{"id":1439,"date":"2016-06-10T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fayju.com\/blog\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2016-06-10T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:36:44","slug":"amazing-frog-devblog-005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fayju.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/amazing-frog-devblog-005\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Frog? Devblog 005"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nYou can read this on the Amazing Frog? Community Page on Steam Here<\/a>
\nThe Coffee in the The Frog Milk Coffee Co Shop kind of lost its kick in the beta because the rewards points were not working correctly.<\/p>\n

Sorry :)<\/p>\n

If I am honest I knew the beta had a LOT of issues, but I just kind of figured that people wanted hands on stuff and considering we will be starting Unity 5 betas soon I thought why not just provide the option to try out a beta build. \u00a0While some of the issues, like\u00a0the rewards, I’ve sorted the code, things like\u00a0the effect of \u201cgetting jacked up on premium grade frog coffee\u201d were\u00a0not really fully complete any way so you didn\u2019t miss much. But i am working on that right now too\u2026 well now I am writing a devblog, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

I really wanted to say thanks for the response to the beta, its been really\u00a0helpful, I’m so glad we did it. We were not actually expecting many people to play it, but its great that you did. As the game grows its becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the changes and bugs between the two of us. Sometimes even one wrong line of code can\u00a0cause multiple\u00a0bugs that may seem unconnected, like when the keycard and the Key to the city did not work without restarting the scene\u2026 one line :\/<\/p>\n

This past week has been pretty much fixing all the problems you found and of course fixing some we already knew about. Most have been fixed, so\u00a0expect the beta to be updated\u00a0pretty soon, dependant on\u00a0the following stuff in the Devblog.<\/p>\n

Hold the Coffee<\/h3>\n

First up, I\u2019ve been wrestling with a single coffee cup for the past few days. Reprogramming the way small objects are carried and\/or interacted with.<\/p>\n

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So I think I have mentioned before how attempting to solve one little issue can lead me\u00a0to create bigger problems for my self, like a butterfly effect… holding coffee is one of those. Currently, when you walk around with a coffee cup, a can of croak, a toilet roll or anything small that you pick up from the floor, it is held infront of you\u2026 as one might carry, I dunno, \u00a0a full cup of coffee :). I wouldn’t expect items like this to be carried in this way, if a\u00a0cup was empty, you could run around with it like in the images above. There are a lot of items I would expect you to run around with as the image above including\u00a0the smaller guns( when you are not aiming). It sounds really trivial, but how objects are carried is at the heart of a vast set of interaction mechanisms that drive a lot of the stupidity behind Amazing Frog?<\/p>\n

Each object should be capable of “individual purpose\u201d, but they should all\u00a0be driven by a unified set of principles and systems. This would empower Hal and I to make a huge variety of stuff to mess about with quickly that all does different things. Something as simple as the\u00a0difference between how you hold a coffee cup when\u00a0either full or empty has forced me to re visit some old work that we had done to drive melee in some of our pre release test versions. I am not saying that you will be able to swing a baseball bat or sword in the next beta\u2026But think of it like this – when you pick up a full cup of coffee and holding it upright and then hit \u201cshoot\u201d and drink the coffee by raising the cup to your mouth providing your frog with some sort of consumable powerup, it is done very much the same way as one might pick up a sword and perhaps press\u00a0attack and\u00a0expect it to swing in\u00a0front\u00a0of you.<\/p>\n

in short, I have been modifying the way a frog holds coffee cups so i can get us one step closer to swinging baseball bats and throwing grenades.<\/p>\n

FrogLife\u2122 Ongoing modifications<\/h3>\n

FrogLife\u2122 NPCS were created to phase out the old style NPCs that were basically the same objects as the player frogs\u2026 but with slight modifications. These were the original NPCs in Amazing Frog? \u00a0It felt like the right thing to do (to have characters that were the same object as the player frogs ) \u00a0but it wasn\u2019t. It may come in handy for something else like more focused bots, but for the general populous, that process wasn\u2019t optimised enough. They carried too much \u201cbaggage\u201d from the player frogs. We always wanted more frogs. When asked should there be more frogs in Swindon\u00a0our answer\u00a0is always \u2026 yes. This is why the FrogLife\u2122 system was created. Its not perfect, but it\u00a0is way more optimised.<\/p>\n

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The last place where FrogLife\u2122 was not in effect was in Fart Gyms, so one thing we did do this week was update the gym frogs there. While there are certain things that are currently not possible with FrogLife\u2122 NPCs like riding them, there is more that is possible and each update the system\u00a0is growing. We try to refine elements of the FrogLife\u2122 system as often as possible, such as how frogs\u00a0react to explosions and gun activity or what attracts their interests\u00a0.\u00a0Also\u00a0each of the emerging personalities are gaining attribute governing their reaction, like the police, crims, gym Frogs, business, king, ants and zombies. I knew they they were not reacting properly in the beta so we have spent some time tweaking and improving this.<\/p>\n

Your Old Data<\/h3>\n

Your old data from f0.2.8b still exists, so don\u2019t worry. It is completely separate to the data saved in f0.2.8c with the new save system and updated fOS. If for example you sign out of the beta and default back to f0.2.8b it should continue as normal.<\/p>\n

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As I had said in a previous post, I did not want to try and run an automated process that converts your old data as it would be a bit risky. In the end I went for quite a simple process of collecting specific data from your versions lower than the beta. So for example if you got half way through collecting the cats you can “Collect f0.2.8b Trophies” and add what\u00a0you collected before to what you may have collected since you started in the beta. SCP on the other hand is set as a restore. e.g., if you had 500 SCP in the early version and since being in the beta you had collected 600, you probably won’t want to hit the restore button.<\/p>\n

Community<\/h3>\n

Its really difficult to keep up to\u00a0date with whats going on in the discussion\u00a0when i\u2019m so wrapped up in development. I\u2019m doing my best, but I have to thank a lot of you that help players\u00a0out with their questions. A lot of the time providing better answers than I do :).<\/p>\n

Its been pointed out to me from various sources, that I might need to make moderators. The fact that I haven’t so far is not that I don\u2019t want to, I just don\u2019t know the ins and outs of it yet and I really want to focus on getting the definitive version of f0.2.8c out as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Its been really exciting to do our first beta and I\u2019m glad we did it. We\u2019ll get an update to that beta as soon and possible and hopefully \u00a0that should be pretty much the f0.2.8c update.<\/p>\n

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also its odd, I\u2019ve not seen any massive bits of shark sushi yet\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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