We updated the game with the personal shout outs by New Years, and they shared the app with friends and family who in turn found a shout out in the game just for them! What a sweet gift for the world and a huge success for learning how to make my first game. We did this clever promotion where we asked Wiggly Loaf Fans to submit Shout Outs to friends to be published on the walls of the chalkboard in the game.
BUILDBOX ANDROID CRASHING SKIN
By the skin of our teeth we got Wiggly Loaf on the iOS app store before Christmas. Wiggly Loaf was coming together and I was psyched!īy December 19, we were in the race to get the Wiggly Loaf app in for approval before the Official Apple App Approvers all went on their week long holiday break. I love that feeling of giving my all and getting remarkable results. By the time I was near done I was delirious and haggard. I worked every day, often 18 hours with only snack breaks. I had been looking for a project she and I could do together and we became a team figuring it out. I don’t think my brain would have the capacity to learn how to make and publish my own game in the time frame I wanted. I asked my sweet wife to research creating apps on Xcode and uploading games to iOS store while I blitzkrieg the game into shape. So many parameters to tweak, and you know how I love to tweak parameters. It can be very exciting for a geek like me. There is a delight to trying different settings until you find what you want or discover something you didn’t know was possible. The game of making games is what I’m into. Knowing what I wanted the game to do and figuring out how to get Buildbox to do it was part of the fun for me. My desk was cluttered with energy bars and the much needed bottle of water to keep me going. I found myself working 16 or more hours a day, crashing, waking up thinking about the mechanics of the game, and getting back on the computer. Even though the program is intended for other things, I painstakingly screen capped each instance of the Wiggly Loaf animation through the Doodly program to create all the chalkboard sprites of the game. I discovered a program called Doodly that filters my ink drawings of Wiggly Loaf into a blackboard chalk version. I wanted the Wiggly Loaf game to look like it was animated on a chalkboard. I followed all the Buildbox video tutorials on YouTube, and bit by bit I built my game.
I subscribed to Buildbox and began working on a Wiggly Loaf game. I wanted to learn how to create video games for Android and iOS.
On NovemI gave myself a winter challenge.
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