- Spencer spent time as a tourist in Australia with a friend and enjoyed domestic tourism.
- Shared reflections on being a tourist in your own city and acting as a tour guide for visitors.
- Spencer has been focused on performance improvements, especially for mobile players.
- Released PWA updates to fix image caching issues (e.g., barn images flashing on load).
- Upgrading the React stack to the latest version with React Compiler for better performance.
- Noted challenges with React purity rules and refactoring code to avoid side effects (e.g.,
Date.now() causing re-renders).
- Craig is upgrading backend infrastructure to reduce deployment times, which currently slow down hotfixes and releases.
- Multi-filter functionality added to the Marketplace (for pets, buds, cosmetics).
- Craig and Elias collaborated on the update.
- Plan to add backgrounds to price tags on NFT cards for better visibility.
- Future updates may include more filter patterns and search improvements.
- Spencer plans to work on a social interaction system:
- Identify new players in the plaza.
- Allow players to send emotes (e.g., hearts) to each other.
- Trigger joint animations (e.g., pets high-fiving or rolling together).
- Reward participants with love charms.
- Pets currently get stuck on dig sites — acknowledged as a tricky issue due to how pet movement is handled server-side.
- Craig is attending the YGG Game Summit in Manila.
- Goals:
- Meet the Filipino team and community.
- Connect with Ronin and other Web3 games.
- Share Sunflower Land merchandise.
- Attend a private Sunflower Land community event (contact LaBochi for details).
- Addressed a question about collaborations:
- Sunflower Land has collaborated in the past (e.g., Million on Mars, Crypto Unicorns).
- Focus now is on evaluating ROI and aligning with projects that share goals.
- Events like YGG are good opportunities for future partnerships.
- Over 136 players have reached the current max level (150).
- Team is discussing endgame content and potential prestige systems.
- Encouraging community feedback on the forums.
- A fan-made mobile app is in beta, but the official team is not releasing an app yet due to:
- Legal uncertainties around NFTs and app stores.
- Risk of negative reviews from bugs or unfinished features.
- Prioritization of core game development and new projects.
- Rare Crows is still in unofficial beta — feedback is welcome, but support is limited.
- Project Two is in design phase with Daniel Diggle (SunnySide asset pack artist). Concept art is being shared on Twitter.
- Catch the next update on Friday.
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