(When I say started again Its never really from scratch, but we rebuild and restructure)
We came close last year with the "halloween V3 beta" but while preparing the next update for last New Year we just felt there were too many holes and neither Hal or I was comfortable with how it played. We tried for many years to bring the Amazing Frog? Legacy version into newer technologies, alas we never felt we could recapture the essence of the Amazing Frog? gameplay. [taken much more time that we had hoped to get comfortable with "V3" - Or as I now like to call it "Amazing Frog?®" We had worked with V2 ( "Legacy" ) for many years and as some of you may know it was build in a very old version of Unity. Also, just now, we put another update out with some more UI options better train and car impacts and a bunch of bug fixes.
This was a MASSIVE milestone for us and one that we wish we could have reached sooner. On Xmas Day we put a new Amazing Frog? "V3" update out. [new year! Long time since I wrote one of these. We should probably take Amazing Frog? Out of early access. On the 22nd of November it will be 7 years we have been on Steam. And I can’t tell you enough about how excited we are about the next steps. Obviously, some things are a given, The Giant Toilet, The moon, grapple hooks, Sharks Ants etc But everything is being rebuilt always with improvement in mind. It is worth noting that not all things will return in the same way. As we begin to remove this tape we will put V2 Remastered and V3 onto the default branch instead of beta. You will see many core features of V2 have been "taped off” while they are in development. I started writing a Dev blogs multiple times this year trying to explain this… but always figured it would be best if it could just be played.
Since V2 remastered is build from the V3 code base that means what we add to v3 can also work in V2 remastered and as we recreate all the content from the original V2 this content can manifest in v3… Make sense? Its OK if it doesn’t. We have seen some significant performance improvements. We have put up information in the town planning centre, please check it out. This remastered version of V2 does not have as many locations as the existing V2. In many ways we should have just started building Amazing Frog? 2, but since we never really finished V2 we never really thought that was fair on you guys and Originally our plan was to just update Amazing Frog? We never expected a divide to emerge between V3 and V2. As I mentioned before, to build V3 we had to literally start from scratch. In a nutshell we are effectively rebuilding V2 in the V3 code base. So what is V2 Remastered? - Good question, Gaz thanks! We have been working on V2 built from V3 and we call it "V2 Remastered".
Even if most of the time even if we set out to build something it always ends up with Hal sneaking up on me unaware with some weapon.īut then I can be a bit of a back seat driver when we are testing stuff out. We hadn’t really tried much remote play in Amazing Frog? until recently and we were really pleased at how well it ran split screen over a network, so thanks Steam! This doesn’t mean we are not still working on online multiplayer, but remote play certainly helped Hal and I test the game remotely.
More on this soon because as I said earlier… there are no sharks yet! But if you feel like sight seeing its a nice place to visit. We began construction of a Dam in order to separate the fresh and salted water. I don’t think there were mobility scooters in the last V3 update ? but they have also been improved and BMXs are back pack compatible.Īs well as developing the vehicles, toys and instruments of death, we have also been continuing the refinement of Swindonshire. I can actually stay on the roads and I’m not a particularly great driver. For journeys to Swindon On Sea or The Stone Clock the cars are much more reliable. Although in typical “Fayju" Style we forgot to put the instructions in for this… But when the Gizmo is red you can hit “reload” and it will remove items in the range of the gizmo that you have placed.Īmong some of my favourite improvements in this update is the driving. has seen some significant improvements, you can now remove stuff as well as add stuff. We have begun to categorise them too, toys, weapons, sport equipment etc… this helps when we are organising F.A.P.Sį.A.P.S.
Pop Pop, There are a bunch of new items available in this V3 update.