Aubrey's Word Factory

Devlog

• Minor upgrade but annoying issue solved!
  December 06, 2023 by martinfsmith#Kids, #Educational, #Unity 2D, #Spelling, #Free, #Browser

  Finally killed a very distracting playability bug: on touch devices multiple Input events were being generated. I'd fiddled with all the controls I could think of (in Unity scripts and Hierarchy, and... Continue reading
• V. 3.2.2. Deployed
  December 05, 2023 by martinfsmith#Unity 2d, #Educational, #Young Kids

  Relatively minor functional updates, mainly cleaning up the audio to avoid overlapping clips. Also did some "garbage collection" and added some code-comment documentation (not visible to a player, of... Continue reading
• Catching up the devlog a bit . . .
  November 18, 2023 by martinfsmith

  So, I actually did two Devlog entries in one day a while back and somehow the second one disappeared. User error, I presume . . . Anyhow, that was discouraging enough that I quit updating for a while... Continue reading
• Significant upgrade to encourage spelling
  October 29, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Significant enhancement to encourage players to spell words out, vs. just selecting a first letter then clicking on one of the word icons to add it to the train. With v. 3.2, after an initial letter i... Continue reading
• Minor: added second example sentences audio
  August 24, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Added a second audio clip of a usage example sentence for each word in the dictionary, and randomized which example is played. So, this doubled the number of audio clips and maybe keeps players from g... Continue reading
• Playability and decorative upgrades
  August 19, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Major improvement is a work-around for play on touch-screen devices. Code now just throws away spurious extra unintended touch events that I couldn't find a better way to eliminate. Other "decorative"... Continue reading
• Published today!
  July 11, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Added Credits (in the game Description), and a screen-shot of the game (per ITCH.io advice!) Also enabled player comments on the game. Then set status to Published! (Still have a long list of fixes ne... Continue reading

  
• More minor tweaks . . .
  July 11, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Deconflicted some audio overlaps and installed fixes provide by my real programmer collaborator! Also added a little construction-site graphic!... Continue reading
• V2.1 released (still Restricted)
  May 05, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Minor upgrade adding a few word icons and lots of missing spoken word usage examples... Continue reading
• V2 with minor changes deployed
  May 03, 2023 by martinfsmith

  Still learning to crawl with Unity. V2 is a very minor update, replacing the "Cube" train engine with a 2D train engine image (thanks, Dalle2!) Also tried to replace the "Level Complete!" image but ma... Continue reading
• It's alive!
  April 28, 2023 by martinfsmith

  First launch of Aubrey's Word Factory (still very much in development, though) on ITCH.io! My expert colleague did most of the actual technical work, and is in the process of helping me take over the... Continue reading