Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Prepping for Release

Last time, I reported that I was almost finished with my second Freshly Squeezed Entertainment project called Clown Alley Creator, a creativity tool about creating your own fun clowns.

I spent time creating, preparing, and updating store pages, as well as continuing to add finishing touches to the game itself.

Sprints 2024-31: Polish, Porting, and Publication Preparations

Completed:

• Create privacy policy page
• Create store page
• Defect: When exiting gallery and pressing play, the assets reload even though they should already be loaded

There are a few things that aren’t live yet that I created, such as the store pages for itch.io and Google Play and such. You’ll see them when the game is released! Not listed above is that I started work on creating the Clown Alley Creator Player’s Guide, which is a free PDF you can receive if you sign up for the GBGames Curiosities Newsletter (see below!).

I fixed an issue I discovered shortly after sending out the latest release to my testers in which the asset loading screen takes longer and longer each time you enter the game from the main menu. Basically, if the sprites and audio are loaded the first time, it shouldn’t need to load them again.

However, it was appending the media to load to the list of things it already loaded, and so it would take longer to do so each time.

It wasn’t a huge bug, as it would take someone entering and exiting the game repeatedly in the same session for it to use just slightly more memory than it should, but it’s fixed now.

I also added a pigeon to the game, as I would like to make sure each game I release has a pigeon somewhere, but I’ll let you find it when the game is released.

I did discover that Google Play’s requirements for new apps will force me to update my build tools to support the latest SDKs, but I hope it is a minor change to build my Android release and doesn’t require me to figure out where a bunch of different configuration settings have moved.

Thanks for reading, and stay curious!

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