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Week 12 Final Post and Finshed Game
This will be my final blog post documenting my progress developing Golf Tees. After the Easter Holidays I made some minor adjustments to...

Leigh Armstrong
May 1, 20191 min read
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Week 11 User Interface Tweaks, Mobile Port Attempt and Report
Over the course of this week I made minor adjustments to the tracks and updated the leaderboards. Upon completing a hole the score...

Leigh Armstrong
Apr 6, 20191 min read
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Week 10 Voice lines, Polish and Bug Fixing
This week I recorded and implemented the voice lines for completing a hole (Hole in one, Birdie, Par, etc.) To do this I enlisted the...

Leigh Armstrong
Mar 29, 20191 min read
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Week 9 Implementing Sound, Currency, Bug fixing and Animation Additions/ Tweaks
This week was mostly about fine tuning what was already in the game. I'd already collected sounds last week and so this week it was time...

Leigh Armstrong
Mar 22, 20191 min read
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Week 8 Camera Transitions, Hat Selection System (with new 3D models) and Music Collection
The first obstacle I needed to overcome this week was to find a way to create camera transitions that play before each hole. Having this...

Leigh Armstrong
Mar 15, 20191 min read
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Week 7 Further User Interface and Level Design Tweaks
This weeks blog is being released early due to life plans that take precedence. Next weeks blog will be released 15th March on the usual...

Leigh Armstrong
Mar 6, 20191 min read
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Week 6 UI Focus and Ball Customisation
This week I decided to pay more attention to the User Interface/User Experience. I wanted to have a rotating camera around three fixed...

Leigh Armstrong
Mar 1, 20191 min read
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Week 5 Landscape Sculpting, Building Organisation and Progression Review
Over the week I have managed to generate a suitable presentation for the Project Review using Photoshop and PowerPoint. It details my...

Leigh Armstrong
Feb 22, 20191 min read
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Week 4 Working in Blender
This week I focused on learning how to use Blender, with which I plan to make the terrain and background scenery of my game. I had to use...

Leigh Armstrong
Feb 15, 20191 min read
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Week 3 18 Hole Creation, Asset Sourcing, and Further UI Functionality
This week I devoted a lot of time creating 18 minigolf holes utilising multiple assets from a pre-made track pack. I also spent some time...

Leigh Armstrong
Feb 8, 20191 min read
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Week 2 Photoshop Assets and Functionality Improvements
This week I focused on the visuals that will be added into the game - for this I used Photoshop and Illustrator. I was not familiar with...

Leigh Armstrong
Jan 31, 20191 min read
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Week 1 Basic Mechanics and Menus
The very first task I did was to research some examples of golf games and their user interfaces. I then sketched UI mockups to help guide...

Leigh Armstrong
Jan 24, 20191 min read
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Introduction
This is the start of my final year project at Teesside University. Over the course of the next 14 weeks, I intend to achieve a fully...

Leigh Armstrong
Jan 21, 20191 min read
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Functions and Objects (End of 'Making a Website' Blog)
Functions are blocks of code that perform specific tasks. Mimo taught me many ways to pass values to the function and get a return value....

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 6, 20181 min read
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Arrays and Loops
Mimo expressed that an array is a special kind of variable that contains several values of a type/different types. They are also objects...

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 5, 20181 min read
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Strings, Numbers and Dates
I learnt that strings are sequences of characters and that we create them by surrounding them with single or double quotation marks. I...

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 4, 20181 min read
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Booleans and Conditional Statements
I learnt that Booleans (True or False) values can be used to display various console commands and that they can have 'Operators'...

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 3, 20181 min read
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Introduction to JavaScript and Variables
Mimo introduced me to JavaScript, what it can be used for and how in general it can be structured within a HTML document. I learned the...

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 2, 20181 min read
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Publishing the Website
Next on the list was to publish the site. To do this I used GitHub to use repository and get a URL so that the public can view it....

Leigh Armstrong
Aug 1, 20181 min read
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Styling the About Page + Challenges
The About page was easy to style as all that was required was for a .about to be added to the already coded .post section in my .CSS...

Leigh Armstrong
Jul 31, 20181 min read
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