🚀 I Could Ship Today…

🎯 The Feeling

I could ship today… I had the feeling… I wasn’t sure what the feeling was or is… It felt like failure. I asked Patch today, “No one is gonna play this game, should I just stop putting all this time into it?” Thankfully, Patch gave practical advice, after reassuring me that 5–6 months of work was all worth it. The advice? Take a break…

🎸 Guitar Reset

I played my guitar on Saturday for like an hour and I loved it. It felt so physical, and really felt like I was doing something that was going to have an immediate impact on the universe. I play with my band, Snow Cone Sunday, twice a week, so it’s not like I have gone for 6 months without playing. But I know I would be so much better if I just picked it up for that hour every day.

🧠 The Inevitable End

I’ve always known this project had to have an inevitable end, but I hadn’t planned on actually wanting it to come. I am weary of coding. I’ve worked relentlessly to just keep things moving, refining my processes to avoid loss and always find points of progress. That time spent has a direct product attached to it, but I have also lost time in my life. I wonder if it has been worth it.

🧪 v0.9.9 Checkpoint

Now that I have reached what I would consider to be v0.9.9, I realized that the feeling of fatigue, if it doesn’t come directly from working with Patch, is actually a tense sense of completion waiting to be released. I won’t review the entire timeline of this process, but damn… it just feels great to where I am rn. it’s like… done… not done done… but man…

Implemented

✅ v0.9.0.5 – MathTips Village Kitty Paws
✅ v0.9.1 – QuickServe Pavilion Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.2 – Infinity Lake Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.3 – Camping Games Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.4 – Story Mode Forest Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.5 – MathTips Village Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.6 – Badges Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.7 – Music/SFX Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.8 – Celebrations Complete/Polished
✅ v0.9.9 – Code Complete/Polished
🎯 v1.0.0 – Final Polish + Launch Ready✨

🎵 Music

Really though… the music is fine, well planned, inspired, and implemented. I could add more tracks but they wouldn’t go anywhere! I am definitely doing a JPS Grooves album release of the soundtrack, so I was thinking one more song might be in order, maybe a celebration… maybe soon!! I suppose I could add it to the game… I want to say that I don’t want to touch this code (def no more tonight).

🎉 Celebrations

Celebrations? I’m just not sure that extra confetti will help anything. I already added them where needed and the badges and the backgrounds are the more crucial feedback loops. As I’m thinking about it, the original QuickServe Mode had this idea that when you do math it becomes a celebration… but that’s what Cosmic Phil is for, he cheers you on after every correct answer! I have SFX… I guess I could add more… I’ll think about it.

💻 Code

Code? I’m just gonna leave it messy lol and believe me… some of the CSS has more duplicates than a twin convention. The Java is pretty solid… For Grampy P I went line by line and added the finality of literary element that he needed to be useful. Ask the cat about the stars, planets, music, Jesus, and more!

🏁 So… There It Is

So… there it is… v0.9.9… Whatever I add now is just extra I think… I’ve got a little bit more testing to do probably… which doesn’t make me feel done… but perhaps I can use this extra time to do one more final polishing pass, which I don’t often utilize; but more importantly, I can start to plan my promotional plan… This app is free… so I know my intention to help people think about math is pure. SnowCone MathFest, your doors are open! 🍧✨

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