* 14 new in-game tutorials have been added.
* A new playlist system is now added where you won't hear the same song twice in a workout.
* A warm up text indicator has been added to every workout.
The game/app is filling up with in-game tutorials now. It should only take around 2 more updates to have in-game tutorials for each and every exercise.
The new playlist system ensures that you won't hear the same song twice in the same workout, unless someone goes nuts with the skip button. Before songs were chosen at random from an array list. Now the songs are in a ds list, so songs are automatically shuffled at random like a deck of cards and not played twice.
As well as a warm up indicator, a cool down indicator has been added to all 10 and 15 minute exercises. On the next update there should be a cool down indicator for all workout times.
Thanks to Moo giving me a heads up, 2 bugs were eliminated - one was player progress disappearing and the other was player workout times not being added on sometimes. Both of these bugs are now fixed.
Thank you to pat_heman, who noticed that the initial 10 second countdown was not counting down in real seconds. So this was changed to mirror real time instead of frame rate based seconds and a patch was uploaded.
Because of sorting out those bugs and the new playlist needing much more work than I expected I didn't get around to externally loading sprites from an included file bundled with the game, so I will work on this next. So that the game is not hitting the 2GB limit for 32 bit games.
As always, thank you for your support, suggestions and patience as this game/app fills out and becomes more and more polished.
Day by Day Activity Since Build 1.4
10/9/20 - Boot Camp Fitness build 1.4 released.
14/9/20 - Side Kick tutorial made + improved the screensaver blocker coding to be more efficient.
15/9/20 - Round Kick tutorial made + looking into why the Gamemaker 2 engine update reset the player progress save info, putting up an apology/announcement about this + learning about ds lists.
16/9/20 - Fixed the player progress bug and uploaded the patch. Half Jacks, Knees to Elbows & Calf Stretch tutorials made.
17/9/20 - Fixed the bug where total workout time was not being saved correctly and uploaded a bug fix patch. Restructured the save system be more efficient.
21/9/20 - Chest Opener tutorial made + experimenting with ways to possibly make the existing array list into a better song playlist without having to change it to a ds list, which would save time and be easier.
22/9/20 - Shoulder Taps & Back Opener tutorials made.
23/9/20 - Made a test project for making a playlist using an array and found out through trial and error that a ds list would be better.
24/9/20 - Made a test project for making a playlist using a ds list.
28/9/20 - Corrected seconds on initial countdown timer to mirror real seconds instead of seconds dictated by frame rate, after feedback from pat_heman, then uploaded a patch + Quad Stretch & Side Leg Raises tutorials made.
29/9/20 - Side Bends & Hip Rotations tutorials made.
30/9/20 - Raised Leg Hold & Side Bridges tutorials made + started building an improved playlist song selection system.
1/10/20 - The improved playlist selection system is up and running (just have to add all the songs now) + added a "Warm Up" text indicator to indicate a warm up at the start of workouts + testing.
5/10/20 - Added "Cool Down" text indicator to end of 10 min workouts + testing.
6/10/20 - Added 30 songs into new playlist system + testing.
7/10/20 - Added another 40 songs into new playlist system + testing.
8/10/20 - Added a further 40 songs into new playlist system + testing.
12/10/20 - Added all 14 new in-game tutorials to the game + testing.
13/10/20 - Added 44 songs into new playlist system + testing. All songs added now.
14/10/20 - Added "Cool Down" text indicator to end of 15 min workouts + testing + released version 1.5.
Previous monthly development logs, since the game was released, have all been archived in previous monthly update release announcements.