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[rainblocks development retrospective] 26 – The end

2014.05.27 – Submitted

2014.06.04 – In Review

That is the end of my notes. Not exciting, except that those days were exciting. It was a hell of a journey, and I am super happy with the results.

More is coming. Another game. Updates to rainblocks. Game development is fun.

[rainblocks development retrospective] 25 – A key framing point

[rainblocks development retrospective] 24 – Doing things right

2014.05.05 – Redid blocks into subclass of SKSpriteNode – Tweaked sliding

The titular rainblocks should have been a subclass of SKSpriteNode from the beginning. This would have cut down an enormous amount of code and made debugging a lot easier. It was one of the greatest lessons from this project

Laundry done, child asleep and in bed, everything cleaned up. Now it’s time to translate. Maybe I’ll get some work done tweaking rainblocks tomorrow. A VIDEGOAMEbeta has been sent to some people and I am getting good solid feedback. Realizing around ten thirty at night that it is now time to do stuff that I want to do is a bit scary. Perhaps I need to do less. But it sure feels good, even though…

[rainblocks development retrospective] 23 – Almost done

2014.04.30 – Implemented achievements

An issue with the achievements caused a bug where the notifications would happen repeatedly. Thankfully when I submitted a fix with a request to expedite the review, Apple did it. The fix was up the next day. This was a silly little mistake on my end, but there was not much of a change between the code in subaku and rainblocks for handling achievements.

2014.…

I’m leaving the Mac App Store

I’ve made Happy Translating and Happy Dictionary free on the Mac App Store. When it comes time to renew my account, I won’t be doing such and they’ll come down. rainblocksOS X is $5, but that will go away as well. My apologies if you bought that, but my sales numbers say you probably haven’t. I’m not bitter, just more educated now. I intend on making it available in other ways. The yearly $100…

[rainblocks development retrospective] 22 – Finishing touches

2014.04.29 – Created achievements – Fixed animations and matching for good! – Fast movement implemented – Sound effects are in – Changed logo

It may have been about the twelfth time that I fixed the animations “for good” but having eight blocks that moved instead of nine spots that changed was an important logical distinction. “Fast movement” I believe refers to the ability to quickly slide the…

[rainblocks development retrospective] 21 – More new things

2014.04.27 – Fixed muddy

Another classic example of how notes need to be descriptive to be useful.

2014.04.28 – Added new assets – Background transition in (but choppy) – Added ability to shake blocks individually

The artwork arrived! I was blown away when I saw it and how alive rainblocksbecame. It was a great moment in realizing that I didn’t need to have artwork all done and good looking…