SPOONS!

 Ahoy all you skyward sailors!


We are fresh off of our favorite local indie game dev exhibit: SPOONS!

    

    Not just useful for soup and pudding! This was an amazing opportunity to interact with so many people and show off our work. Also an excuse for me to don my best pirate captain outfit and shoot people with our cannon (non-lethal until we can afford the real thing). Any excuse to shout YARR and AVAST at passersby!


*More pictures will be coming from the photographer hired for the event, but that will take a little more time.


After a quick setup and a few starting issues, we got everything going and only had a few moments to break for the next four hours. Seriously, I got two water breaks. Sometimes we had all seven of our stations, including Captain Russ, connected and playing together! 


Spoons was amazing, and everyone had an enjoyable time, though it's clear the event has outgrown the space and we'll be hoping to have an even bigger event next time. Not a bad problem to have!


A special shout-out to all the people who sat and played our game; some really took to it and enjoyed the gameplay, and some almost didn’t want to leave!


Thankfully for all our guinea pigs swashbuckling swabbies, we were able to gather some very valuable information. We took notes on where people kept getting confused, how they immediately gravitated to the puzzles, and of course the bugs! This will drive our next month of work before we push our next update!

Speaking of which, we are looking forward to our next Demo with the Devs day! Saturday, September 12th - We will have a sign-up, so if you have a specific time you want, let us know!


        For now, we'll keep grinding away at the work. Our priorities for additions are:

Clear up UI symbols - People struggled with where and what to click


Make the scoring and results clear - More sparkles, more sounds, more glitter!

*sparkles gif*

Increase instructions for games - A tutorial, a sidebar, something to break down how everything is scored. Maybe some bits of advice for people struggling


Unify scores, stars, and results - I really want to get the badge system going, but that could take a bit as we’ve wildly changed how many games are played. And the readout at the end.


Clean up the game loop - Playing for hours right now just isn’t working like it should, and we need to figure out why.


And as always:

Join us below and don't forget to wishlist!

RXR Discord - https://discord.gg/2weKnqWmQ5
Demo with the Devs - Discord event

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