Development notes
A chronological record of shipping Call the Cat, rebuilding Galaxy in Unity, and learning what each decision costs.
Solo game development — verification notes TL;DR: The public policy page was current, but the app still showed an old sentence saying it did not request payment or advertising information. The same… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: A shortcut button’s icon kept flickering. The image file was fine and the path was fine. The refresh code was assigning the same image… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: I deleted Google login, cloud save, and payment, convinced our web-based tech stack made them impossible. What actually got deleted was the code path… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: Login and payment share the same account and the same app, but they check completely different things. Fixing one checklist does nothing to the… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: All green — tests, build, upload — only proves the pipeline ran without errors. It doesn’t prove the file you shipped actually contains your… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: The AI can build you a menu for anything inside the code. A signing key, a store listing, a console setting — none of… Read entry →
Call the Cat: Delivery — launch devlog TL;DR: The AI fixed the code six times. All six times, that code never ran. Before asking “why won’t it work,” I needed to ask… Read entry →