{"id":319,"date":"2017-01-16T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2017-01-16T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T11:51:40","slug":"all-ways-down-general-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/general\/all-ways-down-general-news\/","title":{"rendered":"All Ways Down + General news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy past couple of weeks so I figured I would post a bit of an update on progress and upcoming plans.<\/p>\n<p>Just before\u00a0Christmas I uploaded\u00a0All Ways Down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newgrounds.com\/portal\/view\/686382\">newGrounds<\/a> and shortly after to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/noddingTortoise\/all-ways-down\">Kongregate<\/a>, with some reasonable success, managing to hit the front page of newGrounds just a few days after uploading :-). \u00a0I received some great feedback from the users of these sites, which has allowed me to improve the gameplay, iron out some bugs and give it some more polish overall(I&#8217;ll include the full list of changes at the end of this post).<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;ve been working\u00a0on these further updates I decided to temporarily put the android build on hold, and focus on improving the version that was available. But, do not fear, I am still planning on releasing All Ways Down on Android. However, I want to make sure it is ready and tested before I do so, which may take a little longer. Though I do currently have a stable finished build running on both a mobile and tablet so it shouldn&#8217;t be too long, it just depend on whether or not I add a feature I&#8217;ve been thinking about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now All Ways Down is almost finished, (again), I&#8217;m starting to think about my next project. I have a couple ideas in mind which you might hear more about once I&#8217;ve fleshed them out a bit. I also have a couple ideas for this site but we&#8217;ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;m off to go have some fun in Unity,<\/p>\n<p>Joe.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>All Ways Down Change-log:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased pickup size.<\/li>\n<li>Increased goal detection area.<\/li>\n<li>Increased level rotation speed.<\/li>\n<li>Improved various UI elements.<\/li>\n<li>Added current level number to pause and level complete screens.<\/li>\n<li>Added trail effect.<\/li>\n<li>Tweaked overall game difficulty.<\/li>\n<li>Added mute button.<\/li>\n<li>Added mouse input for level rotation.<\/li>\n<li>Tweaks to early levels to adjust game&#8217;s difficulty curve.<\/li>\n<li>Added restart button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a busy past couple of weeks so I figured I would post a bit of an update on progress and upcoming plans. Just before\u00a0Christmas I uploaded\u00a0All Ways Down to newGrounds and shortly after to Kongregate, with some reasonable success, managing to hit the front page of newGrounds just a few days after uploading &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/general\/all-ways-down-general-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Ways Down + General news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[65,79,120,116,56,61,23,119,118,117,123,121,9,122,29,8,58,96],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-update","tag-2d","tag-all-ways-down","tag-busy","tag-change-log","tag-concept","tag-finished","tag-game","tag-indie","tag-kongregate","tag-newgrounds","tag-noddingtortoise","tag-play","tag-project","tag-site-news","tag-thoughts","tag-unity","tag-upcoming","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XSDf-59","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noddingtortoise.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}