AGD Week 9 Beginning 23/3/09

This week was hand in week for the Alpha and everything went wrong. For this last week all we really needed was menus in the game. Craig was coding the menus and was doing a good job. But on Thursday both him and Dave went to Newcastle for a work placement interview at Eutechnyx. This meant that menus were not getting done. In the end I got hold of Craig to get his login details for his account on the Uni computers, but then could not find the work. At this time the main drive that students use on the network failed for half an hour and put us back even further.
On the day of the deadline, Craig was back and to get ahead with the menus again him, Dave and I took a menu each to program, basing them off Craig's menu framework. Unfortunately for me I spent several hours trying to get the end menu work for after a race and it just not seem to want to work. I was starting to panic about the work as at this time Mark had been locked out of our source control for some strange reason that we still don't know the reason for. That took an hour to fix and once that was done we had to sort out the updates of each of Dave's, Dan's and Craig's work. Once that was done I re-arranged the directory on our source control and branched the Alpha version of the game. This was submitted 45 minutes after the deadline. It was a real shame that we fell at the last hurdle, but unfortunately there was not much we could do about it.