The UX pass
I took screenshots of every screen on a phone and looked at them the way a stranger would. I didn't like what I found. The pretty parts were fine. The structure wasn't.
Beakful is a one-button game about an Atlantic puffin feeding its puffling off the Newfoundland coast. Hold to dive, let go to rise. Stack capelin in your beak and make it home by nightfall.
Notes from building Beakful, newest first. This is the same Fun Puffin devlog.
I took screenshots of every screen on a phone and looked at them the way a stranger would. I didn't like what I found. The pretty parts were fine. The structure wasn't.
The 'lots of little things' stretch — Capacitor, haptics, iCloud saves, Game Center, a sea-shanty soundtrack, and everything else standing between a browser game and an App Store submission.
Beakful is out. You can play it right now at beakful.funpuffin.com on your phone or computer. It's free, there's nothing to install and you don't need an account. On an iPhone, add it to…
The last few days of work before release were a bit of a blur. Here's what happened.
Every summer the capelin roll in along our coast, and every summer the puffins go to work. A puffin flies out, dives, packs its beak with little fish, and hauls them home to a puffling…