I’ve been staring at a lot of browsers this week while filling out store pages, copy pasting the rest of the achievements, and reviewing our marketing material. The leader board and achievements update was pushed early in the week and we’ve had some good feedback and bug finds from our community beta. Finishing up our store pages is an essential step to begin pre-orders on Apple and preregistration on Google Play and there are a few more boxes to check still.

I dug into the sound effect design for a couple days this week. Honestly its not very often I play our game with the sound on so it was refreshing to get it all sounding more cohesive. Using BFXR and Audacity I created 12+ new sound effects for previously empty sounds and audio balanced about half of the existing sounds. Also our sound code was still in a bugged out state where it would cut out sounds randomly. I’m not sure if the sound blocks in Stencyl are working in the way I think they are but I finally sat down and resolved the issue by just storing each channel’s state in a list. I could probably still spend some time and add a few more sounds to the game but I’m very happy with it’s current state.

​We’re very fortunate to have had press coverage from Pocket Gamer on our announcement of Sonar Smash but we’re not going to stop there. The wording of the article header, “Sonar Smash is essentially Galaga underwater” was hand fed by my press release quote and we can do much better than that. An added benefit of doing earlier marketing is we have everything pretty much filled out to do another marketing push. Nothing is final when it comes to our current press kit or any of our descriptions and we’ll continue to improve upon our marketing resources.