Dishpig!

Devlog

• (Another) Bug Fix Update!
  February 25, 2019 by August Junkala#Bug Fix

  Work in another game led to some engine improvements that I have brought into Dishpig! too. The major applicable one is text rendering. However while I was testing the build I found a few bugs and fix... Continue reading
• Bug Fix Update!
  September 19, 2018 by August Junkala#Bug Fixes, #Update 1.1.1

  An issue with the new styles was found shortly after it went out however I was in the middle of a major code reorganisation. That has now been complete so the fix is now rolling out (along with a few... Continue reading
• Bugs
  September 12, 2018 by August Junkala#Bug Fixes, #Maintenance

  Seeing as how every other update and bug fix hasn't been without issues it shouldn't have been surprising I would find issues in the major update. When you are in the mobile versions in portrait and g... Continue reading
• Update released!
  September 04, 2018 by August Junkala#Update 1, #Features, #Styles

  After a bit longer than anticipated, the first update to Dishpig! is done! The biggest change is there are now various styles of dishes to choose from. There was also a handful of bug fixes in these u... Continue reading
• Finalising Update
  August 29, 2018 by August Junkala#Update, #bug fixes, #new features

  Not a whole lot to say, I am currently finalising the first proper (i.e. not bug fix) update to Dishpig! As mentioned in the previous updates I am adding styles to the various dishes so you can change... Continue reading
• Dish Styles
  August 22, 2018 by August Junkala#bugs, #features

  I continue to work on the new feature. I managed to wrap up rendering (finally), work out a bunch of bugs and get the previous dishsets using the new system (useful trial of it). One of the bugs was... Continue reading
• Triangulation
  August 15, 2018 by August Junkala#algorithm, #update 1

  Progress is picking up on the update. Managed to work through the new triangulation algorithm and it is working beautifully. Right now I am working through the new bits of rendering that necessitated... Continue reading
• Slow on Update 1
  August 08, 2018 by August Junkala#2d, #algorithms, #bugs

  Things have been a bit slow since I was unwell for a few days but I have been making progress. The past several days have been spent dealing with an issue with my code that draws a lot of the game. Sp... Continue reading
• Update 1 Progress
  August 01, 2018 by August Junkala#updates

  Sorry for the lack of posts, progress on the update has been slow mostly because of other obligations and a chunk of travel. I have made a little progress on the first update though (and found a bunch... Continue reading
• One week left!
  June 06, 2018 by August Junkala#play-testing, #balance

  I believe things are in a good enough state so the plan is to launch on June 14th here, google play store, app store and windows store! There is one last bit of testing shortly, if you want to give i... Continue reading
• Feedback...
  May 30, 2018 by August Junkala#iOS, #playtesting, #bugs

  Unfortunately I lot of stuff kept me from doing much on the game this past week, although in the past three days I have been getting back at it. I have made some changes related to the last round a te... Continue reading
• More delays...
  May 23, 2018 by August Junkala#Bugs, #Testing, #Externals

  So the good news is I have managed to work through a whole mess of issue and improvements based on the most recent batch of testing. A lot of it was little stuff, one thing was the issue with bins & t... Continue reading
• Onward!
  May 16, 2018 by August Junkala#Bugs, #Ads, #Beta

  So I obviously missed last week, why? Well just before I did what I hoped would be the final test to get a sense of improvement and I managed to a much larger group of folks beta testing. As a side ef... Continue reading
• Last minute bugs
  May 02, 2018 by August Junkala#iOS, #windows, #gameplay, #release

  So I was away for a bit but am back now and am doing the last bits of wrapping up before launch. In the past two weeks, though, two issues came up. As part of my contracting I discovered that the iPho... Continue reading
• Continuing Beta Work
  April 04, 2018 by August Junkala#Beta, #Bugs, #Tools

  This will be short week, and probably for the next several due to scheduling. Over the weekend I managed to clear out my current list of bugs. I also received a little bit of useful feedback from my s... Continue reading
• Beta Round 2
  March 28, 2018 by August Junkala#Beta, #Bugs, #Messaging

  This week will be a bit brief on account of the contract. What did I manage to get done though? The biggest would be wrapping up the improvements I had in mind to help messaging in the game. I added a... Continue reading
• Beta round 1
  March 21, 2018 by August Junkala#play-testing, #windows

  So the first beta is out and I have received a fair bit of useful feedback. It has been helpful since folks who haven't played it have been without my supervision which is great for discovering messag... Continue reading
• Beta!
  March 14, 2018 by August Junkala#beta, #ui, #one-handed play

  Was a little slower last week due to illness in the house and getting set up to do contract work for a little extra money. Did manage to get through a fair bit nonetheless. Just about everything had t... Continue reading

  
• One More Alpha
  March 07, 2018 by August Junkala#bug fixing, #time strings, #threading

  Wow I had a lot of commits since the last post. I usually go through my commit log + maybe the daily posts I make to the facebook group to remind myself what I worked on the past week. Apparently I ha... Continue reading
• IAPs and fixes
  February 28, 2018 by August Junkala#Monetisation, #UI, #Platforms

  Apologise for the delay, was busy last night. So what did we do this past week? The biggest was probably just updating the IAP system, adding its UI, data and testing it to fix any issues. Along the... Continue reading
• Tutorial and Data
  February 21, 2018 by August Junkala#Tutorial, #Bugs, #Prototyping

  So this week was about trying to wrap up loose ends for the alpha builds to shake out remaining issues. I managed to finish up getting the game data format adjusted to the new format which seems to be... Continue reading
• Enough UI for a bit, back to the game.
  February 14, 2018 by August Junkala#playtesting, #UI, #Monetisation, #Audio

  A buys week this last one. I wrapped up the major UI changes for now. The restaurant screen is much, much sleeker now. It still needs some work functionally, and I am not happy with how a few things a... Continue reading
• Bugs, Reviews and UI
  February 07, 2018 by August Junkala#UI, #Gameplay, #Playtesting

  Look at the, UI up there again... clearly the game play is not terribly complicated because most of my time is on UI. What sort of UI? Well, I spent one day just fixing a whole mess of bugs. Lots of l... Continue reading
• UI, Particles and Bugs!
  February 01, 2018 by August Junkala#playtesting, #public demo, #ui, #particles, #audio, #ads

  A day late because I was out demoing the game at a local WIP event. It was a useful, if not productive experience for two reasons. One, I discovered a bug in unlocking so those who gave it a try only... Continue reading
• Tool Updates Suck
  January 24, 2018 by August Junkala#tools, #ui, #android studio, #engine

  So in the past week I have lost a whole days worth of work (which as a proportion is very big since I am a solo dev and everything halts) thanks to a tools update. I have been putting off updating And... Continue reading
• Busy yet Quiet
  January 17, 2018 by August Junkala#UI, #play-testing

  So I don't have a whole lot to write about this week. It is not so much that I haven't been busy; quite the contrary actually. It's just the nature of changes have been extensive yet small or on unint... Continue reading
• UI and Gameplay
  January 10, 2018 by August Junkala#programming, #game design, #ui, #gameplay

  Quite a lot of changes this past week. I have considered switching to updates twice a week (for now I'll leave it as one until I get a good enough routine). As of this week I am back to working full-t... Continue reading
• Playtesting
  January 03, 2018 by August Junkala#playtesting, #game design

  Not a whole lot of report right now. I was away for two weeks so didn't get anything done during that time. What I did manage to do while away, though, was some play testing. Or more specifically havi... Continue reading
• Hard then Easy
  December 13, 2017 by August Junkala#design, #ui

  A little aside, still getting the hang of how itch.io devlogs work. Preceding one actually should have been out last week... Any way, the past week has had some work on UI and some work on balancing... Continue reading
• A lot for a little
  December 13, 2017 by August Junkala

  The past week has been spent finishing up the first pass of code for rendering more interesting and less 'prototype-y' dishes. I was hoping to switch back to gameplay by the weekend, but it took until... Continue reading
• Appearances and Issues
  November 29, 2017 by August Junkala#aesthetics, #platforms, #design

  The past week has been a bit slow due to both personal events and a hardware failure. I did a bit of work to try and finally get something new to look at for screenshotsaturday a few weeks ago. I was... Continue reading
• Metagame
  November 13, 2017 by August Junkala#design, #update, #playtesting

  Despite the devlog activity, I have been active. I have recently wrapped up a metagame to help tie the game together a bit. Essentially you own and are building up a restaurant as you improve your abi... Continue reading

  
• Modes, less randomness and more.
  November 13, 2017 by August Junkala

  The past week and I bit I have trying to refine things a bit more and putting in bits I missed. One of the changes I made resulted in a huge spike in difficulty. It ended simply being that the change... Continue reading
• Refinement
  October 21, 2017 by August Junkala#planning, #design

  So we have done mucking about with cleanup and such fro the prototype. The structure of the game is there so now I move on to refinement. This will involve bring in ancillary mechanics (say like rand... Continue reading
• Here we go
  October 17, 2017 by August Junkala

  This will be brief since I am just starting out production. I'll try to keep updates regular, although that means they'll be more dev-y. Spent August and September prototyping several ideas I have had... Continue reading