0.01: The Journey Begins

If you were to name things I am modestly good at, you would say things like piano, writing or drawing...coding not so much! With that being said, I have enough coding knowledge to muscle through this project. For this project I will be using the fantasy console BASIC 8, which uses the BASIC programming language. 

I did mention I was skillful at writing so I figured to use that to help me get started. I had heard that AI such as Chat GPT could be used to develop code and  thought that was a decent place to get ideas. At first, like many of you readers surely are, I was very skeptical of the validity of the code that would be produced.

To my amazement, the code in question is working! As expected, AI does by no means give a polished and perfect version but rather an extremely bare bones framework to which I can progressively add features to. No I am not leaving this all up to AI and from this point on wards I will be programming the game.

I am still bewildered to the accuracy of the code, although my prompt was fairly  detailed and I do have prior experience crafting AI prompts for differing applications. Alas, enough blabbering and I will now present to you the current feature list:

1. Score tracking Mechanism
2. Random Number Generation
3. Turnover Phase
4. Pass Phase
5. Shoot Phase

To my eye, five features is lightweight, therefore there are many features I plan on adding such as graphics, music and more! Thankfully, utilizing AI helped to kick start this project and allows me to focus on main features as opposed to spending a tremendous time investment on the main game loop. I know that using AI in game development can be a contentious topic, but I believe that I am ethically using it the best way possible.