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Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Naming Your Clowns

Last time, I reported that I had added an options menu with audio toggles and a menu for choosing custom eyes in my second Freshly Squeezed Entertainment project called Clown Alley Creator, a creativity tool about creating your own fun clowns.

I continued adding new features this past week.

Sprint 2024-12: Name Your Clowns

Completed:

  • Allow player to name clown
  • Update navigation buttons

In Progress:

  • Create nose options

Up until now, each clown was identified merely by a number, and when you looked at a particular clown up close, that’s what you would have seen:

Clown Alley Creator - close-up clown view

Today, if you go to add a clown to your clown alley, you get prompted to name the clown first:

Clown Alley Creator - prompt to name your new clown

If you don’t, you get told you should:

Clown Alley Creator - prompt to name your new clown

And finally, when you view your clown, you see that clown’s name:

Clown Alley Creator - clown view with clown's name

When I first started working on this project, I had envisioned a set of navigation buttons at the bottom of the creator mode, but it was premature, and some of the features they represented got cut.

I finally got around to removing and updating the buttons:

Clown Alley Creator - new creator mode navigation buttons

If I get to it, I would also like to add a button for hats and accessories, but we’ll see in a few weeks or months how things are going.

Finally, I ended the week by updating the existing four nose options and creating a bunch more, which required adding navigation for submenu pages.

Clown Alley Creator - multiple pages of noses to pick

Some of the noses are a bit more textured and sparkly:

Clown Alley Creator - multiple pages of noses to pick

I’m not quite finished creating the various noses, plus I’d like to add some shadows to the existing ones.

Still, I am at the point in the project where much of the feature work is done, and so I am focusing on adding more and more options for each of the submenus in order to provide players plenty of ways to make their own clowns.

Thanks for reading, and stay curious!

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