Weekly devlog #6 - Butterflies and frog animation

This week I have been mostly working on finishing the first android version of the game. But I have also been working a bit on the animations for the new creatures in the next update.

Android version
There were only a few small tasks left to do. Like bug fixes or adding visual controls to the android version. During development the left, right and jump buttons were just invisible. So I quickly made art for these buttons. I will probably change the appearance of these buttons later though!

But there was one small obstacle that I didn't see coming: android app bundle (AAB). Because since 2021, if you want to publish your app to the play store you have to turn your app into an AAB . But I was only able to turn my game into an APK, so I had to figure out how to make it into an AAB. After fixing a few compile errors, I was finally able to turn it into an AAB. Though I haven't been able to test yet if this AAB actually works. Since I am not able to simply install an AAB on my phone, I have to actually upload it to the google play store.

I have also signed up for google play console, this will allow me to publish the game to the play store in the future. But for now it will allow me to share the pre-alpha version of the game to the android testers. If you want to be added to this group of testers feel free to fill out this form. I am still waiting for google to verify my identity, but as soon as that is done I will be able to publish the android version to the first group of testers.

Now that this is finished, I can shift my focus fully to the next update!

Frog jumping animation
Now for what you actually came to this blog post for: I have made a jumping animation for the frog.

Butterflies
This next update will also add butterflies. These butterflies spawn in your world near flowers. You can also catch these butterflies with an empty jar. Then you can either free them, or feed them to your frogs. Whenever you feed a butterfly to a frog, it will make this frog follow you for a few minutes. The frog will also give you a random item as a reward.