Monthly Mewsfeed – Sep 2025

Last Month

Not sure what happened in September, but I got a lot more done than I thought! Especially the start of the month was amazing. The geriatric cat faction is alright as well – Sneaky had a cold, but is fine now. She also has a bald/scabby spot on her leg that won’t go away despite best creaming efforts, but she also doesn’t seem to care at all.

✅️ Load/store game state

After implementing this, I was so annoyed by the boring, repetitive code that I decided for the 3rd time to finally automate (de)serialising data objects. I then proceeded to fail to implement this automation, but I am trying again at the moment, and I think there is hope!

✅️ Implement pulling in new socks

It’s functional, but has an ugly jump when pulling 2 rows at once. I will take a look at it when fine-tuning the animations.

✅️ Implement high score tracking

Scores are tracked across all game modes, and the score of a game that is still in progress can be seen moving up the ranks now 🙂

✅️ Set up all game modes

The 4 game modes are all done, even including their tutorials! Very happy to have those out of the way. They now only explain what applies to the active mode.

✅️ Implement level unlocks

Game modes now unlock one after the other at scores that I feel are easy enough to reach. I’d not be surprised if I have to correct those guesses, so let me know if you don’t like them!

✅️ Additional stuff

Since so many things went so well this time, I have a bunch of extra stuff finished:

• Misc cleanups in my template project
  Multiple little things, cleanups and bugfixes to make future projects easier. More will follow, especially the autosaving module!
• Preparations for the Playstore release
  Credits, localisations, configurations… boring stuff, but it’s out of the way.
• Hinting for matchable socks
  In V1, if the player got stuck for too long, there was a hint button that would help find a match. This time, I had an idea to make the socks look at each other and expected this to be finicky and complicated – it really wasn’t 😀
• Sock banisher button for normal mode
  The “sock banisher” is an unlockable power that allows to delete a single sock after enough matches were made in normal mode. I thought I would not get around to it this month, but I was wrong 🙂
• A new icon that I don’t like yet
  It will be re-done soon.

This month was the best proof that I can’t estimate a task’s effort to save my life. There were multiple things that I remembered to be difficult and time consuming, but somehow they got finished within half an evening, including 2 tangents and an unplanned improvement with some sprinkles on top. It was a bit too good to be true, to be honest 😅️

Next Month

I’m not sure how much dev time I have in October, so it’s hard to guess what I can get done. My official hope is that I won’t lose more time to this stupid, snotless, tiring, brainless cold. The unofficial, secret hope is to get Lonely Socks finished and released in October, but don’t tell anyone!

➡️ Finish the autosaver module

This thing has been haunting me for a week now – it’s not done, but I believe it is on a good way. Moving the old save systems to the new one might be effort, but if I never have to implement an “object to dictionary” converter again, it will be SO worth it.

➡️ Update to Godot 4.5

I was right not to include this in last month’s plan, but 4.5 is out now and I can finally get on with it 🙂

➡️ Update Count Dartula

This will be a maintenance release without new features, but I also want to update the data handling to the new autosaver module. I’m a bit apprehensive here because Count Dartula stores a bunch of complex data, but it’s also not too critical if this gets pushed back.

➡️ Update Lonely Socks

Famous last words: I’m optimistic that nothing horrible will happen here!

➡️ Fine-tune Lonely Socks visuals

Some visuals are still a bit off and I want to look at the animations again to make gameplay feel less slow. And then there is the icon. V1’s looked like 💩️ and the current one is somehow less appealing.

The progress on Socks has been exciting, and I’d be very happy if I could start another project soon 🙂 I half-decided to give myself a break from the re-releases by starting the small number matching game that I have in my head. Ideas are cheap though, I will let you know what comes next in October’s Mewsfeed. Until then, don’t catch the seasonal cold, enjoy autumn… and good night!