Frontend layout and progress
Hey there, its been a while with all the real life challenges and necessary rest to recover afterwards.
Real life update: I found a job!! Wuhoo!! I still got to sign the contract and till thats done things can potentially go wrong, but i got a verbal agreement already and am looking forward to starting my fulltime job in november. So what does this mean for this game?
I dont need to do this project to improve my job chances anymore. Meaning I can use my usual github and give you earlier playtesting chances.
I dont necessarily need to use all these different technologies and I could do it fully just with frontend technologies. Will I? No. Why? Because I wanna see my plan through and learn it all. Also I want to make progress rather than replanning it all right now. I might change my mind later.
I have more time now, as I dont have to search for a job anymore. So hopefully we can see the frontend before november.
I have less time when I work. I will continue creating this game. But the priority will not be high. I will make coding appointments with friends and code lots then, but work and rest will take priority. Especially in the first months.
Today I want to show you the layout of the frontend that I designed, with the free trial of wireframe.cc .
You can see the different elements, as well as some notes below the actual layout. These are example actions and not the real tabs and actions that will be there, but it is gonna be somewhat in this direction.
So what am I doing now? Implementing the frontend? Well yes. Somewhat…. I am learning react to implement the frontend, but this will take some more time. I did a part of the tutorial on https://www.w3schools.com and after finding the setup reatc section really nice I noticed. I noticed that I had no clue how to write code or html other than copying the tutorial code. Meaning it didnt help.
Buuut I managed to recreate my minimum viable program(beautiful statue counter) in react now! Wuhoo and yippee to vibe coding with chatgpt! And now onto another proper tutorial(hopefully), so that I will never have to write code again that i dont understand. Next I will be trying react.dev/learn and learn the basics properly. This time for sure!
So thats it for today :) I will keep you up to date and hopefully show you my frontend created in react soon.