I’m not sure how much I’ll type.
but i wanted to log a failure. sort of. I keep being hard on myself and calling it a failure but in reality, Patch and I are working in a system that took two previous nights of failure to conclude.
Here’s the workflow. I express an idea to Patch, and he automates THAT process, and nothing more..He says, “your wish is my command.” But what if I mis stated that wish? I didn’t know what else i needed, for instance, didn’t ask, and didn’t get it.
I always have to throw the “What would a pro dev do?” question and it gets me a bit more in line. So I finally asked and now that is where we are.
honestly..for all the failure talk..SnowCone MathFest is moving in a VERY exciting direction..I am currently trygint to see If I can code this thing in a way that I could actually get it on the app store…
if you’re interested..long story short..I built this game as a browser game. It follows browser rules and on mobile, the browser puts a tiny little bar at the top that keeps the mobile, and my game, app from touching or going into the top bezel of the Iphone..
So..we’ve tried adding a bar, moving titles, making gamescreens respect the bar, removing it again, and that realizing..The app is done..and is ready to be played at the release party..but I don’t think it will be ready and on the app store by then..I don’t even know what the android and steam processes look like. I’m just an apple product user (dont @ me) and that’s what I have been developing through and mostly for.
So what did we do tonight that was different than other nights? we added a platform switcher…Now…event though I absolutely bombed at getting the game screen to work on iPhone like I wanted, I can come back in the future and make iOS specific changes that will no longer affect the entire app..it was only very late in the evening that I realized, even if I make a ton of iOS changes to get it to work on iPhone, the platform switcher allows it to see what it’s being played on and adjust accordingly. Uncharted territory for me, but cool none the less.
The idea now? DON’T BREAK THE APP lol
I have some merch..it’s very cool..no online store yet though…maybe soon..
HAVE A GOOD FRIDAY!!
JPS Grooves 
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