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Placescore will be temporarily offline between seasons for a few minutes once a week. This is what players will see if they open the app during that period. 😴

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I spent the last couple of days building the season system for #Placescore. It's all explained in the video but have a look at this. It's called THE VOID and it only happens once a week for a very limited amount of time. Winning THE VOID is going to be a big deal.

Hey friends, I know this might be a bit cringe, but I wanted to mess around with making quick update videos and devlogs on YouTube. This one isn't exactly short, but it gives you a good idea of what I'm working on with #Placescore.

I'm thinking of keeping future videos between 1 to 4 minutes. When I posted a couple of videos like this here before, people seemed to like them. But honestly, YouTube just feels like the better place for these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCUr3s5-eg

I think I got it now. This is so much better than the version from the other day, it's not even funny.

- Reduced everything from 6 to 2 teams. It's you vs. them now.
- Streamlined the season view to make sure it's self-explanatory.
- Reworked the place list logic. Places now show up in the color of your team, no matter who claimed them.

This is becoming pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, preeeetty good.

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GLOW-UP TIME ✨

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I spent the whole day rewriting the data structure for scores in #Placescore and can now present to you:

The teams leader board!

Every player will be assigned to a team. Claiming, winning and holding places helps your team to win the season by owning the most places.

Obviously looks like ass but making things pretty is easy. I'm just happy I got it to work.

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FRIENDS!

FRIENDS!!!

It works!

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Started work on a place detail view that shows stuff like a log of all attempts to claim a place. Looks stupid if only one person is playing for a place, but it's basically a battle log with entries for each player.

Every score that beat the previous high score is marked in green to indicate that the player was the owner for that point in time.

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As promised, a few thoughts on what #Placescore is, where it's coming from and where it's going. All part of the more or less first issue of the new Tiptop Software newsletter:

https://tiptopsoftware.substack.com/p/reviving-placescore-a-10-year-journey

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Two days of working through a very helpful little course and a lot of new information about #SpriteKit and #UIKit later, I managed to put in the actual game. This is shaping up nicely. 🤗

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- Tapping a place on the map now scrolls to that place in the list instead of starting a new game
- Tapping a place opens the bottom sheet when it was minimized
- Added a transition when switching between places and season.

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All of this still looks like the assortment of placeholder views it is but I started work on a few more features:

- A map showing you the places you can try to claim
- A new "Season" tab explaining the concept of seasons and the length of the current season
- Global highscore lists displaying players with the highest scores and players who own the most places.

The tab bar is weirdly broken in the simulator right now, for whatever reason.

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New and improved game won screen. #buildinpublic #placescore #swiftui

Got a lot done today!

- When the app notices that no locations around you have any places with highscores of other players yet, it puts random highscores on a couple of places for you to beat
- A new and improved round start animation
- Tweaked game view
- You collect the avatar of the defendant instead of a random red circle now
- Not shown: Added a pause functionality and overlay.

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I somehow built Snake in #SwiftUI and it works and is fun to play?! #buildinpublic #placescore

Added a placeholder game and a placeholder countdown screen. #buildinpublic #placescore

I figured out how to create images showing a part of a map. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty easy.

Doesn't make sense as a feature though. Since all of these places are in your direct vicinity, there's no need to show you their location like this, you're already there.

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Today I refactored a lot of what I've been working on the last couple of days. Everything still looks like shit but the basic building blocks are there already.

- Account creation
- List of points of interests
- Saving scores to locations
- Beating highscores and transferring ownership

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