Feline sweet (weeks 17-21)

Week 19/20

No video this week.

Kickstarter launched, doing badly obviously, welp least I tried. I originally priced too high, but even when I’ve lowballed the price, it’s still got £6 of 10k and been almost a week, so I think that’s not gonna happen, which kinda sucks, but that’s the way of kickstarter.

Steam demo already live - This week updated to alpha 0.7, made the game a lot easier, replaced some of the harder levels with simple ones, still pretty jank was hoping it would help make sure people knew the game was going to get finished but looks like my time would be better spent, preparing for an Early access steam release sometime in October.

Fixed a bunch of problems with the player controller, highlighted a few less obvious things after watching someone play the game. I’m going to have to redo the player controller entirely at some point since rigidbody will not work properly, hitting corners bounces you off them, it’s a problem with unity itself that’s not actually fixable with hacks.

Seriously thought about just quitting this week, but might as well wait and put it up on steam next month with a lot of normal levels. My guess is this game will do very badly and have almost no sales, given the lack of interest on kickstarter, so I’ll probably iron out a few issues with steam release then attempt to put on other platforms such as GOG, greenmangaming, humble bundle, later on, but my mood is pretty low right now.

Also if anyone reads this avoid the new input system in unity for now, so many work arounds to do basic stuff.

I think I’ll just move on from the demos and make the rest of the levels, and replace the player controller, start making a lot of the screens final, finishing off tasks in my list till I get it done.

So Original deadline was 11th of September. I’m now at the point were all the weeks stuff is done. Trailer - done. Level editor - Actually this isn’t done yet, after kickstarter thing I guess. Demo - Done Put on steam - Demo is last thing waiting on approval for release \o/

This week will be playing a little cyberpunk, waiting on bank to see if I can get a business account, waiting on steam to allow release of demo. Removing all the demo specific stuff I changed. And hammering out a lot of levels, tweaking sound effects and testing a couple of bugs.

Link to me playing the demo, that will soon be up on steam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3gl3bOs6FI

Week 1.5/4 and 17th overall. Did week 1s goal, new title page - commissioned art was very bad and nowhere near the quality required - had to roll my own - steamworks acheivements in and working, trailer 2nd go now good enough- https://youtu.be/LsV5MtlDkio. Tracked down the sound problems in menus, changed popup to just being always in-game, means I have to duplicate code though which is bad. Add in rest of cat animations and did variants to allow for looking down and walking. Steam shop front is almost ready, but I require Tax code from HMRC before I can make it final, requiring a business bank account. This week is all about the demo, while I wait for my tax code to get here. Should hopefully be done by next week.