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December 23rd, 2018 Tactics Movement (Cont.) – Jump State Machine Jumping in Tactics Game Unity Tutorial - Tactics Movement - Part 4 By: Game Programming Academy This part of the tutorial focused a lot on the jumping aspects of the player movement. The movement when the unit jumps up or down to different elevation tiles should operate differently than when it just moves around on equal elevation tiles. A state machine is created to deal with all the various aspects of a jump, as well as the possibility of jumping upward or downward. The state machine however appears to have significant bugs in it that will need to be worked out. Terms Stack: Pop, Peek Protected class Problems This part of the tutorial had several bugs that could possibly occur, which the creator of the videos also encounters. The tutorial video showed an issue where the unit would just float in a straight line when it should come down, but I have yet to have that occur. Most bugs I saw had the unit not perf

December 22, 2018 Tactics Movement (Cont.) – Programming Collections Breadth First Search (BFS) and Using Programming Collections Unity Tutorial - Tactics Movement - Part 3 By: Game Programming Academy This section begins to finally create the breadth first search algorithm for creating list of available selectable tile options. This section relies heavily on collections type elements in C# programming which I will need to delve into more. Notes Look into breadth first search, stacks, queues, and lists. Stacks: Used to add things to a collection in a certain order and use/apply them in reverse order. Stack uses command “push”. Queues: Use “enqueue” to add to queue and “dequeue” to remove/pull from the queue. halfHeight was a variable used to find the center point of the game object in conjunction with the “bounds” and “extents” values of the collider. This is used when positioning the unit on a tile to make sure it is on/above the tile. Lessons Learned Had an issue where t