Playtest 0.9.2 - Substantial Update

Frog Pond Simulator Playtest · published

Hello Tadpoles 🐸!

Plenty o' Changes


We're happy to bring many enhancements and some new features for improving the User Experience.
Below you can take a look at all the things that changed.

Bug Fixes 🪲

  • Fixed a bug where opening the Inventory (Key Icon in HUD) stalled all inputs and broke the game
  • Fixed a bug where some items that belong to the full-game where present in the playtest and caused issues when interacted
  • Fixed a bug where localization broke in the Frogdex
  • Fixed a bug where collected items wouldn't save
  • Fixed a bug where tabs in menus would not work properly
  • Fixed both cameras auto-mode behavior
  • Fixed a bug where some localizations where not fully loaded

Improvements 🔝

  • Camera auto-mode no longer stops when moving the mouse, a click action is necessary to stop it
  • Camera auto-mode triggers after longer (30s, was 5s) and is more dynamic
  • Changed Frogdex UI cards with better feedback

New Features ➕

  • Added an HUD button for manually toggling on/off the camera auto-mode, it also indicates the state and progress before the auto-mode activates itself when idleing
  • Added an HUD panel that shows the name of the focused frog/item/camera and allows for manually scrolling the cameras by clicking
  • Added small overlay panels that dynamically appear on the heads of frogs who's name has been customized
  • Added a small easter egg for renaming a specific frogs with one out of 4 possible special names
  • (WIP) Adding achievements 🎉! (It's unclear whether they all work, we're still testing them)

Special Thanks
A special thanks goes to our community, particularly to rxpcgal for streaming our game to her followers and for providing us with the feedbacks that helped us improve the UX!

Thank you all Tadpoles!

With love 💝,
Black Flamingo Games.