version 1.03
By James on Sunday 8 March 2009, 21:05 - Permalink
I've just uploaded Ancient Frog 1.03 to the app store. It'll probably spend about a week in Apple QA before going live.
The big bug fix is the stutter in the ambient sound loop. It's been gnawing at my conscience since I released the game - I knew it was annoying, but I released anyway in my mad rush to clear the decks before the son and heir turned up. I had a few hours of peace and quiet today and was able to have another look at the problem. In the end I admitted defeat on my original approach, and switched to a less highly compressed audio format. This puts the package size up by about a megabyte, but I think it's worth it for seamless looping.
The other addition is to tell people in the tutorial that the daisy is a button. Lots of people weren't stumbling upon this (and it's not that obvious really). The solution is a bit clunky (nobody reads text in games), but it's better than completely throwing people in at the deep end. It also makes the end of the tutorial a bit less abrupt, so win.