Diary Entry 30/04/26

 I am back from a break. Spent some time away and am now getting back into the routine I sought out to do to move on with my portfolio work. Saturday or Sunday coming (2nd or 3rd May), I will be picking up and revising the previous Python topics covered in the last diary entry. I will be reviewing Project Savage Garden. I will aim to segment the game into structured chapter arcs for the moment to make writing it up easier. I will also begin creating a Game Design Document for the project to make idea generation easier and able to consider more options. If I have time on top of what I already have planned, I will pick up on some Blender.

I will most likely pick this up on Sunday the 3rd since I am seeing a late screening of Evangelion in London Friday night and am working the next day. Will continue the routine from then.

Diary Entry 13/04/26

 Made some adjustments to the Project Savage Garden Base concept. Next steps are to elaborate on references and maybe create a mind map to map out ideas to branch out into more detail. Gather more information.

Also went over user input and how to apply it to Python by using the input function. This enables you to input data to the console. As well as created a madlibs game where you create a story by filling in random words to create it.

The first screenshot demonstrates a few examples of utilising user input and the one below is the madlibs game project with the run command too.

To revise tomorrow, complete my own exercise of a working User input program, one that can utilise an equation as well as apply typecasting. As well as create my own original madlibs game that utilises more words to create a paragraph of a story.

Diary Entry 11/04/26

 Saturday's are currently the busiest day of the week for me now to work on projects. Therefore the more laid back tasks I am leaving for days like today. 

For today, I focused on changing up the base concept for Project Savage Garden. I did not like the direction I was taking since what I was writing was starting to become too overwhelming with so much information and ideas that things began to not make a whole lot of sense. Today, I have changed the concept so that the story can flow well as a worldbuilding concept to start. Character's and mechanics can come later.

Diary Entry 10/04/26

 Today I took as a light day and worked on revising the basics of Python variables and typecasting from memory of what was learnt in the week. 

I have placed the print statements within comments just to keep them to show them off in a screenshot rather than multiple run commands being shown.

Tomorrow is a long day and I will try to find time to work on writing more to Project Savage Garden's plot and making sure the prologue stuff makes sense. Gathering some more references and to actually make the story not so rough and to give it a concise plot to begin

Diary Entry 09/04/26

 This was a shorter day since I only had the morning to work. I decided to refine my writing work and make adjustments to the base concept as well as revisit the basics of Python today.

Tomorrow I aim to work on Blender again and get back into modelling.

Today's tasks completed:

• Python basics revisit. Worked on variables and type casting
• Made adjustments to the base concept of Project Savage Garden

Next time I revise Python create 4 unique examples of my own that demonstrate the 4 types of variables: String, integer, float and Boolean.

Typecast the 4 variables successfully with a few examples.

Diary Entry 06/04/26

Today I am starting to get back into the flow of work and ensuring I keep to a consistent schedule. I have been taking it easy and it is about time I started things up again.

These diary entries are going to be for reflection whilst complementing my main posts for when I create or produce something I am satisfied with. This will document what I do regarding my work for each day that I make progress on a specific thing. This spans across Coding to 3D and texturing. Since I have had such an extensive break things will be slow whilst I get my skills back to where they were.

Tasks Completed today:

• Returned to PyCharm IDE
• Fixed version issues with an outdated Python interpreter
• Learnt variables and typecasting
• Began Project Savage Guardian. Currently writing a story for the lore and foundations for this project.