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CGD #4: Development struggles and Further progress

 Xaolin hadn't contributed to the project from the very beginning. She went AWOL for over 2 weeks since April began. Vasilieos declared an ultimatum to her asking her to cooperate and contribute to the teams efforts, but there was no response even to his emails. Thus she was kicked out of the team and now we have lost 2 weeks of dev time and features which were assigned to her are now not implemented. By this time in mid April we should have made significant progress but now Krys has to bear the burden of finishing the development all by himself.

Now I am also required to exert myself to the very limits to design and develop maps that were set aside as future work. As I believe the game itself wont be sufficient to hold up on its own. 

Concrete Jungle is complete, now I have to find and gather assets for a desert based map and another tropical forest map. This is a truckload of work which I have to get done while I also work on my Perfecting the look module. 


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