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Guide Dog
1 year ago

Brief update after minor absence because I had to take some time to do some major planning.


"Guide Dog" does have limitations. For example, it really can't teach proper formatting, what 1-3, 3-1, or 7-5 mean or how to implement them. I had a couple ideas, but it's really not feasible. Maybe I'll make them later levels, maybe even bonus levels, but I really don't think it's going to happen.

Already that makes things a little wonky. I'm following the UEB course from the NFB, all the same coursework that I took. Except, honestly, the coursework is garbage because they randomly cram a ton of stuff into a single lesson. So I'm having to go through and try to make things a little more sensible for the sake of the game. Wordsigns are therefore introduced much earlier in the game than they would be in the course, at the cost of things like capitalization, punctuation, and obviously no formatting.

Really, then, it comes down to lesson planning. From lesson planning comes level planning and area planning. And I really just needed to take a few days to get my stuff planned out and ready to go, now that I have the foundation pretty well settled and I think this is actually going to work.

Updated package should be released tomorrow Tuesday (because I keep thinking today is Monday). Fixed some bugs in the levels, so it should run smoother.

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