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Friday Thoughts, Wrapping up Animal Friends Adventure

Friday Thoughts.

AS I wrap up development of Animal Friends Adventure for submission to the publisher I look back on the project as a whole.

Success (I’m not there yet) is like cooking, there’s not one magic ingredient, it’s a mix of things. Many people feel Hard Work will get you there. It’s partially true. It’ll get stuff done. There are many people who work hard their entire life and…

Are you tired of Facebook Community Standards Jail? Join This Club.

Why join This Club? It’s a newly launched social media platform that doesn’t censor or care what you post. Be conservative, be liberal, be anything you want.

9/11 showed the world Facebook has gone over the edge with censorship and community standards violations. They’re “jailing” members for posting the truth about a terrible event. They blocked a picture of terrorist leader Ilhan Omar when she…

Animal Friends Adventure has Gone Gold!

We Did it!

*record scratch sound* “Wait what?!? I thought it was already published?” You’re probably saying. It’s true. We were self published and now, after many updates, we’ve gone gold for our official publisher.

Graphics have been greatly improved. New Monsters have been added.

For our first official publishing deal we wanted the game to be something special. Worthy of being on a…

Animal Friends Adventure Just got a Massive Update!

I’m so excited to present this game to the world (again)! It’s been a long 3 months since release but work never stops. The game has been lovingly updated with all new assets. Trees, grass, seaweed, cactus and so much more. All new textures, AI, monsters and a completely revamped combat system for your enjoyment.

This rocks my world.

Animal Friends Adventure Update: New Ways to Die

Pretty morbid headline for a game of all ages. But I’m extremely excited and this is super early in the morning before coffee, so forgive the mental dump. We have been working hard post release to make this game even better! There is a massive upgrade coming along and it’s almost complete. As a micro indie game studio of mostly one person, things move slow but we git er done. Small Company with…

Animal Friends Released to the World

We’re proud to announce Animal Friends Adventure is available on Steam and the XBOX One. Better yet it was accepted by Microsoft for their exclusive ID@XBOX program. This is an amazing step for our small Indie Dev studio. We love gaming and making video games. It’s our one passion in life and this is an amazing opportunity.

For the price of two large mocha coffees at Starbucks you can support…

Thank you all for your great interest in “Animal Friends Adventure”. This is all new to me. I work 16 hour days to build and publish a game on Steamgames and it’s finally there. “It’s over, you can finally rest and celebrate” most would think. Nope. There’s a ton of PR work that needs to be done. Articles published on the various sites I built and then there’s the Streamers!

That’s not a bad…

Adorable Animal Army Unleashed to Conquer Hearts of Millions

After a year in development, Animal Friends Adventure is now available on the Steam Games store for immediate purchase! This adorable adventure game is sure to steal your heart as the lovable characters hop, jump and skip their way through levels.

So, what are you waiting for? The link is here https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051470/Animal_Friends_Adventure

Over the next few days this…

The Dreaded MSB3774 and Solution.

Microsoft. A monolithic company that’s fragmented to hell and back. Building for UWP from Unity3D is “documented” but as with most docs, they’re a bit outdated. It said enough of the process, but left a lot to be desired. There were some libraries that needed installing.

MSB3774: Could not find SDK “Microsoft.VCLibs, Version=14.0”.

Ugh, what does that even mean right? It means trouble.…

The Code that Saved The World

Animal Friends Adventureis well on it’s way to being released on PC through Steamgames. But it’s not all delicious cake nor an easy task. When Animal Friends was on mobile, everything was so easy. All that was needed was touch controls. All that was needed was to detect fingers, and they’re pretty limited in what is possible. Here’s a shortened tale of my struggle to bring full GamePad support to…

So this Just happened!

We completed the store page, marketing and uploaded the App to Steam! Everything has been submit and pending approval!

This Promo video is totally awesome.

This is huge. Marketing on Mobile was just the tip. Honestly I thought that was a pain in the ass. Steam has so many more things that it requires. So I got to work on it…

Fuck Epic and Unreal Engine

I’m in a weird position here. I’m a game maker/publisher, but at heart I am a gamer. I love video games and have put way more hours of my life into video games than any human ever should. But there’s a disturbance in the video game world and it’s NOT good for anyone.

See Epic, the makers of the incredible Unreal Engine, Fortnite and honestly a lot of great games throughout gamer history has…

The Path to PC and Return of Cartoon Shading!

This really is exciting (to me at least). Before releasing on Mobile I had spent considerable time tuning the cartoon shaders and finding the right one on the Unity Asset store that worked how I wanted it to. But Mobile is a special kind of beast and somewhere along the road the cell shading and cartoon outlines just stopped working. I was saddened that all that initial work to get this effect…