Monthly Mewsfeed – Jun 2025

Last Month

The first half of the month went really well, the release is done! I even managed to start a new game mode. This didn’t last unfortunately – cats and humans got ill, and now there is the heat wave. It has been hard to find leftover brainpower.

✅️ Fine-tune UI

The UI has been adjusted to a level that I think is OK to unleash on other people. The current state can be seen on the Playstore – please test away! Outside opinions are always appreciated.

✅️ New license handling

I went for the lazy approach and just included everything. This works automatically, so some checklist items have now disappeared 🙂

Licenses for assets or collaborations will still have to be edited manually, but all the Godot engine stuff should be satisfied.

✅️ Test on phone

Pleasant surprise – no unexpected behaviour by the UI on a touchscreen that I could see, except for a missing reference to some arrow icons in spinboxes. Yay!

✅️ Playstore release

It is done! V2 is now live, with a translated store page too. The review process went faster than expected and so far all seems to work. It’s time to finish the remaining game modes now 🙂

✅️ New social media stuff?

I have a Bluesky account now, but haven’t figured out how to shout into the void and get heard.

The website for Dartula has also gotten an update, the home page now features a shiny project overview and the dedicated page has been updated for V2. I also linked it directly in the top bar for now because finding it by hovering over “Home” is… well, not so intuitive.

Reddit is giving me a bit of a headache with their lurker-hating filters, but that is my own fault for being quiet. It will be figured out one day. In the meantime I just appreciate the friendly places that did let me post 🙂

Social media will likely be more of an ongoing thing again – I have not become good at it over night 😆 If I come up with some new ideas, I will talk about them here.

✅️ Additional stuff

• GUT update and logfiles
  The unit testing addon has had a few updates since I set it all up, and they are now included in my framework. Logs from the unit test runs are also stored now, so I can check the outputs later without needing to re-run them.
• Next game mode – Knockout
  I made a good start on implementing another deceptively simple game mode. Knockout is the first mode where a player can be “out”, so there were some interesting bugs with skipping the correct player that should now be fixed.

Next Month

If this heat calms down and the cat(s) could stop getting sick, June will be a normal month with regular amounts of dev time that should at least see Knockout make it to the Playstore.

➡️ Finish Knockout

There really isn’t much left to do here – the rules still have to be written and translated, but then it should be ready to go live.

➡️ Implement general Darty chatter

So far, Darty is way too useful. This should be fixed soon with some stupid comments!

➡️ Another Playstore release

Depending on progress, I hope to have Knockout and Darty released together. In case Darty doesn’t behave, Knockout may have to go out on its own.

➡️ Finally understand Cricket

Something about Cricket makes my brain go 😵‍💫, I still don’t really understand this game mode. Time to sit down and watch some videos on it, and think about how to implement a UI (the default one will probably not work at all). There also seem to be loads of options to consider, American and UK variants, house rules… something worth wrapping the head around!

➡️ Start Cricket implementation

Promising things you don’t understand is really hard, so I’m just going to say that I would like to at least make a solid plan and start executing it. My hope is to have the logic and some UI at the end of the month, but no promises!

I will leave you until next time and let you know what became of this vague mess of a “plan” 🙂 Stay cool and have a nice July!