Checking in...

Hey all, thanks again for playing the prototype! Your feedback is much appreciated.

Just wanted to check in and let you all know how the game is coming along:

WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON:

On the programming side, I've been working to squash a bunch of bugs in the prototype, in doing so I realized that the prototype is terrible and needs to be redone. I've fixed a few of the bugs with the game mechanics -- namely, made it so player selection is smoother and so that progress bar actually resets -- but it's clear that mangling the code any further to try and fix this is just going to waste time and energy. The main bug with swapping tiles getting stuck if the player selects too fast is somewhat baked into the code, as it has to do with how the player's selection is indexed.

Without getting into the minutia, I think re-doing the match-3 code entirely is the best option.

Everything else is progressing slowly and surely, assets are getting done and I think they look pretty good, here's the stage 1 for the current available character as a little sneak peek:

We're planning on making it so that there are multiple characters to play through. On paper this isn't too crazy to implement, it would just be a lot of asset creation.

Additionally we'd like there to be a CG gallery where you can view the unlocked images and character stages.

I'll go into more detail on the implementation as development progresses and things fall into place more clearly, for now, it's coming along. I feel like I'm getting the hang of unity, at least.

tl;dr: I'm redoing the match-3 cause it sucks, everything else is going good.

PLANS FOR THE UPDATE:

• BETA RELEASE 0.01 -- Focusing on getting the game more functional, "SOUND + ART UPDATE"

• Free update
• Match-3 bugfixes -- still the old prototype version, just more functional.
• New Art, standalone assets
• Sounds, some stock fx placeholders
• Framework for character selection

• BETA UPDATE 0.02 -- NEW CHARACTER + MATCH-3 OVERHAUL

  
  

  • Free update
  • MATCH-3 REDONE W/ GRAVITY
  • More art, standalone assets
  • Better sounds (if needed)
  • NEW CHARACTER

As for when to expect the next update, things are getting busy around where we are so expect to hear from us sometime soon. I'll try to get the update out ASAP, my projection is by the end of March.

-Dixie