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[Viperace]

Hi all,

Shuffle House is a casual game about rearranging the layout of your client's house. They have different demands and so your job is to satisfy them as much as possible.

The game is intended to be released as on mobile for its swipe feature. The mock-up with temporary art looks something this








For myself, I am a hobbyist developer learning gamedev for past 4 years. Among all my past project, this is the one that I believe it is worth sharing. I hope by establishing a log, I would get some feedback and in the meantime track my progress better.

[Viperace]

~26 days has past, with 6 days of vacation. Quite abit happened over the month, main achievement I have added since then

• Weather/Daynight Cycle/ Rain
• Procedural Generated Level

There are also quite a number of things added but not up to the level I wanted them yet.

• Finalized furniture arts
• Finalized UI navigation

Have also contracted a freelancer to help with the furniture art, but sadly... the work not up to par and he decided to ask for more. I have to stop it.

[Viperace]

Here are some pet animations. The pets are supposed to move around the room.




Thanks to Wenart whom I commissioned from Deviantart. He did a great job for those cute pts 

[Viperace]

Besides the art, the progress made within the past few weeks are significant 
I did not realized it, but as I sit down and try to recall what have been achieved, hmm, quite a list.

• Game Mode - 100 Level Challenge
• Game Mode - Unlimited Challenge
• UI - Option Menu
• Game Mode - Standard mission, 40% done... and is progressing fast

The furniture arts that were planned earlier are not completed sadly. I am holding it back for the moment to see how the overall artworks feel like.

In the next update, I will be aiming the complete the game as a MVP - MINIMUM VIALBE PRODUCT! 
That means the game will be released for ALPHA TEST as standalone .exe

[Viperace]

Progress over the past two weeks

• Tested the build on an actual iOS device (finally!)
• Integration with GameSparks to handle leaderboard
• Game mode is 80% done, left the hardest 5 level to be made
• Finalizing the pets and characters art (thanks to Wenart hardwork)

The first two points are phenomenal to me.

I finally had my game installed on my iphone 6 ! I could have done this on day 1 but I didn't because I thought an Apple Developer license is needed. Think since 2015, X-code can build directly into the device. It looked and feel awesome in the phone!
The highscore leaderbaord could have been a side feature that is not important. Not to this game, I wanted to build in sense of competitiveness in the game. So, I took the trouble to research the platform that could help me host a leaderboard, GameSparks is the answer and it is great! Easy to learn, use and handle.

Well, I wanted a MVP in earlier post, I had one now in my device. I am still reluctant to share it out...  yet. Feels like there are still things to polish before I could share to my beta players (login, settings menu, high score board, place holder arts).