Dear Footie Frenzy lovers,

This week was all about making the game shine at its brightest. We focused on fixing bugs and polishing as much as we have. 

With mixed feelings, we are ready to announce the release date of our game. It is sad that we are at the end of our very fun game project, but we are happy that you gamers can finally play the game for real!

BE READY FOR THE 28TH OF MAY.

Now enjoy the summary of this weeks progress!

Programming:

For polish a big part that we want to get down to the T is the UI.
It was functional, but not fully. Controller, but not really. Visually updating, but not truely.

All of this is fixed this week with a big custom override of the KeyDown of UUserWidgets and making a manual navigation.

The main issue with this was making a bigger structure, for which we used some self made Statics as helpers, and figuring out how buttons and checkboxes work behind the scenes.

What we've learned:
- UNREAL NEEDS BETTER CONTROLLER SUPPORT????
- OnKeyDown works non invasive with Enhanced action Input and the controller can be set to be InputOnly
- Forums can very often be very inefficient for finding practical and efficient solutions. Its often either or.

In general we wish we had more time to cast this into a nice ControllerNavigation class to be used for these things, but as time is short we did what we had to do. Theres some manual copy pasting, but still a decent amount of structure that we're very happy with.

Some smaller extras that we did include a rework of sound, fixing bugs related to scoring, overhauling the finished screens UI, fixed crashes related to reopening controls menu, added a working toggle for 2/4 players.

Art:

We mainly focused on set dressing the arena more. This is an important thing to do, not only for a nicer view, but also gameplay wise. Whenever a player scores it will now be more visible who got a point and who's winning!

The arena already looks way prettier, but there is still work to do! As you can see the arena can get quite busy quickly, so we will need to adjust the size, colors and AMOUNT.

Except for set dressing we addressed feedback, mainly containing visibility and size of stuff.  Winning now is also way more fun! We made victory screens with a small diorama for both characters. Now the loser cant escape the humiliation, MWUHAHAHAH!

Penguin victory:

Alien victory:

Have a good day and see y'all on release day!

Sincerely,

The Footie Frenzy Team.