Players freely sharing such social posts is of course great for visibility and spreading the word about the game (as well as being a great boost for your confidence seeing people genuinely enjoy something you’ve made). Often they’d use the editing features on the Switch to add text or obscure puzzle solutions so as not to spoil them for others. From just showing a fun puzzle they cleared to showing off they finished a difficult puzzle pack, or even the whole game. One thing I noticed with the Switch release of Piczle Lines DX was that some players, most notably Japanese, were very happily sharing screenshots on-line using the Switch’s screen capture and Twitter features. The colouringbook extra that nobody wanted. A little more research in this area before starting would have saved some time and sweat. Initially I thought it wasn’t fit for my purpose, but of course it turned out it was but my understanding of it wasn’t. In this case, not having done the right research, I ended up writing a controller input system that, frankly, was a lot more ropey than UE4’s own input system. Usually during a project you learn some techniques or engine quirks that would have made part of your project a whole lot easier had you know about them earlier. “Use touch screen”, three little words but a world of hurt.
Everything had to be controllable by both touch and Jo圜ON input, leading to quite a lot of extra work to make sure it all controlled smoothly. Needless to say this also complicated QA and all the extra features players can unlock through the game.
Mostly, rather than having a layer of touch interface “on top” of a regular controller interface, I ended up basically creating two whole interfaces.
It did limit the maximum size of puzzles, as I was very careful to keep the game playable with your average finger in handheld mode. The decision to have both controller and touch input lead to more work than initially imagined. It was originally released on January 31st, 2019, and published by Rainy Frog LLC.Įvery element of the UI and game input had to be designed for both controller and touch-screen input. Piczle Colors is currently available from the Nintendo Switch eShop world-wide and as part of the Piczle Puzzle Pack 3-in-1, a currently Asia-only physical release (details here).
0 kommentar(er)
