THIRD HONORS EXPERIENCE
Digitized Acquire: Bringing a Forgotten Board Game into the Digital Era
Self Designed
Spring Semester 2024

This is my showcase for my first ever self-designed honors experience. It is the culmination of over a year's worth of work born from my passion for Python coding and my love for the board game Acquire. Additionally, this project was my first major independent undertaking in Python.

 

I resolved myself to not take any shortcuts and do everything from scratch. No handholding. I wanted to learn how to make a game from the ground up, without using a game engine or tools that someone else built for me. Part of what made this experience so engaging and personal was that "homegrown" feeling that seeps from every line of code. My personality and different snapshots of my collegiate life are woven into the comments and commit messages of the project.

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I'm happy with my work, but the hardest part about this project was deciding when to call it complete. The end had to come eventually, but I am well aware I was dragging my feet to say it was over. Luckily, I still have two more experiences left to redeem, so I made a new goal to add networking and multiplayer to the program as the focus of my next self-designed experience. While I iron out all those new fangled features, I hope you enjoy what I achieved for this stopping point!