Devlog #12

I finally got the in app purchases to work in Springy Cat. It turns out, in F-22, I didn’t add the necessary IAP Listener to the game, which detects when you want to purchase something, and takes you to the checkout. I’m going to update F-22 today, and it will hopefully work. (I hope so)

I also added some animations to the UI, to make it more user freindley, and will maybe get more installs. I’m mostly basing the UI off of Fortnite, because I love it so much. Like when you want to view and item, it takes you to a screen aside from the shop where you can get info on the object you want to purchase before you do. Maybe I’ll get more purchases from the shop this way.

If you don’t have “KittyCoin”, the game currency, you can click on a button (as seen in the image above) to take you to buy KittyCoin. For 1000 KittyCoin, you pay $.99, but the font won’t support all those cool symbols like $ and ., so I changed my font to one that supports any symbols, but looks almost exactly like the previous one. As soon as you purchase your first KittyCoin from the shop, you’ll be like a VIP, so you’ll want to buy more KittyCoin.

I was thinking about adding something like the Battle Pass in Springy Cat, but it’s only a mobile game, not some shooter game like Fortnite, plus, its not like people are going to spend that much time playing it. Instead, I’ll add Bundles, which come with skins, upgrades, and KittyCoin for a lot less than buying everything all together. For example, for $.99, you can get 1,000 KittyCoin, not enough to get the Tiger skin, but the Tiger Bundle with cost $.99, but it comes with the Tiger Skin, 500 KittyCoin, and an upgrade for the half as much as the Tiger Skin itself, so If you want the Tiger skin, it actually costs more to get it by itself.

I don’t want to get like Gary Simmons, but I have to write at least 500 words in each blog.

Oh, I’m on lesson 41 in Dead Earth, and its actually really cool. I’m excited to do the next tutorial, which is screaming zombies. Basically, when a zombie sees you, instead of chasing you down, it will scream, and alerted any zombies in the area to you. In the last lesson, (54 minutes) Gary the garish brute made a lesson on how to make lots of zombies in the game (copy and paste xD)

I’ll see you in the next devlog.

Diary of an Alien

Chapter Three

The next day was sunny. Light penetrated through the super-strong glass in my room, and I got up. Zwinky and Tiger were playing tag in the control room, and I stopped them before Zwinky could catch Tiger. “Let’s surface,” I told Zwinky. Our fuel was running low, and we needed to restock on food.

But the only place where we could get human food was in Beastopoliz, the worst place on Trion 69. We were in the middle of Oceanaris, and it would take about a day to travel to Beastopoliz. We could use the racing engine that I had collected in a bet, but it was too risky; the sub couldn’t handle that much speed. I looked at the gas gauge. Holy moly! There was only three hours before we ran out! “Zwinky! Prepare the racing engine!” I shouted at him. Zwinky immediately stopped petting Tiger and sped out of the control room. I saw him coming back with the small but powerful engine. “Attach it to the back of the sub, and set the speed to high.” I ran back to my room and got dressed.

A minute later, I walked back to the control room, where Zwinky was busy calibrating the engine and sub for high-speed. “Close all the windows and secure all loose furniture!” Zwinky sped off again, and I finished the calibration. Tiger, who was watching me the whole time, meowed, and I put a cat helmet on him. Tiger loves it. Just then, Zwinky came back. “All loose furniture down!” “Great.”

I slowly pushed the throttle to its maximum speed, and I felt the sub responding to my touch. The whole palace jerked forward at an enormous speed, and my cheeks flapped like I was in a roller-coaster. “Ahhh!!” Tiger flew backward and hit the control door. Even Zwinky’s magnetic wheels couldn’t hold him to the ground at this much speed. I strapped myself down to the leather chair and put Tiger on my lap. Then the lights went out. I quickly turned on the emergency lights and glanced at the GPS. Yes. This sub has on. We were being chased! By my worst enemy of all: The King and his Army. Let me tell you the short story. One day, I was minding my own business, when the King (No one knows his name) came along and jailed me. For no good reason! So I escaped, and that angered him even more. I’ve been hiding from him even since. He had probably jammed our electricity signal. Yep. Sure enough, I saw a little machine attached to the side of the control window. It was beeping. It’s a bomb! “Zwinky!” I yelled as loud as I could. Zwinky quickly came to my side, and I pointed out of the bomb. “Get it off!” I narrowly avoided colliding with a high coral reef, while Zwinky climbed out of the window and grabbed the bomb, right before it exploded.