Scrabdackle

Devlog

• Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 double-update
  January 02, 2024 by jakefriend

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  Hello all! I'm moving my Kickstarter-hosted updates back over to itch.io again, for ease of its text editor and embedding images and all that. If you'd like to read past updates, they're publicly avai... Continue reading

  
• The new 2022 demo is out!
  September 02, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Howdy! This is half an update announcement (belatedly), and half a devlog! First up - the new 2022 demo is out! (I actually put it up on Aug 1st without an announcement post, but I just updated it wit... Continue reading

  
• May-June 2022 devlog! Ruining the Ruins 😎
  June 09, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Hey all! This is a little late thanks to being sick in May, but as usual, I've got this in two halves - a video part first, and a text/images part below. Video topics (roughly in order): New level des... Continue reading

  
• April 2022 devlog - Visual leaps and bounds!
  May 03, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Hello folks! It's a new month, and time for a new devlog! I've split this one into two parts - the video part here, then a text part below. Video topics (roughly in order): New Junk Heap visuals New '... Continue reading

  
• March 2022 devlog - Menus n' polish n' playtesting
  April 01, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Hey everyone! Round three of trying the video devlog format, and this is the first time I think I managed to keep the production time inside 2 hours, including on any previous written devlog! That's a... Continue reading

  
• Feb 2022 devlog - UI for U & I!
  March 01, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Hi folks! It’s that time of month. I’m trying the video devlog format again to see if it’ll save me more time than November’s, with some adjustments - this time I’m not basically writing my... Continue reading

  
• The Dec/Jan devlog!
  February 01, 2022 by jakefriend

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  Happy New Year, all! What a winter! Like I said in my November devlog , I'd be taking a hiatus between Dec and Jan to move, and merging both half-months into a single devlog. In addition to getting a... Continue reading

  
• One Year of Scrabdackle!
  September 01, 2021 by jakefriend

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  This is a special one! I released the Scrabdackle demo on September 1st last year, after working on it just occasionally for two months, and then pretty heavily for another two. The past year has been... Continue reading

  
• Final demo patch & development future
  April 29, 2021 by jakefriend

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  It's the final alpha demo! Wowee! Outside of any newly-created issue in this patch that I may quickly need to revert, this is the last alpha demo build. What does that mean? Well, this is my first wee... Continue reading

  
• The Final Push! LAST 24 HOURS and 150% FUNDED!!
  April 14, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Hello everyone! We're in our LAST 24 HOURS on Kickstarter, and at the time of writing, are 150% funded! If you've been watching the campaign, or missed the first email, we hit our target on Day 6 and... Continue reading

  
• Creating Invisible Tutorials Through Level Design [video]
  April 14, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Game design has always really interested me, and I've wanted to talk more about the level design in Scrabdackle for a long time - it just never made sense to talk about in any form but as a video. I d... Continue reading

  
• 135% funding unlock: The Divine Comedy
  April 07, 2021 by jakefriend

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  (It's been a busy week! I'm actually combining two Kickstarter update posts here, because things have happened so fast!) Stretch Goal #4 unlocked: The Divine Comedy Let the games begin! Are you not en... Continue reading

  
• Waking Fossil demo patch notes
  April 02, 2021 by jakefriend

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  The Waking Fossil boss has been released for about two days, and I've gotten some great feedback about the fight being tough-but-fair (as hoped and designed for!) and fun even to lose to (doubly hoped... Continue reading

  
• THE FOSSIL AWAKES: New major boss update!
  March 31, 2021 by jakefriend

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  The fossil awakes. For the first time since the initial demo release last September, I've added a boss to Scrabdackle. In fact, it's the first major boss in the entire game - the existing boss, Little... Continue reading

  
• 120% - Second stretch goal, and more!
  March 28, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Stretch Goal #1 AND #2 unlocked! We've actually unlocked TWO Stretch Goal content stories since my last update! What are they? 110%: Beyond the Bounds of Magic Going beneath the wizard academy was som... Continue reading

  
• 103% funded and counting!
  March 23, 2021 by jakefriend

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  100%, and onwards! Wow, I am genuinely speechless. Actually, this happened almost 12 hours ago now, and I still don't know exactly what to say. To the community of fans that has formed around my silly... Continue reading

  
• 59% funded and 8,000 DLs! Updates & info
  March 19, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Wow , everyone! The last few days have been a wild ride. Scrabdackle crossed 27% funded in the first hour and broke 50% just past the 24 hour mark. It's been an incredible start - we broke my first da... Continue reading

  
• New Demo & KICKSTARTER is LIVE!
  March 16, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Scrabdackle is LIVE on Kickstarter! Please check out the new launch video, and the Kickstarter page itself! It's got over 100 art assets, mostly custom and mostly animations, and tons more about the w... Continue reading

  
• Demo Patch & Kickstarter news
  March 07, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Hello there! Kickstarter prep continues! We're charging ahead with Kickstarter prep. All $ numbers are locked in, and I'm actually trying to set up a referral program right now so folks without much c... Continue reading

  
• Kickstarter launch page is LIVE! + Cutscene previews
  February 28, 2021 by jakefriend

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  New teaser, and rewards preview! Heya folks! We've got a Kickstarter launch page now! Still 15 days until launch - but you can click 'Notify on launch' now to get in early on early bird rewards and to... Continue reading

  
• Scrabdackle on Kickstarter March 16!
  February 17, 2021 by jakefriend

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  One month til launch! It's finally time! I announced a "March-ish" Kickstarter back in October , and since then have slowly been ramping up. Wanna know the plan? Sign up for the Kickstarter mailing li... Continue reading

  
• Devlog, Feb 10 - New NPCs! And general update
  February 10, 2021 by jakefriend

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  NPCs incoming! Hey, folks! Missed my devlog window last week - I was hoping to have some smaller updates to patch the demo with, but ended up sinking too many days into a scaling shader to handle diff... Continue reading

  
• Demo Update - Lore book update!
  January 27, 2021 by jakefriend

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  The Lore Update is LIVE! Hey folks! BIG update time! New spell, new system, tens of pages of content to discover and read - it's all here! This entire system is actually a suggestion from the initial... Continue reading

  
• Devlog, Jan 15 - *Flip flip flip flip*
  January 15, 2021 by jakefriend

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  Lore update is... imminent! I put out a sneak peek of build 06, with the GUI changes, last week . At the time, my goal was to wrap up the lore stuff within another week, then 'formally' release the ne... Continue reading

  
• Demo Update - I am the Lore-UX, I speak for the GUIs.
  January 08, 2021 by jakefriend

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  (This is me stealth-launching update 06, btw!) So... the new GUI is now out! For the time being, I'm not going to 'proper' announce this yet, and will wait until the next 06 patch is ready to make it... Continue reading

  
• Devlog, Jan 1 - Next flex? UX!
  January 03, 2021 by jakefriend

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  With great users comes great responsibility... Time for U & I After working hard on the lore system over the past two weeks , I realized I'd hit a road block. The next lore tasks involved having the b... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 12/24 - Lore, continued!
  December 24, 2020 by jakefriend

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  What's the haps this week? Progress has been pretty steady despite the close proximity of Christmas! Holiday events and gift prep has occupied some time, but I've made steady progress on Scrabdackle n... Continue reading

  
• Progress update 12/16 - Lore system!
  December 17, 2020 by jakefriend

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  What's this ' lore system' ? Howdy! The Peanut Village update's been out for about a week, and has had some great reception (especially the ??? new hidden feature). Thanks for the positive feedback! I... Continue reading

  
• General patches for release 05 (updated 12/9)
  December 10, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Nothing fancy here, just noting what I fix as I fix it for release 0.1.05. 05b: Resolved an accidental crash bug caused by Godot not exporting a key JSON file. 05c: [Build not compatible with previous... Continue reading
• Demo release 0.1.05 - Peanut Village!
  December 09, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Welcome to town! Finally - and for real, this time - Peanut Village is properly in Scrabdackle! Nestled in between the territorial Ducklands, the desolate Rubble Ruins, and the muck of the Junk Heap,... Continue reading

  
• Quick progress update 11/25
  November 25, 2020 by jakefriend

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  What's left until Peanut Village? Howdy! Quick little update. As I mentioned on my 11/2 update, most of my time this month went into a big IRL move. We're just starting to get settled in the new place... Continue reading

  
• Quick progress update 11/2
  November 03, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Hi everyone, just posting a general update on how things have been going the past week or two, dev-wise. Last week's Kickstarter news was really big! About a week went into working on all the art and... Continue reading

  
• Scrabdackle is coming to Kickstarter!
  October 26, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Hello all! Remember in my last post when I said I just didn't have enough time to work on the project? I'm doing something about that! Scrabdackle is coming to Kickstarter in 2021! About a month ago,... Continue reading

  
• Quick progress update 10/22
  October 22, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Hi, folks. The Rubble Ruins update has been out about a week and a half, and the work for the next update is well underway. However, it'll still be a while, so I thought I'd give a quick progress upda... Continue reading

  
• General patches for release 04 (updated 11/6)
  October 13, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Nothing fancy here, just noting what I fix as I fix it for release 0.1.04. 04b Properly hid a star that I'd just plain forgotten to hide the connecting paths to. Moved switches so that players can't c... Continue reading

  
• Demo release 0.1.04 - Ruins update!
  October 12, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Introducing the Rubble Ruins . . . Something that's been important to me is that multiple regions are accessible in the demo - even a small section - so that players don't mistake the Junk Heap for al... Continue reading

  
• Dev Log - What's coming next?
  September 30, 2020 by jakefriend

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  What a month! Scrabdackle has been out for (almost) a month, and it's felt like a rollercoaster. We've got a fair-sized community starting to build around the game now, with big plans for the future,... Continue reading

  
• How I animate characters (part 1)
  September 25, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Initially this was just a one-off reddit post , but since it was well received, I wanted to bring it here and consider doing more in the future as well. We're going to be looking at a new enemy for th... Continue reading

  
• Mac version now available
  September 20, 2020 by jakefriend

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  Quick update-- We've had a sucessful test of the Mac version, so time to make it public. I'm hoping this works well for all! I've also added a Windows 32-bit build (the previous Win build was only for... Continue reading

  
• Demo patch 0.1.03 - Peanut Village update
  September 18, 2020 by jakefriend

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  As I write this, we're approaching 2,000 downloads, which is just crazy. It's about 200x my original hopes for demo playtesting and feedback, and still doing a consistent ~175 downloads/day. We've als... Continue reading

  
• The Scrabdackle Discord
  September 13, 2020 by jakefriend

  Announcing the Scrabdackle Discord! Hello! There's been interest in a discord server for the game, so we're starting one up! 👉 Click here to join the server! 👈 I'm hoping it can be a place fo... Continue reading

  
• Demo patch - 0.1.02d
  September 12, 2020 by jakefriend

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  A quick patch to update some of the main points raised on critical feedback. Hey, also! OVER A THOUSAND DOWNLOADS!! Thanks so much everyone - I'm so genuinely touched people are enjoying the game. Pa... Continue reading

  
• The road ahead (roadmap & long-term plans)
  September 08, 2020 by jakefriend

  Let's talk about long-term plans. Last week, I released the first public demo. From here, I'm in a good place to build large amounts of content quickly, but I'll be breaking the remaining work down in... Continue reading

  
• Demo thoughts & patch - v0.1.01
  September 08, 2020 by jakefriend

  Howdy! We're a few days into the Scrabdackle public demo release, and I've been collecting all the feedback I can get and planning some adjustments. First, immediate takeaways; second, longer-term pla... Continue reading

  
• Scrabdackle demo launch!
  September 01, 2020 by jakefriend

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  The Scrabdackle demo is now released! Take a look at the launch page and trailer , or download directly below! Roadmap to follow in the next week or so. Scrabdackle by jakefriend... Continue reading