Dev Log & Notes

Dad, You Always Tell Me to Play Less. Can You Even Make One?

"All right, I will make you one." Then I quietly got to work for quite a while.

This was the first game I made for my daughter. At first, it was not even a tapping game.

Working from a faint memory, I guessed my way back to a matching game that had vanished from the internet.

Moving a desktop board onto a phone, I started with the dumbest possible approach.

Iris could not clear the stage, so she pulled me in to play with her.

After finishing ZenoWorks Connect, I assumed most of it would carry over to Mahjong Solitaire. It turned out to be far harder.

My daughter told me a classmate plays a game on a smartwatch. I tried it, did not win, and saw something else in the numbers.

Nothing moved, yet tiles kept dropping. My code was wrong. I only noticed after playing for a while, and then I kept it.

While teaching my daughter Sudoku, it hit me: it is just arrangement, so it does not need to be numbers at all.

This stroke-order tool was, in truth, made to measure for my daughter.

From building the app to passing review, it was all details I had missed.

Not a list of things to fix, not a suggestion for improvement. A spam rejection.