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Welcome to Menu Week - Tower Defense Game Dev 30
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Jun 24, 2025
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hello hello everybody
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it's been a week it's been a little while i'm back i
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don't know if I'm I don't know how much I'm going to stream this week but I'm back for today we are going to show off
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what I worked on in the last week uh and then we're gonna start work on something
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new [Music]
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so as you can I've cleared out something
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from my player controller uh
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we've gone and done a whole bunch
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of uh
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whole bunch of work on this so I mean let's uh let me let me let me
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let me let me show you what's going on
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[Music]
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so there's probably one of the most interesting things that we've done uh so
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I think you've seen our economy settings we have uh resource types being set by
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uh being set by the end user of our toolkit here in the settings well we
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also have stat settings so health current health move speed defense
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wait but what's this down here hey Mr blurry thanks for stopping by um
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we have the ability for these predefined stat categories that are used inside of
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things well here specifically like our health bar so our health bar is based
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off of uh no our health bar is based off of our
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health stat so we can pop into our blueprints into our test table
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pop this over here uh our builder has a health of 10 let's go ahead and make it
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a health of of 20 and we save and then we can stop and we
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can run and so this is all done d this is done dynamically out of
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our stat sheet uh that's out here in our in our data table
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um it also shows up here for now uh let's
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pop a fighter in place and a turret there's a bug in place right now where
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we are not correctly um
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checking teams here uh so we're doing self damage um which isn't grand but I
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get to show off that this works 16
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15 and it ticks down right there and so these health bars are in world
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space so I can go ahead and put it back put them right here
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no put him a little bit further [Music] and so that health bar is hiding behind
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the uh behind the pillar that stupid nose
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so it's uh we're it's it's cool we're we've done a lot along these lines we
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have this new uh UI that tells us or that we that tells us what we have
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coming up so what's in our coming wave how many lives we have left uh we allows
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us to start our next wave this there there's still a bug here the wave
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started but it says cancel starting next wave i
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a lot of this will be cleaned up in the polish pass uh this is currently broken as well they're not running the uh
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waypoints and I'm not sure why but we're
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making progress and we have all of this um
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we're we're we're we're we're making progress it's it's good i'm really happy with where we're at
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uh so our stats are done the same way as our um
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as our uh economy stuff so
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it's health 10 current health uh m or move speed 20 move speed isn't hooked up
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yet we'll do that when we get our character mover our character movement code in a good place defense is also not
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hooked up yet we'll we'll work on it um
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honestly I probably am going to refactor our uh
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our cost system so that it's done this way as well rather than being uh
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resource and a cost it's it'll be uh a map of resource to cost
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but it it makes me happy because it's just so simple so we have our icon
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hooked up here uh we have the class we have a name in place
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and that's going to be where a lot of our uh code a lot of our design no uh a
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lot of our datadriven nature is going to come from these data tables is my current int is my current expectation
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so
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the next biggest thing that we have to work through is menus uh pause menu
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settings menu a main menu um a
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uh lobby screen all that kind of stuff uh we have
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we have a lot of work to do in terms of that
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uh so that's
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um uh that's the goal for this week
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um but I'm really happy it just
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we've done a lot we've come a long way
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like from week one where we just were getting our camera working you know this is this is week nine of development
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and I've built most of a most of a framework
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It feels crazy it feels crazy so um menu system
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uh Unreal has a lot of this built in
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uh yeah but one of the things that I really want I I
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How do I describe this
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i want things to be as
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I want to be built i want to build good infrastructure for a lot of this so
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let's just say our settings menu i want to have a
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I want to have a settings menu that takes in um
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[Music]
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I want to have a setting like one that takes in a mapping context
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and generates the menu
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uh the settings menu like the controls menu from the mapping contexts that are
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passed into it
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so that's the kind of thing we're going to work on
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but at the same time I am
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I'm not sure why I'm streaming today like this is going to be a really thinky
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day um
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so it's probably going to be a short stream uh today today's probably going to be a short stream um
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[Music] and what we'll end up doing is
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doing a lot of this off stream which is why I'm not sure how much streaming I'm going to do this week um
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I probably could have made this just be a video
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um
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Okay well the first thing first we're going to have a
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um this is going to be a common uh I just going to say simple
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menu system
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so we're going to have a simple menu system our simple menu system is gonna be what we work on today um we don't
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need this
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pose
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[Music] the easiest thing
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[Music]
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[Music]
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I apparently I didn't spend as much time thinking about how to implement this as I thought I did it's uh
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Pain pain pickle
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i've been doing a lot of my UI and blueprints
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so I guess we're going to keep doing a lot of my UI and blueprints
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we'll come back into C++ when we need to hook up C++ land I suppose
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okay so plugins simple menu system content
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we're going to have a widget blueprint
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yeah widget blueprint it's going to be a user widget select and this is going to
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be a BP menu it's going to be BP menu item
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and the next thing we're going to do is we're going to make a blueprint uh blueprint interface this is going to be
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BPI menu item
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so
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our menu item is going to be simple it's going to be a desired size no it's
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going to be desired size it's going to be a
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[Music] button and inside that button is going to be
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text that text is going to be a variable
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um and it's going to be uh item like a menu item
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menu text our text is going to have a binding
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no gonna have uh
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any text content that's going to be text pot
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okay uh next step we're going to pop into here it's going to be set uh
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content and that's going to have an input of uh
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new content
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and that will be text
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[Music] i would like to add a new
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Sorry let me pop this over here
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[Music]
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[Music]
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i'm really [Music]
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grumple crumble
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settings
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there we go simple
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i really feel like I should be able
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to
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[Music] Mm- [Music]
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output but
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this feels wrong i don't
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Here
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[Music]
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[Music]
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blueprint uh interface pass delegate
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[Music]
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[Music] all right
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[Music] don't see how to get this out of here
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okay well there's only one way I can see and this here is going to be
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blueprint interface BPI menu
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[Music] so our BPI menu
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uh is going to have a function it's going to be uh on
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uh menu item clicked
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on menu item clicked is going to have an input of a text type and this here is a
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menu content and that's what we're going to do uh so
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in here we're then going to uh have a function
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that's going to have an input of a
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BPI menu um related
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owning menu file Save
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that should be new function that should be set uh
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owning menu file save
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so we do set owning menu we
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promote this to a variable we store it we then go
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here get
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is valid we branch
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if this is valid we then do
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call function set no
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class BPI menu on menu item clicked do that
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and we do this
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and there we go
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okay relatively simple there then um
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so we set the contents uh we set the owning menu this contents is going to be a default
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value of
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sunset
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okay
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simple
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[Music]
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then we're going to have another user interface widget it's going to be another user widget this is going to be
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BP menu
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this is going to I'm just going to say
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uh
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vertical menu this is going to have
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a vertical box
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and in that vertical box we're going to have our uh menu items
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compile save uh pre preconstruct
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um we have a variable which is going to be menu item class
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this is going to be
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BPI menu item
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no uh [Music]
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user widget class reference
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[Music]
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okay so our menu item class user widget yeah yeah yeah
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okay
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[Music] so in constru truck
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[Music] BPI menu item branch
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so if this is not we then want to
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log string um
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there we go there's that
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uh if it is true if we do implement the that in that interface then
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uh
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we need
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too much i I hate I only do it a 30 minute stream
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but I just I my brain is not here my brain's not here guys
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so we need a strct of some sort
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to store the
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menu information
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so big thing we do want to implement
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API menu no
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bpi menu on menu item clicked uh
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we're going to have a map of menu content to uh
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delegates ah it's [Music]
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okay fine i think I'm going to call it a day i just I I can't think i'm sorry i
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apparently I spoiled myself with a week of doing all this of doing a bunch of work off stream i really really wanted
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to show off what we've done so there you go you've now seen uh what we've done uh
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you have you probably don't have a very good idea of what I'm going to be doing but we're going to be working on a menu
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system i think I'm going to mostly be working on that off stream this week um
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so hopefully I'm back on Monday uh or maybe
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even before then uh but I'll be back when I have a working menu system and we'll show that off we'll show it
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working um I'm probably going to do a lot in the in
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the interim here like a lot a lot
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so sorry sorry if you want to watch me work on
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this and struggle i I just I feel like I'm not making good
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content and that is really hard for me in my in the way my brain is working
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right now so um thank you for watching and I'll see you
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next time bye
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