Gamblin' for Gold

Gambling is Design

Gamblin' for Gold is a collaborative group project and showcases my ability in back-end development and team-based workflow. It was built in Processing, and the background and island images were designed by one of the team members.

My primary contribution to the project was developing back-end data structures and classes that drive the game. Both the bridges and islands are represented in classes that follow common practices such as encapsulation and following the DRY principle. In the island class I implemented an adjacency map that dynamically adds islands that have been connected to a particular island via bridges. Having this dynamic map makes it very simple for real-time lookup to check if it is valid to move from one island to another.

While every member of the team had their own role, the entire group contributed to the concept, design, and development of the project. Because of this, we met and communicated often to keep the project moving forward.