Amazing Frog? vf0.2.9a.hf2

A new Update available for Amazing Frog?. We are very proud (and relieved) to announce that f0.2.8e The Swindon Space Program Update is now available. After some pretty tricky bugs that popped up last minute… I wonder did we make it in time for Easter? Well we did try. Just so you know the bunny ears expire by the end of April.We added a lot of things to f0.2.8e that we have been meaning to add to Amazing Frog? for a long time. Some of these things you will have to earn or discover like the flamethrower of that contraption on the frogs back, I won’t spoil it. There are also more fundemental things like in-air controls for all vehicles. Cars also have a hop button where the handbrake was and handbrake is on right bumper.



Aside from being the “fire” update which was a pretty big system to implement, the moon is now more explorable which opens up a whole bunch of other things to do including gemsmash and moon buggy time trial among other things. Make sure you start your tour of Swindon with a visit to The Swindon Town Planning Office for further information of whats going on around town and take a peek at the change log.



Aside from all the fun stuff added in the is Update, we also added some more systematic stuff. The Steam detection (big red lazer walls in Hideout) has been rewritten and is now more explanatory on whats happening. We also added some super basic analytics, so we can start to gather what machines people are running Amazing Frog? on. This information can really help us moving forward.We will be ready to make any hot fixes this week so keep letting us know if you run in to issues. I am pretty sure a lot of things from previous version have been fixed like the cathead and tvhead. I think it would be best to give it a few days to see if there are any crazy problems and then i will make a 32bit version of this update for those that require it.Our next goal is to update the store page. We haven’t really updated it since we first put Amazing Frog? on Steam Early Access so it doesn’t really represent the game very well. Also it’s been ages since Hal and I made any videos. After we have done that I will come back and write a devblog about what happening with the u5 stuff, the new frog, online etc. For now… Happy Chocolate egg Weekend and enjoy f0.2.8e - The Swindon Space Program Update.

We have just released a hot fix update to f0.2.8c after a frantic four day bug hunt. Last Thursday we released The Frog Milk Coffee Co. Update only to discover minutes later that pocket mode was broken on Windows and Linux. One thing led to another and we ended up fixing a few more things... It felt like Unity 4 was throwing us some last minute pain before we finally said goodbye and moved on.

Before I explain what was wrong I need to first say again about your DATA.

YOUR DATA



I have noticed that many players said that their Data was lost. Its gone but not lost. You can get a lot of it back. I know it is not very clear, but there was a button put into the Settings fApp on the fPhone just for this purpose called Reclaim Save Data.

There was some confusion here because I made a supplemental mistake where i did not increase the data allowance for Amazing Frog in the Steam Cloud. So this meant that it could not save the new data for some people, because it still had the old data taking up space. I resolved this over the weekend without the need for an update, but it was worth mentioning. Amazing Frog? saves two types of data, local settings and cloud saved data. Local settings are things like quality settings, population density and controller settings, these are saved locally on the machine you are playing. Cloud saved data is for game progression S.C.P. Unlocks, rewards, Trophies, outfits, cats etc…They are saved to your Steam Account in your cloud. This way if you are playing on multiple machines it should take your progression with you but maintain you hardware specific settings per platform.

PIG HUNT



So what happened? We were set to celebrate, because both Hal and I knew that as soon as we were done with f0.2.8c we could fully concentrate on the next stages of Amazing Frog? As is stands we spent the weekend chasing what turned out to be a PIG. We had no idea what the bug with pocket mode was and it took us completely by surprise. There was no error, nothing to read in the crash log and it only happened in windows and Linux builds. Pocket mode was deconstructed piece by piece until we found the crashing culprit.

When we finally found it …. IT WAS A PIG.



The material on the pigs was breaking the game… ( only in pocket mode ) and we still have no idea why. We recreated the material and threw our hands in the air and is if by magic… it worked again. I guess thats sometimes how game dev works. Pretty frustrating when it does work like that, but its all good. During the process of elimination of reasons why pocket mode was crashing we also sorted a few other things too.

We fixed some notification problems and improved the space flight simulation room.

Also by accident we discovered why sometimes holding a gun or an object results in jitters (often the frog attempting to touch what is being held). The process of fixing those jitters also helped us make the physics even more optimised for this last Unity 4 version. So this update is now THE LAST, but hopefully THE BEST Unity 4 version of Amazing Frog? Bring on Unity 5.



So whats next?

Well certainly the next Devblog will be about the Unity 5 stuff that we are working on, but in the meantime I expect we will probably spend a day or so playing the hell out of the The Frog milk Coffee Co Update as there is a few things we have been eager to try out. Maybe we’ll make some videos, and if we feel up to it… I guess we better update out completely out dated store page :)