So not much progress on the game.

• Money rounding..  yeah.. lots of refactoring code.
• Moving some more UI elements into groups so they render in the proper order and can be switched on and off.

Anyway here’s another beta.. # 7 now.

http://www.swiftthought.com/temp/BarnyardBonanza007beta.apk

Download Barnyard Bonanza beta #7

Woo good Week!

New Beta 6!

• Better Odds manager (you can see it by clicking the puzzle piece on the Main Menu)
• Reworked tons of the Odds and Money manager backside so money should be handled better.
• Implemented adMob ads
• Got a good start on painting the home screen .. then did it again as photoshop crashed. (FML)
• Made the loading screen handle screen changes and stuff magically.
• Reels are generated a bit more realistically and auto re-factor every 100 pulls
• Started getting sound fx implemented .. not working on desktop .. sometimes on android.. :-/

Here’s Some screenshots, a link, and a QR to the apk

Download the latest beta (006) here http://www.swiftthought.com/temp/BarnyardBonanza006beta.apk

Next up:

• Turning sound on/off :-/
• Get the Powerup Buying working
• Maybe a mini game!

Another beta,  new features behind the scenes..

• Asset manager implemented
• Loading screens.
•  The beginning of the Powerup Shop
• Better animation
• Various internal re-shuffling
• New UI Buttons

Here’s a screenshot and a link and a QR code for the beta

If you have an Android device you can play with the Beta here:

http://www.swiftthought.com/temp/BarnyardBonanza005beta.apk

Some more UI tweaks and special effects and Particles (coin fountain based on amount you win)… however Photoshop crashed and I lost a revision of the UI buttons.. so technically this is a version behind.  But it now oficially detects running out of money.  Also removed a symbol from the lineup which should increase loosness of the game but still the payouts are… way too generous (ie you really have to work at loosing).

New buttons for “Cashing Out” and “powerups” are on-route, along with a Main Menu, Bonus Games and other goodies.

As always.. If you have an android device.. I’d love to hear any feedback.

www.swiftthought.com/temp/BarnyardBonanza004beta.apk

Very productive evening.  Fixed the basic timing on reel spin slippage so at the end of every spin things wind up in their proper place.  Lines now generate payouts properly

Looks like the odds need to be tweaked a bit.. more low paying  hits would be good,

Have an Android device?

Want to test something for me?

http://www.swiftthought.com/temp/BarnyardBonanza002beta.apk

Download the latest beta

Next up:

• Adding bonus calculations (5 in a row with a bonus or more as a wild card kicks off a bonus round)
• basic sounds
• Odds tweaking
• A main menu.. saving and loading games
• Bonus games.
• Animating the icons that hit on a spin. and special FX showing winning on a pull.

As pennance here’s 2 screenshots from the in progress Android game, that’s coming along nicely.

(yes Irismel is taking a little development break while I work on some of the mechanics in spreadsheet and paper form. The RTS elements weren’t working right. Now I’m leaning towards something a bit more Tower defensish)

That means two things.
1.  Character sketches, concept art and little paper mockups. Ie anything I can do not in front of the development pc.
2.  Tools development.  Little things that I know I will be needing, but don’t need to be dependant on the whole application to function.  Things like getting http://editor.irismel.com to export maps and support the little things I will need in my map editor, like monster spawners etc etc.  Also all the little widgets (button classes, text dialogs and so forth) and asset & option managers that I plan on eventually releasing
as a standalone jar file to help other java Slick developers.  I’ve got the javadoc of what I have so far up at iristool.irismel.com.

So lots of little things but no real time to sink deep into the development mindset for now.  But I should have some pretty pictures and scribbles up before too long.

Then it’s time for a facelift to the site and some exciting project work

However, we’re leaving 2011 behind with an impending close and consequent move to the new house in the next 45(hope hope hope) days and a 22month old with a broken leg. So I’m just going to abandon any pretense of having ‘fun project’ time untl March 1. (outside of any lunchtime coding I can squeeze in)

This totally sucks but, alas, is unavoidable.

Catch ya on the flipside..