For all those Best in Show players out there, I thought it was worth posting about how to use your old profile and save data without having to start over from scratch. We’ve learned a lot from working with online distributors and receiving feedback from our players. One very common problem was that the game [...]
One of the most enjoyable parts of developing ‘Best in Show Solitaire’ has been including my dog, Pepper and Zak’s dog, Marley into the game. Marley is sort of a standard, popular, and well-known breed (Black Lab) so the artist didn’t really have any problems with Marley. Here’s a few Marley Puppy pictures: Here’s a [...]
As Jeff worked on the dogs and cards, I started working with him to think about the Player interface and the level backgrounds as well. I took a current screenshot at the time (Feb 2010) and marked it up with elements that we needed for the player. Ultimately, we worked on the backgrounds first and [...]
I had some pencil sketches and some really ugly early gameplay screenshots, so I knew that the first task was to work towards a final screenshot and get all the gameplay stuff done. I settled on including 40 dogs in this game and told Jeff to get started on some of the 26 I had [...]
Best in Show solitaire had humble beginnings… when I got my new Blackberry Storm 2, I started messing with it and trying to get games working on it. I started with a simple solitaire game that worked great on my PC, but lagged and had slowdown and control issues on my Blackberry. So I forgot [...]
So long time blog readers may remember some tests I was doing for a solitaire game on mobile devices. I never really got the game working how I wanted on my Blackberry, but the game has continued to evolve. Progress has been so good in fact that it will likely be our next full game [...]
