Devlog #27 - Testing 1, 2, 3…
Heyo! The holiday season has begun and time has warped to even weirder dimensions. 2020 sure is wild, we’re glad you’re still hanging in there!
📣 Is this thing even on?
We spent the first couple of days in November finishing up a build for our publisher’s QA department to start breaking. They’ll be able to help us find all the different ways you can break Snacko. Since it’s so early on, we’re expecting tons of bugs. Fun.
To help make testing and working on Snacko features easier, we also made a testing map! We should’ve had one a long time ago, but we just never got around to it…
It’s like cheat codes! I guess that’s what cheat codes are, huh…Water all farm tiles, fast forward crops…very handy and time saving.
⛵ Land, ho!
We’ve resumed work on the town map. We’ve been taking it bit by bit and working on it between other parts of the game. We’ve added the port by the town square - that’s where all the boats will dock! While you can’t get on a boat and sail around, Mikan leaves by boat every morning to sell your shipping container contents. Be jealous.
The island should also be in a…not so good state. To communicate that, we started working on debris that will be scattered around the town. No worries! While they take a bit of elbow grease (do cats have elbows) to clean up, you’ll be rewarded with lots of resources.
🪑 Comfy interiors
The town isn’t just the outside, Mikan also received her very own house upgrade! To match the exterior of her bright yellow and orange house, her interior has become equally…citrusy.
I wonder what she’s reading…?
You can also change your wallpaper and flooring style through your local carpenter now!
As long as you have a style unlocked and the Cocoa Beans to cover the renovation, you can select any room in your house and change the wallpaper, flooring, or both! Or neither. We’re not going to shame you.
🚀 Just stuff
We also added saplings back into the drop pool for cutting down trees. Cut down a tree, plant a tree. Make sure Snacko Island stays green!
There’s also been a mini-game we’ve been working on lately…we’re excited to polish it up so we can show everyone 👉👈
The last bit is some dialogue polish! We’ve fixed a weird fading bug with the NPC emotes, and also made the dialogue choices more fun. They go bloop when you hover over them. That’s fun, right?
Well, that’s all for November. Stay cozy, and we’ll see you next month for…uh oh…the end of the year. Yikes. 💦
Extra thank you to our patrons on Patreon that support Snacko’s development! 🐾
