model ready, went onto the next step which is creating the plaque design. This is all done in Illustrator, very simple, just some text and a quick Canada flag and an Albertan flag. My name is the first plaque, and will be the only shown in full because confidentiality of the other people I’m making this for. Therefore, for all the other designs, you will see their names blurred out.

Since the top and bottom need to fit into each other, I created holes in both structures so they can fit via connectors. I also added a hole in the bottom structure so the flag can rest in that small hole. The top structure only has 3 holes, because on the side that doesn’t have the hole is where the plaque will reside, and creating a hole means that it will intrude the area of the plaque, so i didn’t add a hole there.

Started creating the base that will hold the engraved plaque and hold the flag. Messed up with one of the corners, so that delayed me unfortunately. I have a 3mm deep hold for the plaque because thats the thickness of the wood that I’m going to engrave, and theres a hole at the top because the flag needs to go through to the bottom. The top and bottom are separated so its easier to fit all 12 stands on a bag because I need to transport this over air. The two separate parts make for easier spacial arrangement.

So the shipwright found a really niche bug, so I was experimenting with ways to fix it and it turned out to be a very simple fix, just adding an and to an if statement. The bug was that if you go all in on your last sectional bet, and you still had a numerical bet, it would transfer you into the numerical bet, and you don’t have the option to not bet. Therefore, as the shipwright put it, the game was in a soft lock. I was wondering why this didnt work, and then realized that despite reassigning action to 6, it would overwrite that to 5 if the sectionalbettypecounter equaled the sectionalbettype. So then I added a comparison that if the action has been rewritten to 6, it can;t overwrite to 5, and that was in the same line, so we still finish at 3000 lines. Nice

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, we conclude our project . I was going through some tedious work again, when I realized I could do it in a simpler fashion, so I reverted to the last commit, then started again. However, I had some issues with my PC, and it gave up on me and stopped showing me the buttons for committing and pushing. So that took a while to work out. Then we got it all together, and submitted this, and now it is ready for shipping. 3000 whole lines of code, to the dot. I think this code makes more sense than my last one, and is overall more organized.

Added a remaining balance so the user can see how much they have left to bet. The last thing to do is make sure the user can’t bet 0 or under, and if they bet all their balance, it automatically directs them to the spin.

Wahoo . We finished with all the veryifying bets, and then saving the balance, and writing the new balance. All thats left is making sure the balance is positive.

So we continue with adding payouts. I completed all of the sectional bets, whether your bet was correct or not, and we are left with doing the same thing for numbers, which should take longer.

So now we get into the payouts, It’s going to be tedious as well . We started with rows, and will go through everything else. Pretty simple, just checks if your bet verifier is correct, which then will give you payout, and if it isn’t, then you lose.

Holy tediousness . I just added that if the spin is this, then these bets are correct. Since the output has not changed, I’ll show you my code, and examples. Note the line this section starts and ends on.

Added the spin function, which will get us the random number. Had a bug though that it would report both numbers as red and black, so I put a in function, so now its going to tell you only one colour.

Added 6 way bets now, and we are now done with betting! . Now we need to move onto the spin, and then what each possible number means which bet is possible, which is also going to be very tedious

Now with the 4 way bets. This is taking quite a bit of time, but at least there are no bugs that I’ve found, which has saved me some time.

Continuing with horizontal 2 way bets, after this only 4 bet corners remain and 6 way 2 rows

Continuing the same thing with 2 way bets, and only the vertical ones. My eyes are gonna bulge out from the repetitiveness. At least there aren’t any bugs.

Holy tediousness. Sucks that I’m a beginner coder, what I just did there was probably a much more simpler way, but at least this code is more neat than my last code and the structure makes more sense. Gotta learn step by step, it’s a process guys. Anyways, I added single number betting, almost no bugs though. I’ll show you a sneek peak of my code just to see how much it was. Obviously, I’m not dumb enough to write the same thing 37 times, I copy pasted the format, and filled it in accordingly with the number, but just look at how much code.

So before I even got the chance to start the number type bets, I encountered a bug that it wouldn’t switch from sectional to number, I think I had some logic errors of when I would subtract the counter, so I erased all counters and only added when they made a valid bet.

And I also encountered another bug . Even if I inputted a correct answer and made a bet, there would still be a line saying my answer isnt properly written, but I changed everything to if elif….. else, and now it works fine

I finished with the sectional bet types . Added the High/Low option, and made sure that it re-prompts you if you make a mistake in what kind of sectional bet you want to make. I will need to go back and make sure you can’t overbet, or bet 0, and I should probably add a contingency that if you bet all your remaning balance, it skips to the spin part.

But now we get to fun part I need to do the same thing for the number section, and that’s going to be majorly repetitive.

Got the odd/even and red/black working as well with no bugs on the first try . I also figured out how to commit and push directly from pycharm, which is an advancement for me. . Got the one from yesterday, and the one from today on there.

Continuing with the thirds. No bugs this time . I’m getting better Looks a little too much time spent, but had some trouble with hackatime and wakatime after the new update, and my antivirus protection decided to block the wakatime exe, so I was troubleshooting that, got it to work, and it added a few minutes.

Onto the columns now for sectional bets, along with a little debugging for both columns and rows. Something new from my previous project that I’m trying to implement here is that if you screw up an answer, it will still allow you to play, unlike my last project. So now with the rows and columns, if you answer incorrectly, the bet counter would think you made a bet, but you actually haven’t, so I fixed that quickly by removing a tally. It might be inefficient but it works. I’d also get an incorrect response even if I put a correct response because I used or instead of and in determining what a wrong answer is.

Moving onto bets for the sectional type, I started with rows. This was very repetitive, as I had do the same lines for all 13 rows, which I just copy pasted the same format. I also created the function for making sure you can only make 6 types of sectional bets, and making sure that it records when you add a bet. I’ll show you a picture of how repetitive my code became. We will need to go back into it and make sure that you cant bet 0 or overbet.

Created the opening question of if you want to play, and what types of bet you want to make. I currently only have sectional and number specific bets, but will branch off into each individually. I didn’t get much done cus I was testing what I currently have to make sure everything’s ok before I move into the next part, and encountered a bug where if I didnt input 1 or 2 for types of bet, it would continuously loop the saying that it needed to be a 1 or 2. Fixed this after figuring out that the question was a couple lines early, and something went wrong, so I moved the question down a couple lines, and it started to work fine.

Time to start a fresh project. We will be creating a text-based roulette game. Right now, I just started the intro, with the balance writing and saving functions, as well as the intro and rules text.

It’s lowkey been a while since I’ve even glanced at this, but that’s because I was so focused with my other project that I shipped yesterday, and got a nice payout for. I decided to go back into my old project and finish what I started, side bets. After taking a few minutes to see what I was coding, I got back to work, and implemented the payouts for side bets, while making sure regular bets stay intact. I did this eventually, and I can’t even explain it in terms advanced people know because the way I structured this is terrible. But basically the function (a) that controls what exactly is happening right now had to be diverted to side bets before saving the new balance. After that, I spent a lot, and I mean A LOT of time debugging, because my coding sucks . After time, I got it to work at a 100% success rate for me at least, so I called it a day, and shipping this. Honestly, this project is quite mid so I aint expecting anything much out of this.

So, I filed away more outfield pieces so they could fit. I also filed away infield pieces and hammered them in so it could fit. Slight problem arose, The field should house 43 outfield pieces or something like that but instead it can only house 41, so there are some gaps but it’s ok. I also filed away connectors for the walls. That is what I did for this amount of time logged.

Now heres where I need to go into a little bit of a rant. The lapse video I made does showcase this amount of time logged, but because of school restrictions, somehow I had the same video twice in one video, giving me what I though was a 2x multiplier for this. Therefore, I thought that I would be recording 3h of work on this devlog. This is not the case. That means that I did and extra hour and a half of work that I didnt record because I thought this would devlog 3h. Oh well.

On the bright side, I did finish the project . However, I didn’t record the 1-2h I spent finishing it up.

What I did do off camera was to whittle away some filament from the bottom of the walls so they can fit into the connectors, and make sticker for some logos that are present on the diamond.

While there are many things you can nitpick and make better, I’m super proud of what I’ve managed to create here. This took me a lot of time and effort, and it kept brining back memories of their post-season, the good and the bad. Obviously, things could’ve ended better here, (and in their run), but I deserve to be happy with what I’ve created.

The only thing left to do is make a website displaying this

We continue with the painting on the already blue walls. While the colour matching was exquisite, it was still a little darker blue, so to correct that, we paint the blue walls as well. If I were to paint something else, it would be the sides of the bottom structure, so everything can be blue, but who knows.

P.S: In my opinion, I dont think the photos show the colour that well, since it is a generally dark shade.

Since half the walls are black, and the others are blue, I need to change that. Today, I painted the black ones a spectacular blue colour (props to my design teacher, who also teaches art, for colour matching) In my opinion, it is a beautiful shade of dark blue, also it might not seem so from the photos. Tomorrow I will continue with the blue pieces just so everything looks the same colour.

We continue with sanding and filing our pieces down. Right now I have the amazing problem of There are 39 pieces fitting in the space of 43 or something like that which is just amazing . However, I believe I have made 26 of those fit how they are supposed to . I will continue to rigorously sand down those outfield pieces. The infield pieces are also a disaster . I barely did anything on them today, will con tinue to do so tomorrow.

We are finally done printing everything. Now its assembling, painting, and filing. Right now I connected all of the 4 bottom structures, which included filing the connectors. I will need to paint the 4 bottom structures, but in the meantime, I started assembling the outfield, which took longer than I expected cus I had to guess which pieces went where, then I labelled the pieces so I can put them in a timely fashion next time. I will have to file a lot more, paint some more, and make some stickers. We got this.

Continuing with the Clearly Canadian logo.

Got the Rogers logo here now.

Continuing with making the Sobeys and the Kubota logo

The Tim Hortons logo, this took quite a while because of the cursive font.

Now with the TD and The Keg logos.

Continuing with the Visa logo

Now with the National Car Rental Logo.

Continuing with the stickers, the score bet and the home hardware outlines.

After a few quiet days, I am back. Since I am slightly delayed on 3d printing I decided to start making sticker to make the walls look as they should. Right now I created the logo sticker, not to scale. I only have the outline.

Created the last 3 print codes of which contain the walls, the bottom structures, and all the connectors I’ll need. Now we’ll go into the phase, which is assembling, and possibly painting, as well as making stickers for the walls that model the real stadium logo advertisements. I’m sure pain will also be awaiting me there

I think my time modelling in Fusion in complete I tried to make the wall for heinz club 328, with a fence and also the rogers landing deck fence which genuinely looks terrible but at this point I’m in too deep to change things so I’ll live with it (hopefully). I need to create a few more print codes, and then we go to the next phase.

I’m almost done with the design portion! I finished making all of the wholes in which the connectors will be in. The last part is to model one last outfield wall.

Created the holes that will connect to the bottom structure for the dugout walls, and created the print code for the walls, a second bottom structure, and a few connectors

Created the chain-link fence pattern for the dugout walls.

Made the bottom 2 bottom structures ready for printing. Made some outfield walls ready for printing. Created some print codes for said items.

Finished the second coat of paint. They are now the correct color.

Started painting the dark grass stripes. Since the filament was quite dark, this is the first coat.

Added the place for the bottom structure to connect in all 4 places, then started making holes in the walls and bottom structure so the wall can connect. Created a print code for the backstop wall.

I created the base form for the structure that will encase all ground-level builds, like the infield/outfield. I need to start making holes so the 4 parts can connect as well as the walls

Created the chain-link fence pattern for the other bullpen wall.

Since I’m trying to make this as realistic as possible, I need to make that chain-link fence where the bullpen is. However, since I made the height more and not the length or width, I can’t make it proportional. So instead I scaled the wall down and winged it Looks semi ok, but at this point, I’ve majorly botched it so I’ll live with whatever comes out of this.

So I realized just how incredibly tiny something will be when its scaled down 500x from 3ft. In light of realizing this, I made sure that the heights of the outfield wall are now 6x than what they would normally be, so it can be taller when scaled down.

As I continuously work more on this, It pains me to see my royal screw up on the right side of the outfield walls. Nonetheless, I carried on and added the slanted walls that connect the foul walls to the outfield walls, and where on the right side is Heinz Club 328.

I painted the light green grass stripes because the green that the filament was is not the correct shade, so I decided to make my own shade.

So I decided to restart my wall extrusion because I realized at the current thickness they are at is going to be quite tiny. So wall thickness is now 1cm. On new things, I extruded the dugout walls, but that will take a serious amount of editing because they aren’t exactly just a solid wall, its kind of like a net design. I’ll have to do this for other walls as well. What fun work awaits me

So I started extruding the outfield walls. I realize how poorly I modelled the outfield walls. We will deal with it, too far deep to change it but its ok.

After many a tries, I finally managed to properly extrude the mound. The solution was to just create a new sketch, make my circle, offset a plane, make the other body there, and use loft. I learnt that after watching a youtube tutorial on loft for like 10 seconds. It could’ve saved me so much time, but I guess I need to learn.
Now I need to extrude the walls.

I honestly didn’t achieve anything really. I’m trying to extrude the mound, but it’s more of a pain than I thought. I only have the 10 inch box that is for sure going to be there. Now I need to somehow connect in a linear fashion that the radius of the circle meets the 10 inch box, and make sure theres no small margin at the beginning that goes straight up. I encountered that right now for the past hour and have got really frustrated. Time to learn how fusion work I guess.

Extruded the last easy thing, and then created print files for everything I have extruded. Onto the hard stuff, which will be the mound and the walls.

On another note, I 3d printed the infield, a warning track part and some dark grass stripes. The spaces in the infield for the bases and foul line is crazy small, barely noticable, so that is not the best news, but I can always paint that sliver white. Unfortunately, I don’t have any images of said 3d printed things.

So the problem was that the 3d slicer reads every measurement in millimeters, even though I saved most of them in not millimeters. :mir-sigh: Therefore, I had to re-save most of my STL files and then put them in the slicer again to get the updated prints. On the bright side, I have 5 prints ready with multiple parts. :happy-pep:

Started creating 3d print files for everything that is white (Bases, home, foul lines, coach’s boxes, batter’s box, runner’s lane) and the dark green grass stripes. I tried to start the warning track, but I encountered a problem :depression: where it is way way too small than what it should it be. We will figure it out.

I extruded the warning track. This part is too large to make it in 1 print, due to its large length and width. Therefore, I split it into 4 separate parts for printing. I believe all the easy stuff is done, and now I need to extrude the mound and the actual walls, which will be a pain.

I extruded all of the bases. Since it’s a 1:500 model, it’s going to be very small, I have to print this at high quality, 0.1mm print.

Extruded the grass stripes that will be lighter.
I tried to adjust the darker stripes, but that was a failed attempt.
I also extruded home plate.

Things are going much faster now. :agahappi:
I extruded the grass stipes that are darker.
I will now extrude the lighter parts.
I’m facing a problem where the scaled bodies are positioned very far from the center, and I want them to be closer to the center, but I suppose I’ll live with it.

I did this much faster, now that I got the hang of it. I extruded all the lines that are painted white. This includes the foul lines, batter’s box, catcher’s box, and coach’s box. Due to them being only 4 inches in real life, it’s going to be a very tiny print, but I’m hoping the .5cm of extrusion should be ok and give it some strength,

So, after a very unnecessary amount of time. :icri: I finally extruded the infield. It took 1 hour because:

1. I only wanted certain parts, so I copied my sketch into a new design, and after deleting the parts I didn’t want, the parts that were there were warped. This happened at least 3 times before I gave up.
2. When I was trying to scale the sketch to the appropriate 1:500, some lines decided not to cooperate and warped as well. I tried twice before I quit that method.
3. My next method was extruding what I needed first then scaling, lo and behold, Fusion decides the rest of the sketch needs to be deleted because it was not extruded. How wonderful. :ded: :cry_smile:
4. After copying and pasting the rest of the sketch I needed, I extruded the height I wanted and scaled it 1:500. I forgot this includes the height, and I essentially had a pancake. Had to re-do it. :cryin:
   After all that I finally got what I needed :yay:
   It took way too much time for me to figure that out, but I got it eventually, and now all the other things I need to extrude should be easy.

Started adding the structure for side bets. Created a list of possible side bets, and the factor of whether or not you can make the bet.

I need to add the payout function

After a long hard battle between my sketch and references, I finally determined the width of the grass stripes. The correct width is 10ft, I had it as 9 yesterday
I also made a few infield adjustments
The base sketch is now complete, and we now need to extrude all the individual items

Adjusted a few infield dimensions

Created the batter’s box, running lane, the wall depth, and the outfield stripes. Any lines that are usually painted white got 4in thickness added to them.

While the outfield stripes look great, the problem is that it looks like I have too many compared to the references I’m using, so I may have been a foot off each stripe since I couldn’t actually find the dimensions for them, which may mean I have to redo that part.

I created the basic field structure non-extruded.
Created: The infield, the outfield, the walls, the mound, the rubber, home, bases, warning track. and coaches box

Need to create the batters box, running lane, adding depth to the walls, and the grass stripes

Recreated the design because my old one had a few too many flaws and precision points
3D Printed the new design, but does not fit the phone, will have to file away some of the edges to make it fit. Additionally, the case does not fit due to 3d print size, will file away edges there as well.

Created the structures to lock the top into place.

I created the base and sides so that you slide in the sides, then lock it from underneath with a peg.
I need to create a locking mechanism that I can remove on the top.

Debugged splitting function:
-Made sure you can’t overspend on doubling down
-Correct payouts for split variations

Version 1 of Project is ready to be shipped

Created the rules
Last thing before shipping: verify there are no bugs when splitting

Debugged the entire project:

• The while statements only worked once, and were indented improperly, so they were all changed to if, and indented properly
  -Included a loop that lets the game run multiple times
  -Fixed numerous small bugs
  -Will check if splitting works properly
  -Will add rules, then ship it
  -Create side bets and reship

Created the comparison between dealers hand and both of your hands in split.
Will look at entire code, debug, then ship it.
After shipping, I will add side bets and re-ship it

Created the split function - only allows splitting on the original hand. Basically had to copy the same actions for a regular hand twice for each hand of split.
Still considering adding side bets, but will probably ship this when it’s ready and re-ship it when side bets are included.

Created the system that store balance and updates balance accordingly.
Still need to create a split option
Side bets will be added

Created the dealer’s automatic hit or stand
Created the comparison between your hand and the dealer’s hand
Still need to add a split ability
Still need to work out how the balance will work.
Interested in adding side bets to make the game as realistic as possible.

Created the beginning variables, and the random number generator. Created the cycle for hitting, and created the end for when you bust.
Need to go back and add more variables, such as current balance and making sure you can’t bet more than you have, as well as adding a split option, but those are extras that will be added when the basic structure is done.