Comments for To The Rescue!

Comment on Dev Diary #16: Foster Homes for Imaginary Dogs by ocdunlap

ocdunlap — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:55:19 +0000

Thanks so much for your comment, Jade! And thanks for sharing your story about Fiona. The idea of ‘sleep overs’ is a fantastic idea and I love that your local shelter is doing things like that. You totally hit the nail on the head in some ways with what we’re going for, in terms of representing real world problems the best we can. Right now it is planned that fosters will occasionally decide to keep dogs in their care because they fall in love with them: not unlike you and Fiona!!! But the idea of foster homes entering the program with the *intent* to eventually keep one is a great idea that we will definitely keep in mind.

Give Fiona some good scritches from us in the meantime <3

Comment on Dev Diary #16: Foster Homes for Imaginary Dogs by Jade Mele

Jade Mele — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:15:52 +0000

I think having a fostering system is fantastic! I personally have fostered with ‘intent to adopt’ twice, and our second time we fell head over heels with our shy pooch Fiona. We even got to submit a ‘Happy Tail’ and got to update the shelter on how she’s doing; They love photos! I think the foster network in TTR would be amazing because it’s true that fosters do a lot of work. In fact, the shelter I rescued Fiona from (Humane Society of Sarasota County; Website linked below) has a thing called ‘Sleep Overs’ where eligible pets can be taken home for a trial period before adopting. (3-30 days) I think that would be interesting to see in this game, regular fosters and intent to adopt fosters. Our first foster was a rowdy Pitbull named Jasper, and while things didn’t work out, we did manage to train him quiet a bit and it helped him a lot since shelters can’t always train every single dog! It would be cool to see ‘experienced dog owners/fosters’ be able to take a dog with a negative trait, and change it, like we did with Jasper. Or even have fosters who don’t intend to adopt, fall in love with their pup. I think closely representing the real world is a nice change of pace, especially with animal games, because they’re always the same. All smiles and happy endings. Which I don’t mind, but in a shelter things aren’t always that way. Dogs get returned, dogs get moved to different shelters, dogs sometimes have multiple fosters. In my opinion, representing real world problems within a shelter would make this game stand out much more than ‘just another pet game’. Thank you so much for all the hard work you guys are doing, can’t wait to play!

Comment on Dev Diary #13: Finding a Fur’ever Home Part 1 by ocdunlap

ocdunlap — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:27:51 +0000

In reply to Daisy. There will definitely be puppies! Specifically, one puppy variant per breed category, at least. :)

Comment on Dev Diary #13: Finding a Fur’ever Home Part 1 by Daisy

Daisy — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 22:25:10 +0000

Will there be puppies in the game or just adults?

Comment on Dev Diary #13: Finding a Fur’ever Home Part 1 by ocdunlap

ocdunlap — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:28:44 +0000

In reply to Nathaniel. Oh, that's a great idea! We already have "trained" as a common thing people ask for but it might be good to have that a specific request as well.

Comment on Dev Diary #13: Finding a Fur’ever Home Part 1 by Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:16:01 +0000

I work at the Humane Society of Missouri, and sometimes we get in clients who are looking for dogs who could be trained as service dogs, or who would work as emotional support animals. That might be a cool addition to client preferences.

Comment on Dev Diary #12: Pick’n Bugs by ocdunlap

ocdunlap — Sat, 30 May 2020 01:38:55 +0000

In reply to Aya Ventus. Oh my gosh lol! Yep, It's definitely a real problem to chase something for many many hours and it turns out it wasn't even an issue at all. Especially when you have been working on the game for days and forget that there are even other things that could be creating sounds!

Comment on Dev Diary #12: Pick’n Bugs by Aya Ventus

Aya Ventus — Thu, 14 May 2020 23:12:25 +0000

I do QA professionally, and I once encountered a game breaking bug that only happened if you spoke to a particular NPC. I spent over 6 hours trying to narrow down what the problem was before passing it off for a quick fix (character became locked in a state which wouldnt allow swimming to trigger in a later level, which broke spectacularly).

My FAVORITE bug though was a seemingly random SFX that kept pinging and I couldnt for the life of me narrow down where it was coming from or what was triggering it. Turns out Discord has a notification sound.

Comment on Dev Diary #10: Isolation, Inspiration, and Island Life by ocdunlap

ocdunlap — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:17:04 +0000

In reply to Eskimo. Rimworld and Planet Zoo are big favorites of ours, so good choices! And thank you so much for the kind words. I look forward to seeing your stream!

Comment on Dev Diary #10: Isolation, Inspiration, and Island Life by Eskimo

Eskimo — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 23:30:06 +0000

I’m playing Rimworld mostly, but also Planet Zoo and games like LoL or CS:GO. But I have TTR! on my mind always. Cant wait for you guys to finish it! I kind of have this dream to stream games as I play it, so I’m looking forward to buy better mic. Whenever I do it I’m so going to want to play and stream TTR! 🙂