Today's Guernsey: Integrated the cat and the turkeys into the daily animals rotation, all placed and ready to go.

Animals in the game serve mostly as little rewards/points of interest, but I might give the cat something to do...

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Today's Guernsey: On the suggestion of my wife, let my son voice the turkey and my daughter voice the cat.

It's a family affair, now! 🦃🐈‍⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: A black cat! He wakes up when poked, but that's... about it for now!

The floating in random air thing is uh temporary! 🐈‍⬛ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Turkeys now fly away as a flock when you get near!

I fixed it so they all fly away the right way, but I thought this gif was funny.

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Today's Guernsey: added a new animal for Guernsey to come across in his travels.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More fixing stuff, more optimization.

Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Today's Guernsey: Went on a rabid optimization jag and stripped a bunch of GameObject.Finds out of random places, including several every-frame methods.

Other tweaks and improvements, too.

Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: A small one, tonight I added support for each Chapters to make the chicken hungry again, so you can feed the chicken anew with each sunrise!

All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens

Today's Guernsey: Decided to take a break from optimizing and improve the chicken!

🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly
🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance
🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed

And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken

Today's Guernsey: Switched my efforts from Awake() to GameObject.Find and found a goldmine of unneccessary calls in the chicken script 🫣They're fixed now! But yikes.

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Today's Guernsey: A few more optimizations. Every dialogue in the game (there are hundreds) was waking up and performing FOUR find operations on start. So hopefully that's better now!

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Today's Guernsey: More more more optimizations.

Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱

That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey update... More optimization! The game... feels like it's booting faster and running smoother, and still working fine?

I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler.

But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Optimization!

💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component
😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls
🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls

Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Todays' Guernsey: A semi-successful attempt to recreate the shading I've been doing on trees to leaf piles, and a more successful attempt to get smoother UI for quest items working, so they now pop up after the chapter start text!

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