Hey all!

When it rains it pours, following on from the previous delays there's been a bunch of stuff (heatwave, family stuff, depression, and so on) which has kept things slow BUT I'M NOT A QUITTER! (ignore all the unfinished prototypes I've made in the past, they don't count!)

I've been slowly working on Bubble Frog 2's Yellow Zone. It's proven to be a little more tricky than expected as it took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise that with the use of physics for the floating Bubble Frog's jump isn't as binary as in Bubble Frog DX.

In Bubble Frog DX if you was floating up, down, or resting on something, when you pressed jump you floated up a set amount. In Bubble Frog 2 if you're floating down, your upward jump will be less than if you're already floating up. This means levels have to be designed with that variation in jump height in mind. In BFDX I knew if I left X amount of tiles between 2 spikes Bubble Frog would always be able to fit through it, but in BF2 if the spikes are at the bottom of a pit you're floating down, your jump will be different than if they're at the top of a path you've been jumping up!

This hasn't stopped me making new levels though, I've got level 7 and 8 fully working and tested in the game!

Although I call them level 7 and 8 the plan is when I've made all the levels for Yellow Zone I'm going to get my super sexy testers (Shenk and Cryptid) to try them out, rate their difficulty, and then using that data I can organise them to give the player a nice difficulty curve :)

The other reason things have slowed down is a super secret project I've been kinda forced to work on as my Google Dev Account is under threat of being shut down as I've not released anything on it, so I'm putting together a few things to release on the Android Play Store in the not too distant future. I'll make posts about those when they're ready to talk about! (the Mobile Gaming world is FULL of people looking to clone other peoples ideas and push them out before the original creator releases their game so I'm having to be quite hush hush, especially with AI letting people slop that shit out super fast).

Anywho, just a little update to show things are still progressing and hopefully Prototype 2 won't be suuuuper far off :)

-Timbo