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Anyways, the base simulator I'd like to make is for the 100 m and 200 m dash. They are of interest to me because a long time ago I used to compete in them and it's always one of my favourite events to watch.
With an eye towards my other programs, I also see it as a good application to develop the skills I will need to build a weather station and instrumentation applet.
Some things I would like to accomplish from a long term perspective:
Reading in data from text files and parsing the data.
Developing a GUI allowing user input.
Animating and graphing data from the program.
Some things I would like to do from a make game fun perspective:
Have realistic results
Be able to watch the races in real time
Have country and athlete development
I think the last one can be pretty fun. I'm thinking about rating countries for competition of sport and have events change that with time. Trying to get money and grants for your athletes and developing your countries infrastructure. I think that could be a fun mini game.
A question for those who are reading, anyone interested in the math behind the sim engine? How I'm planning on fitting the data, what the data spread looks like etc? Or just kinda keep things programming focused?
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